Achieving Real-Time Project Control and Profitability Visibility with PanelOps for a Leading Industrial Automation Firm
A 100-year industrial automation and process control engineering firm ran projects on paper and spreadsheets, with little visibility into costs, procurement and inventory. PanelOps put projects, BOMs, stock and financials on one platform.
- Client
- Industrial automation and process control engineering firm
- Industry
- Engineering and industrial automation
- Solution
- ITHENA PanelOps
- Scope
- Project management, BOM and stock, procurement, financial visibility
- Headline result
- 35% better parts traceability
Three numbers project delivery moved.
Results after the firm moved projects onto PanelOps.
Faster BOM and parts management
BOMs and parts managed in one system instead of spreadsheets.
Increase in project scalability
A shared platform let the firm take on more projects without adding overhead.
Improvement in parts traceability
Every part traced from procurement to project.
Meet the organization and understand the context behind the transformation.
A leading industrial automation, instrumentation, and process control engineering & consulting firm with 100+ years of combined industry experience and 150+ successful projects. Facing fragmented project information, paper- and spreadsheet-driven processes, and limited visibility across project execution, procurement, inventory, and costing, the company partnered with ITHENA to implement PanelOps. The result was a unified operations platform with centralized project workflows, BOM and material traceability, structured automation project management, and real-time operational visibility—enabling scalable project execution, improved collaboration, and better decision-making.
Before PanelOps, managing project information across different tools and teams was becoming increasingly challenging. Having everything in one place has made it easier for our teams to collaborate, track project progress, and get the visibility we need to deliver projects more efficiently as we continue to grow.
— Director of Engineering & Operations
Projects run on paper and memory.
Project data was scattered and person-dependent, and costs were hard to see.
- Project information scattered across paper, spreadsheets, and disconnected systems
- Person-dependent processes limiting collaboration and business continuity
- Scalability challenges with growing project volumes
- Limited visibility into project costs, procurement, inventory, and execution
How ITHENA closed the gaps.
ITHENA’s PanelOps solution enabled the client with:
Unified Platform
Centralized project data and workflows across teams, replacing paper-based and spreadsheet-driven operations with a single source of truth.
Project Management
Supported increasing project volumes with structured workflows for E&I, PLC, SCADA, and DCS project types without adding administrative overhead
BOM & Stock Management
Enabled inventory visibility and stock management with multi-level BOMs and material tracking, providing end-to-end component traceability from procurement through project delivery
Operational & Financial Visibility
Provided real-time visibility into project actuals against budgets and project profitability, enabling faster, data-driven decision-making
Every project, one platform.
An illustrative PanelOps view of projects, BOMs, stock and costs together. Figures other than the client's results are examples.