November 2024
A Shifting Industry
Fire protection is a growing, changing industry—really,?industries. Different fire protection systems, from alarms to sprinklers to extinguishers, are seeing innovations in manufacturing and hardware, code development, and ITM processes. At the same time, the industry's business landscape is shifting, too: We’ve seen a significant increase in mergers and acquisitions.
What does all this change mean for your business? How can you adapt and adopt better solutions to continue serving your customers and community with the best of the best?
What's New?
Tech Stacks & M&A Activity
Mergers and acquisitions are booming in fire protection. Whether you’re looking for investors or not, ensuring your business has an integrated and effective tech stack ensures streamlined processes and better access to key data points. Read more
Challenges, Trends, & Looking Forward
Drew welcomes Jim McHugh, owner of AGF Manufacturing, to discuss the sprinkler industry's challenges, trends, and future prospects. From code enforcement to retrofitting to hardware innovations, they cover key areas industry pros should monitor. Listen or watch
Extinguisher Swap, Extinguisher Switch
Extinguisher inspections can get very complicated very quickly. Maybe you need to swap an extinguisher out temporarily with one from your inventory. Maybe you need to switch the location of two extinguishers to avoid wasting time walking back across a huge facility. But how do you ensure consistency of data without the headache??
Inspect Point’s extinguisher-specific features, including Swap & Loaner and Extinguisher Switch, automate key processes and maintain data integrity so you can spend less time updating device details and more time ensuring your customers’ fire protection systems work properly.
Hear from Our Customers
Kathleen Balch, owner of Boyer Fire Protection, discusses how she started and grew her business with Inspect Point's CEO Pat Doyle. Watch now
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Adventures in Fire
“Parking garage panel with a rain poncho!"
What We're Reading
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?? Fire industry response to Grenfell Tower Phase 2 reportSee reactions to the phase two after-action report of the Grenfell Tower fire.
New technology promises to detect wildfires faster with AI “nose” sensors.
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