Sector
Energy & Utilities
Location
Europe (North Sea)
CHALLENGE
Losing Critical Insights
in Multi-Stakeholder Workshops
A major offshore wind farm operator in the North Sea was struggling to align its engineering, compliance, and operations teams during process discovery workshops. These sessions—often lasting 2–3 days—involved 15+ stakeholders, including turbine manufacturers, grid operators, and environmental regulators.
The problem? By the end of each workshop, the most critical insights—such as emergency shutdown procedures, supply chain bottlenecks, or regulatory reporting nuances—were scattered across handwritten notes, PowerPoint slides, and email follow-ups. The post-workshop reconstruction took 3–4 weeks, during which analysts had to chase down participants for clarifications, only to find that memories had faded or priorities had shifted.
For a company where operational safety and regulatory compliance are non-negotiable, these delays weren’t just inefficient—they introduced unacceptable risks. In one case, a miscommunicated maintenance workflow led to a costly unplanned outage, reinforcing the need for real-time, accurate process capture.
The conversation contains the process.
The current workflow loses it.
SOLUTION
Real-Time Process Modeling
with patchley
The company deployed patchley in its next supply chain optimization workshop. As stakeholders discussed turbine component procurement, patchley:
A
Captured Decisions
"If a supplier misses the delivery window, we switch to a backup vendor in Rotterdam"
B
Mapped Dependencies
"Environmental approvals must be secured before ordering blades"
C
Flagged Gaps
"No clear owner for the final QA check before installation"
By the end of the workshop, the team had a fully developed BPMN 2.0 model of the entire procurement process, ready to be imported directly into their Camunda workflow engine, along with a traceability matrix that linked every process step to the exact moment it was discussed, and an automated gap report that clearly highlighted three critical missing approvals and two compliance risks.
RESULT
From 3 Weeks to 30 Minutes
With Buy-In and Risk Mitigation
patchley transformed a 3-week post-workshop reconstruction into a 30-minute deliverable, eliminating unplanned outages and ensuring 100% stakeholder alignment with real-time BPMN modeling and gap analysis.
Time-to-deliverable: Reduce from 3 weeks to 30 minutes
Stakeholder buy-in: 100% — no more "That´s not what I said" disputes
Risk mitigation: Drastic decrease of unplanned outages in the following quarter.
"We used to spend more time arguing about what was decided than actually improving the process. Now, the model is the single source of truth—no debates, no delays."
— Head of Process Optimization

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