In 2014 Riley Textile Conservation (RTC), was contacted by a state agency to survey the entire contents of a historic home and create detailed art-conservation reports for over 6,000 objects contained in the collection. It entailed collecting, tracking and processing daily field reports with text annotations, audio notes and multiple photographs. RTC also had to manage multiple subcontractors and maintain control over document completion in real time.
RTC’s document lifecycle management system was outdated and inefficient, using handwritten reports with annotated sketches for field documentation. The company typically completed 48-72 reports per year. RTC needed to find a timely way to execute its largest project – produce and track 6,000 comprehensive reports in real time – within 11 months without expanding the field team.
“It’s not that this project would have been difficult without Fluix. It would have been impossible.”
Hannah Riley,
Principal,
Riley Textile Conservation
With a limited budget and time frame for the project, RTC implemented Fluix cloud document management software to:
“Fluix gave us much greater control over the amount of time each report would require to complete. For this project, each extra minute spent per report would have translated into fifteen extra days of labor.”
Hannah Riley,
Principal,
Riley Textile Conservation
Fluix helped RTC successfully complete its largest project within deadline, and streamline their overall processes:
