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Every asset, defect and inspection in one live view, built from scratch in four months.

A mining operator needed one place to see asset condition, defect and inspection risk across the whole operation. cimply designed and built a custom app from the ground up, from concept to a commercial platform in four months.

From concept to commercial

4 months

Pull any asset's live risk and inspection status

90% faster

Spreadsheets and trackers replaced by one live register

15 into 1

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Resources & Mining Custom App Development Automation Digital Transformation

Insights

  • A single live register for every asset, defect and inspection, replacing scattered spreadsheets
  • Risk-based inspection scheduling, so the highest-risk assets are seen first
  • Full defect lifecycle tracking with photo evidence, from first report to signed-off repair

Before and after

Where they were. Where they are now.

The brief was about control. One trusted view of asset condition across the operation, with risk and defects visible the moment they appear rather than buried in a spreadsheet on someone's laptop.

Before:

Asset data spread across spreadsheets, emails and individual memories. Inspections. ran to a fixed calendar rather than to risk, and a defect could sit unseen between the person who found it and the person who could fix it.

After:

A single asset intelligence platform where risk profile, defects and inspections sit in one live dashboard. Inspections are scheduled by risk, defects are tracked end to end with evidence attached, and the whole operation works from one source of truth.

The Invisible Win

The best asset system is the one nobody has to chase.

When asset data lives in one place, the work around it quietly disappears. No one rebuilds the same register twice, no one hunts for the latest inspection, and no defect slips through because it was only ever in one person's inbox. The platform does the remembering so the team can act.

  • Risk that updates itself, as inspections and defects come in
  • One version of the truth, for the crew, the office and the auditor
  • Evidence captured in the field, attached to the asset it belongs to
“An operation that can see every asset, defect and inspection in one place makes safer calls, faster. That is what this app was built to do.”

A platform built around risk, not the calendar.

cimply designed and built this app from the ground up as an asset intelligence platform for the operation.
At its centre is a live dashboard that shows risk profile, defects and inspections at a glance, backed by a
real-time asset register that everyone works from.

Inspections are optimised by risk rather than run to a fixed schedule, so effort follows the assets that need
it most. Every defect is captured with its details, risk rating, temporary controls and remediation requirements, then tracked through its full lifecycle with photo evidence and repair status attached. The
result is a single system that turns inspection and defect data into decisions the team can act on.

4 months

from first concept to a commercial platform

90%

faster to pull any asset's live risk and inspection status

15 into 1

spreadsheets and trackers replaced by one live register

Built once, and built to grow.

This custom app started as one operation's answer to a real problem and became a commercial platform in four months. It is proof that the right custom build does more than tidy a process. It changes how a team sees risk, and how quickly it can act on it.

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