1. Guided workflows
Step-by-step procedures built into the field experience, so every contractor follows the same standard on every shift. The procedure is enforced by the system, not by the supervisor.
Cumulus Quality Execution System
Energy | EPC
Deliver the project. Defend the record. Win the next one.
Real-time visibility into every bolted joint, pressure test, and inspection across your project, so handover is on time and your record speaks for itself on the next bid.
You're accountable for the whole thing. From design to handover.
EPC contracts put the schedule, the budget, and the asset’s first impression all on you. Thousands of bolted joints, hundreds of pressure tests, dozens of subcontractors, and a commissioning team waiting at the end. When any of that work is tracked on paper, you don’t know whether it was done right until late in the project. By then you’re paying for rework on the critical path, the owner is asking questions, and the closeout package is two weeks of binders behind.
Cumulus gives you real-time visibility into work quality across every contractor on every part of the job, so you catch issues during installation and walk into handover with the record already done.
Where EPC projects lose ground
$260K
average cost per hour of unplanned facility downtime
$20B
lost annually across industry in production and repairs from unplanned downtime
10x
the cost of unplanned repairs compared to planned maintenance
Sources: 2016 Aberdeen Group study on unplanned downtime; ARC Advisory Group; AspenTech.
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Subcontractor quality varies across the site
Different subcontractors, different crews, different standards. Without a system enforcing the same procedure on every shift, the quality bar moves with whoever is on the job that day. You inherit the variability and the owner sees it.
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Rework discovered at commissioning
Improperly executed work often isn't found until commissioning or startup. By then, fixing it means schedule slips, blown budgets, and corrective work under pressure. The cost to fix it is roughly 10x what it would have been during installation.
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No real-time view of cross-trade progress
Mechanical, electrical, and piping crews are running in parallel. When one falls behind, every trade downstream falls behind. The status update you get at the end of the week is already a problem by the next morning.
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Two-week closeout scrambles before handover
Records that should already be done get pulled together from binders, photos, and memory. The owner is watching the date. Your team is digging through old files instead of finishing the project.
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A closeout package that doesn't help you win the next bid
Owners are building shortlists based on documentation quality, not just schedule. When this project's record is a stack of paper no one can search, you've already started losing the next contract.
The problem isn't your subcontractors. It's the gap between the work and the proof.
Your subcontractors aren’t trying to fail. They’re using the same trusted torque wrenches, pressure gauges, and inspection equipment they always have. What hasn’t kept up is the documentation around that work. Paper checklists, hand-written torque values, photos of gauges, spreadsheets typed up later. Work gets completed but doesn’t get verified. Documentation exists but can’t be trusted.
Cumulus closes that gap by capturing execution data automatically at the moment of work, directly from the tools your subcontractors already use. Every torque value, every pressure test, every inspection, recorded the moment it happens. No retyping. No missing photo. No paperwork pile at handover.
How It Works
Guided workflows in the field. Real-time visibility from the office. Audit-ready records on every activity.
Cumulus works with the tools your subcontractors already use, including connected torque wrenches, pressure gauges, and inspection equipment. Workers follow guided steps on a tablet. The tool captures the data automatically. Your team sees the work as it happens.
2. Capture work in the field
Torque values, pressure readings, photos, and checklist responses sync to the cloud as soon as connectivity is available. Records are tied to the specific tool, technician, time, and asset.
3. Verify in real time
Every completed activity produces a clean, audit-ready report automatically. You see the work as it happens, not at the end of the shift.
Benefits
Hit the schedule. Protect the safety record. Win the next bid.
Catch quality issues at execution, not at commissioning
Hold every subcontractor to the same standard across the project
Replace weekly status reports with real-time cross-trade progress
Eliminate the two-week paperwork scramble before handover
Stand behind every safety-critical activity with a defensible record
Turn this project's execution data into the credential that wins the next contract
Eliminate leaks across petrochemical operations
See how Ocyan uses Cumulus to control work quality on petrochemical assets, capturing comprehensive work data through connected tools and the Cumulus mobile app.
Real impact on safety and productivity in the field
99%
reduction in bolted joint leak rates using Cumulus
$400K
production increase at one mid-size chemical plant using Cumulus on just 20% of bolted connections
2+
hours of paperwork eliminated for every work completion
Built inside the energy industry
Cumulus was developed by Shell to improve productivity and prevent unplanned downtime at its own facilities and projects. The platform has been built around the realities of energy work from day one.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Cumulus integrates with project management and documentation systems through a flexible API.
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Most users are up and running in under an hour, with full onboarding support provided.
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Cumulus is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and uses industry-standard encryption and security protocols.
Talk to us about your next turnaround.
See how the wrench writes the record. Before the auditor asks for it.