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The Importance of Control Room Management with Russel Treat

This episode of Getting to the Crux of It Podcast features Russel Treat, CEO of EnerAct Energy Services and host of the Pipeliners Podcast. As an industry leader, Russel shares many important insights into control room management and how it helps controllers become more effective at their job. Together with Russel, our hosts Vicki Knott and Rebecca Greenan discuss matching systems to human capabilities through control room management as well as exploring how automation leads to greater efficiencies within the control room.

Impacting the Design and Function of Modern Control Environments

This edition of Getting to the Crux of It Podcast features Ian Nimmo and Chris Heil from My Control Room. My Control Room is an industry leader in control room design, with a focus on Situation Awareness, Human Factors, and Abnormal Situation Management within the control room. Together with CruxOCM’s software, hosts Vicki Knott and Rebecca Greenan have a conversation with their guests about enabling control room operators to increase output, profitability and most importantly improve the safety of a company’s operations.

From the Control Room to the Boardroom with Jeff Whitney

Today’s episode is all about efficiency. Jeff Whitney, founder of Berkana Resources, a consulting company that helps their clients adopt and thrive in Industry 4.0 joins Hosts Vicki Knott and Rebecca Greenan to discuss the importance of automation within the energy sector and how implementation is driving efficiencies and significant ROI.

Meet Our Investors

This edition of the Getting to the Crux Of It Podcast features Gil Dibner, Eric Wiesen, and Kane Hsieh; Venture Capital Investors in CruxOCM. Crux has raised $9M USD in Venture Capital to date. Tune in to learn what VC’s look for in an opportunity and why they saw value in Crux’s RIPA technology. The speakers discuss the importance of both ESG and the energy sector and share how they recognized the value proposition that CruxOCM offers to the market.

Meet the Hosts

CruxOCM was born out of a vision of improved safety for the control room operator and resulted in a massive value proposition for the Energy Industry. Join our hosts Vicki Knott and Rebecca Greenan as they have a candid conversation on how Vicki and her Cofounder Roger Shirt set out to solve a pressing issue they both faced in their everyday work life. Through their conversation, Vicki and Rebecca offer advice to Executives who have recognized the importance of innovating and to the future entrepreneur wondering if they should take the plunge into start-up life