See today’s world through our eyes:

The petroleum refining industry is undoubtedly the most heavily regulated manufacturing industry in the United States. Petroleum refining margins are down. Some refiners are operating at losses in the millions of dollars range on a daily basis.

Environmental, health, and safety (EH&S) laws are become increasingly more stringent, leading to increased capital and operating expenditures in order to demonstrate and maintain compliance (dare we mention Cap and Trade under the Federal Greenhouse Gases Mandatory Reporting Rule). The alternative of course are financial penalties stemming from non-compliance.

In summary: petroleum refiners are losing money, but operating costs continue to increase.

Let’s focus on one element of EH&S compliance, air quality. Let’s consider the cost of administering an air quality program at a petroleum refinery. There are capital and operating costs associated with labor for permitting, program management, routine inspections, equipment repairs, compliance audits, as well as daily; weekly; quarterly; and semiannual recordkeeping and reporting requirements. Maintaining compliance in light of this exhaustive set of requirements can be both onerous and susceptible to risk.

We recognize the need to reduce operating costs without compromising the reliability of EH&S compliance systems.  So, we are developing EH&S compliance systems that are integrated, operable in real-time, and designed with quality control measures that ensure a high-level of compliance in an ever-changing environment.

Technology is our vehicle to arrive to that end-result.

... and that is the Ei vision.

Our customers are Owner/Operators who strive to demonstrate ongoing compliance with Federal, State, and local regulations.  Our software solutions provide a compliance model that relies on optimizing existing data management systems by enabling data delivery and communication between complementary software platforms.  We don't believe in re-inventing wheels; but we do we believe that they can be re-defined.

In lamen's terms: we build software that integrates data-driven drawings with asset management systems, regulatory compliance tools, and facility-specific management of change software in order to provide cost-effective regulatory compliance solutions to our customer.

The end result: more intelligent, more efficient, and more reliable (oh, and more inexpensive, long term) compliance systems that put real-time project information in the hands of compliance staff in well, real time.