You are in listen-only mode. Good morning. Welcome to PCI's webinar series. This presentation, Leveraging the I in BIM to Streamline Precast Production, Inventory Control, and Shipping, is sponsored by AllPlan. My name is Royce Covington, Manager of Member Services at PCI, and I'll be your moderator for this session. Before I turn the controls over to your presenters today, I have a few introductory items to note. Earlier today, we sent an email to all registered attendees with a handout of today's presentation. That handout has been updated and is also available now and can be found in the handouts pane located near the bottom of the GoToWebinar toolbox. If you do not have the course handout, please email PCI Marketing at marketing at PCI as shown on your screen. 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. 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Joining him are Brandon Botts, senior technical consultant at AllPlan, and Dan Istvin, vice president of technical and operations of the Americas at AllPlan. I'll now turn the controls over so that we can begin our presentation. Royce, thank you very much. As Royce mentioned, my name is David Lockery. I am our business development manager for infrastructure and precast markets here in the Americas. And we are presenting today a BIM-driven precast workflow for the operations that lie downstream of your engineering and detailing processes. As we know, over the last five, perhaps as long as eight years, BIM has really started to change the way that we develop, engineer, model, and detail precast components for precast buildings. But what it has not yet done is really start to affect the things that occur downstream from that, whether it is production management, scheduling, erection, delivery, logistics, integration in with the back office operations, finance through ERPs. So what we see today is a very disjointed workflow. There's relatively little integration. A lot of manual handoff of information. Staticing is done manually. Production planning is done manually. Excel is the tool that kind of dominates this workflow. And that's fine insofar as it goes, but it leads to a lot of unnecessary confusion, risk, and ultimately lack of optimization and using capacity that you have. So we are doing all of this engineering, the modeling, the detailing, shop tickets, all in BIM. We have this information-rich database of what this building consists of and what needs to be done to produce it. How do we use that downstream? Our answer to that is TIM. We consume in TIM the information that was created as a part of your engineering, detailing, modeling, shop ticket production process, and use it as a single data source to drive everything that occurs downstream. To drive everything that occurs after that, from drawing acceptance and quality assurance for engineering work through to erection sequencing, production planning and optimization, and then the actual casting, pre- and post-casting quality control, as well as then managing the yard, locating objects, managing stock, and feeding into shipping and logistics. We also have a mobile platform, which in addition to working in the yard, also works on site for site operations, erection, and construction. So this kind of covers several areas. One is the actual work that takes place in your yard, as mentioned. The other is integrating data. The data from these BIM models can be used to drive ERP systems, financials, purchasing. It can also be used to drive MES or rebar bending to go directly to fabrication. We are very wide ranging in the applications that we plug into, and we're very capable of creating custom APIs and plugins to interact with things that you may have developed that are proprietary to your own company. In sum total, this leads to a significant increase in productivity. It allows you to eliminate slack in your physical capital rather than investing in more, very expensive physical plant. It allows you to optimize your use of workforce and optimize shift scheduling. It also reduces error and risk throughout the entire process. Rather than using paper, PDF, and email processes to deal with everything from the acceptance of shop tickets through to the quality assurance process, we are digitizing that. We are providing a trail of everything that has happened on this project, all the engineering work that has been done, and then the actual physical production process as well. We are making it significantly easier to understand how your current workers are being employed, how your physical plant is being utilized, and to what extent. We're wringing a lot of the potential risk and a lot of the slack out of the existing process using digitization. Rather than talk about it more, I'm going to turn this over to Dan Istvan, who is going to start actually showing the platform and how it works. Royce, if you could get switched over to Dan's screen. Thank you, David. Can everyone see my screen now? Yes, sir. Awesome. Well, thank you. So just continuing from what David said, today's presentation is really gonna be focused on taking advantage of the eye that we get from the BIM model. So what we're starting out with today and kind of continuing from the webinar that we delivered, I think back in July, is really understanding and answering a couple of questions that came off the back of the webinar from some prospects and customers of ours, centering around QA, QC, around production, and also around how do I manage my inventory? How do I know where those elements are in my yard? Those are some of the problems that we'll be solving today with the presentation I'm about to give you. So we're gonna start with the project already imported. If you wanna see how we got to this point, you can obviously go back and watch the previous webinar, reach out to us and we can do a customized demo. But basically, we brought in the data from a BIM model, which can be created or authored by either Revit, Tekla, PlanBar, and any type of tool that has an IFC export. And we're gonna basically extract all the data, including the model. So we can see here, we have the ability to view the model, the 3D model that was created. This is our little office building that Brandon created for us. And also the big part of the I is gonna be the information of that model, which we'll see down below here, which is the attribute data, such as what type of element is it? What is the direction number, the length, width? What type of reinforcement is it getting? What type of layering system does it have? And what's contained within with it? All this information is quickly and easily selected. And you can basically, as an end user, display as much or as little of that information as you want. You can export that to Excel as well. But ultimately, what this information is gonna give you is two things. First, it's a single source of truth. So once we import it into our database, that means all of the other operations within our system can access it, either be production, or production scheduling, or inventory management, or whatever it might be. They all are working from the same data that's managed in one system. The other big thing that we're bringing in, so that's the big I, but it's also the things that we always want, which is, let's say, the shop drawings or the erection drawings. So here I'm gonna go in, and all that information is gonna be in one place. I'm gonna open up here an erection drawing. Oh, sorry, I think I opened up the wrong one. So here, if we wanna look at the first and second floor erection drawings, so it's gonna open up that data. Again, single source of truth, you know, singletary depository, everyone is gonna be able to access this from one location, which makes it very easy. So we can see things such as erection drawings, or if I select on an element itself, so right now we're looking at that beam right there, I can just go in and look at that beam itself. So again, just a lot of information that is at your fingertips to help you manage whatever your job is day in, day out in a precast factory. We're gonna give you that data easily to access it and easily organized for you. And this visibility is at the heart of everything that follows on here. This information is at our fingertips as we're scheduling production. We know every single instance of a certain type of element. We can sort by embed, we can sort by concrete type, whether or not the element has a veneer. So we can use all of this information to drive the remainder of the process. It's not just having it at your fingertips, it's actually employing it. Absolutely, Dave, a good point. So next, what we're gonna really concentrate is, we have all this data, everything right now, we can kind of see here, I've grouped it by new. So I have 110 elements here in this project that are new. We're just gonna go in and really quickly talk about the workflow. This is very customizable. Every precaster is gonna have their own little milestones, but what we're gonna go through is do some QA, QC, starting from the formwork, some inspections, some visual inspections, and if it ultimately passes or fails, we're gonna stack it and then place it in inventory. So as we move through the project, and we'll notice when we go to Brandon with the mobile app, that's how we're gonna basically first kind of understand where the information is, report on it, and get a clear understanding, answering some basic questions. Did these elements get the formwork approved? Did they pass the pre-core inspection or did it fail it? All that information is being stored for you, so that way you have a hierarchy of it, the history of it, but also to report on it, so you have a clear understanding of what's going on. And just to obviously make it all simple, you can really get rid of paper and everything can be handled electronically for you. Before we get into that, just a couple other things to kind of just remind you from the last webinar. Not only do we have the data here, but let's just say we want some different types of reports. So not only, for instance, if I want to, I can highlight this information, these elements here, I can quickly export it to Excel. Just to click a button, I have those in Excel and customize them in Excel myself. I can create QR labels, for instance. So basically it's gonna go in and create QR labels and we can go scan them and quickly find out information from any Android device. So there's other things that go in there. I can go in and also find out, you know, what fixtures do these elements that I've selected have? You know, so I can get myself a quick list of the fixtures, how many pieces there are, you know, instant information without having to do any digging or any, you know, open up the drawings. Everything is available for you at a button click. I can also filter through here. So for instance, if I want to just say, look at my first four beams here. So just the first four beams, I'm gonna select them here. And let's just say, I wanna see the rebar cutting list. So this is a real nice report. You're gonna get everything included. You're gonna obviously get an image as well for it. So instant access to your data. You know, we can see our shapes and all the information. All these reports are completely customizable. It's up to you. But again, everything's at your fingertips to kind of help you manage as you go through the, basically the life of a project as you're going through it. Okay, so now what we're gonna do is we're gonna just really jump in and start with what we talked about earlier, which is our QA-QC. You know, those are the first milestones that we wanna go through our factory here. So first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna switch our module. Right now we're what we call the collaboration module, which kind of gives you an idea of where everything is. This is the hub of our system. And we're gonna switch over to what we call our mobile manager. So the mobile manager is where we can go in. And as a project manager, production manager, you're basically creating tasks. These are things that you're probably already doing. Let me remove the filter here. You're probably already doing to begin with either through shop drawings or through Excel, whatever it might be. So this is just a more streamlined way of doing it and a little bit more organized. And these tasklets then will go directly through the shop floor to a Android mobile phone device for your employees on the shop floor to track the tasks that you've given them, either the form work or whatever it might be. So I'm not gonna get too detailed into it, but the whole point here is that this is a very customizable workflow. We basically work with you, our service team will work with you to basically build it to exactly to how you do your work or how you envision doing your work or tracking information in there. So big things I just wanna highlight real quick is what we call templates. So these templates are gonna really be the way that we set up basically every location in your, maybe it's your QAQC for the pre-pour, post-pour or for your inventory. So for instance, I've got my, just one that I've created here for my production, for my QAQC. And I'm just telling it, I need the tablet to track these statuses, my form work, pour break. And then I can set up here if it's gonna be a time, if it's gonna record the GPS location of where it was doing. So it actually can record the GPS of the tablet. So a lot of options, a lot of settings. I can also, as we go into brand and we can see we can have either dropdown list, a checkbox or all that stuff is customizable. We can set up different teams and employees of where we're going. And so the reason you're doing all this is obviously just to manage it, but also for traceability. So we know exactly who checked that pre-pour, who checked that post-pour visual, all that stuff is recorded for you and then can be analyzed and looked at later as we go through. So the first thing we're gonna go through is I'm gonna go in and just select some items from within my list of items that I have available in my menu. So nice little thing that I can do is I can filter or set up preset filters. So for instance, I just wanna see solid walls. And we'll notice when I do that, it creates a filter for me for any solid wall that's less than 42 foot, greater than a seven foot length with less than 42. And then the piece marks are between four and 14. So the reason I wanna show you this is you can create these filters on all the data that you have here, save them. So if it's something that you do day in, day out, you don't have to create this every time and it automatically then takes you to the information you wanna look. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take these 12 items. I'm gonna go into my task list. Okay. Royce, I don't know if this is a problem for everyone, but it seems we might've lost sound from Dan. I just sent him a message. I don't know if he accidentally muted him. He's showing his unmuted. Okay. So I'm gonna go back to my task list. I'm gonna go back to my task list. I'm gonna go back to my task list. I'm gonna go back to my task list. I'm gonna go back to my task list. He's showing his unmuted. Can you guys hear me? Ah, there you are. Now we can hear you. You might have to backtrack for a moment. We've been without sound for about a minute and a half. So basically what I was saying is we need to switch over to Brandon now that we've created this task list. I'm not sure where it stopped. All right. So just to explain to everyone from the base station, from the actual server, once we've assigned tasks and assigned shop drawings to be pushed out to given tablets belonging to given workers, then we can go over to the mobile app. And that's where Brandon comes in. He's now in this mobile app. He punches the refresh button as he heads out onto the yard in the morning while he's still within a wifi environment. And he gets a full data dump of everything that he's expected to do for the day. Absolutely. Thank you. Yep. So Dan just sent over a task list to my tablet. So I'm just gonna refresh that data just to see exactly what he has assigned to me. And it lets me know that exclamation point tells me that a new task has been assigned to me that I need to refresh and then we're all good to go. So from here, this is just the main screen. This is completely customizable. This is just what was assigned to me. So I'm gonna go ahead and click on that. This is just what was assigned to my screen itself from Tim, from the Tim manager. So here in this main screen, I can do a couple of different things. I can see my data from past, from my past tasks. I can just go into this screen and I can go to the different dates of the different tasks that I had in the past just to go back and look at them. But I can also set my arrival time and my departure time. If you wanna keep track of what time you either arrived on the job or arrived at different places, you can set that arrival time and the departure time just by clicking on that button. And it's gonna set that time for us. But the next option here is going into the assigned tasks, task list that Dan just assigned to me. So by simply selecting on that project itself, selecting on that project itself, you can bring up the different elements in which you have. Dan, are these the elements that you assigned to me? Yeah, yeah. All right. So we have elements 10 through 13. And when within these elements themselves, you have different options to go over as well. So once you go into those elements, you have different statuses that you can assign to it. So say your quality control manager or the technician is on the, in the plan itself and looking at the beds, he can determine whether the formwork is going to be passed or not. Once you look at the shop drawing, which is tied to MTIM as well, you can just pull up the shop drawing in MTIM, you can look at the dimensions, you can make sure everything is good to go. And if it is good, you can simply check the checkbox, that formwork to be good to go. And, you know, this just sends, once you select that checkbox and you're connected to Wi-Fi, it sends that status back to the plan, back to the team manager, and it changes that status in team manager itself. That way we can see that it has been approved, that formwork is approved. And if you have, if you're not connected to Wi-Fi at that moment, it's okay, you can still select that, that formwork has been approved. And then once you get back connected to Wi-Fi, it'll then send that information back to team manager. All right, so we're going to go through the list here and we're going to just say that, that pre-pour inspection has passed as well. So we're going to go ahead and we're going to go ahead and click on that. Pre-pour inspection has passed as well. So we're going to go ahead and we're going to check that also. But it doesn't have to be just a checkbox, right? So we can also do different things. We're going to say this pour break. We're going to go into the pour break itself. We're going to say two pours, two pours looks good. So that's good, we're going to save that. And then we're going to go to the strand pool. That strand pool, we're going to say that that's a pass or fail. We're going to go with a pass. And then the visual inspection as well. I mean, these can, these are just statuses that Dan has sent to me, but you can change. These are all customizable. All right, we're going to select okay for that. And then for the production, we're going to go ahead and we're going to pass this for production itself. All right, so that's for element 13. And now we're going to go into element 14. And we're going to go ahead and we're going to say that this pre-pour inspection has failed. Because something is wrong with it. Either some, either the form work was off or, you know, something was causing this to fail. So we're going to go ahead and check this, that inspection is going to fail. And that's going to automatically update that status as well. All right, and then, you know, we can go through the same pour breaks, whether the production is going to fail or pass. Since the pre-pour inspection failed, you know, we didn't pour that particular piece itself. But we'll go back, we'll go to our element 10. And we're going to actually say that this form work has passed, the pre-pour inspection has passed. And then we're going to go to the production and say, actually, after it was produced, something happened in the pour, you know, either the concrete, something happened to the concrete, the mix was incorrect or not. So we're going to go ahead and we're going to fail this one. So now we have a complete fail after it was already produced. And that will change these statuses and they will update back to Tim Manager for you as you go. All right, so that was elements 10, 13 and 14. And then we will send that back to Dan and then he can show us from there on out. So Royce, if we could get the screen sent back over to Dan now, please. Thank you, let me know if you can hear me and see me. Looks like we're good this time. Okay, not sure what happened with the microphone, but we're back. So the stuff that was done by Brandon, we can see now within our model view here. So we have different ways to analyze the data that he just completed for us. But the simplest way is if I make this a little bit bigger, we'll notice here, I've grouped my, actually I'm going to take that on the top. I've grouped my elements by the status. So we'll notice that some of those elements, you know, specifically the ones that I want is the ones in red. So you can set up different color coordination. It's really, it's a customizable thing, but I can tell right off the back that, you know, element 14 has failed inspection and then element 10 or piece mark 10 has failed the production. So this is just a very simple visual. Obviously I can also see it within my model in here. So if I want to even just look at the walls actually. We can see right within the modeling view here, we have a color coordinated view of it. So we know in red, you know, we have an issue with these elements. And there's other things we can create different reports, different views on an upcoming webinar. We'll start talking a little bit about some reports and, you know, some of the business intelligence type of tools such as Power BI that we're planning for next year to really show, you know obviously I can see it right here I can create an excel but you know we can also set up some high level reports that you know are automatically updating so I can have a clean view of anything that's passing and failing so we'll get into that a little bit more in a future webinar as we move forward. But the big point of it is just you know the you know the managing information back and forth between multiple mobile devices into the system and again now I have a single source of truth it's all coming back to the database here and I can tell exactly where those elements are and what's going on with them and I can start working with them as we go forward. Okay so the next thing that we're going to do is so that's just a simple example of just some customizable QAPC processes that we can do anywhere throughout the system. Next what we'll do is let's talk a little bit about about going in and organizing these either for the you know either for in our inventory or if you have a type of a just in time type of system you know onto trailer so that way they're ready to to be shipped. So this is what we call our delivery manager doesn't have to be just for delivery it's just a way to basically organize organize our elements as we as we finish production. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to just quickly switch over I'm going to we'll do walls in a second let's just do a couple hollow core so we're going to do two different types of stacking here. So the first one is a flat stack and so I've created one ahead of time we'll create another one let's just explain real quick what we're doing here what we have in front of us. So within our settings we have our factory settings which are basically implemented as we set up your system we basically try to replicate the different areas in your plant that you have the different things that you want to put in there. You know so we can set up things such as an A-frame you know so an A-frame type of stacking where you know basically left or right type of area it's really customizable gonna have multiple areas that we put it in there then we can set up as we're as we're organizing these you know are we organizing them upright or are we are you know doing them flat all customizable set up some constraints the length width and height of the area that we're putting it in can be set up same thing here if I go for my slabs under 30 foot long so all my slabs under 30 foot long you know we can set up you know the constraints for it you know and for these we're going to go in and organize them flat we can also set up if we go back up here so we could set up a maximum weight of how much weight we can do you know so there's a lot of things you can customize to kind of help you do help you kind of replicate what you're doing today the big factor in this and a lot of precasters that we've spoken to over the years you know this is usually done in either an excel spreadsheet or you know a little bit of a access database that they've created the big thing that we're adding to this is you know to evaluate again single source of truth you're taking information you're not recreating it but the visualization part of it so let's go in here and I'm going to go in and create another uh another container so I'm going to basically just click on this create a container it's going to be called stack two we can rename it but this is just stack two we'll notice here we have the visual we have a front view of the stack and these are the constraints that we set up the length width height we have a elevation view and a 3d view as well on the floor plan and I can go in now and start adding my elements to it so basically I've got my list of elements down below here I can go in here and I could just say you know what let me just see my holocaust yes I've got a filter set up for my holocaust and I can start adding these elements on there so we'll notice how it's added the element we zoom in a little bit it's added element I can see the element right there and I can start you know placing them um on top of each other so I've done this on purpose I've got a smaller one on top and I'll come back to in a second you know so I can place the other one the nice thing about it is this is completely um you know this user interface I can just click on this and just drag you know drag and drop it move it on the side or just put it on top put it right above it it will snap as well I can move this down you know so you have a complete control I can move it to the right you know it's really up to you right now I've set the default it is to go to the center of this stack um you know I'll put this one right on top we can also keep in mind as we look at all of this is that there is immense customization available for all of these things we can customize the actual layouts you use not just for shipping but also customizing the report formats customizing the QAQC documents especially with regards to QAQC what typically happens is that we take a look at the existing paper process and do our best to translate that into something that's minimally disruptive but digitized and I just rotated one just to kind of give us an idea this might not be the actual way that you do it but this is just you know you can rotate them uh you can basically kind of manage them however you want to uh and so it's a very simple way of uh of um really organizing your your elements as you're going through them the other nice thing that we can do I think we would actually play Tetris with them Dan exactly so the one thing that we can then do is create a nice little stack list and we lost sound from you again I think Dan nothing so far when I talked again Dan I just muted and unmuted you can you hear me again now there we go there we go that is really weird we're having a bad day I guess oh uh so uh just I'm not sure where you lost me so I'll start over I'll be free to just a quick and then another example of report this is called the stack list report once I've created this again this is a nice little way of either you know if I pre-plan the stack or you know the organization of it I can then print this out send it over to to the yard so they have a clear understanding and a visual of how it's going to get stacked you know this picture they say it you know says a thousand words this is definitely an example of that you know I've got my list in my picture that we can create it this also shows you the power of the reporting within our system not only just data but the visual aspect which is which in my opinion is a very big factor for um for the shop of shop employees as we go through there so I just did want to show you uh just you know quickly how we do uh do the stacking uh also for instance if we're going to stack wall so let's I'm going to switch over to just the walls and we're going to go in and create an a-frame and then down below here I'm going to switch it over to just my solid walls my filter so similarly I can go in and I'm selecting from my filter what I want to put on there this is nice because it's now going to show me a little warning or error message letting me know that hey this element that you want to put on this a-frame that you set up is 10,000 pounds bigger than you know the constraints you gave it it's fine I can still stack it or I can go back it's fine I can still stack it or I can go back and change you know create a new one so I'm just going to go say go ahead and still stack it you know and we'll notice it's put that um that frame in there for me so the next thing I want to do is I want to say all right where's my second one to go now I'm going to go it's going to go to the rear I'm going to say put this one to the right of the one I've just put and then stack the second one it's going to tell me again I'm way overweight just go in and put it in there we'll notice this now put them side by side one after another so again I'm going to go to the right again add one more just kind of give us an idea of it and we'll notice we'll notice the elements as they go in there similarly as before I can click on them move them if I want to put this in you know to the side here put this one in the middle something like that you can it's just really up to you how you do it and I always like to show this because I think this is a great report of reports now obviously we can see this um how we've actually stacked it as well you know for these uh for these for these elements again customizable in some cases you might just have one laying up like this and you can you know it's up to you I'm just showing you an example of putting three of them in there and you can put them directly on a trailer really customizable just kind of give you an idea of how you know it easy it is to start managing this stuff for you uh and kind of creating the reports to to understand uh how we're going to you know basically manage these on uh on a shop floor uh on the within a yard or within uh delivery so now that I've created these stacks or I could have done it before I can also now manage uh using the mobile device of where I'm going to put them uh so within my inventory I'm going to switch over to the mobile device again this time I'm going to go into my team here and I'm going to say my team is going to be using uh my stockyard uh templates and then I'm going to go in here and just kind of highlight the the five you know we have element four nine ten and eleven uh that we've just stacked we see the the stats of them is stacked so as soon as I put them on a stack will automatically change that that status that actually brings a quick point to make you've kind of seen us do some of this stuff manually obviously with the app but you can automate some of the statusing either through the barcoding uh or through other elements you know as soon as I finish a uh a uh an action such as stacking it automatically give it a status of stacks you know that's automatically done for you in the background you don't have to then afterwards move it over to stack so you know there's a lot of automation in the background today we're kind of showing you everything click by click there's a lot that can be automated and as soon as a stack we can also set up an automatic um automation that sends it to the erp system to let you know to let the erp know hey that these elements have been stacked and shipped so they're ready for invoice if you know if the milestones after after stacking them or shipping them is to create an invoice from the rp so similar as I did before I selected them I'm going to create my click my precast team and create a stack of these elements and now we can switch over to Brandon again and while we're doing that I want to hammer home the point that Dan made that a lot of this we're showing how it can be done by user control a lot of this can be automated we can set up event chains where once you process a single thing all the associated kind of actions that should follow along with it do follow automatically when I push a task list to someone all the associated shop drawings go for the ride so that Brandon has those at his fingertips um Royce could we switch over to Brendan's screen while we're over here um but then if I update a status then all the necessary tasks drop into the queue following that I can assign inspections both pre and post pour I can assign then um for instance an erection queue as well Brendan you're still muted sorry about that all right so you can see here I have a new task my exclamation point up here at the menu is showing so I have to come up here and refresh and then you can see here here's a stockyard so this is we're gonna where we're gonna manage the locations of the stockyard so we can go ahead and click on the the stockyard task that we've created so we can come in here to the stack stack one and stack two we'll go ahead and we'll go into stack one and you can see you can visually see the elements that are in stack one they're highlighted in the model itself and then once we get into that information we can come in here and we can specify where these the stack is going to go in your yard so you've you know these are the elements that are in stack one and then we can in your yard so you've you know these are just the designations that we've provided the a1 through you know a5 and then b1 through b3 these are just the locations that we've entered into here but you can have any any location you know entered in any of those parameters entered in here as well so we're going to say that say that stack one is going to be in that location a01 so once we place that that status gets back sent back to the TIM manager and you can see the the color of the status has changed as well because now we place them in an inventory and that is the status that gets sent back also so we can go into stack two and that's going to be the same thing it highlights that particular piece and and again i didn't go over this in before as well but once uh once you highlight that particular piece itself you can also individual you can manually take it out and you can see all those elements individually as well all right but then you can go into that particular stack two and then you can place that in that location so we're going to place this stack to an a02 all right so now that is in inventory as well so that status changed again all right and one cool thing that's happening in the background here is that as we're doing this we are aware of the possibility of user error um so this uh the platform is actually geotagging every action that someone who's using a tablet in the mobile platform takes i can see gps coordinates associated with where that worker was standing when they punch the a02 button and if they are off by one or if they put it in the wrong row for instance i'm going to have a pretty good idea of where that element actually is if i go back to a02 and i find that it's not there this also works sorry now i was going to say the other brand if you go back into i think stack one where we started with uh just to show the shop drawing we haven't showed that feature yet um if we scroll down okay yeah absolutely sorry i didn't uh see that all right so we'll go ahead and we can actually so sw9 that's going to zoom into this particular piece itself and you can see the shop drawing as well so we're going to go ahead and we're going to select that shop drawing for that piece and once we do that we can choose which uh which application we want to open it with and then it's going to automatically bring up that shop drawing for the piece and you can also so back back when in the production data as well um you know for for the stockyard locations we can visually see that the piece itself the shop drawing which is great but also for the production side as well for the form work and everything you can visually see the shop drawing and if something is wrong with the form work or an insert is placed incorrectly you can go ahead and you can just go ahead and mark this up in the mobile application you can go ahead and say you know this needs to be two foot two inches instead of what it is you can circle that and then you can save it you can save it into the local directory wherever you know wherever the the guys in your plant need to see it and when you get back into the office that drawing is going to get pushed back with the markup back to tim's server so the engineers this was really more of the quality assurance part and we skipped over it at the time but once i've made that markup and i've said something failed in post for the engineers back in the back office are going to see a that it failed they can sort by this and b that they are i apologize be that they where the failure is the markups going absolutely david yeah so the big benefit is we have the complete traceability of of you know the status that we sent and any of the markups of the drawings will be uploaded to a you know separate um you know folder that we've set up so that way we have a history of the markups of the drawings as well separate from the ones that are imported into tim all right also i think i think go ahead i think now we can switch over back to to my screen and we'll finish it up and then we'll go to to david for the closing remarks absolutely so let me know if you can hear me and see me again just making sure you're all good so far okay perfect uh really the the big thing here is just to uh to highlight again we will notice that uh the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the great uh really the the big thing here is just to uh to highlight again we will notice that automatically within my system here and within the views we have the nice little color by attribute here uh we can see that those elements 49 went to inventory location a zero one and ten and eleven went to inventory location a zero two so we have the full traceability and same thing here we can do with different reports but within my status here you know another way of just looking at the data the same way is if i want to see all the elements in a zero one obviously i can see it right within here where i can filter from within my system so all that information was fed back you know we know exactly where everything is uh at any point and then you know if we need to send someone out into the yard a go grab you know you know for project number 15 10 11 10 11 and 12 whatever it might be i can quickly find out where they are in my inventory from here because we we've tracked that information and that we can send it and send them out to to get the data to get the elements so that basically comes to a conclusion of the technical aspects of this um of this presentation we'll switch back to david to do some closing remarks and then we'll sit for some q a let me get my screen up all right um thank you dan thank you brandon um so just in closing um obviously the name tim the name plan bar relatively new names here in the united states but we are a subsidiary corporation of the second largest aec software company in the globe we are in wide use globally for detailing and engineering applications as well as production applications we have become one of the one of the premier choices for pre-casters and for concrete contractors worldwide to deal with detailing to deal with production management to deal with site operations so while we're new to the u.s we are very well established globally and have great technical resources to offer so with that i'd like to thank everyone for attending and we'll field any questions that anyone has so with that i think i'll turn this over to royce thank you all right thank you david brandon and dan uh we do have some questions already um uh does tim work for any type of product yes and it works you know any there's no limitations at all any type of structural product or any type of high-end architectural product it will work with all and there's no limitation um i'm sorry continue all right thank you you're good uh the next question is um can tim integrate with microsoft project yes absolutely we can integrate with microsoft projects um we didn't really get into the uh the details i think on the last webinar we talked a little bit about creating um sequencing and assigning dates for either um production sequencing or shipping sequencing or erection sequencing and all that uh all that information can then be exported to microsoft project for um for managing in there as well all right thank you this next one is a two-part question um what type of tablets does tim work with and do the tablets need to be continuously connected to wi-fi i can answer that one sorry david so yeah tim's mobile app really can work on any android device um you know we typically recommend samsung but it doesn't really matter um it can really work on any android device um and uh as far as does it have to be continuously connected to wi-fi the answer is no not at all um so if it is connected to wi-fi as soon as you change those statuses in mobile tim it'll immediately send it back to tim manager but if you're not connected to wi-fi at the moment when you do change those statuses in the mobile tim it'll just wait and as soon as you do connect to wi-fi or any type of service it'll it'll send those updates back to tim manager all right thank you that leads into actually related to the next question it says can tim send information to mesh welding machines um so dan um so you're asking if the the if tim can send information to the mesh welding machines was that the question sorry uh yes it is okay uh dan i'm not sure it's a good question actually we do have a lot of customers that use uh mesh uh you know mesh um mesh types of products with their with their precast elements and tim um and tim can handle all of the mesh you know you basically we can import them and manage the mesh within the system and we can export to different types of uh really tim has a uh it's a very open system so you can export to multiple types of manufacturers such as progress machinery um so the answer is yes uh it really depends on you know which type of machine are we talking about really is probably going to be the limitations yeah and i would add to dan's comment one of the things that's going to answer that question is exactly what kind of engineering and detailing went into it prior um tim itself is agnostic as to the source of information it can work with our detailing plan bar platform it can work with reddit so if the information was properly detailed for fabrication in that detailing platform then yes but we would need to know a little bit more to firmly answer that question for any given circumstance okay all right thank you um the next question is we use sap for our erp system can tim integrate with sap yes it can integrate really with any type of erp or accounting system that's out on the market we have many customers using sap or rib um it's it's really uh there's no no limitation in that sense okay all right uh we got one uh last question here uh how can i get my revit model into tim for production planning so there dan do you want to field this one or shall i sure i can um so basically uh from revit we have uh three ways actually to get it in from revit one is ifc so the more common one our customers use is an ifc uh export uh out of reddit that we import uh another one that we've just uh just a new functionality we've released is actually being able to import rvt files so i've actually don't even have to export ifc we can actually take just the rvt file as well so just a little cleaner quicker way of importing the data in or a third way that some of our customers use is you using what's called unicam files which unicam is a standard file format that's kind of used throughout the world especially for a different machinery so unicam export out of revit will bring in all the geometrical information that can be used in tim as well okay looks like we have another question that just came in says can a production report be generated for any period of time during the production process yeah because basically everything in tim every action every everything that we do in tim has a state stamp to it so we have a um you know it's got the complete history of everything that's happened to an element or by who did it when they did it and everything so yes it can be uh you can create report historical reports have a clear understanding of what happened when all right

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