21st October 2011
"I have used Mnitor-Pro for the past 6 years. I have used it at
a previous place of employement and then decided to bring it on
board in my current place of employment. Once you get the training
(which is always tailored to what I need and my compotency) there
is no turning back. I have always had excellent communications with
all the chaps involved and never found that technical suupport was
far away. With the new additions, NPI and site compliance my life
as an enviro is much easier." Thanks 21st October 2011
12th October 2011
"We have been using Monitor Pro for many years to manage our
large quantities of environmental data & found it excellent for
importing, storing & reporting to our many stakeholders. We
have benefited from EHS's flexibility and willingness to
continually develop the product to meet changing demands."
"We can not thank Richard enough
for his time spent with us or fault his performance with regards to
getting us up and running with Monitor Pro. Very professional,
helpful and above all patient! Richard provided AMEC E&E with
an excellent quality of service, indicated as follows. In addition,
the hand-out materials have been very useful."
"I actually found MP5 pretty user friendly for not only data
entry, but also for setting up compliance checks, relevant
selections and recalling data. I am now at the stage of developing
standard reporting templates using Crystal Reports.
I am very happy with the technical support we have received to
date from EHS Data. They are quick to respond to emails and
providing training as required. I have not had a lot of experience
working with other systems of this calibre, but I understand from
discussing the system with those who have that it is widely used by
industry in Australia for a number of reasons including it's
compatibility with GIS - Map Info.
We have recently hired two new environmental personnel and both
have experience with MP5 which makes our job of bringing them up to
speed easier. We have not applied this package to any other areas
of our business, just environment, but we are satisfied with it
functioning for our purpose."
"Very professional and informative. Nothing was a problem. Phil
is always very accommodating in whatever is required he is also one
of those presenters who just tailors to the individuals needs. I
found him very professional and easy to understand. He had the
knack to communicate to all audiences."
"Couldn't ask for a better support group"
"On the Scheduling front, I got Environment to give me manager
status on their databases and, coupled with the fact that I'm very
good at making my own Crystal Reports now, I can now collate data
from any database that I have access to, report it in any way I
like, and schedule said reports, text alerts and compliance
breaches etc to anybody I like as often as I like. In fact I'm at a
loss how to fill my time!"
"We have been extremely satisfied with the service extended to
us in regards of forwarding necessary patches on the program Site
Manager, and with the willingness from your support team to
clarify, when the documentation for the software needed
clarification."
"Users of this site find the clarity of reporting particularly
useful. The ability to compare all refineries' performance against
targets in one digestible page delivers concise and important
information at a glance." View Case Study
"Today I finished with users depuration of Sample points. From
an initial number of 600, now we manage 304. I've already Imported
800.000 records in MP5. Is there any restriction?"
"Was the visit completed professionally and effectively
(1-10)?
Yes. It goes beyond expectations. I assign an 11. "
"Yesterday night I imported an amazing amount of records with
MP5. In several cases files of almost 50.000 records without a
problem."
"We have been extremely satisfied with the service extended to
us in regards of forwarding necessary patches on the program and
with the willingness from your support team to clarify, when the
documentation for the software needed clarification."
"I told you. MP5 is better than you guys suspect!"
"Your support is 5 Stars"
The most important part of MP5 that represent an added value and
makes a huge difference with other products of the Market is their
People. In my years of IT Project Manager I've never seen such
excellence in Support"
"How can Bush rule the States without owning Monitor Pro 5, how
can the Challenger take off without Monitor Pro? Monitor Pro , your
right to choose. (this is the inscription of my next T-Shirt!
)"
"To sum up the Product is really good and the support is
better"
"I've found that one of the best features is the compliance
breach automated emails. There is something very reassuring in
knowing that as soon as data makes it into MP5 (which can obviously
been very rapid with auto importer) you will be notified of any
issues without having to go through all the data looking for
problems. The ability to set up alerts for anomalous/abnormal
values also sounds great (though I am being slack and am yet to do
that).
I'm finding that the calculation function saves lots of time!
The main use for it on site here is interpolating water volumes in
a pit from a monthly level pick up without having to trawl through
excel spreadsheets and calculate the corresponding level to the nth
degree. A great time saver. Perhaps this eg and the stream flow one
from Morobe could help illustrate some of the calc functions? Happy
to send over any info if it helps.
The spatial features are another big plus - love using the
surfer graphs to see how our tailings seepage water quality varies
each month. Picture speaks a thousand words! (perhaps 'love' is a
little over-enthusiastic, but you get the idea!).
And I suppose the other massive advantage I'm finding is having
the selection options all set up so generating repeat data for
different time frames is a doddle.
Trickier aspect I suppose (for me at least) is using crystal to
manipulate the reports - just not really familiar enough with the
program yet.
Not that I speak for all mine sites, but I would say that the
part of MP5 that we probably utilise the least is the ability to
build in our monitoring schedule to receive automated alerts as to
what sampling needs to be done that week/month and so on. I think
it's generally the case that there is a fairly good handle on what
the monitoring requirements are at most mine sites by the enviro
team and so this function is perhaps a little redundant/more hassle
to set up that it is worth."
"Stuart, THANK-YOU so much. This calculation made my life so
much easier.
We have 50 or so ponds on site that we have to measure capacity
remaining to ensure that we have sufficient volume available in the
event of a 100 year event. (We had a 100 year event in February and
were on the brink of a catastrophe). This is required by a consent
decree issued by the US EPA.
We take staff readings once a month and enter them into the
database. I created translation grids for each pond which turns the
staff reading into a pond volume. Then for each pond I have to
calculate the volume remaining and then compare that to the BMP
level (the volume we are required to have available). Instead of
creating constants and calculations for each pond, I created a
compliance grid with the maximum volume for each pond and the BMP
level for each pond. This way, I only had to create two
calculations instead of 50. I ran the script you sent today and it
worked perfectly.
The whole point of the story is that I could use a table similar
to a compliance grid for many purposes.
Thanks, Sandra" View Case study
"Thanks again - and please pass on my thanks to Rachel - the
work she has done has saved us considerable time."
"Thanks for your efforts on developing Monitor-Pro to what we
want. The guys here are absolutely convinced of its value - and
looking forward to taking it to the next stage with the interface.
A large part of this is the service and attention you have given
us. I really appreciate this and thank you for it. In fact, I don't
know if Will or Nat told you - they have been showing Monitor Pro
to other organisations." View Case study
"We have used EHS data's software MP5 since the beginning of the
year to collate all our environmental monitoring data. Prior to
this we used an older version called Monitor-LT for over 5
years.
This data is collected from a number of operational and restored
Landfill sites and is made up of both field readings and laboratory
analysis. Much of it is collected to fulfil Environmental Permit
requirements which are regulated by the Environment Agency
(EA).
The transition from the old version to the new was relatively
painless with EHS doing all of the data transfer. MP5 gives us far
more flexibility as it is server based and can be access by several
members of staff at any one time. The old version was based on one
PC and therefore far less secure.
The database allows us to collate all the data in one place and
for this data to be assessable to a number of key personnel in our
Technical Support. The data is used to understand the performance
of the landfills over time and is also key in monitoring the site's
compliance against Permit conditions. The database allows us to
assess all imported data against a vast number of control and
trigger levels which are borehole/location-specific in many cases.
These limits are set for a wide variety of situations including
groundwater quality/surface water quality/air quality and soil gas
concentrations. The permits require control and trigger levels
being set to determine any deviation from 'normal' conditions and
to assess against EAL/EQS.
As reports can be directly downloaded from the database, this
means there is very little effort required to collate the routine
data submissions to the appropriate authorities, including the EA.
The graphing function can also aid greatly with understanding
trends when assessing control/trigger level exceedences or writing
Annual interpretative reports.
In addition to the basic set up we asked for an automatic import
function to make data importation more efficient and the compliance
grid function which aids with setting new control and trigger
levels.
In my experience the database is a key tool and we have several
personnel dedicated to managing it and updating it regularly. In
the UK it is seen as the Industry-standard within the waste
industry. View Case Study
Many thanks once again Phil for your support. Your prompt
responses and knowledge of your product is a great advert for your
company.
