Embracing Paperless Operations: Revolutionizing the Industry
April is Earth Month and Earth Day was not long ago, but truthfully speaking, isn’t Earth Day every day? This means this is the perfect time to discuss this! After all, there is no greater asset we’ve been given than life on this Earth, and we have the power to make huge changes to this Earth. We should be making them for the better because Earth is certainly going to outlive us.
Future Outlook Amidst Global Challenges
In the current global situation amid this pandemic, people’s outlooks are turning bleak, and it’s impossible not to think about the long-term effects of COVID-19. Just like we are thinking about the future of social interactions, we need to think about the future of our energy assets and how we manage them. What are they going to look like in 10, 20, or 50-plus years?
Certainly, in 20 years, we won’t be relying so heavily on paper products for things like data collection, forms, and reports. There are tons of environmental as well as financial benefits to reducing paper usage, and the power of Pipetrak IT during pipeline construction helps your company reap those benefits.
How does Pipetrak IT save on paper use and wastage?
Anytime a construction activity is completed, such as stringing, bending, or welding, there is someone to capture that activity on Pipetrak IT on a mobile device. X-rays and other tests can be logged and validated via mobile, and construction inspections are completed with the app as well. The beauty of Pipetrak IT is that you can have several devices, even hundreds of mobile devices being used at one time on one project.
Imagine all of the paper that would go into a large-scale pipeline, and then think about having all of that paper on mobile and desktop devices instead. Not only are you confident about the preservation and accessibility of your documents, but the amount of valuable data you are getting from them gives you peace of mind.
Real-Time Data Management for Enhanced Efficiency
Using Pipetrak IT gives you real-time data management, meaning your company has insight into the project and its progress, and management decisions can be made promptly. Just think of the impact of all of that saved time, your organization now can complete projects on time and sometimes even earlier than predicted.
We had similar systems, but they were old-school, paper-based systems, and the benefits of Pipetrak IT were two-fold
– Fatih Erdem, TANAP
Embracing Digital Processes: Security and Disaster Preparedness
Making the switch to digital processes gives your company more security in its data and documents, and it cuts down on costs associated with printing and storing paper. Losing your work is another non-negotiable thing. You would never want a day’s worth (or more) of work to go to waste. Harnessing Pipetrak IT’s digital processes helps in times of disaster as well. Flashback to Hurricane Harvey in Houston in 2017, when the floods from that Hurricane caused catastrophic damage to the city and surrounding areas and totaled about $125 billion in damage.
Countless companies had their documents stored physically in job boxes, and the flooding destroyed thousands of crucial, irreplaceable documents. Losing these documents becomes not only frustrating but expensive. Meanwhile, a client that was using Pipetrak IT before and during this disaster, was still able to retrieve their documents from a large pipeline project, because they were stored digitally on the Pipetrak IT platform.
Nobody has the foresight to predict these types of events, but at all costs, we need to remember to stay proactive and remain aware of our surroundings, environment, and the way we do business. While paper usage will never be eliminated, we can leverage the technology that is out there to greatly reduce our paper footprint and our dependency on paper documents alone. Our assets, and our biggest asset of all, Earth, depend on it.
