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Award-Winning Tracking Technology Global consulting firm Frost & Sullivan recognizes the role of software in the Bakken. In 2013, Fargo-based Pedigree Technologies was awarded the North American Customer Value Enhancement award for its oil and gas software. Pedigree, a company that has seen tremendous growth, has a created a machineto-machine software package that can track equipment, including trucks, tanks, generators and other products used in the field. “The idea is that you know what condition your equipment is in or where it is. You can coordinate a very streamlined operation,” says Alex Warner, Pedigree’s CEO. “If you are a rental operation and you identify that your skid steer has a diagnostic code error, you could dispatch and find out where a maintenance technician is in the field in relation
to that equipment piece,” Warner says, “and then be able to show up with the right part at the right time.” Pedigree’s technology can be used with tablets and smartphones. The system allows any user to see multiple data sets taken from a well site or a truck. In certain cases, a truck driving team can assess the best time to visit a well site for oil pickup based on information from a Pedigree technology package installed on oil storage sites. “There is a pressing need for a platform that can amass data from these assets, along with data from their back-end business systems, to further streamline operations and improve overall efficiency,” Frost & Sullivan said of the need for systems such as Pedigrees.
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PROVEN METHODS: DSI will take base programs from previous projects and revise or tweak them to meet the needs of new customers, a process that helps clients receive an automated service faster. PHOTO: DESIGN SOLUTIONS & INTEGRATION
they are controlling,” he says, adding that, “We have found some guys that are really good at programming but are kind of shy at knowing the instrumentation. We train them so that they know what they are hooking up to and how it should be run.” If DSI is able to find a senior level programmer with oil or gas experience—which isn’t often—the training period can end after 8 weeks. Since DSI first started serving the Bakken, he has noticed an increased emphasis on safety options in many of the program requests and the automated processes that the programs run. Dawn Pistulka, operations coordinator for DSI and wife of Craig, says that DSI’s programs are vastly more complex than they were five years ago, “because in addition to new safety options, we are trying to make every program and system better than the last.”
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