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Developed E-Log Book System for petrochemical company

ASP .Net with C# and SQL Server 2008

When this large petrochemical company wanted to move from its legacy manual systems for its employee log book management to a simple to use and manage e-log book, they selected Cygnet.

Cygnet’s brief was to design, develop and implement an e-logbook system, that is simple to use for first time information workers, secure, has simple and easy transition from existing manual systems, automate current manual reports and provide additional MIS for management to make informed decisions.

We analyzed their requirements and designed a system that considering their current log book procedures and reports, simplified the work flow and added new functionalities to maximize the benefits of automation in the new system.

The end result is an easy to use, secure system that has led to better information availability.

Background

The client sought to develop a portal system that would help the organization to automate the manual log entry and reduce the risks of forgery and draw analytical results from the collected information.

The key requirements were:

  • E-log book that could address the drawbacks of using traditional methods of managing shift log books.
  • Module for easy task management and employee shift management
  • Reporting Module that can automate current manual reports and provide additional MIS for management to make informed decisions.
  • In addition the portal was supposed to cater to all the other supporting processes like user management, asset management and secured access etc

Solution

Cygnet Infotech analyzed their requirements of the client and designed a system that kept in view the existing log book procedures and reports and simplifies the work flow besides providing new functionalities; thus maximizing the benefits of automation in the new system.

Some of the key features provided by the system were:

  • Book Entry: The tool allows the operators to manage book entry details within the system. The system restricts the users to update entries other than the current date.
  • Supervisor/ Admin Consoles using which the users can configure the plant, department and asset details and assign tasks and view the reports relevant to the department assigned to them
  • Reporting Module: This section allows the supervisors and admin to generate the MIS reports. The system provides graphical representation of the analytics making it easy to draw inferences.
  • Manage Users and Privileges.
  • Simple and easy to use UI that has been designed keeping in view the first time information workers

Technology Highlights

Software/ Tools ASP .Net with C#, Microsoft .NET 3.5 Framework, Javascript
Back End SQL server 2008

Benefits to the client

  • The system is extremely easy to use and user friendly and can be easily used by non IT savvy people as well.
  • Better Information Accessibility, reduced paper work.
  • The system saves huge amount of time and cost.