Documents in. A finished artifact out.
The shape is the same on a shop floor and a job site. What changes is the source system and the artifact.
The knowledge that used to sit in one person’s head stays in the building.
A drawing set, a bid history, a stack of timesheets goes in. A finished artifact comes out, written back to the software you already run. The person who knows the work corrects it once, and the correction is kept for every one after.
Estimating throughput
Bid history in, a first-pass estimate out, in your own square-foot history. The estimator corrects it once and the correction is kept.
Drawings to a bill of materials
A drawing set in, the bill of materials and routing out, written back to the software you already run.
Win and loss on every bid
Which work to chase, by client, sector, size and sub, out of the bids you already have.
The report that took three people
Timesheets, fleet, exceptions. One question, one minute, with the rows it came from.
Forecast to schedule
Distributor forecasts in, a production schedule out, and the reasoning kept when someone overrides it.
Each tool makes the next one cheaper.
The first build pays for the foundation. Everything after it is built on what is already there.