AtkinsRéalis, a leading global engineering and design consultancy, has made significant strides in improving project management, communication, and safety across their signalling division through the use of innDex. AtkinsRéalis’ signalling division primarily operates in the rail sector, where safety, efficiency, and timely project delivery are paramount.

Seeking to streamline their operations and leverage technological advancements, AtkinsRéalis embraced innDex as their preferred software solution, and have now deployed it across their entire signalling division.

After using innDex first hand for over two years, we thought it was probably a good time to have a chat with Steve Woodman (Construction Practice Manager @ AtkinsRéalis) to find out how things are going.

Here’s what he had to say…

THE CHALLENGE

"innDex has really changed the way we run our sites. Our initial briefing was to improve:

• Our induction process was previously paper-based and time-consuming.
• The attendance records and visibility of our site workforce. With paper sheets, operatives needed to travel to a central access point to sign in before their workplace. This not only wasted time but also contributed significantly to environmental harm. Moreover, paper sign-in sheets also make it hard for management who aren’t on-site to track who’s there.
• The way we delivered briefings. Previously, the process relied solely on paper-based methods. Therefore a supervisor needs to gather briefing sheets from the office before traveling to the site and subsequently returning to drop them off. This approach not only consumed valuable time but also contributed significantly to paper waste.
• Our daily shift and progress reporting process. We had to chase supervisors to send over their reports. Reports were then often coming back incomplete with inaccurate information.
• Observations & Close Calls were raised via cards on-site. A significant issue I encounter with this process is the gap between filling out the card and its collection. Specially, this causes delays in actioning it.

We were initially worried about how the workforce would react to a new system being introduced but to be honest, it’s been pretty seamless. The innDex team are always on hand to help and carry out training as and when we need it. Everyone quickly realised its [innDex] simplicity and realised that it made their day-to-day reporting so much easier.

When we really got our teeth into the system we realised that there was so much more beyond our initial brief that innDex could offer which we have over time incorporated into our onsite processes.”