June 24, 2013, Media Information

FlashTrack™ Wins in First-Ever, ISHN-Sponsored Readers’ Choice Awards for Industrial Safety – Plymouth, Michigan. June 24, 2013

On June 19, 2013, Industrial Safety and Hygiene News (ISHN) announced that Facility Results’ FlashTrack™ product won the publication’s first-ever Readers’ Choice award in the “Signs, Labels, and Tags.”

According to the ISHN, the objective of the contest was to provide recognition for the “technological advances” and “today’s most innovative personal protection equipment (PPE) and safety products.” Thousands of ISHN subscribers participated in the award decisions by casting their votes online between March 1 and May 1 of this year.

Assuming that many of those who voted in the “Signs, Labels, and Tags” category recognizes the challenge of balancing the cost of keeping workers safe with the need for tighter budgets, FlashTrack™’s ability to save companies and independent contractors time and money proved to be a standout. Bryan Rupert, co-founder and lead consultant at Facility Results, was incredibly proud but not surprised to learn that his company’s product had come out on top in the ISHN voting. “We have FlashTrack™ users reporting electrical safety label installations up to 30 percent faster due to FlashTrack™’s industry-first label installation reporting feature. Employees and contractors can confidently and quickly install arc flash labels by using the photos, documented equipment names, and label install locations that are all conveniently captured using FlashTrack™.”

As the winning entry for its category, FlashTrack™ will be recognized in the August Industrial Safety & Hygiene News issue, and Facility Results will receive a glass award commemorating its category achievement.

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September 18, 2012, Media Information

Facility Results Branches Out Across the Country with NFPA 70E Workshops – Plymouth, Michigan. September 18, 2012

Safety knows no bounds, so Facility Results is taking its popular NFPA 70E Workshop on the road beginning this month. Through partnerships with local businesses at various Workshop destinations across the country, Facility Results is spreading the word on the correct and efficient use of NFPA 70E for identifying and minimizing hazards due to electrical shock and arc flash in the workplace. This month, Facility Results is headed to Las Vegas, where the company will partner with Stetson Electric of North Las Vegas to deliver an NFPA 70E Workshop on September 28.

Introducing this four-hour, open-seating workshop marks a significant expansion in Facility Results’ training efforts, which have previously focused on company-hosted, site-specific training. Now in cities across the country, from east to west, individuals and companies can sign up to attend these regional, on-demand workshops as they are scheduled throughout the year.

“Most employers and contractors want to stay current on the NFPA 70E standard, but not all can afford the time and expense of bringing consultants into their places of business,” explains Bryan Rupert, co-founder and lead consultant at Facility Results. “These regional Workshops are an excellent and affordable way for individuals and companies to stay on top of new and changing electrical safety specifications in the standard and the field.”

Two Facility Results trainers deliver each NFPA 70E Workshop. All of the company’s trainers have extensive backgrounds in workplace safety and hands-on experience in subject matter ranging from the interaction of NFPA 70E and OSHA…to recognizing hazardous risk categories…to explaining the intent and limitations of personal protective equipment (PPE)…and more. Most importantly, a major part of Facility Results’ business is training and consulting. Workshop trainers have what it takes to garner the attention and respect of workshop attendees, who range from novices to very experienced.

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August 29, 2012, Media Information

Facility Results Expands Its Safety Training Team and Continues to Promote More Knowledge for Less Flash – Plymouth, Michigan. August 29, 2012

The trainers and training at Facility Results aim to educate employees to effectively reduce their exposure to occupational hazards, especially those due to arc flash. The company has recently expanded its training team to include safety veteran and OSHA expert Cindy Rupert of Ravenswood, WV.

Rupert has a long safety career, including almost ten years as a manager and engineer with the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry. He has hit the road running for Facility Results. She has already delivered NFPA 70E courses in Atlanta and Tulsa since joining the company in June.

“Throughout my years of experience on the government side, I worked hard to balance the requirement for compliance with an understanding of what it takes to succeed on the business side. That’s a perspective my students and Facility Results’ clients generally can appreciate,” explains Rupert.

Rupert joins an established team of five other trainers at Facility Results. They’ve been delivering the latest practical and consistent methods for achieving occupational safety since the company was founded in 2009. Best known for its NFPA 70E electrical safety standard courses, the company also offers OSHA training, including Lockout/Tagout and Confined Space Assessment.

Offering combined safety experience totaling more than 60 years, the trainers at Facility Results have delivered more than 120 training sessions over the past three years to businesses across the country, ranging from Tier One manufacturing suppliers to research and development firms and waste management companies.

“We’ve had Facility Results conduct multiple 70E pieces of training here,” says David Krisko, Facilities Manager for Lotus Engineering’s Ann Arbor, MI, location. “Regardless of how much we think we know when they come here to do the training, we always learn something new and useful. We use a lot of electricity, and I can think of multiple situations where things we learned from Facility Results helped us to avoid upwards of $100,000 in unexpected downtime.”

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August 10, 2012, Media Information

Facility Results’ New FlashTrack™ Software – Designed to save lives, this Arc Flash analysis software is also easy on the budget – Plymouth, Michigan. August 10, 2012

Facility Results introduces FlashTrack™, the company’s flagship software system designed to save lives by offering a more complete and affordable solution for arc flash analyses. FlashTrack™ is the only software product of its kind that addresses a problem every electrical contractor is confronted with: how to catalog, document, and capture all required electrical nameplate information to ensure a facility safe from the personal dangers and production hindrances of hazardous arc blasts.

In June, Facility Results began limited marketing of FlashTrack™ – a one-of-a-kind tool for the entire Arc Flash analysis life cycle, from data collection through label installation to ongoing change management. Now, with the software readily available from the company’s website, it has attracted an impressive list of customers, including, but not limited to, a major Tier 1 automotive supplier, a local community college, a significant waste management corporation, and various electrical contractors – some with as many as 150 electricians in the field and others with as few as one or two.

“Our appeal to both large companies and small businesses is one of the reasons we’re a strong contender for this year’s Showstopper award at the 2012 NECA Show in Vegas in September,” explains Bryan Rupert, co-founder and lead consultant at Facility Results. “We have customers who have confirmed time savings of up to 30 percent on data collection and label installation alone. Some of our contractor customers have even reported profits of up to 60 percent compared to their previous methods for Arc Flash analysis.”

Matco Electric Corporation is a 40+-year-old specialty contractor firm in New York, with average sales volumes of $25 million annually over the last ten years. Matco is also a FlashTrack™ customer. “The tool was easy to learn from the beginning, and it’s even easier with recent upgrades they’ve introduced,” explains Matco TEGG Technician Brian Connors, who regularly works with FlashTrack™ in the field. “The resulting one-line diagrams are great, but even better is how easily we can save these and modify them when we need to – without redrawing. In a couple of months, we’ve been using FlashTrack™; we’ve noticed fewer callbacks from our engineering team because we no longer miss information when we submit the drawings.”

Facility Results offers FlashTrack™ through a unique marketing model that includes free downloads of the data collection front end – a drag-and-drop, Windows-based system with intuitive drop-down menus, convenient component libraries, and plenty of keyboard shortcuts. Pricing for the back-end analysis is available on a per-point basis or through a multi-year lease arrangement.

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