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Emergency ‘shut-ins’ in the oil & gas sector are extremely expensive in both lost revenues and unplanned repair expenditure. With a lack of productivity resulting in US$7.2 billion per year of lost revenues in the North Sea alone, the business case […]
What ROI can I expect from using apps to manage my equipment logistics? An oilfield services business that is hampered by paper-led operations is losing revenue opportunities in two key areas. Firstly, there is poor visibility of your equipment’s location […]
How do I use all this data? Access to good data is only useful if you can analyse it. Therefore, it’s imperative that you look for a solutions provider with superb analytics capabilities. Analytics enables your management team to monitor […]
Mobile technology isn’t just applicable to large organisations, the logic and the benefits are the same if you have 50 staff or 50,000 staff. Let’s start with errors. Here is a quote from the CEO of a customer of mine, […]
I’m going to give you some examples of companies that my team has had experience of. Your company may be different, so forgive me if what I’m about to describe doesn’t apply. Information gets written on paper, then keyed into […]
If you’re a senior exec from a rental company (or any other company for that matter), what do you wake up in the morning thinking or worrying about? I asked one of my team to go through the latest annual […]
The first thing to mention is that I have experienced both sides of the rental ‘counter’ – both as a rental customer and as a someone who helps rental and other companies improve their business performance using mobile technology. In […]
This series of short blogs is taken from a presentation I was asked to give at a rental conference in the US earlier this year. The subject of my presentation was “Maximizing the efficiency of rental operations using mobile technology.” […]
Based on recent industry research, average wrench time (time spent adding value to equipment, plant and machinery) in the energy industry is less than 4 hours per 12-hour working day. Poor productivity has long been an issue in the energy sector […]
John Glen, Spartan Solutions’ COO and Co-founder, spoke to IRN in a recent interview. He started by mentioning many rental companies are still taking the first step in digitizing their operations, which entails paperless working and the use of mobile devices and […]