In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, staying ahead is essential. The recent Tory Users Summit 2025 served as a forum for industry leaders to explore the capabilities of COSMOS, a state-of-the-art solution that expands the functionality of FLOWCAL and TESTit, streamlines the daily operations of measurement teams, and boosts overall efficiency. This blog post highlights the key insights from the summit’s presentations, emphasizing COSMOS’s transformative impact on task scheduling, metering devices, and data management.
Managing Schedules and Devices with COSMOS KPIs
The session commenced by addressing the challenges associated with managing task schedules for field personnel and managing metering devices. Emphasis was placed on the importance of clearly understanding the scheduling of field activities, such as inspections, verifications, and calibrations to effectively identify individuals who may be delayed, overbooked, or underbooked, and to ensure ongoing compliance with regulations and best practices.
The COSMOS KPIs module provides a solution by offering visual and intuitive dashboards that display the status of these activities based on consolidated data from TESTit. These dashboards empower teams to make data-driven decisions. The core KPIs available in the module include activities by executor, activity review, activity scheduling, and overdue activities. Designed with hierarchical and time-sensitive features, these KPIs ensure that information remains current and relevant.
Custom Forms: Flexibility and Automation
The introduction of Custom Forms in COSMOS marks a significant improvement over traditional methods, such as Excel files and PDF formats, for collecting and consolidating measurement process data and metering device information. The Custom Forms module offers a flexible and customizable solution to centralize this data within a single application, supporting advanced logic and automation capabilities. This module ensures operational standardization, facilitating easier analysis and management of measurement and metering data, enhancing overall consistency and accuracy.
File Generator: Simplifying Data Extraction
The File Generator module in COSMOS streamlines the process of extracting data from FLOWCAL and TESTit databases. Users can generate flat files based on specific queries without compromising database integrity or security. These files are prepared for sharing and further processing by third-party applications. Additionally, the module supports scheduling capabilities, allowing users to automate file generation at defined intervals without the need for IT department intervention.
Monitoring Services with the Cockpit
Specialized widgets in the COSMOS Cockpit offer a comprehensive overview of the status of various services, including FLOWCAL, TESTit, and COSMOS itself. These tools are especially valuable for IT and OT departments, enabling them to monitor service statuses without direct server access. For instance, one widget displays concurrent user statistics to ensure efficient license utilization, while another monitors the status of Windows services, databases, and web services associated with the applications, providing a holistic view of system health. This proactive monitoring approach allows for the early identification and resolution of potential issues, minimizing downtime and enhancing operational efficiency.
Conclusion
The Tory-Tech Users Summit 2025 underscored the transformative capabilities of COSMOS in delivering a comprehensive and executive-level overview of field task statuses, metering devices, and measurement data in general. The presentations emphasized the critical importance of clarity, adaptability, and automation in advancing operational efficiency. By utilizing the robust features of the COSMOS KPIs, Custom Forms, File Generator modules, and cockpit widgets, organizations can optimize measurement processes, maintain regulatory compliance, and make informed, data-driven decisions. As technology continues to progress, COSMOS is poised to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of operations, equipping measurement teams with the tools necessary to achieve confidence, accuracy, and efficiency.
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