The Top Digital Forms for Wind Energy
Easily record wind energy service details, and route them to back-office teams, connected platforms, and more, with GoFormz mobile forms and workflows
Digitizing your wind energy forms for use on phones, tablets, and computers, can significantly improve your operation’s field-to-office workflows. Rather than waiting for forms to be delivered to the office by field teams (who may not return to the office for days, weeks, or more) digital forms can be instantly accessed once submitted or transferred – accelerating daily tasks like safety reviews, inspections, proposals, and billing. Because this data is captured digitally, it does not require any rekeying or physical record-keeping, meaning information can be instantly leveraged for reporting, used to updated databases, or directly uploaded to connected systems, like Salesforce, ServiceMax, Procore, and more. These digital forms can even be utilized while working offline in remote locations.
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GoFormz is the only mobile forms solution that can preserve the original look and feel of your work documents, making it easy to maintain document formatting when working with government agencies or onboarding teams already comfortable with the forms they have been using for years. These digitized forms can be dispatched to field teams pre-populated with database or integration data, accelerating form completion and improving data accuracy. Your digital wind energy forms can even be equipped with new data types, like Images, Sketches, Maps, Signatures, and Barcode Scanning.
Ready to elevate your wind energy data capture and workflows? Check out the top five digital forms for wind energy teams below to explore how your operation can leverage digital forms to work more efficiently:
Service Reports
Digital Service Reports can significantly streamline the entry of repair, maintenance, and installation work. Forms can easily be automatically populated based on a user, job site location, or work order number, accelerating form completion and improving the accuracy of input data. Text fields can be used to describe work, noted hazards, technicians on site, and more. Digital Service Reports can even host new data types, like Images, allowing teams to rapidly capture and annotate service photographs. Completed Service Reports can be instantly leveraged to run reports or automatically emailed to supervisors, back-office teams, and more.
Lockout/Tagout (LOTO)
When completing any service and maintenance involving live electrical, a standardized and refined LOTO process is essential. Digital forms can help to ensure important steps in LOTO procedures are not neglected, leveraging form logic and easy to complete digital fields. Digital LOTO forms can be generated from digital devices in the field, like tablets, making it easy to quickly access procedural details disclosed within the form. Any crucial steps in the LOTO process can then be listed within a checklist (using Checkbox fields) or organized within Table fields. Each step within the procedure can then be easily noted as completed, and by making these fields Required, if a step is missed the form will not be able to be completed and submitted until the missing field/information has been resolved.
Using automatic population and the GPS field, the precise location of the user can be instantly logged within the digital LOTO form. Finally, a Signature from the technician completing the digital LOTO form can be easily acquired using an Electronic Signature field. Once submitted, the completed form can be instantly routed to supervisors, safety leads, back-office teams, and even records within connected applications.
Hot Work Permits
When working with open flames or heat sources that could potentially ignite other materials when completing tasks like welding, a Hot Work Permit is essential. Digital Hot Work Permits provide a checklist of items job site teams must complete to ensure that all fire prevention and safety measures have been taken throughout the process. Digital forms can simplify the accurate and comprehensive completion of Hot Work Permits by automatically populating details when generated. For example, a user’s location and name could be instantly populated when a form is generated. Similarly, scanned Barcodes can also populate information, like equipment being worked on, a location, and more. Critical fields can also be made Required, ensuring important information is entered, every time.
Digital Hot Work Permits can even provide additional safety information, to help guide job site teams through the necessary fire prevention measures. For example, if a user were to select a Checkbox noting they are working with a specific type of equipment, an additional field could become dynamically available, prompting the user to enter further information or to note that they have completed an additional safety measure.
Job Safety and Environmental Analysis (JSEA)
Job Safety and Environmental Analysis (JSEA) forms detail the hazards and high-risk activities taking place on a job site, and the safety measures to be followed to address each risk. Digital forms make it easy to fill out and complete each important JSEA step, even when working offline in remote areas. Job sites or work order numbers can be selected from Drop Down menu, which can then instantly populate corresponding fields with job site information. Table fields can be used to enter job steps and individuals responsible for completing them. Signature fields can be leveraged to capture important authorizations. Utilizing Dynamic Field Properties, fields can change Background or Font color in response to entered data, highlighting specific risks and important details. Additional fields can even be made Visible based on entered data and Checkbox selections.
Inspection Forms
Simplify the inspection of wind energy equipment, turbines, and more, with digital inspection forms. Forms can be uploaded with an equipment diagram, making it easy to annotate areas of equipment that were worked on or need attention with Sketch fields. Images can also be captured and input directly from mobile devices, adding visual context to inspection data. Barcode Scanning makes it easy to populate relevant fields with equipment or location data, improving the completeness and accuracy of captured information. Your inspection criteria can even be made dynamic, enabling additional fields to dynamically become Visible, change Background Color or Font Color, or be made Required. Once completed, inspection forms can be directly routed to back-office teams and connected applications, like Salesforce, ServiceMax, and more.
To learn more about digital forms for wind energy, check out Vestas’ customer case study here or sign up for a free trial of the GoFormz mobile forms platform today!
