VIDEO: How iPad Makes Traylor’s Inspections Better and Faster

How Traylor Bros. uses an iPad camera and notes to gain unique advantages with digital inspection checklists for quality audits of each machine when it ships to and arrives on projects

Inconsistent equipment quality started Traylor Bros. Inc. doing general equipment-condition inspections on machines as they were preparing to ship them from one project to another, and as they arrive on destination sites.

The inspections work. Not only have more machines arrived at Traylor sites ready to work, but as inspections assign accountability for damage or unnecessary wear, the frequency and severity of excess costs have dropped. Inspections also help isolate the costs of extreme operating conditions so they can be built into bids.

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With more than 2,000 pieces of equipment working mostly joint-venture infrastructure projects all across North America, the company’s equipment division has gained unique value using an inspection checklist in an iPad app to make inspections easier to conduct and to communicate more and better machine-condition information.

Equipment Superintendent Chris Chartrey designed inspection checklists for each type of machine in the Iauditor app. Being able to modify the format and push it out immediately to the entire crew (Traylor has more than 100 people doing equipment-quality inspections) makes the app form valuable.

There are versions of the app for any mobile device, so individual inspectors can use the tools they have at hand.

Traylor inspectors rate the condition of various machine aspects (inspection forms are customized to each machine type) on a scale of 1 to 10. A color-coded points system makes results easy to understand at a glance.

Photos and notes fields allow inspectors to quickly communicate the nature of machine deficiencies.

Inspections are easily uploaded in PDF form via wireless networks into Traylor’s database for immediate access by equipment and operations groups.

See the PDF of a Traylor Bros. inspection report

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