Intelligent Inspections Results
Case Study
Enovation Partners developed this inspection program with 8 US gas utilities and the Gas Technology Institute to address the gas industry construction and operations challenges.
Client: Gas Utility and Local Distribution Company
Challenge:
What, how, and how much to inspect
How to focus on key quality and performance leverage points
How to best manage a growing and diverse contractor based work force
How to provide better tools and support for inspectors, managers and executives
How to rapidly deliver a custom solution with the existing IT infrastructure
Using our mobile, cloud based inspection platform, configured to each client's operating environment to enable the effective field inspections of gas pipeline and other gas infrastructure assets.
Results
Intelligent Inspections implementation had a dramatic impact on:
Inspection Efficiency
Inspection data 15 months after implementation. April 2019
Quality of Construction
Company has a practice of post construction digups to manage construction quality. Typically done on recently completed construction
Intelligent inspection include a standardized form for points of inspection for such digups
Company observed that since implementing Intelligent Inspections the expectations are more clear and inspection outcomes are a lot more transparent to the contractors, which the company believes led to the overall error rate reduction
Inspector Satisfaction
Total responders = 21
Benefits gained:
Improved construction quality and crew performance
Reduced implementation time of upgrades and refinements to less than one week
Performance increases by inspectors and managers
Quality monitored internally and benchmarked against standards
Driving performance by transforming inspection
For more on RPA and Digital Gas Operations contact: Jim Peters and Natallia Pinchuk