An interesting article crossed my desk a couple of weeks ago … according to Eric Beauchesne of CanWest News Service, workers are only as good as their tools, apparently. The article titled Increased Productivity Due to Better Equipment, goes on to discuss how a Statistics Canada study found that the improvement in labor productivity over the past 45 years is due to improvements in machinery and equipment, not improvements in education or worker skills. .

So give me the cold facts

This is exactly what Stats Canada revealed:

o 2.1% average annual increase in labor productivity

o 55% was due to improvements in machinery and equipment

o 20% job improvements

What does this mean?

Well, look around … Help Wanted signs are EVERYWHERE!

Even the Alberta government predicts that the province will need 400,000 new workers by 2015. But it is not just in my province that this is happening. Labor shortages are reported in booming economies across North America.

So if you can’t get more workers, what are you supposed to do?

You need to figure out how to make your workforce more productive … using technology.

It’s that easy!

Houston, we have a problem!

When analyzing your workforce, you must decide which innovations would really make a difference in the productivity of your workers.

Let’s think about the loss of productivity you might be experiencing due to your field data capture process … You have probably experienced some of the common field data capture problems like:

o You are behind in closing your books every month because you are waiting for traders to catch up on data entry

o Your company has tried to get your operators to fax your sign-in sheets to a group of data entry assistants, but the operators’ handwriting was so poor that the entries were inaccurate.

o Hours of overtime spent correcting errors in the database

o Delays in identifying problems with the equipment because its operator rushed to take his readings knowing that he would have to spend another hour and a half that night missing the hockey game by entering data

o Log leaves lost in mud and rain

This process could be much more productive with a portable data capture solution …

Or three?

“That is a small step for HotButton, a HotLeap for productivity.”

When we customize solutions for our clients, it is actually easier than you think. We build all of our portable field data capture solutions on the same framework, our flagship product, ArrowSync. So combining multiple portable solutions ends up being an easy step to implement for us, but the effect on productivity is staggering. The result is our newest product, HotLeap – the essential solutions from ArrowSync.

So what is “essential” for ArrowSync?

Any field data that YOU want to capture on a handheld is ‘essential’! This allows you to customize the solution that will optimize the activities and productivity of your workforce.

Optimizing your productivity saves TIME and generates MONEY

On average, our users experience cost savings of $ 550 CDN per well per year, with just ONE ArrowSync solution! For example, an oil company operating 50 wells will receive reimbursement for the purchase of its portable device in 2.5 months and a net savings of $ 2,042 per month (based on the purchase of an intrinsically safe portable device of $ 5,000 and a monthly fee $ 5 per pot). .. and that’s just 50 wells, with a portable data capture solution.

Imagine the possibilities!

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