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Ditch pen and paper to collect better data, automate workflows, and generate actionable insights

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  • Provide real-time access to data
  • Maximize field team productivity
  • Complement GIS with rich data
  • Remotely assign and track tasks
  • Guide novice workers in the field
  • Capture location data by default

Digital field inspections can help to drive process improvements, closing the loop between inspection and action. Find out more!

 
Blog
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Closing the loop between field inspection and meaningful action

Does your company use an open-loop or closed-loop field inspection management program? Not sure? In a nutshell, open-loop inspection management means you’re doing inspections, fixing things you note on the spot, but then that’s it. For closed-loop, you do the inspection, fix anything that might need fixing right away, then the best part: You take the data you’ve collected from this inspection, and all the ones before it, and see where there are trends, recurring problems, and ongoing issues. You then use those insights to tweak, edit, or totally overhaul how you do things for smart, impactful changes that drive continuous process improvements. Obviously, every company wants the second option. Luckily, we’ve got just the thing with great new features that will he...
Video
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Ditch the pen and paper: how to modernize the mobile workforce

Watch this 2-minute video to learn about Fulcrum’s field inspection management platform Watch this video to learn how Fulcrum’s digitized field inspection management platform enables organizations to improve safety, quality, and productivity. With Fulcrum, you can create custom field inspection management processes that streamline your operations, improve visibility into your teams’ progress, and deliver location-based […]

Infographic
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Field ops inspection insights

Sure, digital field inspections keep your operations running smoothly, but that’s just the beginning of their utility.

Case Study
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Wonderful Orchards

Maintaining 85,000 acres of almonds, pistachios, and pomegranates in California’s San Joaquin Valley. “We love the data events feature. If during a bee hive inspection they find mites, we’re able to create notifications that we need to treat.” ‍For everything from daily harvest inspections to food safety compliance, see how the ranchers at Wonderful Orchards save time, money, and resources with Fulcrum.
Case Study
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Celerity

Conducting pole audits, fiber-optic route maintenance, and feasibility studies.

Case Study
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Northpower

Performing electrical distribution inspections, maintenance, and mapping with Fulcrum.

Guide
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3 ways to improve field operations with location-based data

Learn how to leverage location-based information to reduce risk, ensure compliance, and optimize team performance. As a field ops manager, you’re overseeing a lot of moving parts at once, from quality to compliance to resource allocation. Download this free guide to learn how to leverage a digital field inspection management platform and location-based insights to help you and your teams work smarter, faster, and safer, by: Eliminating inefficient pen-and-paper processes Tracking your teams’ progress in real time Quickly collecting and analyzing accurate, geotagged data
Webinar
60 min

A data-driven approach to field team productivity

Your field teams already collect data when they’re doing inspections. Why not use that same data to give managers operational insights?

Webinar
60 min

Make your field operations smart by leveraging location-aware field inspection software and workflow management

Fulcrum you can develop custom field inspection management software that will help you keep up with your people and assets in the field. Even when your team does most of its work outside an office – in remote areas, without readily-available landmarks, out of the reach of mobile networks – you’ve got to keep track […]

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Improve field operations, no matter your industry

Agriculture field ops

Everything you need to:


  • Collect data on pests and weed control

  • Incorporate GIS and location into reporting

  • Manage irrigation, pest control & more

Webinar
< 1 min read

Learn how location-aware mobile apps assist Wonderful Orchards

Location-enabled mobile data collection has helped Wonderful Orchards grow nutritious foods safely and efficiently.

With over 95,000 planted acres in California’s San Joaquin Valley, Wonderful Orchards is the world’s largest

Case Study
< 1 min read

Desert Channels Queensland

Helping landowners track invasive species and obtrusive wildlife across Queensland, Australia.

“I logged into Fulcrum through my iPad browser, made changes to the app in two minutes, and within five

Case Study
< 1 min read

Wonderful Orchards

Maintaining 85,000 acres of almonds, pistachios, and pomegranates in California’s San Joaquin Valley.

“We love the data events feature. If during a bee hive inspection they find mites, we’re able

Construction field ops

Find out how to:

  • Analyze trends to determine process improvements
  • Use precise location data to manage horizontal construction issues
  • Track worker productivity and project progress
Guide
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Modernizing your construction company’s quality inspections is important – here’s how to get started

Do you have a construction company? And do you hate rework?

If you answered yes to both of the above, we’ve got just the guide for you.

Find out why

Case Study
< 1 min read

FM Sylvan

Reducing incidents and improving safety reporting with Fulcrum

Learn how FM Sylvan saved on insurance premiums, secured more bid opportunities, and, most importantly, protected its workers by switching from pen-and-paper-based

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Environmental field ops

When you need to:

  • Incorporate location and GIS into environmental reporting
  • Analyze environmental issues over large areas
  • Get accurate data from newer employees
Webinar
< 1 min read

Data-driven environmental safety: stories from the field

Learn how digital field inspection management lets your field teams be your environmental safety eyes and ears.

EHS professionals need an enormous amount of data to provide advice or make

Case Study
< 1 min read

GreenCollar

Preventing deforestation and protecting natural resources in Australia.

“We can have field teams on the phone talking to us whilst the data they are discussing is popping up on our

Insurance/risk management field ops

Everything you need to:

  • Leverage location intelligence in risk reporting
  • Assign and track building maintenance
  • Get accurate data, even from new employees
Guide
< 1 min read

Data-driven safety, quality and maintenance inspection management

If you work in a labor-centric environment, you know about the importance of field inspections – they keep workers safe, quality high, and operations going smoothly. But did you know

Case Study
< 1 min read

Carrington Risk

Providing risk management consulting to large commercial clients with Fulcrum.

“Report writing is taken from two-thirds to almost zero. It’s actually a 66 percent time savings.”

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Before implementing Fulcrum,

Manufacturing field ops

When you need to:

  • Reduce downtime by optimizing maintenance efficiency
  • Perform consistent equipment and machinery inventories
  • Inspect inputs thoroughly and rapidly
Case Study
< 1 min read

Halton Company – Creating an organization-wide culture of quality

“[Fulcrum] lets employees on the floor who actually are building the product take ownership. So now they see an issue and report it so it can be fixed, instead of

Oil and gas field ops

When you need to:

  • Ensure safe and high-quality equipment installations
  • Enhance data collected with built-in location intelligence
  • Conduct efficient, comprehensive maintenance inspections

State and local government field ops

Helping you to:

  • Maintain inspection schedules despite staffing issues
  • Enhance data collected with built-in location intelligence
  • Increase equipment life with optimized maintenance
Article
5 mins read

Eliminate inspection backlog with digital checklists

After an elevator went into freefall in Atlanta in August 2021, killing one man, it was found that the elevator in question was long overdue for an inspection because, across

Case Study
< 1 min read

Fresno County

“Pretty much anyone can create an app that can be launched and used right away.”

Learn how Fresno County turned its FEMA damage-assessment worksheet into a fully functional app that

Case Study
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City of Wyoming, MI

Inventorying water distribution systems, installing new meters and automating billing processes.

“Field deployment was simple and easy to manage.”

Learn how this Michigan city is leveraging responsive Fulcrum apps to

Telecom field ops

What you need to:

  • Assess existing and in-progress utility installations
  • Manage your teams across long distances
  • Incorporate GIS and location into your field operations
Infographic
< 1 min read

Field ops inspection insights

Sure, digital field inspections keep your operations running smoothly, but that’s just the beginning of their utility.

In this excerpt of a guide from research firm paradoxes, “Data-driven safety, quality,

Case Study
< 1 min read

Tilson Tech

Conducting telecom, cellular, and pre-fiber inspections across the United States with Fulcrum.

“It is so easy but we still get the same data quality regardless if it is a junior

Transportation field ops

When you need to:

  • Ensure your vehicle fleet is safe and road-ready
  • Retain experienced drivers with well-maintained, quality equipment
  • Incorporate location and GIS into compliance reporting


Article
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Benefits of digital field inspections for fleet management

If it’s got four (or 18) wheels, sooner or later it will give you problems.  From maintenance headaches to inspection snags to outright accidents, a lot can go wrong when

Case Study
< 1 min read

VicTrack

Inspecting rail infrastructure networks and performing asset maintenance and land management.

“The introduction of GPS tracked video would have been perceived as something requiring expensive hardware and custom developed inspection

Utilities field ops

What you need to:

  • Effectively manage field teams across wide areas
  • Incorporate location and GIS into reporting
  • Survey utility installations quickly and accurately

Electrical field workers using tablet to perform utility pole inspection showing how Fulcrum is Leading the field in utility data collection
Data Sheet
2 mins read

Leading the field in utility data collection

Fulcrum stands as a global leader in utility data collection, offering a robust platform that significantly transforms field activity data management. This dynamic tool outshines traditional paper methods and other

Webinar
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Trust, but verify – preventing utility inspection fraud

Learn how implementing a digital field inspection management platform can help to prevent field worker inspection fraud.

Late in 2021, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) faced a nightmare scenario: a

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Fulcrum for field inspection management

With Fulcrum, anyone can automate inspection processes in minutes with seamless, end-to-end workflows that enable consistent, measurable, and repeatable processes.

Digitize inspection processes

Simplify field inspections with easy-to-use checklists, team-wide issue and task management, and fully customizable inspection processes that can be built in minutes.

Drive intelligent automation for inspection teams

Streamline inspection processes on Day 1 with easily configurable workflows, task templates, and safety and quality process validation via an out-of-the-box issue framework.

Close the loop from inspection to insight to action

Promote organization-wide improvement using actionable insights from real-time reports, performance dashboards, and location-aware analytics.

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Tim Shifflett

Deputy Director of Client Solutions
MSI, A Tetra Tech Company
Fulcrum is our go-to because we don’t have to worry about the technology. We know that it will work. We can just worry about everything else.
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Jeff Whitman - spending less time in office field ops

Jeff Whitman

Network Solutions Advisor
Celerity
Our field technicians are spending less and less time in the office. They spend it more on field tasks, rather than office tasks. It's a noticeable difference.
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