Do operators need their own account?

Yes. Each person signs in with the account their employer gives them, so every reading carries who recorded it. Access is managed per site by your administrators.

Do we have to use NFC tags?

No. A check point can require a QR scan, an NFC tap, or either. QR labels print from Amberhold onto standard label stock.

Web app · Android app

Industrial inspections. On the plant. In your pocket.

Amberhold is a web app: it runs in the browser on any phone, tablet or desktop, with nothing to install. It is also an app on Android. Either way, operators walk their rounds one point at a time, with recent readings in view, each reading recorded against your limits and each piece of equipment identified by its QR label, or by an NFC tag in the Android app.

Android

Get it on Google Play

QR code that opens Amberhold on Google Play — Scan with an Android phone's camera

iPhone

Coming soon. Until then, Amberhold runs in the browser on iPhone.

Not using Amberhold yet? Try a round on the fictional demo plant in your browser, no account needed →

A round in the app: a pass or fail check at one point, with the scan-or-tap step

What operators do, in the browser or the app

Walk the round

Scheduled rounds appear on the board. The operator walks them one point at a time, with recent readings in view.

Record against your limits

Each reading is kept with the limit that applied when it was taken. A reading beyond your action limit is flagged as it is entered and listed under Needs attention.

Identify the equipment

A QR label or an NFC tag at each point identifies the equipment the check is about.

Report something you've seen

A leak, damage or something out of place, recorded in the operator's own words, even when no round asked about it.

Temporary controls

Each declared control stays on the board with a check scheduled each shift, until a manager clears it with a reason.

A gap stays visible

A missed round stays on the board as overdue until it is completed late or acknowledged with a reason.

Temporary controls in the app: a declared control with its reason and last check — Temporary controls, kept on the board

A completed round opened later: who, when, and each reading — The completed round, retrieved later

Screens from the fictional demonstration plant.

Identify the equipment before recording the check.

A check point can require a QR scan, an NFC tap, or either. In the Amberhold app on Android phones with NFC, holding the phone to the point's NFC tag verifies it; another machine's tag is refused and recorded as the wrong equipment; and the record shows the check was an NFC tap.

On Android the step listens for the tag by itself.

Any phone or tablet reads the QR tag with its camera; NFC tags are read in the Amberhold app on Android phones with NFC.

Where operators carry iPhones, set their points to accept a QR scan for now.

Straight talk

A scan records that the expected equipment tag was presented by the signed-in operator at that time. It identifies the equipment being checked; it does not prove the operator's physical presence at the equipment.

A copy of a tag would be accepted: a tag identifies the equipment, it never authenticates. Tag taps were tested on phones only; on a tablet, use the QR label and the camera. Tag mounting: not tested on metal yet. Verifying a tag checks with the server, so it needs a connection.

Questions we actually get asked

Do operators need their own account?: Yes. Each person signs in with the account their employer gives them, so every reading carries who recorded it. Access is managed per site by your administrators.
Do we have to use NFC tags?: No. A check point can require a QR scan, an NFC tap, or either. QR labels print from Amberhold onto standard label stock.
Is there an iPhone app?: Coming soon. Until then, Amberhold runs in the browser on iPhone.

Keep reading

Industries and compliance

The rules behind your routine checks

Operator rounds

Guided walks, limits, honest skips

App privacy

What the app collects, and why