Information Where It’s Needed

Many companies invest heavily in pushing data upwards to managers. They build a lot of infrastructure and spend considerable amounts of time delivering statistics and KPIs to decision-makers higher up in the corporate ladder.

Unfortunately, corporate philosophy often doesn’t work well when you get down to the level of people who work directly on-site. It leaves the people at the bottom of the hierarchy – who are usually the people performing the critical work that supports everyone else in the organisation – blind.

Even on highly-automated lines, people are still key components of any system.

ARDIs primary design goal has always been to help reduce the barriers between people and the information they need to do their jobs. And our focus isn’t purely on management – our main focus is on the people on site, working with your production systems and machinery.

These are the people with…

• The greatest impact on your productivity,
• The greatest risk from safety issues,
• The least time to make decisions,
• The greatest day-to-day pressure to maintain performance and quality, and
• The need for deep familiarity with your systems, how they work, how they’re connected, and what they’re doing

Yet at the same time, they also have most difficult access to the information they need to make well-informed decisions and perform efficiently.

Every barrier between your systems and your people – the walking, signing-in, navigating through tangled menus, searching through folders etc – is another reason people will simply not use the up-to-date information they provide.

Your people either waste time, effort and energy finding the information they need – which is extremely inefficient – or they rely on old information, which can lead to poor decisions, unsafe practises or non-compliance.

This is why ARDI has visualisations specifically designed to break down the barriers for on-site roles in your organisation.

People in the field and on-site can access..

• Interactive Photographic Experiences (‘Street View’ for your plant)
• Augmented Reality & Asset Data in the Field
• 3D Virtual Environments
• ARDI Diagnostic Tools

ARDI doesn’t just focus on consolidating your data, but also bringing your people together.

On complex sites, there are many different teams of people and pools of information – network engineers have their platforms, electrical, mechanical and automation engineers each have their own, and your maintenance people have a completely different system again.

There’s a perfectly good reason for these different systems – they all work well with the needs of your people – but since their systems don’t communicate, there’s a barrier between people, making collaboration between groups more difficult.

ARDI doesn’t replace any of your infrastructure. But it can bridge the gap between not only the systems these different groups use, but also between their perspectives on your site. This creates a shared view of your operations that allows new insights and understanding between the people who work with your assets, who can dive into this raw data and turn it into value.

It’s a little ironic that the same product that can bring people together in one shared space also helps make them more independent too.

But when we provide all of the information people need in one place, they don’t need to be as dependent on other staff to do their jobs well. Technicians don’t need to radio the controllers, Engineers don’t need get bothered by analysts – people don’t need to keep interrupting one-another or their own work in order to get information.

Every site has that person who understands where every point is stored, the one who knows every nook and cranny of the HMI, one that knows how the machines are put together, and the one that knows how to navigate all your various systems. But those people are busy, and they’re not always going to be there.

With ARDI, everyone is that person.