A record of what was found, when, and who was told

From my own commissioning work: the I/Os do not match reality, the equipment does not match the design, the specs are out of date, and the unpaid hours land on whoever is standing there.

You know this job. Tell me where I have it wrong, and what you would fix first.

• Punch items are found on the floor and written up later. By the time they reach the client they have lost their timestamp, their photo, or their owner.
• When a machine faults, the controls engineer is often asked to prove it was not the software. A record made at the moment of discovery is stronger than one rebuilt from memory afterwards.
• The final milestone payment usually waits for a clean punch list. Every day spent arguing about the list is a day that cash is not collected.
• The engineers who do this work are scarce and travel a lot. Unpaid hours of retyping after a long shift are a cost you pay in retention as well as in billable time.

These are our working assumptions. Which of them is wrong for your company?

• One A4 protocol per shift, with a document hash, built from timestamped photos, notes and tags.
• An evidence log your engineers can point to when a delay is disputed.
• A PDF you attach to your own email. No portal, no link, no new login for the client.

A flat $250–$500 per project, passed through to the client as a line item on the proposal. No per-seat licence, so subcontractors and freelancers on site do not each need a seat. We do not know if that is the right number or the right model. Your reaction is the most useful thing you can give us.

• One real commissioning project, free of charge.
• A 20-minute call every two weeks while it runs.
• Before we build anything for you, we do the first protocols by hand from the photos and notes your engineers already collect, so you can judge the output first.
• At the end, an honest written answer from you: would you pay for this, and how much?

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• FAT vs SAT and commissioning documentation (Mbonyasambe)

  A passed FAT often loses days on site because punch items travel without owners, closure dates or evidence.

• Modernizing industrial commissioning: digital ITRs, punch lists and turnover (Bluerithm)

  A deficiency is found in the field, photographed, entered into a spreadsheet later, then emailed and updated again.

• System integrators expand vital, scarce automation skillsets (Control Engineering)

  Recruiting and retaining skilled young engineers is a standing challenge for integrators.

These are third-party descriptions of the problem. They are not claims about DexaFlow.