Solving Operational and Supply Chain Issues with Digital Solutions that can Survive Harsh Environments

Our Client & Their Goals

Our client, a major management consulting firm, asked CamIn to assist them on a project involving the digital transformation of a company in the oil & gas industry. This company was seeking digital solutions for long-standing operational issues related to their supply chain, including improved capacity planning, shelf-life monitoring, and inventory analysis and tracking of expensive parts.

One of the challenges they had faced in addressing these issues was the need for digital solutions that could survive harsh environments. Our Client intended to address these issues for their customer with innovative sensor and tracking solutions to achieve their customer’s specific goals. However, they required guidance from experts familiar with these technologies to confirm that their proposed solutions could meet their customer’s needs, especially with regard to demanding environmental-performance capabilities.

Our Client asked us to support their work by assembling a world-class expert team to quickly and thoroughly evaluate this niche technology area. Our research would support their subsequent development of a complete digital transformation strategy, solving their customer’s operational issues.

CamIn's Solution

CamIn’s leadership team selected two world-class experts. One of our experts possessed extensive knowledge in high-performance IoT sensors suitable for use in the kinds of harsh environments often encountered in the oil & gas industry. Our other expert had expertise related to the use of RFID chips capable of functioning in similar harsh environments.

Our team conducted a technology audit of the tools our Client’s customer used for capacity planning, monitoring shelf-life, item tracking and identification, and inventory analysis of expensive parts. Our team also audited the technology that this company used to track the specific expensive parts they operated in harsh environments.

These audits determined that this oil & gas company required real-time, high-precision (nano- to millimetre level) sensing solutions to detect when one of their expensive parts required maintenance. Additionally, we found that RFID-based solutions could effectively address their issues by making processes related to capacity planning, the tracking of parts, and the identification items’ shelf-life more efficient. RFID tags that could withstand harsh environments, such as temperatures up to 1000 Celsius, could also help with the tracking and inventory analysis of their expensive specialised tools.

Our team completed a technology landscape of relevant RFID solutions, benchmarking state-of-the-art options, and shortlisting those that could be implemented in a few weeks. We also developed a blueprint detailing how the oil & gas company could integrate all of the identified solutions to solve their supply chain and operational issues.

By working with CamIn’s expert consulting team, our Client quickly completed an effective digital transformation plan and provided customer with comprehensive strategy to address their customer’s operational issues.

The Impact

Our analysis identified the state-of-the-art solutions required to solve the specific operational issues that this oil & gas company faced, including those that could remain functional in demanding environmental settings. By working with CamIn’s expert consulting team, our Client quickly completed an effective digital transformation plan and provided their customer with comprehensive strategy to address their customer’s operational issues.

Two weeks after our engagement, our Client passed our work to their customer, who purchased the state-of-the-art solutions we had recommended. They subsequently followed our blueprint in setting up the infrastructure necessary to quickly and effectively solve their supply chain and other operational issues.