AuditMatic - Redefining Data Collection and Reporting

Описание: In the last couple of decades, industrial facilities have forwarded their manufacturing process with more efficient automation than ever...
Yet during that same time period, most manufacturers paper based systems have not advanced at all.

For example every day, operators make rounds gathering readings from non-instrumented equipment.

Control room personnel record operational conditions and make notes for upcoming shifts in their paper log books.

Quality and Safety personnel make regular inspections to ensure that the facility is operating within regulatory and internal specifications.

When this is all done with pencils and clip boards,
mountains of paper pile up and then the organization faces the challenge of how to process with the collected data.

Simply filing the data away, has its downside too, as it limits the ability of stakeholders to realize the process improvement they want by not being able to readily access the information buried in their filing cabinets.

Re-keying it from paper forms or spreadsheets into Plant Historians and other back office systems incurs labor costs, delays and the opportunity for transcription errors.

So why havent organizations been able to improve their manual data collection processes? Well for one, paper forms for all their drawbacks, are easily created and managed by plant personnel. Each operating unit has unique data collection requirements, and plant personnel can easily create new paper forms or edit existing forms themselves.

Secondly, organizations that consider creating custom software solutions fear that those systems will need extensive programmer and IT involvement to manage and maintain.

Recognizing these challenges, Form Automation Solutions developed AuditMatic to bring operator rounds, log book and inspection data collection processes into the new century.

Ready to see how it works? Lets take a closer look at AuditMatic

Users first create their data collection forms using AuditMatics friendly form creation interface. No programming experience is required.

Forms and tasks are then made available to plant floor handhelds and web browsers

In this example, our operator will use the AuditMatic handheld client

The AuditMatic handheld directs the operator along the data collection route ensuring worker accountability and data integrity. AuditMatic forms can contain a wide array of answer types such as drop-down lists, decimal or whole numbers, free text answers and more

The system can enforce limits and ranges on questions to eliminate bad data. And include additional types of data capture that werent possible in the days of paper and pencil, such as, images and even adding GPS coordinates.

Auditmatic is not just for data collection. Its also instructional. And when you encounter unusual conditions - AuditMatic can provide operators decision support tools to step them through corrective actions.

That way you can ensure best practices are followed by all your workers.


Once data has been collected, it is ready to be submitted to the AuditMatic server. In this case when the operator synchronizes the handheld with its network-connected cradle.

Without transcription, AuditMatic: transmits process data to the Plant Historian, generates reports for the collected inspection data, and sends out e-mail and text message alerts to stakeholders.

We recognize that not all paper based data collection is performed by mobile workers. To meet this need, AuditMatic forms can also be filled out on desk top web browsers.

For example, in the control room operators can use a network-connected AuditMatic web browser to replace their paper logs, and in the lab quality workers can enter their product analysis readings as well. Either way weve got you covered.

AuditMatic enforces those schedules and generates compliance reports automatically eliminating yet another manual process.

AuditMatic can be easily used in a small installation, or can be scaled up to serve an entire enterprise from a centralized data center.

AuditMatic provides the functionality you expect, including:
Active Directory integration
Support for virtual operating platforms
Flexible data export to a range of external databases
So we can meet your needs small or large.

AuditMatic improves your data collection processes while driving unnecessary transcription and paper handling costs out of your budget. More timely datafaster more complete recordingand lower costs.

AuditMatic IS redefining data collection and reporting!