Kana Pipeline
The Ultimate Experience Provider
Client Success Story
Kana Pipeline is dedicated to being the leading underground wet utility contractor in California. With over 35 years of experience, our team strives to provide exceptional contracting services and has the expertise and knowledge to keep your projects running safely, on time, and within budget.
Aezion has taken the task of building a real-time on-field time-clocking app that not only records the clock in/out of each employee but also ensures employee accountability and safety.
Industry
Construction
Technology Stack
- Android
- Android Studio
- iOS
- Swift
- XCode
- C#
- REST API
- SQL Server 2016
- GitHub
Key Success Points
- Customized solution to generate accountability matrix within the field teams.
- Ability to capture risk information from the field for better decision-making/precaution-making for future projects.
- Real-time updates on what each field employee is working on at any given time.
Challenges
Manual processes limit the productivity of the operations team.
Kana Pipeline performed its field operations using a paper trail today. With all information noted on the paper trail, the risk of losing critical information concerning the clock ins/ outs of their employees was high, making it challenging to report the field-level information to their Windows-based ERP platform. Also, since the information was all on paper, the company couldn’t use it to monitor, track, and report on it, and they were not able to identify if any gaps existed and not take inputs from their employees on opportunities to improve.
The Solution
Introduce a custom-built, time-clocking app.
The Aezion team built a custom time-clocking app natively in IOS and Android, keeping the Kana Pipeline branding image in mind. The design and color patterns are inspired by their brand and the work their employees perform, providing the emotional connection to the product they use day in/day out.
The app is intentionally designed to perform real-time communication with their ERP platform, creating instant notifications to office staff about each employee’s field activity. The app can also record custom activities that the administrator can set, such as Lunch, Drive, and Out of Office, offering the users a fully configured time-clocking solution. Aezion’s application specialists made sure that this solution also helps create questionnaires and receive responses from employees on each work submission to help office staff get critical employee feedback on day-to-day operations.
Results
Increase productivity and avoid loss of information.
With a custom-built time-clock mobile app available on-site, the field managers and employees are quickly able to record their clock-in/out, drive/lunch times with a click of a button. The information recorded is instantly sent to a central database from where the office staff can report and track every field activity on an hourly basis. It also reduced the risk of information loss since all the data captured was electronic and did not use paper trials, thus preserving critical information for payroll.
