Read Fulcrum blog posts for field operations teams, covering mobile data collection, inspections, and daily workflows across all industries.
Download this free PDF checklist to ensure the protection of your construction site.
Download this free PDF to help ensure compliance with stormwater regulations.
Download this free PDF to conduct building inspections and ensure they and their essential systems are in compliance with regulations.
Download this free PDF to conduct routine building sanitary sewer inspections or locate and remediate problems.
Download this free building survey checklist to conduct a thorough assessment of a commercial property.
Download this free PDF checklist to conduct a thorough drone inspection before taking flight.
Download this rental inspection checklist when tenants move in or out of your property to document any damage.
Download this checklist to conduct a comprehensive four-point home inspection, including roofing & structure, HVAC, electrical & plumbing.
Download this inspection checklist to minimize stormwater pollution and keep your construction project compliant.
Download this checklist to document the condition of cars as they are dropped off at your business and document any prior damage.
Download this checklist to conduct weekly emergency vehicle inspections to reduce maintenance costs and keep your fleet on the road.
Download this mileage tracker to ensure accurate record-keeping for your vehicles and tax purposes.
Download this form to keep transmission lines protected from hazardous trees and prevent power service interruptions.
Download this checklist to conduct a thorough visual inspection of a storm drainage system.
Download this checklist to conduct property inspections on commercial or residential properties.
Download this checklist to conduct heavy equipment inspections to ensure compliance on your construction sites.
Use this checklist to conduct OSHA-mandated fire extinguisher inspections to stay compliant and protect your facilities.
Track the wherabouts and condition of your company’s assets with this equipment inventory form.
Download this free checklist to ensure your elevators are free of hazards and compliant with regulations, and reduce maintenance costs.
Download this checklist to ensure your construction site stays compliant with the federal and state standards.
Few things are more frustrating than being held up by technical problems. The laptop freezes. The vending machine breaks. The car doesn’t start. Knowing that your immediate future is now dependent on someone else — the IT guy, the repair tech, the auto mechanic — is such a helpless feeling. Like being stuck in limbo. The good news is that technical problems are not inevitable. In fact, many are fairly easily avoided. Because almost every technical problem is really, at its core, a human one.
When was the last time you went grocery shopping without a checklist? How soon after did you have to go back for something you forgot? Checklists play an important role in our lives, not just by reminding us to buy milk. Health and safety checklists, for example, can prevent accidents, illnesses, and injuries.
When you call 911, what’s the first question they ask you? What is your location? Knowing where you are — and being able to share that information quickly — is crucial to getting the help you need in a timely manner. Location matters. Not just in emergency situations, but in nearly all aspects of our personal and professional lives, from the most mundane decisions (which route should I take to work?) to the most pivotal (where should I buy a house?).
Learn how to leverage mobile technology to improve the speed, accuracy, and value of field operations – and achieve buy-in from your teams.
When you think about field inspections, what comes to mind? Probably something like this:
In part I of this series, we talked about the importance of productivity and speed in workflow automation. That puts a lot of pressure on the inspector to be quick — there’s no faster way to have people resent the time you spend “checking boxes” than to take a long time doing it.
As a property manager, it’s your job to not only help your clients preserve the value of their property, but to ensure it stays in compliance with local ordinances. In many states, a code violation multiplies every day it goes unresolved. So a $1,000 violation, left unattended for a week, becomes an $8,000 violation, and so on. To protect your clients (and your company), you need to conduct regular inspections, respond quickly to problems, and confirm that your contractors are performing high-quality work. Between contracts, inspection reports, and maintenance records, it’s a lot of paperwork — and paperwork is the enemy of expeditiousness.
How to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of field operations with our mobile data collection and workflow automation platform.
In part I, we talked about increasing productivity in safety, quality, and other inspections. Then, in Part II, we talked about increasing rigor and speed without sacrificing quality. In this post, we’ll talk about speeding up your organization’s reaction time to events that happen in the field is made possible by automating workflows with Fulcrum.
In our last post, we talked about how workflow automation can increase productivity in safety, quality, and other inspections.
Field inspections are a critical part of maintaining safety, compliance, and operational excellence. However, outdated processes often lead to unnecessary delays, inaccurate data, and reduced productivity. Modernizing field inspections provides a clear path to better performance by streamlining workflows and equipping teams with the tools they need to succeed.
Your health, safety, and environment (HSE) inspections require you to collect a lot of data. But if you’re using paper-based checklists, you’re only getting a fraction of the benefits you could receive, without the kind of productivity that you need. Read on to learn why digitized HSE inspections are the best for data collection processes.
Fulcrum workflows automate the process of taking the data you collect and pushing into new processes — without any additional effort from data collectors or their supervisors. We’re excited about it because it’s the first step to helping you:
Providing risk management consulting to large commercial clients with Fulcrum.
Engineers and technologists collaborating to provide comprehensive asset management solutions.
Sharing knowledge on how to preserve dark skies and reduce light pollution on local, national, and international levels.
Helping landowners track invasive species and obtrusive wildlife across Queensland, Australia.
Preventing deforestation and protecting natural resources in Australia.
Clearing landmines and other explosive remnants of war in countries recovering from conflict.
Monitoring natural resources across Israel to ensure long-term sustainability.
This nonprofit uses Fulcrum to help connect people experiencing homelessness with available resources.
Helping government councils manage their assets and track maintenance teams in remote areas of South Africa.
Providing expert advice and services to governments, development partners, and private sector organizations across Sierra Leone.
This short video describes how Desert Rangers groups use Fulcrum to support better conservation efforts and local education in Australia.
This public outreach from Desert Channels Queensland includes a demo of how Fulcrum helps ordinary people track feral animals and weeds.
This short video shows how better data is helping five sovereign Native American tribes represent their populations to the US government.
Northpower, a leading multi-utility contractor in New Zealand, needed a better system for electrical infrastructure inspections. Its outdated Windows Mobile devices and paper maps caused inefficiencies and missed inspections, creating safety concerns and data inaccuracies. With 85,000 pillars to inspect over a three-year cycle, the existing system couldn’t keep up with its growing needs.
Molecular-bioscience researchers studying natural diversity in nematodes (or roundworms) in Hawaii.
Protecting homes and infrastructure from wildfire with real-time data.
Conducting hydrant inventories to aid in civil engineering municipal works.
