Archived Announcement
This past week, we launched a powerful new safety feature in ProAlert: Seek Shelter, a fast, site-wide alert system specifically designed to help protect employees during severe weather events, particularly tornados, which many of our U.S.-based clients frequently contend with.
What happens when you click "Seek Shelter"?
- An air raid siren blasts immediately over the plant-wide PA system.
- All Andon displays switch to a custom shop floor map, highlighting designated shelter areas.
- All Work Cell GUIs (WC GUIs) begin flashing the message: "Seek Shelter."
- The alert continues until the button is clicked again to deactivate.
This ensures rapid, unmistakable communication across the entire facility, no matter where team members are located.
Coming soon in ProAlert v2 (.NET 8)
In our upcoming second major release of ProAlert, the system will allow shelter maps to be directly tied to Andon groups. That means every department or area of the shop floor will see a location-specific shelter map, ensuring people are guided to the nearest safe zone during an emergency.
This enhancement reinforces our mission to make ProAlert not only an operational tool but a critical component of your emergency preparedness infrastructure.
Want to see the Seek Shelter feature in action or need help configuring shelter zones? Reach out to your ProAlert rep today.
About ProAlert
ProAlert is a single-database, single-login operations platform for asset-intensive manufacturers. Maintenance, quality, production, compliance and the shop floor all run in the one database, so information that is normally scattered across four or five separate systems, and connected only if you buy an integration project on top of them, is already connected: what happens at a machine flows straight into the work order, the parts request, the quality record and the shift review without anyone re-entering it. It covers fourteen operational disciplines: maintenance management, CMMS-connected procurement for maintenance parts only, quality and nonconformance, asset lifecycle and regulatory compliance, A-FMDS daily management, workforce operations, production planning and scheduling, performance analytics, video management, industrial IoT, mobile, safety broadcast, platform foundation, and shop-floor response coordination. Because every one of them reads and writes the same database, nobody in the plant is making a decision on a partial picture. It is not an ERP or MRP system: its only procurement is the purchasing side of the CMMS, for the parts maintenance work calls for, and it exchanges data with the plant's ERP through a REST API rather than replacing it. ProAlert is developed and supported by ProAlert, LLC, of Mason, Ohio.
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