Our new Pro-Treat mobile app gives you “a treatment plant in your pocket,” with superpowers of perception on every aspect of your timber treatment process.
Managers are often far from their treatment plants, and their oversight is limited due to the vastness of their treatment operations. When they are at the plant, they need to page through many pages of manual books – trusting that these have been accurately completed – for feedback.
It is the equivalent of checking your bank balance by driving to the bank to count the money in a vault and then reconciling it with the funds spent. Not very practical, from any perspective.
Pro-Treat solves these challenges (as do the banking apps on our phones).
You can turn various notifications on or off, based on your preference of detail, from when a charge sheet is opened or closed to over- or under-treatment and many other notifications, as suits your management style.
Customers’ comments include that the app is “world class”, “flippin’ lekker”, and “works like a bomb .”
After developing the Pro-Treat app, Dolphin Bay didn’t just release it; we selectively chose customers and asked for their feedback. The comments included that the app is “world class”, “flippin’ lekker” and “works like a bomb.”
“The Pro-Treat app truly changes the face of our industry, elevating it to a whole new level – just as commercial farmers now digitally monitor every aspect of their farms, from precision irrigation to crop and soil health,” said Bertus.
“It wasn’t a quick process”
“The Pro-Treat app was built from scratch by the Dolphin Bay team. We have been asked by many people whether we bought it. The truth is a bit more gruelling: it wasn’t a quick process. It was made possible by the vast knowledge of the team, their clear understanding of processes, their perseverance through extreme technicalities and, most of all, a very talented, creative, and enthusiastic programmer. We’re very proud of it.
“Having this app is like being at your plant all the time, but with superpowers of perception.”
The level of responsiveness can be adjusted to your preference, for the detail you require for your plant.
The Pro-Treat app is designed to be very responsive. It indicates, immediately, whether a charge is being under- or over-treated, giving the percentage, so the manager can take quick remedial action if needed.
The level of responsiveness can be adjusted to your preference, for the detail you require for your plant. Some people might only want to receive a notification when the plant moves outside parameters, such as for over- or under-treatment, while others would want to receive notifications about when a charge sheet is opened or closed, the duration of charges, and other information.
Jan‑Ben Matthysen of Vryheid‑based RF Gevers shared a plant manager’s experience. “I check the system on my computer when I’m at my desk in the morning, but I’m not there all day,” he said. “When I’m out, I can now use the app to quickly check in on what’s happening at the plant and what the operators are doing.”
Clear text explanations come with an elegant and intuitive pop-up that can be expanded for additional detail when a charge has started.
“Keeps me in the loop when I’m on the road”
“That’s mainly what I use it for,” said Jan‑Ben. “It notifies me when the guys start or close charges and gives me general updates about what’s happening. Because it’s a mobile app, it keeps me in the loop when I’m on the road or away.”
We incorporated a large-language model (LLM) in an AI function that is trained on your plant’s specific data. This gives you the ability to ask it virtually any question in normal language and receive a detailed, comprehensive response. One such question would be “Please rank my operators’ performance over the last 30 days.’ It will give you a list of all your operators, rank their performance on achieving the specifications and their accuracy of work, and even recommend if an operator needs training in certain areas. It will also generate charts on operational matters for a quick visual reference should you want to know what you have treated, and the most popular products you treated over certain time period.
The questions are virtually limitless.
“This is a huge leap forward in our industry, something I believe is not yet fully understood,” said Bertus.
“Our goal is to give our customers with Pro-Treat the competitive advantage over treaters without it.”
“Our goal is to give our customers with Pro-Treat a competitive advantage over treaters without it. It certainly helps treaters optimise their production and is now available to all our customers.
“We’re very, very excited to get you onto the Pro-Treat app as soon as possible. Our team will reach out to you. Or, if you can’t wait, you can download the app from the Apple Store or Google Play, and send Wayne a short message for him to enable your log-in.”
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