GAGEtrak^® Helps Halliburton Improve Measurement Quality in Energy Technologies

Founded in 1919, and with more than 60,000 employees worldwide, Halliburton serves the upstream oil and gas industry throughout the life cycle of the reservoir – from locating hydrocarbons and managing geological data, to drilling and formation evaluation, well construction and completion, and optimizing production through the life of the field.

Challenge: Responsible for ensuring that the company’s several thousand gages are properly managed, tracked and calibrated, Halliburton’s Kathy Paredes needed to save time, reduce costly errors and inconsistencies associated with storing and tracking data via spreadsheets and implement company-wide standardization of gage and calibration data.

Solution: GAGEtrak^® Calibration Management Software by CyberMetrics. Halliburton initially installed one license of GAGEtrak at a single location in early 2005 because it is “easier to use and has a place for all the required information to maintain our gages,” Paredes says. She also notes that her favorite GAGEtrak features are “the calibration due list and the ability to develop custom reports.” Paredes has also had great success with CyberMetrics’ support team, commenting that “the support team is very helpful and they teach me something new every time I call.”

Impact: Halliburton found GAGEtrak to be such a valuable asset that since 2005, they’ve installed GAGEtrak at an additional 60 locations worldwide. Halliburton continues to use GAGEtrak “because it is the best fit for all locations whether they calibrate their own gages or have them outsourced.”

GAGEtrak is used at thousands of facilities worldwide to improve measurement quality, assure compliance and increase efficiency. Contact the GAGEtrak experts today to learn how it will do the same for your company.

Supercharging Digital Gauging at Bobcat North America

The leadership of Doosan Bobcat’s quality team highlights their rigorous selection process for new measurement software and reveals their final choice. Over 60 criteria were assessed across three factories by teams from Quality, IT, and Corporate Management.

PolyWorks|Inspector™ Gauging provides robust measurement tools in an intuitive, easy-to-learn format that was quickly adopted by the shop floor. With digital guidance, operators can swiftly determine the appropriate measurement tools and procedures. This has led to an exponential increase in measurement tasks, driven by renewed confidence. And thanks to PolyWorks|DataLoop™, all resulting data is securely stored in a single repository, accessible to the entire organization for fast decision-making. The vision of a stable process for making high-quality parts is now a reality.

“Digital transformation starts with where you acquire the data, how you store it, how you access it, and finally how you display that information.” Josh Mickelson, Senior Quality Engineer.

“One of the best things about PolyWorks® over other software is we didn’t need to learn an entirely new programming language like Python scripting to create an inspection project.” Matthew Lehnertz, Quality Engineering Technology.

“It (PolyWorksIInspector together with PolyWorksIDataLoop) enables us to not only double things, but actually exponentially increase our measurements to several thousand per month. To me, that’s incredibly rewarding.” Matthew Lehnertz, Quality Engineering Technology.

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