This is just an example of the many things you can do with Dream Report. Let your imagine wander and place yourself in this scenario.
You’re a water or wastewater engineer and you’re working the first shift. You’ve been enjoying your new capabilities since Dream Report was installed. It’s making your life much easier by automating many mundane tasks, and you’re able to have greater visibility into your process and the items that’ll positively influence your job. So, here is what a typical day might look like:
BEEP – BEEP – BEEP, it’s 5:30 am. Your alarm just went off, and you’re one of the 75% of 25 to 29 year olds that sleep with their cell phone. So, you grab your phone and have a quick look at Facebook. Then, you start wondering what your day will be like and you click the Dream Report Web Portal button, log in and generate your Shift Summary report. You know it gets generated automatically for your 7:00am start and will be in your inbox when you get to work, but it never hurts to create an ad-hoc version to see where things are right now.
Yea, the report is shorter than usual. No major issues. You browse the past couple of shifts worth of alarms summarized out of your HMI/SCADA and see the usual offenders. That backup generator is tripping during its test runs. You scroll down to the Maintenance section, pulled out of your EAM system, and you see that today’s the day the vendor is scheduled to come in for repairs. That’s great news. Lunch with Bud!
Further down in the production report you see that the last couple of shifts have processed 6 million gallons of water. A quick look at KPIs and you see that the operations are all normal, but there’s a pump taken out of operation. That will likely be the project of the day.
Time for a shower!
It’s 6:55 am and you’re walking in the door. You’ve been wanting to check email on the drive in to confirm that Bud’s available for lunch. 77% of people think they can safely text and drive, and 34% actually do. But you know that’s not a good idea and it can wait. You get to your desk, sip a cup of coffee and Jake stops by. It’s the daily change-over meeting.
You both have your official shift change report. You’re looking at your Dream Report PDF on the monitor and Jake has his hardcopy which he’s set to automatically print in the control room. You remind him that the average American uses 500lbs of paper a year. He reminds you that he is above average and gives you a grin.
Nothing’s changed since 5:30am. There’s one anomaly in the Lab Sample area that needs some discussion. Apparently the pH is coming in a bit higher than usual and it’s worth checking if there’s a calibration issue, test procedure change or actual process shift. It might just be the new lab tech. Still well with-in range, but you see this report every day and know that the trend is a bit usual. Jake tells you the reason for the failed pump. The input screen didn’t catch a hard object that ended up breaking an impeller blade. High vibration shut it down. Of course he’s leaving the replacement to the next shift. You’re thinking – Dream Report’s made a great impact in the past couple of years. Later on you’ll run a report to see how often that has happened. You’ve never been able to access data as easily as you can now with Dream Report.
8:00am and you stop by the control room. You get the operators together and show them the new Dream Report integration with the HMI/SCADA system that you completed yesterday. You show them the buttons that will generate their Shift Summary and call up the maintenance report and new manual data entry screens. They don’t have to leave the HMI screen any more. It’s pretty cool that Dream Report offers command line and Web Service parameters for report generation. There’s even an Active-X control for detailed interactions. You’re wondering – should I add these to the bosses screen?
9:56 am and you’re heading to your management meeting with the boss. You pass the lunch room and see the flat screen on the wall. Dream Report’s generating the plant dashboard for all to see and updates it by the minute. The numbers are all good, colors are all right (No red – yea!). The boss likes showing that off on his plant tours.
Pointy Haired Boss shows up at 10:05. You’re feeling like Dilbert. Why can’t he ever be on time? Dream Report has everyone informed these days. Even the new guy has spotted some process variables in a Dream Report that could be improved with some minor maintenance work. The boss is looking good and today he decides to give you a Spot Award for your hard work. Awesome – lunch in on the house. You’re given the news that energy is the next focus. The boss wants to see Dream Report energy reports. Facility energy use by department. Major asset energy use. Shift to shift energy reports. Bar Charts comparing them to installed state and to each other. Make them look “Pretty” he says. Your thought “That’s a piece-of-cake with Dream Report – just can’t let him know how quickly and easily I can get this done. Poker face works – he gives a week – you need a day.”
12:00 pm and Bud shows up in your office. He’s just finished adding an enhancement to your backup generator. It’s been given secure web connection and is making its data available to the new Acme Generator Cloud Service. Bud says they’re now using Dream Report and will be delivering status “Reports as a Service – RaaS”. They checked the ICS-CERT database and saw that Dream Report was tested for Cyber Security. None of their other reporting options have that. They’ll be watching the Generator Test Runs remotely from now on as part of the annual agreement and will be delivering anomaly reports and monthly status reports. They’ll also have a Web Portal letting you log in to make notes and do some ad-hoc analysis of the data. You’re thinking – it’s about time they got with the program. You’ve been doing that for the past year. The talk switches to sports…
1:30 pm and you’re strolling into the sample lab. Burrrrr, a lot colder than usual. You open your Tablet and look at the Dream Report Portal. Pull up a report on the HVAC and see the temp had been lowered. You tell the new tech that you’ll be delivering energy reports by department with Dream Report. He better get used to keeping the AC where it should be at. Then you talk about the pH and see that the tester is beyond its calibration date. You show him how to call up the Dream Report lab maintenance report. Yep, there it is, highlighted in red. But he’s the new guy and we’ll just add a section to the training guide covering this. You call up the activity entry screen and log it with Dream Report, on the spot. In the corner of the room, you see the other Dream Report web portal is up and the sample logs appear to be up to date. Nothing to see here – move along.
2:00 pm and you’re walking past the backup generator. It’s looking a bit unkempt and the grounds crew should be trimming the weeds. A quick action with your tablet and the Dream Report web portal and you’ve entered a work order, set it to low priority, but assigned it to be done this week. You’ll see that show up on your morning status report till it’s done and can see who it’s assigned to. Seeing the generator reminds you to review the last few test cycles to make sure it’s operating correctly and you decide to do it on the spot. A couple of clicks and Dream Report called up the last 10 cycles and highlights any anomalies. With today’s maintenance, things should be better.
2:30 pm and it’s getting near the end of the day. You want to get your daily production reports done. Back at your desk, you run a shift report. You log into your Dream Report Signing Portal to see the pending reports awaiting your Electronic Signature approval. Once that’s added, they’ll be processed and distributed. Oh yes, there’s another report, the monthly operating report for the EPA. It’s so nice that you don’t have to do those by hand any more. Entering data into Excel used to be so tedious. Now you can have Dream Report populate those standard State Excel forms automatically. You just have to review them and send them in.
2:45 pm and you’re daydreaming about all the things Dream Report is doing for you… Generating beautiful reports on anything you want. It used to be such a chore to get a report – having to work with IT was always such a hassle. A month or more wait for the simplest report. Now you can have all you want. You wonder how Dream Report can access all your data sources and pull data into one report, even performing calculations across different systems. It’s even grabbing data from Excel and CSV lab data files, automatically. Those Ocean Data Systems’ engineers are pretty smart. That must be why Control Engineering recognized Dream Report with an “Engineers’ Choice Award”. Dream Report is emailing reports and sending them up to the City’s Server via FTP for all to see. It’s even managing the reports, controlling its archives so they don’t get too big. Dream Report has sure proven itself. You remember the sales guy telling you that Dream Report is available in 14 languages. People are using it all around the world.
3:00 pm changeover meeting. Good news, Bob already reviewed his Dream Report and there’s nothing to talk about. But he noticed that you didn’t get that pumped replaced. Now it’s his problem. He gives you a hard time about making the grounds crew trim the weeds. He always spots when you’re adding maintenance items to spruce up the place…
And you’re outa there.