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Digitizing Precast Concrete Webinar
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Good afternoon. Welcome to PCI's webinar series. Today's presentation is Digitizing Precast Concrete Production with Edge Cloud. This webinar is sponsored by PTAC Engineering and Edge Software. My name is Nicole Clow, Marketing Coordinator at PCI, and I will be your moderator for this session. Before I turn the controls over to your presenter for today, I have a few introductory items to note. Earlier today, we sent a reminder email to all registered attendees that included a handout of today's presentation. That handout for this webinar can also be found in the handout section of your webinar pane. If you cannot download the handout, please email pcimarketing at marketing at pci.org. Please note that all attendee lines are muted. The GoToWebinar Toolbox has an area for you to raise your hand. If you raise your hand, you will receive a private chat message from me. If you have a question, please type it into the questions pane where I will be keeping track of them and will read the questions to the presenter during the Q&A period. Also, a pop-up survey will appear after the webinar ends. Today's presentation will be recorded and uploaded to the PCI eLearning Center. Questions related to specific products or publications will be addressed at the end of the presentation. PCI is a registered provider of AIA CES, but today's presentation does not contain content that has been endorsed by AIA. Today's presentation is non-CEU. Our presenter for today is Alyssa Roberson, Director of GoToMarket Strategy at PTAC Engineering. She has a Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of South Alabama. Alyssa has extensive experience in software testing and using Revit for three-dimensional modeling. She is currently responsible for managing the Quality Assurance Department, maintaining the training program for EDGE, providing customer support, and developing EDGE's GoToMarket Strategy. I will now hand the controls over so we can begin our presentation. Thanks, Nicole, and good afternoon, everyone. I just want to start by thanking everyone for joining me today. What I want to talk to you about is our EDGE for Cloud software solution. So just to kind of highlight the key points that I intend to go over today, we're going to talk about exactly what is EDGE, and we're going to talk about how we can leverage it to utilize our already existing Revit model to digitize the production process for precast concrete manufacturing. In that, we're going to go over how this EDGE for Cloud solution handles revision tracking or document control. We're going to go over some of the tools that are available within the software that aid within that production process, and we're also going to talk about how the quality control process is also totally contained within the EDGE for Cloud ecosystem as well. So to start out with, what even is EDGE Cloud? So kind of taking a step back, traditionally on the shop floor, the guys walk around with printed 2D shop drawings as they're going through and producing the piece, and as they're doing quality control, they're marking up that printed shop ticket, right? So the EDGE for Cloud software solution is intended to either totally replace that printed 2D workflow or to supplement it. So the EDGE for Cloud software is a cloud-based website, and it's intended that you would be able to pull it up on a tablet or a smartphone or a PC, and preferably a tablet or a smartphone because you'd be able to walk around with it. And all of this information that's available on this EDGE for Cloud website is pulled or derived directly from the Revit model. So pretty much all of the information that you could see in Revit, such as the already created shop ticket, the 3D view of the actual precast piece with all of the materials in it, our bill of materials, and all of that parametric information that's tied to those individual elements gets brought over to the EDGE for Cloud ecosystem and becomes available there as well. So it's going to give your guys on the floor a lot more capabilities to determine information on their own on the fly. If, say, the shop's drawing is potentially missing some information, it can be pulled directly from the model elements, or a dimension could potentially be pulled on the fly, and we'll go over these specific details here in just a bit. So the key here is it's leveraging your already existing Revit model and pulling that information over to the EDGE for Cloud website, which can then be utilized during the production process. I kind of alluded to it, but it is going to give you the ability to still view the same 2D shop tickets like you're probably accustomed to just in a digital platform. And in addition to that, it also offers an interactive 3D view. So it's going to become much more clear what the piece actually looks like, where everything is located, just because you have all of that information rather than just being limited to a 2D shop drawing. Also, the document control process revision tracking is going to be totally contained and maintained within this EDGE for Cloud solution. We'll have an interactive bill of materials, and we're also going to talk and go into detail about how the quality control process is contained within this ecosystem as well. So first, let's talk about how we actually get our information from our Revit model over to the EDGE for Cloud website. So what you're looking at here on my screen is a 3D model that I already have within Revit. So I have an assembly here, and it is containing all of the precast numbers, the materials, and my project info. I have some things to find that are going to be relevant for this export process that's going to allow me to take this info about the individual pieces in the model and bring it over to EDGE Cloud. So we're seeing things like my PTAC is defined as my manufacturer for this project. I've defined what my plant is. So what plant will the pieces for this job be produced at for that particular manufacturer? Some other relevant information is going to be what the project name and the project number are. We're going to see all of that information come up again here in just a second. Another thing I have is I have my already created shop ticket within the Revit environment. So someone already went through and created the shop ticket. So I have my assembly, which represents the piece, and I also have the shop ticket. I'll select the assemblies that I'm wanting to send to the EDGE Cloud website. It's going to pull up an interface like this where I log in with my credentials. And right beneath that, you're seeing that producer show up again, the plant and the project. That's going to tell this tool where it should actually place this information on the EDGE for Cloud website itself. Sorry about that. So when I export, based on whether I've told it to export views or sheets dictates what exactly it's exporting here. So it's always going to export a 3D view of the assembly. That's a given. But in terms of the 2D side of things, you have some control over what actually gets represented on the EDGE for Cloud website. So if you're familiar with Revit, when you're going through and creating views for your shop ticket, so views based on your assembly for maybe a top view or right view, a bottom view, that's what it's referring to here when it says export views. Whereas export sheets is going to be a entire shop ticket, essentially the sheet with all of the views arranged on it. So if you're trying to maybe abandon the workflow where you create an entirely completed shop ticket and maybe just detail the individual views, having both of these options kind of facilitates both workflows, depending on what works best for you in the production environment. So I'll export. It's going to send all of that relevant information to the EDGE for Cloud website, which is what we're looking at here. So sorry about that, which is what we're looking at here. So up here at the top, along that top ribbon that you're seeing, that is, again, where that information from the project comes through and how it knew what producer this piece was for, what plant it was supposed to go to. I've defined my PTAC producer, so it's sending it to that area on the EDGE for Cloud website. It's supposed to be produced at the Fairhope plant. I've selected my EDGE for Cloud demo project. And then here in the dropdown that you're seeing, this is going to list out all of the assembly instances that have been exported so far for this project. So in reality, if this were a real job, there'd probably be quite a few assemblies listed within there. But for today, there's just that one. So as I load it, it's going to pull up a 2D view for it. You can see all three of those views that I exported in addition to the shop ticket that we saw in Revit itself. There's also a 3D model representation like we're seeing here on the 3D model side. This is going to look and interact very similarly to what you might be familiar with in Revit, where you'll have the ability to pan around, rotate around. You can control the transparency of things and quite a bit more. But this will behave very similarly to what you'd see in that Revit environment. So the next thing I want to touch on is how revisions are tracked within the EDGE for Cloud ecosystem. So there is the ability to be able to send the same assembly to the EDGE for Cloud website multiple times. And each time that the same assembly gets exported from Revit to EDGE for Cloud, it gets logged with basically a timestamp to be able to identify which revision this is or which version of this file it actually is. So in the image on the right, if you look at that fly out portion, you can actually see two different timestamps in there. That represents two different exports that happened from Revit to bring that information to the cloud. So what's going to happen is if someone is working on this particular assembly and they have a sheet pulled up on their tablet, on the EDGE for Cloud website, or maybe they're looking at the 2D view, sorry, 3D view, doesn't really matter. They're looking at some portion of that assembly. And let's say that engineering or the drafting department, they have revised it in some way, and they go ahead and send another export to the cloud for that same assembly. What you're going to see happen is on the tablet that they're viewing it on, that red ribbon at the top is going to immediately pop up and tell them they're not looking at the most current state of that assembly and that they need to reload it to be able to pull in the latest and greatest data for it. So it's really creating almost a live feed between the Revit model itself and this EDGE for Cloud website, which is going to make it a lot easier to be able to have communication between engineering and drafting and the production floor. Oftentimes, you'll have to wait a while to actually maintain or get feedback from the engineering department or the drafting department with a traditional 2D workflow. In this case, those changes all show up immediately and they're available on the production floor. So I'm going to go through and show a demo of what that revision tracking actually looks like in real time. So what we're looking at here again is just an assembly that I have in the Revit environment. And for this assembly, I already have a shop ticket created for it as well, which is what you're seeing here. So I'll select the assembly. I'm going to send it up to the EDGE for Cloud website. Once it's sent, we'll see here on the actual EDGE for Cloud site, when I go to the project that it was sent to, and I look at that assembly, we can see that it exported exactly what I was looking at in the Revit space just a few moments ago. So let's say I come in here and I make some sort of change. I'm going to do something very obvious, like deleting out that form view at the bottom. That'll be very obvious when we see it update here in a second. So I've deleted out the form view from the shop ticket. I'm going to go ahead and re-export the same assembly. And I left the original export loaded on the EDGE for Cloud site. So when I go back there, you immediately see this red banner pops up at the top telling me I'm not looking at the most up-to-date version of this piece. All I would need to do is basically refresh or reload this assembly to pull in the latest data. And you'll see here in a second that the form view is actually gone. So I know that I'm looking at the latest and greatest information now. And that's just one example, but let me roll this back just a little bit. When we were going to reload that assembly, you can see here in the flyout, we have the two different timestamps. But every single time something gets exported from Revit to the EDGE for Cloud website, a new timestamp is going to appear in there. So every single export gets logged and maintained, and you can always go back and view older versions or the latest version, depending on what exactly it is you're trying to see for that particular piece. So in terms of the EDGE for Cloud website, I've talked about there being a 2D view and a 3D viewer. Well, across both of those viewers, there are some tools or some features that are shared across both of those divisions. So one thing that you'll be able to see on the EDGE for Cloud Site is basic information about the precast piece itself. You'll be able to see the structural volume of the piece. If it has a face mix, we'll see the different architectural volumes that may exist for it. We'll see its weight, final strength, release strength, things like that. Another feature that we'll have is if you're familiar with Revit, you'll know that in the Revit space, when you select an element, your properties menu fills up with all of the parametric data associated with that one particular element, right? Well, on the Edge for Cloud website, there's something very similar. It's actually called properties as well. When you select an element on the Edge for Cloud site and open up your properties, it's going to list out all of that same parametric data that you would have seen in the Revit space. So all of that information gets transferred over. You'll have something that's called chart in this list. What this is, it's kind of a project management or a project visualization tool. It's going to allow you to see in a general sense where the project is as a whole. So it's going to show a pie chart that tells you how many pieces for the entire project that you're looking at this assembly for, how many pieces in that project have had a shop ticket created for them, how many pieces have been reinforced, how many pieces have been released for production and things of that nature. There's also a notes section where someone who's working in the Revit model, they can actually input information into a parameter that's called fabricator notes. And whatever notes they input in there for that particular precast piece, they get transferred over to the Edge for Cloud website as well and would become visible for production personnel. There's also a production sequencing set of tools that allow you to visualize specific components within the piece. So let's say you're going through and you're laying out your form work and you just want to see what the form geometry of this piece is. You'll be able to apply a filter that will just show the form geometry so you can get all of that laid out. Or let's say maybe you're going through and you're wanting to lay out all of your bottom and form plates. There's a filter that would allow you to see just the bottom and form plates. We're gonna have a bill of materials that gets represented in the Edge for Cloud site. And it's going to be directly derived from what exists within the assembly itself. So it'll be an interactive bill of materials where you can actually select line items and it'll highlight those elements back in the project. So you can more easily identify where they actually exist within the piece. There's gonna be toggles that allow you to turn on and off the visibility of specific components within the particular piece. You'll have the ability to take a screenshot, which is pretty basic. You can email it to someone else or save it to your computer. And then the last one here, which is pretty powerful. Regardless of if you're in a 2D or 3D view, you'll get the ability to pull dimensions on the fly. So if something's missing off the shop ticket, production could go ahead and pull their own measurements rather than having to request that information and wait for it to get back to them. So let's focus specifically on the 3D viewer for a moment. And I am going to show a demo of what the 3D viewer actually looks like here in a bit. But wanna give you a kind of something to keep in mind as we're going through and looking at it here in a second. So some of the features that are specific to the 3D viewer and don't exist for the 2D viewer is you'll be able to control the transparency of the precast piece itself, so that you'll be able to better visualize the actual materials within the piece. You'll have the ability to create a section box, much like you can in Revit, around individual pieces within that precast member, just so you can see a scoped down view and get a better visual of maybe a smaller portion of that particular assembly. There's a preview mode, which is really just a visualization tool. It kind of spins around the piece and allows you to visualize it. Annotations allow you to create basically callouts for individual materials within the piece. So if I wanted to call out a plate, if I wanted to call out a lifter, the annotation would allow me to create those callouts. And then also measurement, which I've already mentioned. So let's actually take a look at the 3D viewer now. So what we're seeing on my screen at this point is it's just a piece that I've already sent to the Edge4Cloud website, and now we're looking at it in the 3D viewer component of the Edge4Cloud site. So I'm gonna go through now and kind of talk and demonstrate all of those individual tools I was just going through. The first thing we get to here is transparency. You'll see it allows me to control the actual transparency of the piece itself. I can change that opacity from anywhere to 0% all the way up to 100%. I also get the ability to toggle on and off the visibility of specific elements. So embeds, lifters, rebar, strand. There's no strand in this piece, but it would toggle it on and off. I mentioned earlier that this 3D viewer closely mimics what you'd see in Revit. So much like in Revit, you'll have the ability to rotate around the piece. You can pan around in the view. All of those same navigational type things apply in the Edge4Cloud platform as well. I mentioned earlier that if you select a specific element like that plate and open the properties, this is going to pull up all of the parametric data associated with this element in the piece, much like you'd see in the Revit environment. We also have our interactive bill of materials, which is broken down into those four groupings, four main categories of embeds, lifting, rebar, or strand. So the relevant elements will get grouped into those corresponding categories. In the bill of material, as you select a line item, it is actually going to highlight those elements within the view as well. So when I select it, you see those plates get selected and so on. This bill of materials is going to give you a quantity of how many of those elements are within the piece. It's going to give you the name of the element, a description for it, and what its overall length is. Our production sequence, like I was describing earlier, is going to allow you to basically filter down your view so that you can only see the portions that you're concerned about during various stages of the production process. So we could filter down to just form geometry as we're setting up our form work. If we only want to see top as cast plates, that'll filter down and only show those that are top and form. We have one for bottom and form plates, side and form plates, and then we have one specifically to show reinforcement and one to just show lifting. So I'll go through and just kind of show a couple of those. Not all of them. So side and form, reinforcement, lifting, and then at the end, I can reset that. We also have the member info, which is telling me about the precast piece itself. So like I mentioned earlier, this is basic information about the piece. It's going to tell you what your structural volume is. If this particular piece had one or two face mixes on it, it would report those different face mixes with their corresponding volumes. We have weights, final and release strengths, design numbers, control number would list out all of the elements within the model that belong to this particular control mark. So it's going to list out all the pieces that are alike to this one in the job, and so on and so forth. We also have charts, which is, this is a bad example to be honest. This project was already pretty much complete when I exported it. So it's telling me that all nine elements that were in that job had already been released for production. But here a little bit later on, when I show the 2D viewer, there's a better example of this where we'll be able to see how many pieces in the job were reinforced, how many have had shop tickets created for it. But this is that tool that I was telling you is basically a project overview, telling you kind of where everything is in a broad sense within the project lifecycle. We also have the fabricator nodes, which can be input in Revit and would be displayed within that section in the Edge for Cloud website. For the 3D view, you can add call outs for specific elements and place them. And they remain there in the 3D view until you specifically go through and clear out those annotations. We also have the ability to pull measurements on the fly. You can pull measurements from point to point, edge to edge, but as you select those different snap points, so to speak, if you're choosing edges, it tells you the length of the edge and then the distance between your two selections. We can also screenshot. That one's pretty straightforward. Section box, if you select an element, you can create a section box around it, which is going to create a scope down view and you can control what the overall size of that section box is. And lastly, we have preview mode. This is really just a visualization tool. You can see here, it's just kind of spinning around the piece and you can control at what speed it's actually spinning around it. So that's pretty much what the 2D viewer is. Let's get into the specifics of the 2D viewer side of this. So a lot of those tools that we saw for the 3D viewer are also going to exist for the 2D viewer as well. The 2D viewer has some additional tools that we did not see on the 3D side, such as the ability to keep your quality control process contained within this Edge for Cloud ecosystem. So on the 2D viewer, we're going to have a whole suite of markup tools that are going to allow you to basically draw on the shop ticket or on your 2D views. You can draw shapes such as rectangle circles, you can add text notes, you can highlight, you can manually draw in line work You can manually draw in line work to add shapes or whatever it may be. There's also going to be a quality control checklist, one for pre-pour and one for post-pour. And you'll have the ability to save all of those markups or quality control checks so that you have done for that particular piece so that in the future, they can always be loaded back in. So once they're saved, they're saved forever to that piece and anyone at that point can go back and load either the quality checklist or the markups themselves. And we'll also see in the 2D viewer, there's the ability to pull measurements, but it's going to look a little bit different than what we saw on the 3D side. So here I have basically the same thing. We're looking at the Edge for Cloud website. We're just looking specifically at the 2D viewer component of it. And I have a assembly that I've already exported from Revit that already had a shop ticket created. So that's where we are. So looking at this, like I mentioned, some of the tools are shared. So we have the charts tool again. This is that better example I was referring to. Here we have a pie chart. This is an overview of the project as a whole, not just for this specific piece. So it's telling me for that entire Revit model, how many pieces have been released, how many have had their shop tickets detailed, how many are reinforced, and if there are any remaining that haven't made it to any of those other three stages yet. And for this chart, as various people are going through and uploading, or I should say, exporting new data from the Revit model to the Edge for Cloud site, this chart updates for all of the assemblies for that project when that happens. So even though they're only potentially exporting one assembly for that entire project that that assembly belongs to, the charts are going to go ahead and be updated so that across the board, the charts are going to be an accurate representation of where that project is at at that particular point in time. So also we have fabricator notes again. I kind of breezed over that, but we can pull measurements on the fly in the 2D viewer. This measurement tool looks a little bit different. You can change what units you're in, what your accuracy is, much like you can in Revit. But this is very handy, like I was mentioning earlier. If the particular shop ticket is missing some details and you don't want to wait on that information back from the drafting department or engineering, production can go ahead and pull those dimensions on the fly themselves. We also have those toggles along the bottom to allow us to turn on or off the visibility of various things. So if we're only concerned with maybe rebar at that particular point in time, we can turn off the visibility of embeds and lifting so that all we're seeing in the piece is rebar and it's much less cluttered as we're going through and trying to figure out where we need to place that rebar. So we can turn off the visibility of the embeds and lifting so that all we're seeing in the piece is rebar where we need to place that rebar, spacing it needs to be, and all of that dimensional information. We also have our properties, which is the same as what we saw in the 3D viewer. This is just pulling the parameter data from the Revit model and representing that for the particular element. We have our interactive bill of materials again. And as you're selecting those elements, once again, it's going to actually highlight those model elements in the 2D view, making it easier to identify where they actually exist within the piece. We also have the suite of markup tools. So for the markup tools, you would start by creating a new markup as you're going through and you're doing your quality checks on this piece. So I'll go ahead and start a new markup, which is going to basically open up a new canvas for me to start marking up with these various tools that you're seeing in here. So I can add text boxes, arrows, clouds, rectangles, circles. I can highlight and then markup is basically just a drawing tool where you can draw line work on the fly, essentially. So maybe I'll go in here and add some sort of revision cloud around something. Maybe I want to add some sort of text note associated with that. Once you're creating those things, once they exist, regardless if it's cloud, text, they can be modified, you can move them around, you can change what the text says. So I'll go through and highlight some text that's already on the sheet here. Let's say I added something that I didn't want there anymore. You can select it and delete it out entirely. But once you're done with the markup itself and you've added all of the details, we'll save it. I'll input what name I want to save it as, click save, and it's going to actually save this markup back to this one particular assembly. So I've closed out the markup. I'm going to simulate someone's opening it in the future and they want to see that markup. I'll select it in the load menu, tell it to load, and it's just going to pull back up that same exact markup. So another part of the quality control process that I didn't show in the video, but is part of that same menu, is there's quality control checklists that are tailored for pre-pour and post-pour. So it's two different checklists for each of those. As you're going through, that checklist is going to look similar to what you're seeing on the right hand side of this page here. The person performing the quality check can go through and actually check these items off as they confirm that they're completed and they are what they're expecting. Once they've went through the checklist, they would save and it's going to save it back to the piece much like we saw with the markup itself. So that if in the future, someone needs to open up this checklist, all they would have to do is load it back in and it's going to pull up all of the same information that the previous person had saved to the checklist. So on my screen here, you're just seeing the pre-pour version, but there's a post-pour version as well, and that can get saved back to it in the same manner. So another component of the Edge for Cloud website that I've kind of breezed over, but it is very important, is basically the user hierarchy or the credentials that you can assign to various people who belong to your organization on the Edge for Cloud website. So when I was in Revit and I was exporting some data, you saw that I had to log in with some credentials. So only people who are registered on the Edge for Cloud site can export to the Edge for Cloud website and in the same vein, actually viewing the Edge for Cloud site itself, I never showed it, but you have to log in before you can view anything on the Edge for Cloud website as well. So we have different degrees of users, which would allow various people to have access to only the specific components of the Edge for Cloud website that they would need access to. For example, our two main divisions really are we have a role infrastructure for consultant type users and a separate role infrastructure for producer type users. So for consultants, for example, if they're just people that are working on the model, they aren't actually part of the production team itself, they don't work for the producer. Really, they only need to be able to export from Revit and send information to the cloud. They don't necessarily need to be able to see anything on the cloud side of things because we wouldn't want them to go in and accidentally add markups or any of that. So using those consultant tailored user roles, they will only be able to access the Revit side of the Edge for Cloud workflow and they will only be able to export. They won't be able to see the Edge for Cloud website itself. And there's even more degrees of delineation. For consultants, we have roles such as admin versus user. So admins would be allowed to create new projects for that particular plant. They'd be able to generate new assemblies, whereas maybe just a user, they cannot create new projects. They can only upload data to already existing projects. The other side, as I mentioned, we have producer geared roles. The producer geared roles are obviously going to allow you to actually see the information on the Edge for Cloud website. And again, it's broken down into more subcategories. So you might have a plant admin who's allowed to see all of the projects for that particular plant, and they basically have full access to everything for that one plant. Whereas maybe you just have a project user, that user would be assigned to a specific project, which is actually what I have showing in the screenshot here. There's this project, excuse me, producer project user. That's their username. And they've been assigned to this producer called Edge. That Edge producer apparently has a plant called Pensacola. That's the plant that they're assigned to, and then they're assigned to that one specific project called Test Project 12. So, for this one particular user, when they log into the Edge for Cloud website, they're only going to be able to see data for that Test Project 12 project. Regardless of how many projects exist under that Pensacola plant, they can only access the ones that they've been given permission to. So, there's varying degrees of access that you can assign to various users, depending on what they would actually need access to. So, another component of this admin menu is not only about setting up your users and giving them access to what they need to be able to modify in terms of Edge for Cloud, but there's also information in here that tells Edge for Cloud what type of user they are. So, when I was going through and showing you markups, that was actually a slightly older version of our tool. Our current version has different roles tied to markups. So, a user could be assigned a markup role. So, there's actually a column for that in that image that you're seeing. They could have a markup role of engineering, quality control, production, or they could just be read-only. And in addition to that, you can assign unique markup colors to those individual users as well. So, for example, let's go back to that producer project user we were talking about. They've been assigned as a quality control user, and their markup color is going to be red. So, when they go to create markups, their markup color will be red. That one's pretty straightforward. But their markup is going to get grouped under this quality control header, essentially. And let's say that user at the top of the list, producer admin, they go through and they create a markup too. They belong to the engineering markup role though, which is different. So, all of the markups get grouped under those three different delineations, either engineering, quality control, or production. And you'll have the ability to filter down markups based on which grouping you're wanting to see the markups for. So, if I just want to see engineering markups, I can toggle off the markups made by quality control and production to just see the engineering markups. So, that's really what that is accomplishing there. There's that fourth category of read-only. That is really exactly what it sounds like. A user that's assigned a markup role of read-only is not going to have the ability to actually create any markups. They're only going to be able to view markups that already exist, that can't make any changes. So, I also want to touch on how Edge for Cloud can integrate with enterprise resource planning systems. So, this, what I'm about to go over is not an out-of-the-box feature within Edge, because everyone's ERP system is so different. Not everyone has it set up the same. Not everyone uses the same system. So, there's really no good way for us to just generically integrate. So, one of the ERP systems that we have actually integrated with on our Edge for Cloud platform is called Concrete Vision, if you're familiar with it. So, what you're seeing this screenshot of is basically some dummy information that we pulled from the Concrete Vision system itself. So, we're able to integrate with these ERP systems to pull information such as what beds exist for that plant. We can also pull in information to tell us which pieces are supposed to be cast on which day. We can also pull information about what position within the bed all of these pieces are supposed to be cast in. So, here, just to kind of talk through this screenshot, Edge is my producer, Fairhope is my plant, DT7 is a bed that exists for this plant, and actually in that dropdown for DT7, it would list out all of the beds that exist for the Fairhope plant in this example. And then, for that bed, when I go to choose an assembly, notice how I have a cast date. It's going to pull in all of the pieces that would be cast on that bed on that particular date. So, you can actually play around with the calendar. If you click on that date field, it brings up a little calendar. You can switch to different dates, and as you're doing that, it's going to repopulate the assembly list to show the pieces that are cast on that particular date in that bed. So, all of that information, such as the beds, the cast date, the bed position, that's information that we pulled from ERP and were able to leverage on the Edge for Cloud side of things. All right, well, those are all of the concepts I wanted to cover today. I want to thank you guys very much for taking the time to sit in on this. We really appreciate it. And if you have any questions, feel free to ask. Thank you, Alyssa, for a great and informative presentation. I haven't seen any questions come through yet, but I'll give it a couple more seconds just to see if one comes through. So, not seeing any questions come through. So, on behalf of PCI, I'd like to thank Alyssa for a great presentation. If you have any further questions about today's webinar, please email marketing at pci.org. Thank you again. Have a great day and please stay safe. Thank you.
Video Summary
In this webinar, Alyssa Roberson from PTAC Engineering introduces the Edge for Cloud software, which digitizes the precast concrete production process. The cloud-based software leverages existing Revit models to streamline the production process, enhancing document control, revision tracking, and quality control. It replaces or supplements the traditional use of printed 2D drawings on the shop floor by allowing users to access information via tablets or smartphones. <br /><br />Key features highlighted include real-time revision tracking, interactive 3D and 2D views, automated bill of materials, production sequencing, and the ability to input quality control checklists directly into the system. The software also supports varying user roles and permissions, allowing for tailored access to functionality depending on user needs. Additionally, Edge for Cloud can integrate with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, such as Concrete Vision, to optimize production planning and scheduling. <br /><br />Overall, the Edge for Cloud system aims to improve communication and efficiency in precast concrete manufacturing by centralizing critical project data and eliminating delays related to document management and production feedback.
Keywords
Edge for Cloud
precast concrete
digitization
Revit models
quality control
ERP integration
production sequencing
document management
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