!! News on EPOCH customers, events and announcements: !! Schedule an EPOCH demo on-line at the Web site Visitors to the EPOCH Web site, www.LogicalDS.com, may now email LDS a request for a demo of any or all of the EPOCH software modules. Demos are available on-site at the customer location or performed remotely using a dial-in connection. Please call (561-694-9229) or email for details. Short Stories: Customer's use of EPOCH Oil Refiner and Marketer Overview: Single site, multi-user implementation of EPOCH’s Hazardous Waste Management module for tracking waste and printing 1000s of state manifests and labels throughout the US per year. With EPOCH, users track waste detail, including; generators, profiles, vendors and costs as well as manifest detail and dates for 35 day return period. RCRA reporting is automatic by-product of capturing original data; standard reports list waste and constituents with quantities over any time period selected. Cost allocation reports show waste transportation and disposal costs by generator and are used for ongoing waste minimization programs. Technology is local area network with Windows NT workstations and Windows NT server. Benefits include: reduce time creating manifest and labels; management reports list locations or generators with above average waste shipments and/or costs, to identify problem areas more quickly; ad/hoc reports are used to evaluate vendor performance and costs for better risk management and contract price negotiation. Aircraft Manufacturer Overview: Single plant implementation using EPOCH’s Chemical Management module to track detailed paint usage based on specific recipe formulations. Users enter paint by name of recipe and amount and EPOCH will automatically reduce the inventory for all constituents used. When the Tier II report is produced, an accurate inventory for all ingredients is available. EPOCH calculates VOC emissions from the same production data and generates rolling 12 month average and detail reports. Technology is local area network, multi-user client/server processing. Benefits include: eliminated multiple manual data entry steps by environmental engineer using separate systems previously (entering data for paint used automatically computes Tier II maximum and average, and 313 Form R usage quantities, and VOC emission data); management reports are used to identify trends and take action before emissions become permit exceedences; ad/hoc reports are written to quickly answer regulators questions on audits. Heavy Equipment Manufacturer Overview: Multi-plant implementation, 20 plus sites, of EPOCH Chemical Management, Source Monitoring and Hazardous Waste Management modules, with interfaces to inventory / purchasing system to automate data entry for chemical movement and usage. Regulatory reporting, Tier II and 313 Form R, is generated as a by-product of processing the inventory transactions received electronically and having EPOCH calculate constituent amounts, maximum, average and usage. No manual input is required. At a corporate level data may be summarized through standard or user developed reports for chemical or constituent minimization programs. EPOCH is also used for monthly water DMR reports and annual RCRA data analysis. Technology is client/server over wide area network using IBM’s relational database manager DB2. Benefits to the environmental engineering staff include: reduce or eliminate data entry via application interfaces, spreadsheet and/or word processing turn around documents; quality of data sent to regulators improved over manual input from inventory printouts into custom spreadsheets; management reports available on a roll-up basis for a plant or process, through regional and corporate levels for cost reduction programs. Aerosol Can Painting Company Overview: Multi-site implementation using EPOCH’s Chemical Management module for SARA 312, 313 Form R and VOC emission reporting. On a daily or weekly basis, production figures are entered. Usage and emission factors by production quantity are stored in the EPOCH master files. These records are used to calculate amounts of products, their components and threshold exceedences for SARA reports as well as VOC emission data from the same production input. Technology is single user PC platform at each site using Windows 95. Benefits include: reduce time entering and calculating chemical usage by on-site environmental engineers; better quality data sent to regulatory authorities; regulatory reports consistently sent on-time to agencies; user ad/hoc reports identify chemical usage trends and high cost processes. Chemical Management | Hazardous Waste Management | Source Monitoring | Task Management | Schedule Demo News | LDS Services | About Us and EMIS | Site Map | Links | Contact Us | Home Last Updated: May 05, 2008 Copyright © 2005, Logical Data Solutions, Inc.  All rights reserved.