Australian Steel Works MonitorPro Implementation

The site in Australia is a major steel manufacture, with associated Coking Coal Operations.
Each of these very different sites provides distinctly different environmental challenges, which is reflected in very different demands for monitoring and data management. MonitorPro has been implemented as an effective and flexible solution that will cover all of the requirements.

Sites were previously managing their environment monitoring and data management via a collection of spreadsheets and legacy software systems, with little or no integration between them. It therefore fell upon staff to manually ensure that all data was being collected as required; to manage said data; and to pull it together and report it as required. This was an exceedingly time consuming, as well as an error-prone, process.

Because MonitorPro is so flexible it can be implemented to suit the needs of both operations, however as its one system, it also provides much needed consistency. The solution was provided by EHS Data on a Software as a Service (SaaS) basis, served up to the users via a web browser.

Following the build of the database framework, the first stage of the implementation was therefore to import the significant body of historical data. This was mostly available as manually complied spreadsheets of disparate formats. EHS Data was able to work through these and import all of the data. Other data was provided by laboratories in a MonitorPro default format; and still further data was available such as original logger files. All of this was imported, providing the full historical dataset for future trending and analysis.

Schedules were created to keep track of detailed monitoring requirements, and alert the users when monitoring is due and imported to MonitorPro. Manually collected data is entered directly from the field, via MP-Field. Data from various external laboratories is sent by them directly into MonitorPro and processed automatically. Going forwards, integration with site control systems will bring operational data directly into MonitorPro, with no need for manual intervention.

Upon import to MonitorPro, the data is compared to a defined list of trigger levels and if any of these are exceeded, warnings are sent to a defined list of recipients – currently via email, although the option to add SMS exists.

Data from the many disparate sources is available all in one place for analysis, trending, and reporting, using both the default tools in MonitorPro, and bespoke exports and reports. It is easy to compare one type of data to another, for example to see why something is happening. This can be done manually, on an ad-hoc basis, or placed on a re-occurring schedule.

By effectively using MonitorPro, the teams at both operations are now in a position to manage their environmental data efficiently, effectively and appropriately. Using an innovative data management system that eliminates the need for spreadsheets and manual processes, to streamline both their internal and external data collection processes.