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Expected growth in Canadian oil sands into 2020
DocBoss has its roots in the Canadian oil sands and many of our first customers in both Canada and the US do significant work there. To see a list of select DocBoss customers, check out our homepage and view the "Our Clients" scroller to learn more. A recent article...
DocBoss is Growing: Welcome Luis and Bill
DocBoss would like to welcome Luis Berumen and Bill Bagshaw to our growing team. Luis has 15 years of experience in product and UX design in Latin America, Europe, and North America. He has worked for start-ups, transnational companies and governments during which...
Auto-Creation of Document Registers in DocBoss
Is there anything more frustrating with document control than the manual, time-consuming tasks that on the one hand are tedious but on the other hand must be done every time you start a new project? If the set up part of your projects is time-consuming and very...
Oil & gas growth will be driven by Asia, Africa, Middle East
A recent GE Oil & Gas report entitled Digital Future of oil & gas and energy discusses a number of expected trends including the continued growth of oil consumption, suggesting that by 2020 the global economy will be significantly larger than it is today. By...
IE expo 2016 Summit Forum takes place May 5-7, 2016
Billed as "Asia's Leading Trade Fair for Environmental Technology Solutions: Water, Waste, Air and Soil" the 2016 IE expo Summit Forum takes place in Shanghai, China from May 5-7. In 2015, the summit attracted 1,085 exhibitors from 27 countries representing products...
Starting a New Project in DocBoss
The set up of a project is often one of the most time-consuming parts especially when you're doing the work manually. Keeping track of the latest versions of documents and ensuring that everything you've received has been inputted and accounted for is a fulltime job...
Has an increase in documentation got you frustrated?
Perhaps the following statement from Vishal Tripathi - who is Principal research analyst at Gartner Inc. - resonates with you in terms of your company's documentation work: Voluminous growth in data, compliance and regulatory issues, the need for a faster...
Engineering and Design Documents for fabricators and packagers
Tagged equipment is the lowest level of tagging on a project. We're referring specifically to instrumentation, valves, cables and electrical equipment for example. In DocBoss, we refer to these as minor tags. If you work in fabrication or produce skids or packages,...
Energy infrastructure projections for the US and Canada into 2035
A new study commissioned by the INGAA Foundation Inc reports that between $471 billion USD (low case) and $621 billion USD (high case) will need to be spent from 2015-2035 on natural gas, crude oil, and natural gas liquids infrastructure in Canada and the US. The...
How Much Pain Do Databooks Cause You?
If providing databooks to your customers at the end of your projects is time-consuming and causes a holdback which prevents you from getting paid quickly, DocBoss can help. Perhaps you call them record books or compilations. Basically we're talking about the package...
Document control training in Asia
When inadequate document control system leads to losses, excessive document control leads to inefficiency, what should you do? Knowledge Hub Asia is a Malaysia-based training company that offers courses in document control and many other functions such as HR, finance,...
Pump, valve and compressor opportunities to increase in Asia
The Southeast Asian market for pumps, valves and compressors is likely to get a significant boost once the investment deferrals in the oil and gas industry are realized. Continuous investments in power generation, water and wastewater, and food and beverage industries...
Cloud Expo Asia 2016 on October 12-13, 2016
Billed as "the largest cloud event for business in Asia" Cloud Expo Asia 2016 takes place in Hong Kong from October 12-13, 2016. The event is targeted at "IT Professionals from enterprise, public sector and SMBs making both cloud investment and strategy decisions and...
It’s Pump Appreciation Day
It's April 12th and today is the 5th annual Pump Appreciation Day brought to you by ITT Gould Pumps. From their own press release regarding the annual event, here is an explanation as to what it entails: Pumps are essential machines but silent workers in running a...
Remaining competitive in a tough economy
Although the oil price has somewhat recovered slightly in the past few weeks and is floating around the $40/barrel level currently, it's still a tough economy for many job seekers and process equipment suppliers. This isn't expected to noticeably improve in the short...
ISA Automation Expo & Conference on April 20 & 21, 2016
The bi-annual ISA Automation Expo & Conference in Edmonton, Alberta takes place on April 20 & 21, 2016. From their website: AEC is one of North America’s largest automation events and happens bi-annually in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. We welcome automation,...
Lonadek’s document control training program
Several weeks ago we wrote about document control training options that you might be interested in. Since then we've come across another option for you to consider. Lonadek is a multi-award winning firm that has maintained its ISO 9001:2008 certification since 2010...
Adding structure to document control
One of the biggest challenges that document controllers often relay to us is the sheer frustration involved with the document control process. Maybe it's the time-consuming nature of providing custom data books/record books at the end of projects. Perhaps it's...
Document control and user permissions
One of the more frustrating - and important - aspects of document control is controlling who has access to the work and who can make changes. This is especially true when you have multiple people working on a project, revising documents, adding new documents and you...
Document control and ISO 9001
In order to achieve compliance to the ISO 9001:2008 standard, companies are required to produce certain documents including a quality manual, a quality policy, and six specified documented procedures to meet ISO standards. Control of documents is one of these...
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