UK based international entertainment industry engineering design and safety
specialists and consultants BLUMANO Ltd has launched Stage DB – a unique new
multi-lingual software tool for coordinating and collating all the necessary
machinery/equipment documentation to meet production health and safety
requirements.

Stage DB has been developed for BLUMANO by Lluis Diaz-Guerra also one of three
directors of the company which launched in 2014. Since then BLUMANO has led the
way in establishing important health and safety related working practices for the world
of concert touring, special events and large spectaculars.

Any tour or event needs to produce a fully organised bundle of documentation
including all the mandatory certificates and reports mandated by the H&S work
regulations. This is often required in different languages, all of which also have to be
available for inspection by local authorities.

This veritable minefield of administration takes serious time and resources. Therefore,
Stage DB is designed to make the job infinitely quicker, logical, more cost-effective
and easier once the raw data is entered into the system.

Says BLUMANO’s Cristiano Giavedoni, “This is the first system of its kind that has
been conceived and developed specifically to work within the short and often highly
pressured time frames of the concert, show and event industry’.

The project manager can create the project with start/end dates; the person
overseeing the kit being loaded onto the truck can go online and drag-&-drop the
relevant equipment serial numbers into the project file.
From there, all the requisite documentation – the “project bundle’ – is pulled from the
information for the countries they are visiting and compiled into a series of easily
manageable PDF files.

Stage DB is packed with useful and practical features to assist the process, making it
straightforward and user-friendly using a series of user-definable and selectable
templates.

There is the convenience of grouping items together by common technical
specifications, and Group Values can be chosen and applied across each group of
machinery.

Inbuilt templates will allow dates for “last’ and “next’ test examinations to be inserted
and Stage DB will flag upcoming expiry dates, and not allow these pieces of kit to be
allocated to a project if they are due to expire within the stipulated project timeframe.
Currently, the software can produce the documentation in four languages – English,
French, Spanish and Italian, with German and Dutch available soon and other
languages will be added.

The programme outputs the completed “project bundles’ as PDFs and also generates a
series of links that can be sent to the client, who can also access the relevant
documentation directly from cloud storage as and when needed.
This is a helpful alternative to sending large PDFs over Email for the on-the-road
community.

Documentation can be individually personalised with company logos, and there are
many more flexible and adaptable flourishes that can be added to the overall
presentation of the data.