Ocean Data Systems shares our thoughts and best practices with media around the world. Here is a highlight of just some of the areas we’ve contributed.
The good news – you’re here and reading this. Congratulations, you’ve taken the first steps in Social Media. Based on a recent Pew Research poll, in the age group 30-49, 82% are engaged with social networking sites and between ages 50 and 64 that number drops to 65%. Social media [...]
It’s been proven that regular and even automated performance reviews will drive focus on key initiatives and will drive continuous improvement. This is true of personnel reviews and for the monitoring of your key assets. One of the most important factors in achieving understanding is the display of your result [...]
If you’re an owner/operator of a power generation facility, or any process deemed "Critical Infrastructure", then it’s likely that you are falling under NERC-CIP (North American Electric Reliability Corporation – Critical Infrastructure Protection) guidelines and regulations. These standards outline procedures to safeguard assets that are critical to the functioning of [...]
You wake up and prepare for your day’s work, and suddenly things aren’t going as planned. In our case, the date was Monday 12/16, and it was just a Website Hack, but there are some important lessons to be learned and shared. Our site, like countless others on the internet [...]
Inductive Automation is a member of the Dream Report Proven Partner Program. As such, we've worked together to test the connectivity and operation of each product. Dream Report is a recommended solution for Inductive Automation's Ignition HMI/SCADA solution. We've created the following information to help you configure Ignition for use [...]
You’ve heard of the “Last Mile” metaphor used by telecommunications providers to highlight the high cost and complexity of overcoming the last connection from their local network hub your home. In logistics, it is used to highlight the last leg in a complex supply chain, the leg that can take [...]
Dream Report offers a Web Portal delivering two separate user experiences, one for a full browser that is PC based and one for a more limited browser that you'll find on mobile devices. Both experiences are based on Dream Report delivering HTML5 pages from the Dream Report web server running [...]
Driving continuous improvement is essential to remaining competitive in today's market. Delivering information to all stakeholders is the first step to being able to identify what is working well and what needs improvement. Automated report generation is the key to the pervasive sharing of information and reports are the necessary [...]
Analytics and Reporting are two different practices for sure, and you need both to maximize continuous improvement within your organization. The first step is to create a base of information that can be shared widely to drive understanding. That is reporting. Then, you layer in analytics, to drive a better [...]
Thermal Uniformity Survey (TUS), also known as Temperature Uniformity Survey, is the process of testing and mapping the temperatures inside an oven / autoclave / heat treat chamber. The process entails the addition of a number of temperature sensors, typically thermocouples, and controlling the oven through a ramp and soak [...]
