PanelGuard + IRIS

Take PanelGuard Further with IRIS

Once PanelGuard has brought your panel information, inspection records and corrective work together, IRIS helps your team make better use of it.

IRIS is the intelligent assistant built into the PanelGuard experience. It provides a faster and more natural way to find information, understand current conditions and prepare useful summaries from the records your team has already created.

Rather than manually moving between dashboards, panel histories, inspection results and action lists, users can ask IRIS a question in everyday language.

For example:

• “Which panels currently require urgent attention?”

• “Show me the overdue corrective actions.”

• “What work is waiting for parts?”

• “Summarise the latest inspection for MCC-04.”

• “Which panels have experienced repeated defects?”

• “What was completed in the packaging area this month?”

• “Give me a management summary of the site’s current condition.”

IRIS searches the relevant PanelGuard information available to that user and presents the answer clearly, while keeping the original records available for further review.

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Find the Right Information Faster

As your PanelGuard history grows, it becomes an increasingly valuable record of your electrical infrastructure. However, larger volumes of information can also take longer to review manually.

IRIS helps users reach the information they need without requiring them to remember where it is stored or which filters to apply.

An engineer preparing to inspect a panel can ask for its recent history. A maintenance manager can request a summary of open high-priority work. A stores user can identify actions being delayed by unavailable components. Senior stakeholders can receive a concise overview without working through every individual engineering record.

The traditional PanelGuard navigation and reporting tools remain available, but IRIS provides an additional route for users who want a quicker answer.

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Turn Records Into Useful Summaries

IRIS can bring related information together and turn detailed records into concise, readable summaries.

This can support:

• Shift and maintenance handovers

• Weekly engineering updates

• Outstanding-work reviews

• Panel-condition summaries

• Parts-delay reports

• Contractor briefings

• Management meetings

• Planned-maintenance discussions

• Refurbishment planning

A user could ask IRIS to summarise the most important panel issues across a site, explain which actions have remained open the longest or prepare an overview of work completed during a particular period.

This reduces the administrative effort involved in gathering and rewriting information while allowing the responsible person to review the result before it is shared or acted upon.

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Recognise Patterns Across Your Facility

An individual defect may appear to be an isolated event. When information from multiple inspections is considered together, repeated conditions and wider trends can become more visible.

IRIS can help users explore patterns within their PanelGuard records, such as:

• Panels receiving repeated adverse findings

• Common types of inspection failure

• Areas generating unusually high numbers of actions

• Work frequently delayed by parts availability

• Actions regularly exceeding their target dates

• Panels showing a gradual decline in recorded condition

• Repeated expenditure or maintenance activity against the same assets

These observations can help qualified personnel decide where further investigation may be worthwhile. They can also support discussions around preventive maintenance, replacement priorities, resource allocation and longer-term electrical improvement programmes.

IRIS highlights what the recorded information may indicate; the engineering team remains responsible for determining the cause and selecting the correct technical response.

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Prepare Reports and Communications More Efficiently

Maintenance information often needs to be communicated differently depending on its audience.

An engineer may require the complete technical record, while a factory manager may only need the current risk, operational impact and planned response. IRIS can help turn the same underlying information into a suitable draft for each purpose.

Users may ask IRIS to help prepare:

• A concise management update

• A summary of unresolved defects

• A shift-handover note

• An explanation of work awaiting parts

• A review of recently completed actions

• A site-condition overview

• A draft email regarding an identified issue

• Supporting text for an inspection or maintenance report

Generated content should always be reviewed by the user before being issued. IRIS assists with gathering and presenting the information; it does not send communications or make formal commitments without appropriate user control.

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Assistance Based on Authorised Access

IRIS works within PanelGuard’s existing permissions.

It does not give users a way around their normal access rights. The information it can retrieve and discuss depends on the organisation, site access and role assigned to the signed-in user.

This means IRIS can provide relevant assistance to different users without unnecessarily exposing sensitive factory, maintenance or personnel information.

An engineer may be able to ask about the panels and actions available to them, while a manager with broader responsibility may be able to request a facility-wide summary. Each response remains governed by the same access controls used throughout PanelGuard.

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Reliable Answers Grounded in Your Records

IRIS is designed to work from the information genuinely recorded in PanelGuard.

Where the necessary information is available, it can retrieve and summarise it. Where a record is missing, unclear or incomplete, IRIS should not present an assumption as a confirmed fact.

Users remain able to open the relevant panel, inspection, action or report and verify the source information behind an answer. This keeps IRIS connected to the operational record rather than allowing it to become a separate or untraceable source of maintenance information.

The more consistently your organisation uses PanelGuard, the more complete the information available for IRIS to help you explore.

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Practical Assistance, With People in Control

IRIS is not an autonomous engineer and does not replace competent electrical personnel.

It cannot physically inspect equipment, prove that work has been completed correctly or declare a panel electrically safe. It also does not replace isolation procedures, inspection and testing, risk assessments, site safety requirements or professional engineering judgement.

Instead, IRIS supports the people responsible for those activities by helping them find records, understand priorities and reduce repetitive administrative work.

Any technical conclusion, maintenance decision or formal report remains subject to review by an appropriately qualified or authorised person.

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A More Natural Way to Work With Maintenance Data

PanelGuard ensures that important electrical-panel information is properly captured and retained. IRIS makes that information easier to access and understand.

Together, they allow users to move from a straightforward question to a relevant, evidence-based answer without manually searching through large amounts of data.

The result is a platform that not only records what is happening across your electrical infrastructure but also helps your team interpret that information, communicate it clearly and focus attention where it is most valuable.

PanelGuard provides the operational structure. IRIS helps unlock the value held within it.