Digital Transformation in Rail Maintenance: Vision Industrial's Success with Assignar
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Computer Vision Software
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Buildings
- Railway & Metro
Applicable Functions
- Maintenance
Use Cases
- Personnel Tracking & Monitoring
- Root Cause Analysis & Diagnosis
About The Customer
Vision Industrial Services is an industrial welding contractor based in DeQuincy, Louisiana. The company specializes in railroad construction and maintenance across the United States. With a team of highly skilled welders and state-of-the-art equipment, Vision Industrial provides top-notch service to its clients. The company's field technicians operate in every state of the U.S., maintaining the national rail network that spans 160,000 miles. As the company grew and took on more infrastructure work, it recognized the need to transition from analog to digital processes to improve efficiency and productivity.
The Challenge
Vision Industrial Services, a Louisiana-based industrial welding contractor specializing in railroad construction and maintenance, was struggling with outdated, analog business processes. The company relied heavily on spreadsheets, emails, and physical calendars for communication, scheduling, and data management. This approach was not only slow and cumbersome but also prone to errors and data loss. As the company grew, these manual processes became increasingly challenging to manage. The General Manager, Melanie Smith, spent a significant amount of her time ensuring smooth communication and process execution. The lack of a digital solution led to endless email exchanges to relay information from customers to office staff and field workers, creating numerous opportunities for data to go missing.
The Solution
To address these challenges, Vision Industrial adopted Assignar, a digital solution designed to streamline their operations and enhance productivity. The platform was easy to implement, even for staff members who were not tech-savvy, ensuring a smooth transition from analog to digital. Assignar allowed Vision Industrial to replace spreadsheets and emails with digital forms, enabling instant access to field data and facilitating efficient communication across multiple states. The platform also provided a shared operations platform for cross-checking work across teams, reducing the risk of costly mistakes due to human error. Additionally, Assignar enabled the company to digitally schedule everything from daily fieldwork to invoicing, ensuring smooth and error-free operations.
Operational Impact
Quantitative Benefit
Case Study missing?
Start adding your own!
Register with your work email and create a new case study profile for your business.
Related Case Studies.
Case Study
Energy Saving & Power Monitoring System
Recently a university in Taiwan was experiencing dramatic power usage increases due to its growing number of campus buildings and students. Aiming to analyze their power consumption and increase their power efficiency across 52 buildings, the university wanted to build a power management system utilizing web-based hardware and software. With these goals in mind, they contacted Advantech to help them develop their system and provide them with the means to save energy in the years to come.
Case Study
Intelligent Building Automation System and Energy Saving Solution
One of the most difficult problems facing the world is conserving energy in buildings. However, it is not easy to have a cost-effective solution to reduce energy usage in a building. One solution for saving energy is to implement an intelligent building automation system (BAS) which can be controlled according to its schedule. In Indonesia a large university with a five floor building and 22 classrooms wanted to save the amount of energy being used.
Case Study
Powering Smart Home Automation solutions with IoT for Energy conservation
Many industry leaders that offer Smart Energy Management products & solutions face challenges including:How to build a scalable platform that can automatically scale-up to on-board ‘n’ number of Smart home devicesData security, solution availability, and reliability are the other critical factors to deal withHow to create a robust common IoT platform that handles any kind of smart devicesHow to enable data management capabilities that would help in intelligent decision-making
Case Study
Protecting a Stadium from Hazardous Materials Using IoT2cell's Mobility Platform
There was a need for higher security at the AT&T Stadium during the NFL draft. There was a need to ensure that nuclear radiation material was not smuggled inside the stadium. Hazmat materials could often be missed in a standard checkpoint when gaining entry into a stadium.
Case Study
Commercial Building Automation Boosts Energy Efficiency
One of the challenges to building automation is the multitude of non-interoperable communications protocols that have evolved over the years. Buildings have several islands of automation. Bridging the islands of different automation without losing the considerable investment in each specialized control network is the main focus in this solution.
