InEight Plan and Progress are two modules within InEight that are especially geared towards field execution. Within these modules, customers can break down scopes of work into manageable work packages and daily tasks. Capture daily field logs, including notes, photos, and time sheets, and track detailed progress by reporting quantities all within a user-friendly mobile application. Our Work Packaging module is designed to follow the principles of advanced work packaging.
Identifying work areas and developing engineering, procurement, and construction work packages and more detailed installation work packages provides a disciplined approach to breaking down a project. Work packages contain all elements necessary to complete a scope of work. From sequential work steps to safety and quality requirements to drawings, as well as any constraints that would prevent the start of an operation. From a work package, users can quickly generate a daily crew plan, which will include as much of the detailed planning information as pertinent to that day's work.
Once created, either from a work package or from scratch, daily plans are automatically sent to the designated foreman's iPad. On the mobile progress app, a foreman is able to view their budget, all planning notes where superintendent or engineers can communicate safety and quality requirements, environmental concerns, as well as any other notes to their crew for the workday ahead. They can also access the time sheet with the correct cost codes to charge employees to and the quantities and detailed steps they must complete to meet their daily productivity goals. InEight has made achieving project goals significantly easier by making them visible and obvious every step of the way.
During planning, a superintendent or field engineer enters the planned hours and selects the quantity components to be completed. This automatically calculates the planned gain/loss. Planners can review gains and losses before sending the plan to the foreman for execution and can adjust planned tasks as necessary to ensure efficient operations. Once in execution, a foreman enters the actual crew hours to the time sheet tab and checks off the items they completed on the quantities tab.
This provides instant feedback to the foreman on whether they successfully met their performance goals. When the supervisor, typically the superintendent or field engineer, receives the completed daily plan for approval, he or she can also review the actual gains and losses and auto-generated reports to provide project teams daily feedback on productivity. Approved plans are sent to payroll for processing employee time and actual quantities can be synced directly to InEight Control for variance analysis and forecasting. Budget information used to calculate gains and losses comes from the InEight Control module where the budgeted man hours, costs, and quantities are maintained for each cost item or charge code.
InEight's Quantity Tracking module allows users to break down quantities from a cost item level into the discrete tasks that are claimed daily on the iPad. We call these quantity breakdown items "components." Each component carries a quantity which rolls up to the total quantity of the cost item. Claiming schemes, or rules of credit, can also be employed with quantity components to report intermediate progress.
Claiming schemes provide weighted steps that must be completed for a single component. This simplifies the claiming process for field personnel and makes progress reporting more accurate. During implementation workshops, InEight will guide customers to determine what level of detail for cost items, quantity components, and claiming schemes best suit your company needs to provide the most efficient and reliable means of tracking progress. With InEight Plan and Progress, your team has the tools they need to break down the project into manageable work packages and daily plans.
Capture daily field logs, including time sheets, photos and notes, and track progress through detailed reporting of completed quantities.
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