DIGITAL DOCUMENTS LEAD TO SIGNIFICANT SAVINGS
IDENTIFY defects and problems to reduce process upsets, emissions, incidents and support predictive maintenance
IMPROVE regulatory compliance by automating scheduling of required inspections, missed inspections report and centralized record keeping
INCREASE visibility at your plant by connecting to your historian OSI Pi or AspenTech IP21 to supplement your DCS data
INTEGRATE employee knowledge into your systems to reduce the risk of “graying of the workforce”
THE PROBLEMS WITH PAPER
- Paper can’t be used to identify trends
- Paper needs people to comprehend
- Paper necessitates manual labor
- Paper is vulnerable to weather and water
- Paper only has one copy and can be damaged/lost
- Paper is only visible to one person at a time
- Paper just captures written data
- Paper can be falsified
- All records have to be looked at on paper
THE DIVIDENDS OF DIGITAL
- Computers easily trend data
- Computers can read data and provide meaningful information
- Captured data can allow computers to do routine/repetitive tasks and make it actionable
- Weatherproof tablets allow data capture in many weather conditions
- Captured data can be stored, backed up and replicated
- Computer data can be distributed automatically and displayed globally
- Tablets can capture pictures to add context
- Date and time stamps ensure true data capture time
- Digital data can enable “manage by exception” and notify only when exceptions occur
