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20% Reductionin Labour Costs

Tricon Drilling Solutions

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The wins for Tricon Drilling Solutions

20%
Reduction in labour costs
Real-time
Job + labour visibility
Live
Every hour accounted for

Tricon use Empower for real-time transparency on job status, time on jobs, and labour cost — improving scheduling, sharpening future quotes, and stopping cost blowouts before they happen.

Real-time transparency across the floor

Tricon use Empower to get real-time transparency on job status, time on jobs, and labour cost as work moves through the floor.

Sharper scheduling, sharper quoting

That visibility has helped them improve scheduling, plan for future labour quotes, and reduce cost blowouts before they happen.

Every hour accounted for

By moving away from paper-based tracking, the management team can now see where time is being lost while the job is still active. This ensures every hour is accounted for.

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Our Productivity Guarantee

You see gains like Tricon Drilling Solutions's in your first year — or we provide unlimited support, free of charge, until you do.

20–40%
Productivity increase

Faster jobs, greater workshop output — with the same overheads.

$5–$15k
Saved per month

Stop losing money to manual tracking and hidden inefficiencies.

7 days
To go live

Get Empower working on your floor in under a week.

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