ASNT 2022 InnovForum Presentation
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Floodlight V2.0 Unveiled at ASNT 2022
We’re looking forward to the 2022 ASNT Annual Conference next week in Nashville, TN and hope you are, too.
If you’re attending the show, look for Floodlight Software in Booth #1316 in the Expo Hall.
Also, please join us Tuesday 11/1 in the Innovation Forum we’ll be sharing a sneak peek of Floodlight V2.0, including an offline-capable mobile app for field techs, improved resource management, and a streamlined user experience. Come by with your questions and to learn how we can help you to digitalize your inspection operations!!
We hope to see you there!
To learn more about Floodlight Software, take a tour.
Floodlight Software Selected as Winner for 2021 NC TECH Awards
Cary, NC (Sept. 28, 2021) – Floodlight Software has been selected as a winner of the NC TECH Awards Top 10 Startups to Watch Award. The NC Tech Awards is North Carolina’s only statewide technology awards program that recognizes innovation, growth, and leadership in the tech sector and is presented by NC TECH (North Carolina Technology Association).
Floodlight Software, based in Cary, NC, near Research Triangle Park, is a cloud-based inspection management platform (SaaS) that digitalizes industrial inspection and nondestructive testing (NDT) service operations for organizations in the oil and gas, engineering services, heavy construction, and transportation infrastructure industries.
“For over 20 years, NC TECH has celebrated companies, organizations and individuals for outstanding achievement at the NC TECH Awards. As a finalist this year, Floodlight Software has distinguished itself as one of the state’s innovative and emergent leaders,” said Brooks Raiford, NC TECH’s President and CEO.
“There are some great companies included representing the best startups in the state,” said Nasrin Azari, CEO of Floodlight Software. “We are honored to be among the finalists for this distinguished award from NC TECH.”
About NC TECH
NC TECH is a not-for-profit, membership-driven trade association and the primary voice of the technology industry in North Carolina. NC TECH’s mission is to foster growth and champion innovation in North Carolina’s tech sector while providing a voice for the tech community. NC TECH’s membership includes 600 member companies, organizations, and institutions employing more than 200,000 workers in North Carolina. For more information, visit nctech.org.
About Floodlight Software
Designed with direct input from industrial inspection and nondestructive testing professionals, Floodlight Software enables service providers to deliver more inspections faster and accelerate time to cash. Our affordable, cloud-based inspection management platform includes task-specific modules, giving managers, dispatchers, and technicians the information they need, when and how they need it.
To see Floodlight Software in action, schedule a demo today:
Floodlight Software CEO Featured in Triangle Business Journal
Floodlight Software was born through a combination of innovative technology and the need to solve common problems in the testing and inspection market. It comes as no surprise, however, that Floodlight Software CEO Nasrin Azari has a history of innovating and problem-solving with software. In recognition of her career accomplishments as a serial entrepreneur and technology leader, Nasrin was featured recently in the Triangle Business Journal’s Executive Voice series.
Read the full article here: Cary Entrepreneur Left Promising Career to Launch Her Own Business.
Learn more about Floodlight Software on our About Us page.
Floodlight Software Presenting / Exhibiting at the ASNT Annual Conference
We’re looking forward to the 2021 ASNT Annual Conference next week in Phoenix and hope you are, too. It seems forever since we last gathered in person and we cannot wait! It looks to be the best ASNT conference yet with some great-looking presentations on the schedule.
If you’re attending the show, look for Floodlight Software in Booth 835 in the Expo Hall.
Also, please join us Wednesday in the Innovation Forum for a 20-minute presentation titled Digitalize NDT Operations, Maximize Profits.
This interactive talk will be given by Floodlight Software CEO Nasrin Azari on Wednesday at 11:55 a.m. in the Innovation Forum area near the back of the Expo Hall.
We hope to see you there!
To learn more about Floodlight Software, take a tour.
Look for Floodlight Software at the 2021 NDTMA Annual Conference
Look for Floodlight Software next week at the Nondestructive Testing Management Association’s Annual Conference in Las Vegas from August 3-5.
We are giving demos of our software in Booth 10 in the exhibit hall all week. In addition, our CEO, Nasrin Azari, is delivering a presentation in Session II of the NDT Management Track titled “Your Journey to Digital Transformation.” Join us Thursday morning at 10:30 AM for this session which will leave you with a digital strategy for your NDT business.
Be sure to attend if you want to learn more about the NDE 4.o movement and how to navigate your organization along the path toward digital transformation.
Presentation
“Your Journey to Digital Transformation”
Thursday, August 5
10:30 – 11 AM
Pebble Beach II & III
Nasrin Azari
CEO
Floodlight Software
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Exhibit Hall — Booth 10
Tuesday, August 3
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM — Welcome Reception, Exhibits Open
Wednesday, August 4
12:30 – 2 PM — Exhibits Open
6:30 PM — Exhibits Open
Thursday, August 5
12:30 – 2 PM — Exhibits Open
6 PM — Closing Reception
We are looking forward to the 2021 NDTMA Annual Conference and hope to see you at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas! If you’d like to set up a meeting with us at the show, contact us here.
Webinar Announcement – 5 Ways Digitalization Will Optimize Your NDT Business
Floodlight Software President Nasrin Azari is presenting a webinar in conjunction with the American Society of Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) and the NDT Management Association (NDTMA). The webinar is titled Five Ways Digitalization Will Optimize Your Business and will be held Thursday, Jan. 21, at 3 pm EST. The webinar is part of the “Management of NDT” educational track offered by the ASNT to its member NDT business owners and practitioners.
Registration details are below. Check back here soon for the recorded version of this webinar.
Webinar Details
Date
3 PM ET, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021
Description
When it comes to NDT services, delivering accurate and thorough information to your customers quickly drives value, customer retention, and loyalty. However, today’s world of manual processes, paper forms, and multiple systems of recordkeeping cause many NDT service providers to struggle in reporting to customers, maintaining profits, and achieving a competitive advantage. In this webinar, we’ll share five areas where digitalization can improve operations to drive the positive and consistent results that you need for your NDT business. These include:
- Tech management and utilization
- Data capture and management
- Job cost calculating
- Real-time reporting to customers
- Streamlined billing
Cost
NDTMA Member Companies – Free
ASNT Members – $49
Non-ASNT Member – $99
Registration Link
https://www.pathlms.com/asnt/courses/20225/sections/29894/webinars/17124
Presenter
Nasrin Azari is currently the President and CEO of Floodlight Software, a SaaS company that provides the only completely digitalized end-to-end business management platform specifically designed for inspection companies. With over 20 years of experience assisting enterprise organizations make operational improvements through process analysis and mobile solutions, Ms. Azari has recently turned her attention to the NDT industry. In addition to leading Floodlight Software, she also participates in ASNT’s NDE 4.0 Committee, which strives to speed up and improve the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies to advance the safety goals of NDT. Nasrin has an MS in Computer Science with a focus on mobile computing and an MBA, with a focus on Entrepreneurship. She has spent the last 30 years working in the enterprise software industry, specifically with IBM, Sony-Ericsson, Mobile Reach, and now Floodlight Software. She is passionate about helping companies improve business operations and loves the NDT industry because it’s all about making the world a safer place to live and work.
Using Cloud-Based Industrial Inspection Software to Digitalize Your Business
To meet shifting customer requirements while continuing to provide superior industrial inspection services amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the ways in which providers run their business and provide service to customers are rapidly and necessarily evolving.
For industrial inspection providers, the business climate, both current and future, remains fraught with uncertainty. This is especially true for those that have inspectors or engineers performing work on assets and equipment on customer sites.
Indeed, the need for digitalization of inspection service delivery and management processes has never been more apparent. With low barriers of entry into new technologies like the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence (AI), remote sensing, advanced video inspection equipment, blockchain, and digital twins, the tools you need to make big changes are ready to be integrated into your business.
Moving too quickly and haphazardly deploying new technologies, however, is a recipe for failure. Without a single, digital system of record in place on the backend, customer data remains siloed and still requires manual steps to integrate, analyze, and output into customer reports.
To fully optimize your industrial inspection processes via digital transformation, both from a business and service delivery perspective, it is necessary to have a cloud-hosted digital platform on which to stand these technologies up.
Industrial inspection software, when delivered in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, can effectively serve as this digital platform for companies that perform inspection services in industrial environments.
Cloud-based inspection software is scalable and is usually priced on a per-user basis, allowing you to easily add or remove employees or contractors on the fly. In fact, companies switching to cloud-based software on average see a 19.63% increase in company growth.
Cloud inspection software, as opposed to on-premise software, is by nature always available from a computer or mobile device. Therefore, your “uptime” is guaranteed, allowing you to perform critical inspections without worrying about potential IT issues and downtime.
Because the software, data, and computing power is managed automatically in the cloud rather than on a company server, it is easily accessible by everyone across the organization. Also, with cloud-based inspection software, you can grant different types of permissions to your workforce based on their roles, giving them access to everything they need and nothing they do not.
Administrative efficiency is also a big benefit of cloud inspection software. It makes it easy to digitalize paper forms for capturing inspection results and data. Inspectors can capture data from a mobile device like a tablet or a smartphone, then push it directly into the software in real-time. This speeds up the process and eliminates the need for manual input of data when inspectors return to the office.
Data security is also a top priority for industrial inspection providers. With your customer’s data being stored in a secure cloud environment, it is much safer than being kept on a local computer hard drive or, even worse, paper forms in filing cabinets that could be compromised via theft or fire.
Cloud-based inspection software, especially if specifically designed for inspection management, can support key business functions, including:
- Quoting / Costing
- Scheduling and dispatch
- Managing inspectors
- Data collection from various inputs and technologies
- Output engine for customer reports
- Invoicing and payment management
Cloud-based inspection software allows better inspector utilization and time management, consistent and easy data capture, detailed job costing, real-time job status for your customers, and a streamlined billing process.
Learn more about Floodlight Software, cloud-based inspection software designed to digitalize industrial inspection business operations.
Infographic — Industrial Inspection Industry Market Drivers
The industrial inspections market in the U.S. is being driven by an aging infrastructure and continued reliance on fossil fuels. The global market is in even worse shape as transportation-related structures like bridges, tunnels and railways are often more than 50 years old.
Why NDT and Inspection Businesses Should Use Drones
If your business is performing inspections and NDT on enterprise assets and infrastructure like pipelines, bridges, telecom and electrical towers, substations, hydro-electric dams or solar farms, using commercial drones for remote visual inspections is a service offering you should consider. Once simply a hobbyist pursuit, drone technology today has the ability to transform the ways in which businesses operate.
Job safety for your inspectors is paramount. Using drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs, allows NDT inspectors and engineers to examine large structures or even entire regions of assets (i.e. pipelines) quickly and safely while dramatically reducing costs and overhead. This is invaluable when inspecting structures that are large and in hard-to-reach or even hazardous environments made so by precarious heights, rugged terrain, hazardous environment, and remoteness.
With drone inspections, your customers get better, more up-close visual inspections and data on which to immediately act, mitigating risk, preventing accidents, outages and costly repairs.
As a result of the increased efficiencies, engineers are able to get large inspection jobs done quicker, provide inspection results and recommendations to the asset owner faster, then move on to other jobs. An NDT inspection provider in China was able to increase electrical pylon inspections from one to two per day to 10-20 per day.
Also, commercial drones are relatively inexpensive. They range from $1,000 to $10,000 depending on the tech and features your NDT business requires.
As far as additional manpower or even fielding drone inspection teams, ideally you would use the inspectors and technicians that you currently have to fly the drones, capture images, video and data, and then analyze and make recommendations to the client.
All that is required of the inspector in charge of the flight is an FAA drone certification, which is not a rigorous or costly undertaking after revised rules on the commercial use of drones went into effect in 2018. This change in regulation, no longer requiring a full-fledged airplane pilot’s license, has freed up the opportunity for NDT businesses a cost-effective means of using drones in their operations.
In the ideal scenario, one inspector would pilot the drone while another operates the camera to record structural images and other asset data. Thermal imaging and 3D maps and modeling are also possible use cases. This presents less risk and is exponentially more efficient than performing the same work via rope access or helicopter, for example.
To reiterate, the cost-of-entry into providing drone inspections is low while the impact on both safety and your bottom line is evident. By employing drone inspections into your service portfolio, you will quickly see improved KPIs in the following areas:
- Safety
- Profit
- Productivity
- Customer satisfaction
- Customer retention
- Competitive advantage
It’s clear why drone inspections are becoming more prevalent in industries like oil and gas, power generation, utilities, telecom, and mechanical and civil engineering.
Providing enterprise-grade aerial intelligence is something that your customers will appreciate, as will your engineers and inspectors who are made safer as a result. See this article for more information: Drone technology uses and applications for commercial, industrial and military drones in 2020 and the future
To learn more about streamlining your NDT business through digital transformation, read our white paper.