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EngineerScheduling and mobile field operations

A key driver for any organisation is improving productivity and reducing inefficiencies. An essential aspect of any planned or emergency work is getting the right materials, machinery and resources to the site within the shortest timeframe. This requires up to date and accurate identification of assets and knowledge of appropriate resource availability.  In addition it is also imperative to ascertain not only the exact layout of your own data but that of third party infrastructure.  Once works have been completed, relevant information pertaining to the current status should be recorded.

Geographic information

Geographic information enables you to:

  • accurately identify the location of all your assets and their current condition,
  • accurately reference third party infrastructure, central to safe operations and incident management
  • reliably share data for support in operations, and incident management
  • provide real time optimisation such as route planning,
  • reduce the likelihood of teams crossing over regions
  • complete and update jobs from a customer’s location via remote toughbooks/mobile solutions
  • receive and feed real time edits into a central GIS
  • link work management and customer contact systems, which in turn quickly establishes the status of a job, enabling informed customer management.
  • Reduce liabilities, and enables noticing compliance.

Up to date, accurate, geographic information enables you to manage risk, provide more economic maintenance, determine load demands and secure a sustainable service.

‘The decisions we make, when managing the network, are underpinned by the combined quality of the base geographic data and the asset record.  By using Ordnance Survey data our people are now more confident about the quality of the record and the decisions they make.  This all supports delivery of an improving service for our customers.’
Mike Turner, Asset Records Manager

‘From week one the majority of field staff were working effectively from home, functioning in the field with access to GIS, with a dramatic reduction in paperwork and utilising new technology that we could have only dreamt of a few years ago’
Gary Freake, Director of Network, Bristol Water

Case studies

Yorkshire Water, Ground to record in 24 hours
Thanks to process improvements, Yorkshire Water have saved 200 man days in field visits, the equivalent of one full time person or £40 000.

Sigma 7 Mobile solutions
Sigma Seven’s GeoField product is a powerful mapping system, underpinned by our data, that enables mobile workers to access enterprise asset and map data at the point of action.

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