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their workflows, quality and performance. This technology has already become a staple for safety programs and is now playing a more prominent role in ensuring business efficiency and quality.
Cloud-connected worker wearables use wireless communications to connect personnel to their organization. Increasingly used for project management and workforce orchestration, these wearables are proven in evacuation and emergency response management, gas detection and lone worker monitoring. These devices can also support team collaboration like a walkie-talkie while also streaming information about an employee’s location, environment and overall health to a central location.
Data communicated to the cloud is securely stored and processed, providing exclusive access to select user roles within the business. Using data analytics tools, data scientists can crunch the data to present visuals to project management and operations teams, delivering actionable insights and alerts in real time through interactive dashboards. For example, worker wearables make it easy to see where teams are, to coordinate efforts and more quickly respond in unexpected situations. This mitigates against potential project delays and can save both time and money.
By leveraging data science in construction and major maintenance projects, construction managers can identify where productivity blockages (such as material availability, equipment utilization or permitting issues) occur and set performance benchmarks grounded in fact. This level of visibility enables managers to proactively orchestrate work-fronts, knowing the upcoming tasks and real-time locations of a vast number of workers and resources. Safety incidents, near misses and observables can be geographically mapped and checked against worker density or equipment movement to drive training, signage and team orchestration to reduce their occurrence.
Keeping it Lean
Leveraging data can also help companies adopt four of the eight LEAN Construction principles—reducing waste generated by waiting, transportation, unused talent and motion. LEAN Construction methodology seeks to create an efficient
work environment by removing obstacles. Studies have measured direct wrench time to be around 30 percent of a craft- person’s day.1 The other 70 percent is field coordination and travel about the site. While field coordination and travel are partofthejob,LEANConstructionaims to increase direct wrench time by reducing inefficient or unnecessary tasks.
Waiting or idling waste. Just as GPS navigation reroutes drivers around slow traffic,dataallowsconstructionmanagers proactively manage work based on upcoming tasks, weather forecasts and
the availability of materials, equipment and personnel. Real-time data takes this a step further, allowing tactical decisions to be made on short notice. Managers or superintendents no longer need to wait for communication from their teams totakeareactiveaction.Instead,with projects that implement real-time data analytics, managers can make proactive decisions using the real-time data for tactical awareness of field activity and unusedresources.
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