There is a popular meme circulating in social media where a CFO asks the CEO of a company: “Have you considered the cost to the company if we invest in improving the skills of our employees and they leave?” To which the CEO replies: “Have you considered the cost if we don't and they stay?” The same ...

For architectural precast producers, virtually every manufactured product is unique. They typically produce many products for a job and are managing several jobs at one time. This creates the potential for significant wastes of time consumed searching for inventory and managing form changes. Smart ...

Given the engineering-intensive nature of manufacturing prestressed concrete structures... and the high degree of documentation required to maintain quality control records... anything that helps manage paperwork provides a natural benefit to the industry. Prestressed concrete manufacturers have ...

There was a great article in today's edition of Construction Dive that speaks to what we've been preaching for some time now: Maintaining pace with investment in technology is critical to competing effectively and improving the bottom line. While the article addresses construction contractors, the ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a construction video of the new Seattle tunnel project is incalculable. The project, known locally as the SR 99 tunnel, is replacing the above-ground Alaskan Way trestle with a tunnel that will run underneath the city. The video below shows how the ...

Based on our experience in just the first quarter, 2016 will likely be viewed in retrospect as a tipping point for precast product tracking. Why? Our prospects are now starting to deliver a vision that is beyond our own original view. Our original view held that the value of using a precast RFID ...

We spend a lot of time speaking to concrete manufacturers about their workflows and and how precast rfid tracking can help them become more productive. Some are looking at rfid tracking as a means for enhancing their lean manufacturing processes; others are simply looking for ways to become more ...

Over the past two years we've written extensively about the value of concrete tracking to all parties involved in the infrastructure construction process: manufacturers, contractors and project owners. We thought "Perhaps it is time to tell the story in a different way", so we created an animated ...

The first concern of many companies considering a move to paperless QC or electronic inventory management from paper records is that their information will be at greater risk of loss. In fact, the opposite is true. We've written previously about precast RFID tracking as a means of competitive ...