Keeping Safety a Top PriorityĮlectrical work, drilling, and working with utilities and infrastructure creates plenty of dangerous situations. “But, a lot of people are using their phones, and the List View wasn't just an extra feature, it ended up being an absolute must.” Before they knew it, each department rolled out training and within a month everyone was happily using GoFormz. “You'd figure people would fill out forms on a tablet,” Skandera commented. Thanks to List View, GoFormz's small-screen optimized data entry mode, Aldridge's mobile phone users were the first to be excited about the new platform. Skandera even heard from the field workers, “I just figured out the last platform, and now this?” But once users tried GoFormz, they found the whole system to be much easier to use. Once their form templates were built, it was time to get the rest of the Aldridge Electric teams using GoFormz. Skandera had initially predicted about half a year would be necessary to get their team ready to go, “but it ended up only taking about 1/6th of that time” Laud commented. Laud recalled the initial apprehension when assessing Aldridge's forms set up, based on their experience with GoFormz competitors. It was time to make form building easier for the team, so Laud set out to explore alternative digital form options and finally found GoFormz. “IT takes care of everything, and people come to us looking for solutions,” Laud said. It was time for IT Director, Patrick Laud, to step in and find a new solution. “If something went wrong it was an immense amount of effort, and building a new form would require days, possibly even weeks, depending on the complexity of the form,” said Nathan Skandera, Quality Manager at Aldridge Electric. Moving away from paper forms was inevitable, but they needed a solution as flexible as their workforce, and while their current and previous digital forms solved the paper problem, they were unable to make the best use of everyone's time.ĭevoting multiple days and hours to getting form templates built wasn't an option, and neither was requiring an in-office resource devoted to making edits if any information was entered incorrectly. From safety forms like Line Clearance Permits (LCPs) to customer-facing forms like Drill Logs, the Aldridge team was gathering an incredible amount of data each day.
The number of forms required by the Aldridge Electric team on a daily basis is nearly astronomical. What they hadn't found was a mobile forms platform that allowed for easy form creation, mobile-friendly data entry for their field workers, and a pricing structure that fit their needs with such a widespread workforce.
The Aldridge Electric team is no stranger to digital forms, they've tried multiple solutions over the years with the goal of migrating away from paper to a digital solution.