One thing constant in technology is change. With this in mind WipWare brings its distributors together each year to review advances in products, examine new applications, hear suggestions for product improvement and share experiences from around the world.
Representatives from Australia, Chile, the Netherlands, the UK and Turkey descended on North Bay this week to preview the latest equipment and software, learn how to use, sell and maintain the equipment and discuss new applications.
The introduction of our iPad interface for on-line systems early this year was a resounding success. It provides real time operating data to the people who can act on it in a convenient, easy to use and access way via their iPhone or iPad. This was a “game changer” for many said Tom Palangio, President of the company. For many years now people had data on screens or archived in historians but it wasn’t noticed or acted upon unless something dramatic occurred. Now you are prompted to immediately act if conditions “exceed” your operating specifications. Now you can really control the operation instead of reviewing history “after the fact”.
In February they unveiled a new standalone iPad application at the ISEE 42nd Annual Conference on Explosives and Blasting Technique in Las Vegas. It complements their original Windows based software but is geared for field use. Traditionally images were collected in the field and processed later in the office but now the convenient iPad can take the pictures, analyze them, measure results and even predict and/or suggest improvements to blast designs “in the field”. Image analysis used to require a reference scale in the field of view but that has been eliminated in the iPad version providing higher levels of safety and efficiency. We are living in a very “connected world” and cloud based applications and software are convenient, economical and efficient ways to work smarter and safer.
After two days of intensive sessions dealing with technical advances, sales and strategy they had a “team building” day in Toronto where they experienced the “Edge Walk” at the CN Tower followed by dinner at the 360 Restaurant at the same location. Guido Pas - Syscom (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Glen Blackstock - Micron (Brisbane, Australia) said they are “used to working with WipWare’s leading edge technology but walking on the edge of one of the highest free standing structures in the world was definitely a new experience. (Guinness World Record for highest edge walk on a building (356m or 1,167.97 ft)
