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News Release from: Terrington Data Management | Subject: IndEx
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 22 November 2006
Data capture streamlines ATEX 137
inspections
Speciality chemicals group Warwick International is dramatically improving the efficiency of hazardous area inspections with pioneering data capture technology developed by Terrington Data Management.
An international speciality chemicals group is dramatically improving the efficiency of its hazardous area inspections with pioneering data capture technology, developed by Terrington Data Management Warwick International has reduced contractor hours input for its inspections by 40 per cent by using the Terrington revolutionary IndEx software package, a special-adaptation of their data capture system known as 'Transform'
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 24 Jan 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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IndEx is designed to enhance efficiency of the electrical inspections which are essential for companies to comply with the ATEX 137 requirements.
IndEx is an innovative, handheld, secure and scalable system which creates paperless inspections of hazardous area approved equipment through a complete set of one-touch data entry forms for all explosion protection types, schedules, audit and reporting functions.
US-owned Warwick International, which has its UK and group headquarters in Holywell, Flintshire, previously used paper-based records in which inspectors completed asset inspection forms for its 5,000 assets at nine different plants ranging from electric motors to instrument transmitters and valves.
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This was done under guidance from hazardous area facilitator Steve Williams and relied upon the inspectors having a familiarity with each site and the ability to find the assets.
Valuable time was lost when new inspectors visited sites.
Steve Williams extracted inspection details from completed forms, filed documentation as evidence for the health and safety executive and so the history of each asset could be tracked.
He says: "Weaknesses in the paper-based system became apparent when we populated IndEx with our asset inventory.
Details of manufacturers, model numbers, exact locations and certification details were either inaccurate, or not properly recorded.
It was easy to miss asset inspections as a result".
By designing the asset detail header on its IndEx forms to be the same for each piece of equipment, Warwick International has now created an accurate, easy-to-access record of every asset.
"The inspectors individual descriptions of equipment, which were sometimes confusing, have been eliminated" says Steve Williams: "We are now also able, through IndeEx, to tell inspectors the precise location of each asset.
This also significantly contributes to time and cost savings.
After inspections, details are entered directly into IndEx.
This eradicates office administration of paper records and saves considerably more time.
The inspectors like the IndEx system, which has eliminated the tedious paperwork from their task.
As a result, since switching to IndEx, the number of daily inspections has risen from between only seven to 12, to between 15 and 20!".
Terrington managing director, Mark Williams, says: "IndEx is faster, more cost effective and far more accurate than paper-based records, improving efficiency and reducing costs.
Companies are using IndEX because, if an incident occurs, they have total confidence in the system to provide instant detailed records of their inspection and prevention measures which could prove crucial in an emergency".
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