Achieve SaaS scale at your site with Obzervr

Using Obzervr helps heavy asset customers, such as those in mining and industrial sectors, avoid growing their people cost base when they add more equipment to their sites. By increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of their existing workforce, Obzervr enables companies to manage additional equipment without needing to scale their personnel proportionally. Here’s how Obzervr achieves this:

1. Eliminating Paper-Based Processes:

• Digital Workflows: Obzervr replaces manual, paper-based processes with fully digital workflows, which reduces the time and effort required to complete and manage tasks. Technicians no longer have to manually fill out forms, transfer data, or search through physical records, as everything is digitized and centralized in one system.
• Benefit: This allows employees to focus on higher-value tasks rather than administrative work, increasing their productivity and freeing up time to manage more equipment without the need to hire additional personnel.

2. More Effective Planning and Scheduling:

• Real-Time Data for Maintenance: By automatically syncing machine data (e.g., sensor readings, inspection results) into the CMMS, Obzervr ensures that planning and scheduling are based on accurate, up-to-date information. Maintenance tasks can be scheduled more efficiently, with the right resources and parts available at the right time.
• Benefit: Better planning reduces delays, rework, and the need for last-minute firefighting. It ensures that technicians can handle more tasks in the same amount of time, allowing the company to scale its operations without increasing its headcount.

3. Increased Visibility of Stock and Resources:

• Real-Time Inventory Management: Obzervr integrates with inventory systems to provide visibility into stock levels, ensuring that spare parts and materials are always available when needed. This prevents downtime due to waiting for parts and avoids unnecessary stockpiling, which ties up capital.
• Benefit: Technicians spend less time waiting for parts and can complete tasks more efficiently, meaning that they can handle maintenance for more equipment without increasing the size of the team.

4. Avoiding Rework Through Digital Inspections and Quality Control:

• Digital Inspections with Exception Flagging: Obzervr allows technicians to complete inspections digitally, with built-in logic to flag exceptions and automatically trigger follow-up actions. This ensures that issues are caught early and dealt with before they become larger problems, reducing the need for rework and revisits.
• Benefit: The ability to catch and resolve issues efficiently means that technicians can manage more equipment without needing to revisit the same machines for additional work. This increases their overall capacity to handle growing asset fleets.

5. Automation of Routine and Administrative Tasks:

• Automated CMMS Updates and Reporting: Obzervr automates many of the administrative tasks traditionally associated with maintenance, such as data entry, work order updates, and report generation. With this automation, technicians and supervisors can focus more on actual maintenance and less on documentation.
• Benefit: By automating routine tasks, companies can avoid adding administrative staff as they scale up their operations. Existing personnel can manage larger equipment fleets without becoming overwhelmed by the additional workload.

6. Better Resource Utilization:

• Optimized Resource Allocation: With Obzervr’s real-time visibility into technician schedules, availability, and skills, work can be allocated more effectively. This ensures that the right people are assigned to the right tasks at the right time, avoiding bottlenecks and inefficiencies.
• Benefit: More efficient resource allocation means that fewer technicians are needed to manage more equipment. The existing workforce becomes more effective, handling more tasks in the same amount of time.

7. Reduced Need for Emergency Repairs:

• Condition-Based Maintenance: Obzervr enables condition-based maintenance by using real-time data to monitor machine health and trigger maintenance tasks only when needed. This reduces the frequency of emergency repairs and minimizes unplanned downtime.
• Benefit: By reducing the need for reactive maintenance, technicians can focus on planned, efficient work, rather than constantly responding to emergencies. This allows the company to manage more equipment with the same workforce, avoiding the cost of hiring additional personnel to deal with unplanned repairs.

Conclusion:

Obzervr helps heavy asset customers avoid the costs associated with growing their people base as they scale their operations by making their existing workforce more efficient and effective. By eliminating paper processes, improving planning and scheduling, increasing visibility of stock, automating routine tasks, and reducing rework and emergency repairs, Obzervr allows companies to handle additional equipment with their existing resources. This efficiency gain means that companies can scale up their asset base without needing to proportionally increase their headcount, resulting in significant cost savings while maintaining operational effectiveness.

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