Deutsche Funkturm uses digital checklists for the technical acceptance of installations: the protocols for the structural inspections of facilities are filled out digitally on tablets immediately on-site – including extensive photo documentation, extended freehand-sketches and the handwritten signatures of the inspectors in charge.
HybridForms – Digital forms for critical infrastructure
The entire process of technical approvals of stations – from the creation of a new process, pre-population of data fields via form automation and interfaces, mobile data entry by the responsible staff at the site to data export to existing systems – is completely digital.
Dynamic acceptance checklists with smart enterprise features and built-in process capabilities help teams do their tasks, like seamless switching between offline and online modes, automatic data sync, geotagging of photos and biometric signatures with metadata
HybridForms supports various authentication systems for correct access to HybridForms according to IT security specifications. At Deutsche Funkturm, multi-factor authentication via Citric NetScaler and an additional TAN generator on the smartphone is used for user login to ensure optimal security.
Interfaces to internal systems such as the SAP PI/PO middleware platform or IBM TRIRIGA enable a structured data flow – also across departments.
»We first used HybridForms to digitize our acceptance checklists. The speed and professionalism with which icomedias implemented our requirements was outstanding.
The very good usability of HybridForms in the field was also the initial spark for many other form implementations and has additionally inspired us in other digitization projects.«
»With the HybridForms version of our acceptance checklist, we were able to optimize many processes. Documentation that used to be written on paper on site and later retyped on a PC, can now be captured directly digitally and transferred via REST API to other systems for further processing. Ideally, icomedias also offers an on-premises version of the software that allows us to meet our high data protection requirements.«
Rapid Return on Investment at Deutsche Funkturm
About 5,000 inspection processes are carried out at Deutsche Funkturm facilities throughout Germany every year. The change from paper-based data capture on site to end-to-end digital processes with HybridForms has had an immediate positive impact.
The benefits of this new way of working with mobile devices and digital checklists have become immediately and quickly apparent: accelerated workflows, transparent processes, consistent data sets, quickly available inspection results.