With the explosion of North American oil and gas exploration, the framework for transportation of materials is highly critical in the over all value chain. The growing needs of the midstream industry is forcing companies to refine their processes to ensure operational integrity and increased visibility within the entire supply chain. With The Knomatic Platform, midstream companies can bridge the gap between legacy systems, allowing the field to capture data and automate processes through mobile technology. This will ensure timeliness, accuracy, real-time billing/reporting and better communication with your customer network.
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Inspections
Inspection programs may vary between facilities and industries. There is no debating they are a critical part of keeping the business running. The structure and content of the inspections at the facility often have overlap between departments. This overlap creates duplication of effort and in some cases inconsistency of inspection results.
Observation
Organizations implement observation programs to increase the safety of the workers. Many times this leads to having goals related to the number of observations executed. This leads to catch up towards the end of the reporting period as the employee/contractor wants to remain in compliance with the company’s objectives.
Electronic Permitting
The desire for organizations to improve the efficiency and measurability of the work processes within a facility becomes visible through the permitting process. Facilitating the sharing of lessons learned and encouraging the drive for consistency will have upstream and downstream effects that result in true value for the facility.
Time Keeper
Contractors and employees can capture time at a frequency that increases accuracy through technology that is transportable (any device, anywhere). Capturing electronically and connecting the time to the right work orders will streamline approvals and periodic audits.
Consolidated Action Items
Actions are a vital component of every business process. Managing the many sources and systems is a cumbersome and unproductive effort for the workforce. Operations and site personnel invest many hours daily, compiling and managing the disparate action items.
Management of Change
Change is inevitable. Change introduces risk. Risk can lead to loss. Loss should be avoided. Therefore, change should be managed. If a piece of equipment, person, product or any other factor in the day to day operations of any process are about to change, then the associated risks related to the change (both during the change and after the change) need to be analyzed, accounted for and mitigated.
Onboarding
Onboarding of personnel and 3rd party entities is often a disjointed process involving multiple stakeholders. There are safety briefings, HR training, basic employment documentation and many other requirements. Compliance based roles need to have recertification and identifying personnel is cumbersome and challenging.
Inventory Fulfillment
Any company that distributes product, executes work or uses rental equipment experiences challenges with the process. There are multiple hand offs between responsible groups/departments that can confuse the accountability and creates inefficiency and lack of traceability.
Inventory Receiving
Organizations have experienced difficulty in driving further improvements in efficiency and quality of their inventory receiving process resulting in continued loses. This is caused by disparate silos of information beginning with an order and concluding with submission to inventory.
Create Your Own Solution
Companies and facilities have many paper based processes that don’t necessarily fit into a box. Some of these paper processes are put in place to augment existing legacy systems or corporate requirements while others are there to help keep the facility running.