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Oftentimes, the test of character is most evident in times of adversity. Over the past few weeks, and in the coming months, with the enormous challenges we are currently facing, our character will continuously be tested. During these times it’s important to reflect on...

Change is inevitable... The world changes faster today than at any moment in history. Five years ago, introducing new technologies to industrial front-line workers around the world, was a challenge. Today almost every worker owns a smart phone. They know how to swipe...

In industrial maintenance and construction, managing and documenting manual work processes has remained mostly unchanged. Processes are, for the most part, still paper-based, siloed, and lack accountability and transparency at the work face, making them inefficient...

Most construction project managers would agree that they lose too much money and allocate too many resources to rework. A recent study found that about 30% of the work performed by construction companies is actually rework. From a cost perspective, rework can often be...

Minimizing unplanned downtime is one of the most important jobs of an oil and gas facility’s maintenance team. A 2016 study by Aberdeen Group found that unplanned downtime costs on average more than $260,000 per hour and more than $20 Billion per year in lost...

Welcome to the Cumulus Blog! For our first post, we want to share where the idea for the Internet of Tools came from. The Internet of Tools was conceived while Cumulus’ founders were at Shell TechWorks, Shell’s Skunk Works-style technology center in Cambridge,...