Run Every Job Site. Stay In Control.
Remote and distributed field operations, oil and gas sites, utility crews, and construction jobs spread across a state or a country, all share one challenge. The people running the job are often nowhere near headquarters, and the tools they use to report back home are usually the same everywhere: a clipboard, a paper checklist, and a phone call.
Paper works until it doesn’t. Forms go out of date. Checklists get filled in after the fact instead of in the moment. By the time anyone at headquarters sees a problem, the job has already fallen behind, a safety issue has already occurred, or a client’s confidence has already taken a hit. For any operation that runs jobs at a distance, that gap between what’s happening on site and what leadership can see is where delays, safety issues, and lost margin all start.
Distant Job Sites, Paper Processes, and Real Risk
KS Industries, known as KSI, is a construction and field services company with about 5,000 employees, running job sites that include oil production locations hundreds of miles from headquarters. A clipboard and a pencil offer little help coordinating and collaborating on a job site that far from home.
Before TrackVia, KSI relied on paper forms and checklists that were frequently out of date, inaccurate, or both. That led to real problems. Projects were delayed. Clients were left in the dark about progress. The company risked falling short of safety requirements, or worse, someone getting hurt. KSI had tried to solve this before with other systems, but each attempt failed because the software was too complex, too rigid, or simply didn’t work for the people actually doing the job on site.
How KS Industries Got Started With TrackVia
KSI chose TrackVia to build a mobile workflow application its remote workers could actually use, with or without an internet connection. The company started with the workflow that mattered most on a distant job site: getting accurate data from the field, in real time, without waiting for a paper form to make its way back to the office.
Workers use the native app to collect and access job data and complete checklists on site, whether or not they have a signal. Jobs, tasks, and assignments can be reassigned through automated workflow notifications, and assets can be rescheduled in a few clicks. At headquarters, job site data is reviewed and analyzed in real time and synced automatically with the company’s other systems, including its Viewpoint accounting and project system.
Improved On-Time Performance, Safety, and Margins
Since implementing TrackVia, KSI has reported an overall increase in project efficiency. Safety compliance data is now centralized for faster, better reporting, and job site workers are more productive. Together, those changes have led to better on-time performance and better profit margins.
Because TrackVia is easy to use, KSI can add new data fields or change a process instantly, without re-coding the software or hiring an app developer. That’s something the company’s earlier attempts at digitizing the job site could never do.
“Their solution provided the flexibility we needed to meet unique project requirements while affording visibility and control.” Eric Crozier, CTO, KS Industries
For any operation running job sites at a distance, that combination is what turns a remote job site from a risk into a well run part of the business. Real-time visibility, paired with a system flexible enough to change as the work changes, makes the difference.
Your Job Sites Should Keep Getting Better
New projects, new sites, and new requirements will keep showing up, often far from headquarters. The way a company runs a job site today shouldn’t have to be the way it runs one three years from now. TrackVia combines a proven starting point for field and construction operations with the adaptability to change as new job sites and requirements come up.
Industry
Construction
Location
United States
Employees
5,000
The native app allows workers to collect and access project or job data, and easily complete checklists
With TrackVia, KSI was able to quickly deploy a mobile app that workers could use with or without an internet connection
Purpose-built for the work. Connected as it happens. Adaptable as operations change.
Connect the work. Control the operation.
See how TrackVia can help you run every job site with real-time visibility, better safety, and stronger margins.