limits that are easily achievable, for instance, a plant’s staff may become complacent about regularly checking that level. “But with Enviance, we can build a process in there to make sure we’re checking it,” says McCall. “Even though we are probably never going to hit it, we have the comfort of knowing that an alarm will go off, or that the system is going to send somebody an e-mail if we ever do get close to that limit,” he explains.

That can pay dividends when dealing with regulators. “An agency treats you a whole lot differently if they can see that you had something in place and maybe something just went wrong, than if you were just not even paying attention to it,” McCall concludes.

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