Increasing Efficiency
Optimising workflows and activities to improve productivity and reduce costs
We help operators supercharge their team’s productivity and efficiency, helping engineers and managers focus on what’s most important.
Our digital technologies eliminate clutter, duplication and confusion in order to drive efficiencies in meetings, planning and execution.
Challenge
Operations staff waste time hunting for information, accessing disparate systems and copying and pasting graphs into new reports that get lost in email inboxes.
Investing in technology to make your workforce more efficient quickly pays for itself - many times over
All you need to know about Increasing efficiency
Solutions
Oil and gas experience
- Fifteen years’ domain expertise in developing and deploying digital solutions gives us an advantage in knowing where to focus time, effort and budget.
- We understand how small changes can deliver big wins in terms of productivity and team motivation.
Smart technology choices
- Efficient morning meetings and reporting: automating information capture and distribution.
- Dashboard that deliver: reliable, up to date data integrated around key use cases.
- Complex operations data and analysis: domain-specific portals and applications to drive workflow efficiencies.
How we work
- We work closely with our clients, focusing on their pain points and where new technology solutions can have most impact.
- By focusing on low hanging fruit, we demonstrate early value and build stakeholder support for more complex digital transformation.
Murray Callander
A Process Engineer by training, Murray is the co-founder of Eigen and the visionary behind Eigen Ingenuity, a platform focused on making people more efficient.
"People don't need more data, they need more understanding. Our technology helps people understand what needs to be done and to take quicker actions. Ingenuity can be used to automate the low value repetitive tasks that take up most of people's time. Their work then becomes more fun and rewarding."
Impact
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Single intuitive dashboard designed to display key operational risk data
Challenge
Operators employ a multitude of functional systems to keep track of key operational data. This often necessitates switching between windows, which is time-consuming and error-prone, impacting deadlines and quality.
Solution
Eigen Ingenuity can be configured to display a list of entries related to each stakeholder, with a summary of information and links to the exact record in the source functional system. The “My Important Stuff” page was configured to show records from systems relating to risk management, work orders, purchase orders and requisitions.
Impact
Now each Stakeholder can access all key information from one dashboard, keeping the risk management workflow running efficiently. In addition, the stress on users of not being up to date or becoming distracted is drastically reduced.
Reduction in number of different windows kept open to display live operational data
Automated generation of a weekly plant availability report
Challenge
Creating the weekly plant availability report involved a series repetitive tasks, including extracting real-time production data, adding downtime data and potential, calculating production and plan efficiencies, as well as on-demand and on-stream availabilities, and pasting values and charts into a single report to be emailed to management.
Solution
Using Ingenuity’s digital reporting capability, a template for the weekly availability report was configured to the user’s specification with clean and informative trend lined and bar charts. Today, once per week all an engineer needs to do is enter production deferment figures and the report is generated automatically and emailed with one click.
Impact
The engineer has gained back three hours every week to use the reliability information to analyse improvement opportunities, conduct problem resolution. In addition, the engineer feels more engaged, motivated and valued.
Number of hours saved per week from creating a single plant availability report
Drilling Portal dramatically improves team efficiency
Challenge
Information on the drilling activities for each rig on hire is held in multiple systems, shared during meetings and via emailed PDFs and spreadsheets. Inbox clutter had become overwhelmingly, with up to 18 different reports emailed per day.
Solution
The Eigen Drilling Portal is a cloud-based web portal that aggregates and displays the latest status information from more than ten different information systems, including Non-Productive Time, time-depth curves, well status.
Impact
Today, the time taken for an engineer to understand the current status on each rig – and performance against plan – has been reduced to about one minute. In addition, teams have fed back increased motivation, as well as a greater sense of collaboration and one-team behaviour.
Number of minutes now taken to understand rig performance.
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FAQs
We provide solutions to help our clients dramatically increase their operational efficiencies through improved access to information and faster workflows.
Here are some frequently asked questions about how we work with your data and our philosophy on source data.
Can I extract data from multiple systems to provide operational awareness summaries?
Of course, you can: Eigen Ingenuity has five interface types that allow it to integrated data from multiple systems: Search driver, to integrate search indexes, Asset Model driver, to integrate external asset models, Historian driver to integrate timeseries data, SQL Driver to extract data from traditional RDBMS systems and Web APIs. Additionally, Data can be extracted from Excel files and the the Email Processor is a robot that can extract and classify reports sent as attachments to emails. The possibilities are endless.
How secure is the system?
We deploy Eigen Ingenuity to your cloud tenancy or on-prem servers to securely connect to your data sources and provide secure access to company users. Eigen is ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified: We take security very seriously and continually improve on our cyber security controls.
Is the data being copied?
Our philosophy is not to copy the data but to provide pointers to the location of the data in your functional systems. We can extract and copy data if required for performance purposes and Eigen Ingenuity does have internal data storage capabilities to be used if required.