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The answer has to work where the signal does not.
Crushers, mills, conveyors and fixed plant sit far from the workshop and often far from coverage. A tool that needs a perfect connection fails exactly when it is needed.
Start a pilotA primary crusher chokes on night shift, far from the workshop.
An illustrative night on this kind of floor, and what Plant Cortex does at each point.
The choke
The crusher stops under load. The nearest specialist is hours away, and the phone shows no bars.
The question
The manuals saved on the phone can still be searched with no signal. The right passage opens, and the stoppage is logged now with the real start time.
The work
A near-miss from the clearing work is written on the spot, photo included. It waits on the phone and goes up on its own when coverage returns.
What stays
Everything lands with the time it actually happened, not the time it was uploaded. Nothing sent twice, nothing lost.
Where this floor gets hurt.
Patchy connectivity
The Android app keeps a copy of the manuals for search and a queue of reports that sync later, each action applied exactly once.
Wear parts that stall a whole face
Stock levels with reorder points and reservations against planned jobs.
Permits that must survive an audit
A full custody trail, approvals under stated authority, and field-level change history.
People spread across a large site
A QR code on the equipment opens that machine's page, with its manuals, drawings, open records and parts.
- Primary and secondary crushers
- Grinding mills
- Overland conveyors
- Pumps and thickeners
- Screens and feeders
- Fixed plant substations
The questions this floor asks, and what comes back.
Examples of shape only. The real content comes from your own manuals and drawings.
What is the procedure to clear a blocked crusher safely?
Comes back withCited steps from the crusher manual, searchable offline on the phone once downloaded.
Report a near-miss at the transfer point
Comes back withA form that works with no signal, stamped with the time it was written.
The modules that matter most here.
Phone app, offline
Manuals saved for search, reports queued and synced once, biometric lock on the device.
QR scan at the machine
Stick a code on the equipment. Scanning lands on its own questions and records.
Near-miss with photos
Written in the field, routed to a department, acknowledged by a person.
Equipment pages
Manuals, drawings, stoppages and parts all under one machine.
Other floors.
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Long chains of heavy machines, from many suppliers, where one trip travels downstream.
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Steel & Metals
Heat, cranes and hydraulics, where the margin for a wrong step is thin.
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Power Generation
Outage seasons where dozens of crews work on connected equipment at once.
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Chemicals & Process
Hazardous service, where the paperwork is part of the safety system.
See this floorBring the manuals for one mining unit.
A few real documents, a few weeks, and success criteria agreed up front.