Use Cases / Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC)

Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC)

Pipe and Module Fabrication Firm Transforms its Production Management and Plant Operations

Industry

Pipe & Module Fabrication Services - Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC)

Product Category/Application

Production & Work Order/Operations

User

Production Order Manager, Supervisor, Work Order Technician, Quality Control Specialists

Objective

With over 100,000 orders per month, the Pipe & Module Fabrication company needed to solve its challenges of inefficiencies on their shop floor using paper forms, manual handoffs and workflows for signoffs. Inventory management, raw material consumption and collaboration with customers were all done manually as well. These manual processes resulted in lack of data tracking, shop floor inefficiencies, and delays in getting paid from the customer.

Summary

The pipe and module fabrication company with multitude of work orders is able to overcome operational challenges and boost profitability by implementing and utilizing Equipt's Production & Work Order Operations Integrated SaaS module. Its intuitive platform was able to seamlessly digitalize shop floor traveler document where each activity (Time & Material), and variations to drawings and measurements was accurately captured. The Equipt Platform also enabled bulk updates and logics for autocompletion of activities enabling the company to streamline its operations. Equipt optimized their Work Order process, enabled efficient Scheduling and Forecasting of resources & service technicians, enhancing overall efficiency and customer responsiveness.

From Production Order Managers to Shop Floor Technicians, they are able to do the following tasks:

Production Order Management

Streamline scheduling, manage task assignment based on technician competency, and keep track of all changes to customer requirements in one place.

Mass Drawing Uploads

Facilitates seamless upload of mass drawings that technicians refer to in the fabrication process, and ensure compliance with industry and customer requirements.

Generating Mass Work Orders

Facilitate users to generate more than 2500 work orders under a single production order with a single click.

Shop floor execution

Technicians get a simplified view of their tasks organized in order of priority, thus improving efficiency and real time transparency of what's going through the shop and what they need to do.