The result of manual tracking and location of tens of thousands of pre-engineered components is occurrences of “not immediately found” components, either temporarily or permanently.
On a good day it can be hard to locate specific pre-engineered components in a laydown yard. The days of having to search for material for hours and sometimes days are over thanks to the advanced software solutions that utilize industry proven automatic identification technologies such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and GPS to eliminate the manual recording of inventory and material movement transactions using paper, pencil and two way radios.
The deployment of our Materials Visibility Portal Solution can have an immediate and positive impact on several individuals within your project organization as follows:
- Craft Labor – Craft Labor can now focus on installing material rather than searching for material.
- Superintendents - Superintendents can ensure that crews are working as efficiently as possible and reduce instances of craft and equipment idle time resulting from occurrences of material "not immediately found".
- Civil Lead - Civil Leads can now feel confident in what material has been delivered to the project site and what material has been installed.
- Materials Management Staff - Field Material Control Personnel can better enforce material control procedures and ensure that material can be found the first time it is searched for every time.
- Suppliers - Suppliers can eliminate calls from the site asking "where is PS-010-45-ES-001?" and the resulting costs associated with tracking down the component that the supplier believes was delivered to the project site.
- Procurement - Procurement Officers can now eliminate the headaches of dealing with issues resulting from material "not immediately found" and can be sure the right material has been delivered to the site at the right time.
- Project Management - Project Managers can now reduce risks to their project timelines and budgets by knowing that the likelihood of a project delay due to a material control issue has been greatly reduced on their projects. Project Managers can also access a graphical view of the construction progress based on the current status of the individual material components that are required for construction.
- Corporate Management - Vice Presidents of Construction to Business Development Executives will gain a new competitive advantage when working with existing and prospective clients.
Owners:
Do any of the following statements apply to you?
- Your company is focused on executing your existing construction projects on time and under budget now more than ever due to the increased public visibility into project cost and time overruns.
- Your company needs to be able to show regulatory agencies such as Public Service Commissions that you are using reasonably available advanced technology to ensure that your construction projects are executed on time and to budget.
- You have a lack of real time construction progress information readily available for your viewing in a dynamic online format.
- Your construction project budgets and timelines are put at risk when project labor costs are increased due to skilled, and highly paid, craft laborers spending hours searching for similar looking, pre-engineered components that are “not immediately found” on your construction sites.
- Your construction project budgets and timelines are put at risk when pre-engineered components are “not immediately found”, possibly due to snow cover or simply a congested lay down yard, which ultimately leads to re-procurement and expediting related charges to the project.
- You often procure construction materials such as pre-engineered structural steel and fabricated piping that may need to be received, inventoried, stored and location recorded manually before the EPC contract has been awarded only to pay the EPC contractor to conduct a manual inventory accounting when they arrive at the project site.
Constructors:
Do the following statements apply to you?
- Your project labor costs increase when your craft laborers spend hours searching for similar looking, pre-engineered components at the jobsite.
- Your project materials costs increase when you are required to re-procure components that are “not immediately found”.
- Your company needs to submit more competitive bids to win new projects.
- Your company is focused on executing your existing projects on time and under budget.
Is your company focused on these issues now more than ever? RFID technology is the future of field materials management and has a proven track record of improving construction productivity and reducing costs on industrial construction projects where thousands of pre-engineered components must be delivered, inventoried, and tracked for retrieval.
Contact us today to see more examples of projected savings.