Digitally transform your field quality inspections

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Digitize inspections to avoid rework
Maximize quality and productivity
Nurture a culture of quality
Proactively mitigate rework risk
Inspect for high quality – at scale
Analyze data to improve performance

Find out how digital field inspections can close the loop between inspection and action, for insights that you can use to improve your processes.

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Critical quality field inspection insights

Quality field inspections help make sure work is up to standards and keep operations going smoothly, but that’s just the beginning. A robust digital quality program can catch issues earlier, decrease the need for rework, reduce the risk of schedule overruns, and even improve your reputation. But despite the clear benefits of a digital quality program, 70% of our survey respondents still collect at least some data using pen and paper! If you’re looking for some interesting stats about digital field inspection management and how it can improve your culture of quality, look no further than this infographic pulled from Fulcrum’s ebook, Data-driven safety, quality, and maintenance inspection management, published in conjunction with research firm paradoxes.

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3 steps to establishing a quality culture in your mobile workforce

Establishing a quality culture within your mobile workforce is more important than ever. Employees who ranked their company culture low in terms of quality reported 46% more mistakes than those at companies that were ranked highly, and estimated that it takes an average of two hours to fix an error. 1 At a salary of […]

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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 just ignoring it because that’s the way it’s always been done.” The switch to Fulcrum expanded quality control from just 4 to 7 people on a quality team to the entire production department, and reduced the time to implement changes and improvements by months.

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SMEC

Consulting on major electrical, environmental, and transportation infrastructure projects.

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Tilson Tech

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

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Getting digital with your field quality inspections

Why it’s critical for companies to begin digitizing their field quality inspection efforts. Technology is dramatically changing the field inspection landscape across industries. With the current slate of widely available and affordable digital tools at their disposal, quality inspectors aren’t forced to make the compromises that often lead to expensive mistakes or inefficiencies. In this guide, we’ll look at why it’s critical for companies to begin digitizing their field quality inspection efforts. We’ll discover that the right digital platforms can fill all the information gaps that negatively impact efficiency, compliance, margins, and profit.

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Protecting Projects — and Profits — with Fulcrum

Find out how the Fulcrum platform enables teams to improve the quality of their work and their processes

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Improve quality, no matter your industry

Agriculture quality

Everything you need to:

* Inspect crop growth and product quality
* Manage irrigation, pest control & other inspections
* Incorporate GIS and location into quality reporting

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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

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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

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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

Construction quality

Let us help you:

* Use inspections to align build with design requirements
* Analyze quality inspection data to identify process improvements
* Capture location data automatically as part of quality inspections

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Don’t let rework devastate your deadlines: how digital quality inspections can recover losses in construction remediation

Digital quality inspections in construction can make the difference in the time and money lost chasing rework.

Construction rework can have devastating effects on your deadlines and profits. Of course,

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Brown and Caldwell

Engineers, scientists, consultants and constructors helping municipal, private and federal agencies solve complex environmental challenges.

“It took 30 percent fewer hours to manage and QA the data using Fulcrum.”

Environmental quality

When you need to:

* Perform surveys that deliver high-quality data for design teams
* Inspect construction to ensure alignment with design requirements
* Incorporate location and GIS into environmental reporting

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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

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A data-driven approach to environmental safety compliance

Learn how Brown and Caldwell adopted field inspection management capabilities that can increase compliance and performance at the same time.

In an effort to leverage advanced technologies to improve water

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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:

* Inspect sites to ensure maintenance standards
* Leverage inspection data in client reporting
* Use location intelligence in risk reporting

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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

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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 quality

Helping you to:

* Inspect inputs thoroughly and rapidly
* Incorporate QA/QC checks into standard procedures
* Make quality part of company brand

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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

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Buyer’s guide to mobile inspection software

Find out how to choose a solution that improves your workflows today and can also adapt to the changing needs of your field organization.

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Oil and gas quality

When you need to:

* Ensure high-quality equipment installations
* Perform maintenance inspections rapidly and thoroughly
* Report your high-quality results using built-in location intelligence

State and local government quality

Helping you to:

* Supervise contractors with pre- and post-job inspections
* Maintain inspection schedules despite staffing issues
* Share findings with regulators and the public

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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

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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

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Santa Barbara County Fire Department

Conducting defensible space inspections to protect life and property from wildfires.

“Maybe you were able to do 3 inspections a day and now you can do 20 inspections a day.”

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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 quality

What you need to:

* Avoid maintenance mistakes that require rework
* Streamline quality inspection workflows
* Incorporate location intelligence and GIS for large areas

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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.

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

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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 quality

When you need to:

* Keep your fleet in service
* Retain experienced drivers with well-maintained, quality equipment
* Adhere to industry standards and regulations

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Snavely Forest Products

Proven ROI in Month 1

When Snavely Forest Products began to digitize its safety inspection program, it achieved immediate savings in terms of hours and dollars spent. More importantly, it

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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

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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 quality

What you need to:

* Ensure work quality of field teams
* Reduce risk of outages
* Cultivate reputation of quality service

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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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Trusted by more than 2,500 companies and 30,000 users in 100+ countries

Aaron Vanover

Manager of Quality Assurance and Quality Control

Halton Company

Using Fulcrum, Halton Company’s quality control team provides richer, better documented support, enabling them to catch more issues.

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Gavin Kelley

Senior Software Developer

Tilson Tech

It is so easy to use that our training period is greatly shortened. Data quality is very important to us so it can’t be overly complicated. We still get the same data quality regardless if it is a junior or senior data collector.

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