Quality Assurance, Health and Safety and Environmental Compliance
Engineers may spend much of their time inputting common project or job details into various separate documents to comply with the above requirements. This needless repetition is a waste of professional expertise which should be focused on the real issues. Our expert Excel consultants can provide the means to automate the creation of new standard documents with common information already included. We can also manage the review and sign off processes for such documents and manage password protection to avoid unauthorized changes.
Repetitive Calculations
Your engineers may carry out many routine, simple calculations. These may not take long to complete but may be repeated many times. Automation of such calculations reduces the chance of errors and can control the output to a consistent, easily understood format as well as saving time. Such calculations may also be embedded in Excel spreadsheets as custom functions.
You may have a requirement to carry out more complex calculations, particularly where direct solution is not possible and iterative methods are required. We can provide the code to do this without resorting to “black box” solutions such as using “goal seek” or “solver” in Excel.
Data Analysis
We can interface with your existing Excel or Access applications or other available output files to allow further analysis and provide graphical output or automated design sketches, again with considerable time saving.
External data such as tide / river levels, ground movements or that obtained from monitoring of structural movements for example may be imported using a few mouse clicks and converted into the required format for the user.
Administration
We can build systems to issue standard letters, manage invoicing, staff time and expenses etc. and deal with the myriad of necessary administrative functions in an efficient and consistent manner.
We can also sort out any problems with, or upgrades to, existing Excel and other Microsoft Office applications which you may use. Many operations which require changes to a spreadsheet by the user may be automated so reducing the risk of errors and time taken by a user who may first need to familiarise himself with the task.
