Bill Gray takes HAMI Voice onto the Gastech floor

Gastech is built around big infrastructure: LNG trains, compressors, turbines, vessels and the systems that keep energy moving. But some of the most stubborn problems in industry happen on a much smaller scale — in the gap between doing a job in the field and documenting it properly afterwards.

That is the problem Bill Gray is taking onto the exhibition floor today. Accompanied by Becca Juytong, he will be meeting people across Gastech, telling the story of HAMI Voice and demonstrating what happens when inspection reporting starts with the inspector's voice rather than a keyboard.

The report begins while the work is happening

HAMI Voice is voice-first field inspection reporting software. Its proposition is straightforward: an inspector speaks observations while carrying out the work, and those observations are turned into structured inspection records rather than being reconstructed later from notes, memory or paperwork.

The HAMI Voice website says the system works offline, on different devices and with existing forms. That matters in industrial environments, where connectivity can be unreliable and the reporting process cannot dictate how the inspection itself is performed.

The point is not simply speech-to-text. A transcript is another document somebody has to process. The more useful idea is to keep the spoken inspection connected to the structure of the report, so that what was seen and said in the field becomes usable evidence.

Why demonstrate it at Gastech?

Inspection sits underneath almost everything represented at Gastech. Equipment has to be commissioned, maintained, examined and proved fit for service. Operators need records. Clients need evidence. Regulators and auditors need traceability. Yet the people with the most direct knowledge of an asset are often being asked to stop, type, write or recreate that knowledge after the physical work is finished.

Gray and Juytong's tour of the floor puts HAMI Voice directly in front of the people who live with that problem. A live demonstration can make the proposition clearer than a software description: speak naturally while inspecting, review what has been captured, and turn the field conversation into a structured report.

Giving time back to the inspector

HAMI Voice was built by the team at IPGN Solutions, drawing on experience in inspection teams, field operations and regulated industrial processes. The company's own description of the problem is familiar across the sector: crews do the technical work professionally and then spend a significant part of their time writing up what they found.

Reducing that administrative separation could have consequences beyond convenience. Capturing observations at the point of work may preserve detail that disappears when reports are written later. Structured records can also make anomalies easier to identify and review across repeated inspections.

Those claims ultimately have to be tested in real operating environments. Today at Gastech, Gray and Juytong are taking the technology to the people equipped to ask those questions — inspectors, operators, engineers and companies whose work depends on knowing what happened in the field and being able to prove it afterwards.

The Stratawire is reporting from Gastech 2026 in Bangkok.