ShiftRounds: Operator Rounds

Henry Labs LLC

About this app

ShiftRounds is operator rounds for water and wastewater treatment plants. Your operators already walk the plant every shift. ShiftRounds puts that plant walkthrough on a phone or tablet: every pump, filter, chemical feed, clarifier and lift station on the route, each reading checked against your own limits, and a report for the chief operator when the round is done.

WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL

The whole round works in airplane mode. Every reading is saved on the phone as it's taken and sent once there's a connection, minutes or hours later, with the time it was taken. A dead spot in the pump room loses nothing.

EVERY CHECKPOINT IS A SIGN

- Equipment status, readings and the leak check, laid out the way your plant set it up
- A keypad built for gloves, never the phone's keyboard
- Each reading is checked against your expected range and alarm limits as it's typed: out of range shows yellow, an alarm red, before it's saved
- Under each reading, the last one and the change since. A meter reads the way its dial does, with the flow since the last round in MGD
- Photos from the app's own camera, at a leak or anything that looks wrong
- A checkpoint you can't reach is skipped with a reason: locked, flooded, not safe to enter, or out of service
- A round you can't finish is submitted as incomplete, with the reason

PROOF THE ROUND WAS WALKED

- An NFC tag on each area, or on a single checkpoint. The report marks each checkpoint Tapped, or No tap with the operator's reason
- Where your plant compares the field with SCADA, the operator types what the SCADA screen shows, and the sign turns yellow where the two disagree
- Every reading carries who took it, when, and when the server got it. A correction is a new entry, and the first one stays

WHO HEARS ABOUT IT

- Each round's report is emailed to the people you choose
- A leak or a critical finding is emailed to the chief operator and supervisors as soon as it reaches the server. A critical one also goes to their phones as a push alert, once they turn alerts on
- A round that isn't submitted by its due time sends an overdue alert. Anyone who wants one gets a daily digest of the day before
- A leak or a fault opens an issue that a supervisor assigns and closes. The same problem seen again goes on the open issue, not a new one

FOR CHIEF OPERATORS AND SUPERVISORS

- Build routes from checklists for pumps, filters, analyzers, blowers, clarifiers, lift stations and more. Set the limits, the shifts, and when each route is due
- Changes reach phones the next time they have signal, with no app update
- Today shows every round in the last 24 hours and what needs someone. Every reading builds a trend
- All of it on the phone, and in the console in any web browser at app.shiftrounds.com

ON THE PLANT'S PHONES AND TABLETS

- A shared control-room tablet shows a roster, and each operator unlocks it with their own PIN, so every reading says who took it
- A personal phone can lock ShiftRounds with face or fingerprint unlock
- Two-step sign-in with an authenticator app, for anyone who wants it
- Your rounds keeps every round you walked, with each reading, to look back on

WORKS WITH CHEMLEVEL

A utility that also runs ChemLevel can connect the two. Then a tank level or a chlorine cylinder's weight read on a round is logged in ChemLevel too, and nobody types it in twice.

FOR UTILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES

Sign in with the account your utility gave you, or set up your utility from the app. A new utility starts with a sample plant and a week of its rounds to look through. ShiftRounds is offered only to utilities in the United States.

What’s new

- Custom readings in any unit, and typed answers such as a lot number.
- Flow readings in pounds a day (ppd).
- Swipe a row left to remove it, with Undo for items and stops.
- A fingerprint lock and alerts are offered right after sign-in.
- More says when notifications are blocked, and opens their settings.
- No initials to type when you submit a round.
- Faster Console screens and smoother lists.
- ShiftRounds' own icon in the status bar.
- Works with Android's predictive back gesture.