Amerino Gatti - Team, Inc.
Management
Sure. So, first of all, I think the first thing that's important to understand is where we invest our R&D. And we're in the range of $6 million to $8 million of R&D investment annually. And our R&D investments are in digital today focused on pipeline, advanced measurements and sensors. We don't feel that we need to invest in some of the enabling technologies either through acquisition or development, for example, drones. We've got good relationships with our suppliers. So, we're able to use the technology or the enabler, if you will, to deploy sensors and focus more of our efforts around the answer products, the measurements et cetera. So, big picture, that's where our R&D funding goes. In terms of actual tools, I know there's a lot of discussion around guided wave and Phased Array and different things like that. A lot of that is available in the market. We've refined our resolution of sensors that I feel are stronger than what's in the market today. We've worked a lot on our answer products in terms of acquisition, asset integrity and a lot around the metallurgy, the integrity of the metallurgy, the corrosion, the transient corrosion, so you can start helping the customers predict when projects and turnarounds need to happen. So big picture, Tahira, that's where we're focused. And when you look at us versus our competitors, and I don't think this is well understood, our technical domain population is one of the strongest in the industry, and we're close to almost 200 people when you span across the three segments, including Quest, on the amount of domain and technical expertise we have in the company. And I will agree, we have not done a good job in showing our capabilities, integrating our solutions. That's where Jeff Ott in the Product and Service Lines are going to be focused going forward. But a strong technology portfolio comes with a strong domain and technical support, which is why we've got the operations structure and the PSLs. And going forward, you'll start to see a lot more of our capabilities.