Capabilities
- Your DFR template: Any Word document becomes the daily field report template, so the format your client already approved stays exactly as it is.
- Header fields filled automatically: Client, site, job number, PO number, asset, equipment serial numbers and date come from the job, so the crew types only what changed today.
- Photos from the phone: Photos taken on site attach to the job as they are captured and go into the report and the job folder.
- Hours and costs on the same record: Timesheet entries and reimbursable costs are logged against the same job, so the day's labour and the day's report agree.
- Copy yesterday's report: For multi-day work, copy the previous day's report and AMPS refills the fields that change, which is most of the DFR gone in one action.
- Signed and sent from AMPS: The report is signed in AMPS and emailed to the client from AMPS, so there is a record of what was sent and when.
- Roll-up to Power BI: Hours, progress, delays and costs across every daily report are available to Power BI for weekly client reporting.
The daily report problem
The daily field report is the most repetitive document in field work and the one most likely to be late. The same header is retyped every day, the photos are still on someone’s phone at the end of the week, the hours on the report and the hours on the timesheet disagree, and the client’s progress claim stalls while somebody reconciles them.
None of that is a template problem. It is a problem of the report living somewhere other than the job.
How AMPS does it
The daily field report is generated from the job, so everything the job already knows is already in the document: client, site, job and PO number, the asset being worked on, equipment serial numbers and the date. The crew fills in what actually varies, which is the work done, the findings, the delays and the crew list.
Photos taken on a phone attach to the job as they are captured, so they are in the job folder before anyone leaves site and available to drop into the report. Hours go on as timesheet entries against the same job, and reimbursable costs are marked as such on the timesheet, which is what keeps the report and the invoice from disagreeing later.
On multi-day work the crew copies the previous day’s report and AMPS refills the fields that change. For a two-week shutdown that removes most of the typing from thirteen of the fourteen reports.
The finished report is signed in AMPS and emailed to the client from AMPS, so there is a record of what was sent and when, and it is filed in the job folder in your own OneDrive, SharePoint or Google Drive.
Your template, not ours
Any Word document becomes the template. This matters more than it sounds. A daily field report format is usually specified in the contract or approved by the client’s document control group, and swapping it for a generic form builder’s layout means going back to the client for approval. AMPS fills your document instead of replacing it.
Because the template is yours, the same mechanism covers inspection reports, punch lists, JSAs, handover certificates and anything else already written as a Word document.
What it adds up to
Every daily report sits on the job, and every job sits on the asset it was performed on. Scanning the asset’s QR code six months later opens the history including that day’s report and its photos. Across a project, the daily reports become data: hours by crew, delay reasons, completion rate and cost per asset, all available to Power BI without re-keying, which turns the weekly client report into a filter rather than a compilation.
Limits worth knowing
AMPS needs an internet connection. There is no offline mode, so a crew working out of coverage completes the report once back in signal, with the job, its photos and its hours already captured. There is no client portal yet either: reports go to the client by email from AMPS, or through a link from your own cloud storage.