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Cloud-based Mobile Inspections: Your First Step to the Factory of the Future

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Cloud-based Mobile Inspections: Your First Step to the Factory of the Future

Is your workforce still carting around clipboards and binders full of paper forms and checklists? Why stay with outdated and siloed processes when you can seamlessly transition to the facility of the future and enjoy all the advantages a mobile inspections solution offers today?

Innovapptive is now offering mInspections, a Cloud-based digital forms solution that frees manufacturing and industrial process plants from the constraints of paper and specific ERPs. Whether you're currently using a proprietary mobile inspections solution and want to untether your business or you’re still using paper and want the latest technology, Innovapptive’s mInspections can deliver a solution that’s:

  • So simple, anyone can build a form without technical skills
  • Offers a user interface your frontline workers will love
  • Able to be deployed in hours rather than weeks or months

How mInspections Differs from Paper-Based or Proprietary Mobile Inspections Solutions

Far-sighted plant managers and company executives realize that tomorrow’s industrial facilities will rely on shared data and connected workers as much as equipment and machinery. It makes sense to give these workers and their supervisors a way to easily and quickly gather, store, and share vital operational data to better understand what’s happening within the plant in real time. This way they’ll be able to make more knowledge-based decisions on appropriate actions to take when issues arise, especially in an emergency.

mInspections meets that need. Evolving from Innovapptive’s existing RACETM Dynamic Forms, the solution revolutionizes data capture and facilitates quicker, more accurate plant inspections, data entry, and form completion. Outdated paper forms and checklists give way to tailored digital ones that can be created, edited, and issued in minutes. This capability allows for rapid responses to changing business conditions or even emergencies.

What differentiates mInspections from proprietary mobile forms applications? 

  • First, it’s a Cloud-based, standalone solution; no back-office system is required, although it can be integrated with one if a customer desires it. 
  • Second, the client can easily configure the solution to meet their unique needs, geographies, and for specific end-user roles. This configuration is possible through Innovapptive's patented Rapid Application Configuration Engine, or RACETM. RACE technology empowers anyone to create, edit, and issue inspection forms on the fly in 30 minutes or less, even if the user has no previous coding knowledge or experience.
  • Third, it can be deployed almost instantly, providing a rapid time to value. Mobile applications and enterprise solutions are notorious for long lead times for testing and installation. mInspections doesn’t suffer that problem.
  • Finally, the solution is easy for frontline workers to use without any training. mInspections offers an intuitive user interface and a superior user experience, promoting high user adoption rates and a positive return on investment.  

What You and Your Team Can Accomplish with mInspections

Forms are a vital part of any process or manufacturing plant's environmental, health, and safety (EHS) program. These procedures alert decision-makers about issues and provide the information needed to take timely, remedial actions. 

Unfortunately, many plants aren’t getting the full benefit from their inspections program. That’s because they’re still using paper checklists tied into legacy back-office systems. Such a process is slow, cumbersome, and open to errors that increase the risks of a costly incident. Or, if they’re using an existing mobile inspections program, the proprietary nature effectively creates a troublesome information silo that hinders information sharing across the enterprise. Why? Maintenance and operations are using different mobile systems that can’t integrate or communicate with each other, causing collaboration to suffer.

Using Cloud-based mInspections, you can:

  • Increase employee productivity by digitizing paper-based forms and shortening completion time
  • Quickly implement workflow changes by building and submitting inspection forms in minutes without IT support
  • Reduce entry errors and increase data accuracy with user-friendly data validation options
  • Sort and assign inspection tasks so frontline workers can perform tasks in a predefined or optimal sequence
  • Link forms and inspections to technical objects, groups, and specific areas of the plant

With mInspections, you can also:

  • Eliminate paper and clipboards 
  • Log data in real-time
  • Display and enter operations data across the corporate network
  • Take and upload photographs and videos, and edit documents in the field
  • Validate field values instantly
  • Respond to alerts without having to return to the control room or a PC

Take Your First Step Today; Call Us for a Demo

Why wait for the facility of the future when the future is available now? Discover the benefits and advantages awaiting you and your team. Our experts are standing by to offer a free demonstration of mInspections, answer your questions and understand your unique needs. Click here or give us a call today at 844-464-6668.

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