Conversations about the future of business, technology, and the workplace are often fuelled by empty talk. So, we get it. When you are responsible for protecting your people and the environment, managing the quality of your products and ensuring the profitability of your business, you can’t rely for too long on hype and buzzwords alone. 

This is how “The Future Is WOW” was born. Every year we try to look at what’s in store for the future through a different lens. We look at the latest technological advancements and the practical ways through which our clients can make them an effective part of their operational reality.

Reinventing the Wheel

“Reinventing the wheel” – this year’s theme – was our way of signaling that, although no longer a nice-to-have only, adopting cutting-edge technology doesn’t have to be about a complete overhaul of your business. Focus on what won’t change and transform your core processes into a 10x force for improvement. 

Here are this year’s main talks and their takeaways:

• Machine Learning-Driven Site Inspections
• PoWalCo and the Digital Coordination of Public Works
• Mapping Works, Permits and Actions to Your Assets and Facility Layout
• Safe2Work: Preventing Work-related Traffic Accidents
• Reinvented Reporting: PowerBI Workshop
• Smarter Worker Safety through Intelligent Device Communication (Guardhat & TenForce)

Machine-Learning Driven Site Inspections

A talk on how Machine Learning can help you plan your inspections better lead by Uroš Milošević, TenForce Product Manager. Learn more about our collaboration with KU Leuven and a TenForce project to increase our clients’ efficiency by enabling them to finally bypass on-site inspections altogether. I want to know more.

PoWalCo and the Digital Coordination of Public Works

A story on how TenForce became the platform for seamless collaboration between communes, government, utility companies, and contractors. For those of you not yet familiar with it, PoWalCo (Plateforme Wallonne de Coordination des Chantiers), is the Walloon platform of worksite coordination. You can learn more about it here. The PoWalCo initiative required the set up of a sophisticated orchestration involving a strong GIS integration to guarantee safety, fluid traffic and minimal impact on the public domain.

A use case brought to our audience by the PoWalCo team represented through Stephané Pottiez (President of the Board), Deborah Stevenson (Information System Counselor) and Guillaume Marlier (Project Manager). I want to know more.

Mapping Works, Permits and Actions to Your Assets and Facility Layout 

Lead by Diederik Thirry (Sr. project Manager and Team Lead at TenForce) and Stijn Goedertier from GIM Smart GeoInsights, this session focused on the latest mapping capabilities and powerful visualization techniques for displaying your content on top of digital P&ID schemes and geo-referenced site plans.

Did you know that while 3D visualization gets all the hype, the supposedly more modest 2.5D might be the pragmatic choice for your business? I want to know more.

Safe2Work: Preventing Work-related Traffic Accidents

Thanks to thorough safety management, many companies have succeeded in significantly reducing the number of workplace accidents. Nowadays, attention is shifting to work-related traffic accidents. Werner De Dobbeleer lead us through an interactive presentation on how Safe2Work and the Flemish Foundation for Traffic Knowledge (VSV) help companies to reduce work-related traffic accidents and thus save costs. I want to know more. 

Reinvented Reporting: PowerBI Workshop

Working with PowerBI is more than just a better Excel. During this workshop, Jetro Wils and Sara Luysterborg provided a practical demonstration on how to connect PowerBI to TenForce to design and build visual reports based on specific datasets. I want to know more.

Smarter Worker Safety through Intelligent Device Communication (Guardhat & TenForce)

Guardhat’s safety detection system collects, delivers and analyzes data for those on the front lines of industry. With custom wearables, RTLS, IoT platform, visualization and analytics, it is the only comprehensive system of its kind. A system that gives you heightened real-time awareness, a complete and critical field of vision, as well as data analysis you can act on immediately. And it seamlessly integrates with TenForce.

A big ‘thank you’ goes to the Guardhat team (Barry Read and Ewald Comhaire) and Julia Dubois (COO, TenForce) for putting together a hands-on demo on how wearables and EHS software become a feasible mix to advance process safety. I want to know more.

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