In this white paper, PennEnergy examines trends affecting upstream exploration, how high performance computing can help meet those challenges, and next-generation technology now available to speed compute-intensive exploration.

What is a Dynamic Scheduling Engine, and why does your field service management operation need one? Learn the ins and outs of this technology, which can help you adapt to rapidly changing priorities, schedule in real time, meet demanding service level agreements and more, all while reducing cost.

Learn how technologies like real-time incident tracking can help integrate maintenance with other business functions to drive business improvements company-wide.

Integrating information from industrial design, manufacturing operation and maintenance can improve plant efficiency and business profitability.

IFS 360 Scheduling supplies a suite of workforce scheduling and optimization tools. Dedicated to developing the world’s best tools to support and deliver our customer’s business objectives for more effective and agile service delivery, and better end-user consumer loyalty.

Description: Kronos for Energy automates workforce management policies that help improve workplace safety and meet documentation requirements for regulatory compliance. With Kronos workforce management solutions, energy and resources companies can create a safer workforce by automating the enforcement of policies for hiring, scheduling, tracking employee training, and documenting safety incidents while maintaining compliance.

Description: Automate crew callouts and ensure compliance with Kronos Telestaff

Description: Learn why poor time and labor data collection is a common weak point in any corporate infrastructure, one that usually escapes detection and can leak hundreds of thousands, even millions, of dollars each year.
An ERP system is only as good as the data being fed into it. Often ERP payroll modules don't deliver a return because they aren't being fed the right data, at the right time, in the right level of detail. That's what causes the ERP system to leak.  Perhaps it’s a weekly trickle of employee fraud. It could even be a broken mainline, the result of poorly designed interfaces, a flawed implementation, or an overextended ERP system.
Find out if you have a problem and how, by attacking your time and labor data pipeline, you can streamline business processes and cut costs.

Mobile computing has evolved from a specialty to a requirement for productive, task-oriented and customer-focused employees. As an increasing number of businesses deploy office applications to their mobile workforce, they realize that selecting the right computer to support the task is critical to the goal of putting the right person in the right place at the right time with the right information. To a large extent this objective requires mobile computing that incorporates advanced communications technology, including access to broadband internet, Wi-Fi service for local area networks including hot spots, Bluetooth connections for wireless connections to peripherals, and global positioning to aid in going from location to location. Mobile workers also need communications tools that effectively interface with an array of remotely accessible company CRM and ERP systems in support of the mobile work and are able to withstand harsh environments and rough treatment. Rugged tablets have changed how and where employees work as well as increased their ability to connect and share information with colleagues, customers, and partners.

The USSD Committee on Materials for Embankment Dams has prepared this White Paper on Materials for Embankment Dams. The paper provides an outline of important points that need to be recognized and understood when selecting material for use in embankment dams. It covers soil materials; rockfill materials; granular filters and drains; asphalt concrete as a water barrier; concrete facing rockfill dams; geosynthetics; reinforced fill; upstream slope protection; material for watertight cutoffs; and construction issues. For each of these topics, design and construction considerations are presented.