Too many energy companies are still struggling with data-related issues. Some of the most encountered challenges we have come across are collaboration issues, inaccurate data, too many sources of data, slow or challenging data accessibility, compliance, process optimization, safety, reliability, efficiency, and adopting technology and especially concerning workers in the field.

Leveraging operational data is a strategic goal when companies aim at informed business decisions. The more effortless and secure way to achieve that goal is to allow all stakeholders to use and access the same data from a single source of truth.

John, field inspector, has to perform his daily operator rounds on-site. As the day goes by, John has not finished the inspection rounds in time, so he heads back to the office to document his paper findings in an Excel spreadsheet.

The next day, Mark, another field inspector, picks up John's work, but because he hasn't received access to the Excel spreadsheet John has documented, Mark is performing the inspections all over again. Mark identifies an alarming issue that has to be immediately reported.

Later on, he finds out John has also reported the problem, but he wasn't aware of that. The status of the report is still unknown to both of them. Mark and John are now looking at two different inspection reports despite doing the same work, twice due to the lack of a collaboration tool and a real-time data exchange solution. 

Read the article Digitalising frontline operations at the terminal published in Tank Storage Magasine.

Smartflow is a connected worker solution that allows you to easily digitize your field operations using our low-code/no-code platform & app, like maintenance processes, tasks, inspections, and processes related to safety & regulatory compliance. In the field, our app allows field workers to efficiently execute workflows and capture data that can be shared with (back office) colleagues or partners in real-time to analyze or automatically initiate follow-up actions, like notifying a 3rd party or ordering new parts.

With all data in one place, streamlining business data strategies becomes an effortless task. 

To remain a market leader in the energy industry and have an accurate and fast response to their clients, the industry leaders are now to gather and organize data sources, analyze them faster, and deliver more intelligent analysis.

Smartflow supports data lakes available for informed decision-making that aim at improving and streamlining future operations or business decisions.

Standardization and centralization can help you accelerate the execution and the compliance of inspections, permits, and work orders, maintaining the highest security and quality while reducing operational risks, meeting compliance, and collecting real-time insights from the generated data.

Optimizing business processes such as; compliance, streamlined operations, risk reduction, well-utilized resources, consistency, assured quality, and end-to-end visibility. SSoT solutions can reduce duplicated, outdated, and faulty information and increase efficiency within an organization.