The Problem

Complex operations rely on skilled teams to operate 24 hours, 7 days a week.  These teams need to be 100% aligned with organisational goals, and need to communicate effectively among each other.  Good communication between shifts is necessary to diagnose problems, receive instructions, report on issues and provide feedback to production meetings efficiently and accurately.

Production managers seeking to improve operations performance need to consider the following questions:

1. Are you sure you have insight into what really happens on shift?
2. Can you easily diagnose why one shift is consistently more profitable than another?
3. Do your shift logbooks have the integrity required for investigations?  
4. Do you feel swamped with data from your process control and SCADA system, but have very little real information?
5. Can you reliably route information and instructions to those who need to take action and follow up?
6. Are you sure your operators read, acknowledge and accept instructions?
7. Is your plant logbook data visible to your production meetings through real time "drill down" functionality?
8. When you lose valuable experience as employees leave the company, do you reinvent the wheel?

 Providing Total Operations Insight

FlexiLOG^TM is advanced software designed to capture and report on operations information and coordinating the response of involved parties.  FlexiLOG^TM was specifically designed to record the human interaction with plant and systems and provide essential context to the massive amounts of data generated on a plant.

FlexiLOG^TM makes the most important operations information available to management, providing an opportunity to improve efficiency, respond timeously to potential problems, share knowledge and learning points and improve coordinaton between departments.

FlexiLOG^TM has been improved continuously over the last decade based on feedback from customers who understand how to run complex operations.  FlexiLOG^TM is no longer a simple data capturing system - it has evolved into an advanced platform optimised to manage information in an operating environment.  FlexiLOG^TM supports data validation, workflow and authorisation processes, information consolidation, key performance indicator reporting and many other powerful features.  FlexiLOG^TM is built on Microsoft's leading database platform and works well with your existing infrastructure.

FlexiLOG^TM, as it's name suggests is highly flexible and can be configured for hundreds of scenarios in a single installation.  Customers have used the system to record information ranging from simple control room observations, downtime analysis, records of standby and call-out and even behaviour based job observations linked to individual and team key performance indicators (KPI's).

Benefits

Implementing FlexiLOG^TM will lead to improved operations performance through the following benefits:

1. Integrated overview of production performance
2. Improved communication between shifts and production management
3. Early diagnosis of technical problems
4. Retention of valuable knowledge gained through experience
5. Proper context is made available to SCADA and plant level data
6. Information otherwise "locked away" is easily accessible
7. Identifying recurring problems and patterns
8. Follow up on agreed actions and tasks at operational level

When implementing FlexiLOG^TM, customers benefit from thousands of users and hundreds of years of accumulated experience and knowledge on how to manage operations information.  This avoids you having to develop something yourself and provides you with the ability to benefit from the leading experience in the industry quickly and efficiently.

What do end users say about FlexiLOG^TM?

• A good management tool
• Very flexible system and user friendly
• Good audit trails
• Saves time and is responsive
• Exceptional support 

For more information

You can obtain more information including brochures, datasheets and case studies on this web site or by contacting ApplyIT.  Please don't hesitate - our team will be pleased to help you.