Latest News – Falcon Group – A Force for Good

21Jul 2024 by Alan Mills

Zenator unaffected by CrowdStrike outage

On Friday 19 July 2024 the world awoke to a global IT outage. This was a significant IT incident resulting in a global outage affecting numerous users, but not Zenator customers. The issue was not due to a cyberattack but rather an internal technical fault. This disruption caused widespread service interruptions for companies relying on CrowdStrike's cybersecurity solutions. CrowdStrike has since been addressing the problem and working to restore normal operations for all affected clients. The incident highlights the critical nature of reliable IT infrastructure for cybersecurity providers and the widespread impact when such services go down. For the companies affected by the CrowdStrike outage, this is a single point of failure (SPOF) and for these companies, the consequences have been catastrophic. Zenator's resilience during the CrowdStrike outage was not…

14Jun 2024 by Alan Mills

MasterClass CSU Engineer Nuclear gets ECITB approval

FGL News, Industry News, MasterClass CSU

MasterClass CSU training has the Energy Industry covered We are delighted to announce that ECITB, the UK's leading industrial training organization, has renewed its approval of MasterClass CSU Engineer training and has also approved our latest course, MasterClass CSU Engineer Nuclear.Engineers taking our CSU training have the opportunity to obtain internationally recognized certification and then go on to create job openings and possibilities that will advance their career across the Energy Industry worldwide.Employers will dramatically enhance their reputation, capability and performance by building mission-critical skills, adding to the bottom line.MasterClass CSU Engineer Nuclear is a new course with internationally recognized certification, aimed at skill building for the nuclear sector.As the Energy Industry needs skilled, qualified people to safely deliver the projects that will take us to NetZero (NZ2050) and beyond,…

14Jun 2024 by Alan Mills

ECITB approves MasterClass CSU Engineer courses

FGL News, Industry News, Training

The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) has approved two courses for MasterClass CSU Engineer training. These are the 3-day classroom-based course and an online course offering 18 hours of continuous professional development. Learners completing the courses will receive an ECITB certificate. "We are absolutely delighted to receive approval for our MasterClass CSU Engineer training from the UK's leading training standards organisation", said Falcon Group Managing Director, Alan Mills.Contact mail@globalfalcon.net for further details.Based in Hertfordshire, ECITB is a member-led organisation focused on setting and maintaining the quality of skilled talent working in process industries, including renewables, nuclear, oil & gas, petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals.Falcon Group are delighted to support and help further the objectives of ECITB, both in the UK and abroad.

16Jan 2022 by Alan Mills

MasterClass CSU webinar Project Success and Failure

Training

On Friday 14 January we hosted a webinar where Alan Mills and Ed Martinez talked about Success and Failure, the Critical Success Factors that are common to every project and the importance of Triple E: Effective, Early Engagement from a senior CSU professional. The webinar attracted an audience of 50 from around the world; quite an achievement when you think that for many people they were joining at night, during their weekend. After the discussion Ed and Alan took questions from the audience. You can watch the webinar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkT30xFZKJU Quick Links 01:04 Introduction 03:02 Speaker Bios 05:20 Breaking down Success & Failure, Critical Success Factors and Fixating on Failure 06:30 Examples of Triple E 06:44 Slide 2 - The Influence Curve 11:14 Slide 3 - The Critical Success Factors…

16Jan 2022 by Alan Mills

Meet our two newest MasterClass CSU graduates

Training

Adebayo Fetuga and Gideon Irehovbude complete eLearning Adebayo Fetuga and Gideon Irehobude are working on the Anoh Gas Production Company project in Iwo State, Nigeria. The guys are already Zenator Power Users and with their new skills in Systems Completion methodology through Commissioning & Start-Up, they are now certified with MasterClass CSU Foundation training, to give even better support to the customer, just when it is needed. At Falcon Global we are delighted to see Nigeria's best young talent become trained and qualified with skills that are vital to growing the country's economy.

26Oct 2021 by Alan Mills

Calling CSU professionals everywhere

FGL News, Industry News, MasterClass CSU

We are recruiting MasterClass CSU Instructors If you have taken MasterClass CSU Foundation training since 2019, or one of our CSU Workshops before 2019 and are interested in becoming a certified instructor then we would like to hear from you. To be a successful instructor with us you will possess the following attributes: a great attitude an extensive CSU background and knowledge of Systems Completion verifiable evidence of tertiary level education and/or vocational training a competent and confident speaker, comfortable training people of all levels comfortable delivering in-person and virtual training fluent in English both spoken and written proficiency in other languages could be beneficial As an instructor you will go through the process of becoming approved by the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the UK's Engineering Construction Industry Training…

11Oct 2021 by Alan Mills

KEEP Plus grant aids disruptive innovation

FGL News, Industry News, Zenator

In late 2020, Falcon Global were awarded a KEEP+ innovation grant from Anglia Ruskin University, provided from the EU. We put the grant to good use, adding improved security and slick new features to streamline your workflow, bringing huge benefits in performance and productivity. Zenator Walkdown Capture is exactly the disruptive technology Operators and Contractors need to emerge strongly from the pandemic, rebuilding the world economy and moving towards the objectives of NZ2050.

26Sep 2021 by Alan Mills

Kent Kazakhstan Development Academy (KKDA)

FGL News, Industry News, MasterClass CSU, Training

Ms Melody Sheybani, Director of People & Organisational Development A very special event took place during August in Atyrau, Kazakhstan. Kent PLC held a virtual graduation ceremony for Kent Kazakhstan Development Academy (KKDA).To celebrate the accomplishment of two of Kent's brightest stars, Ms Guliya Abdessova and Birzhan Badel, many 0f the company's senior management, including Managing Director, Mr David Touhey attended the ceremony. Also in attendance were Ms Melody Sheybani, Stephen O'Callaghan, Ed Reynold, Mark Mitchell, Paul O'Brien, Zhanar Ablayeva. The graduation ceremony was organised by Training & Development Manager, Ms Indira Kadyrkhanova.Guliya Abdessova and Birzhan Badel had successfully completed MasterClass CSU Foundation training and Course Leader, Alan Mills was honoured to attend as an invited guest.A key driver behind the KKDA program is Director of People & Organizational Development,…

19Sep 2021 by Alan Mills

PetroSkills hosts its first course in CSU

Training

This will be a virtual classroom setting, starting Tuesday 19 October, with Alan Mills as course instructor. Click here for details.

14Sep 2021 by Alan Mills

Virtual Inspections & CSU

Case Studies, Industry News, Zenator

Zenator and RealWear - with the pandemic powering the Digital Transformation While more normal people were relaxing and enjoying the summer weather, we were very busy proving how Zenator and wearable technology can help customers to power through the pandemic.The still photos in the attached are from a video recorded during a site visit by one of our engineers in June 2021.We have been looking at ways to more fully utilise wearable technology and link with workflows and processes, such as FATs, on-site inspections, Pre-Commissioning, etc, with all actions recorded in Zenator, including images and videos.The pandemic was indisputably the catalyst that drove the Digital Transformation and there is no going back.Let us know your thoughts, then we can talk about how we can help your company and projects.