Intelligent Electronic Time Sheet & Quick job Application that will provide you with daily insight into how each project is performing compared to how it was bid. Control cost & use historical insight.
The Concept
Construction managers rely on a steady flow of information being sent from each project they are working. The entry, processing, and flow of information are important in avoiding problems, delays, and claims. Improving the workflow reliability and time required to obtain this information is important for the linked production units, and consequently for the project cost and duration.
The time sheet is the starting point for that flow of information. It conveys the number of people working on the project, their time, equipment and material used, environmental conditions and the quantity of work performed on a daily basis. Time sheets are the foundation of the payroll systems; job cost analysis, and the basis of claims for compensation. Approximately 95% of all the time sheets used in construction today are manually written on paper. The most obvious inherent problem associated with the paper time sheet is the time needed to convey the information to the parties that need the information.
Hypothetically, if data could be interpreted by the field supervision on a daily basis and compared to the production estimated, strategies and field changes could be made to correct the problem and bring the overall production back in line with what the estimator figured. Such a mechanism would be characterized as a quick job cost program.
The ideal solution to the problem would be for each foreman on a project to use an electric timesheet to record the time worked, materials used, and quantities completed on a daily basis. Utilizing the Internet to network the computers of the foremen, superintendents and office personnel, the data could be compared to the estimate instantaneously, giving the field personnel timely information that could help rectify a problem.
Field Link Online, The ideal solution.
Today’s technology allows us to now have the ideal solution to the paper time sheet. By using the Internet and common input devices, we now can get the information we need in the field and the office at the same time for all who need it. By using a simple internet browser time sheets can be transmitted to an office server from anywhere in the world, where it is processed and the daily or project variances sent back to the user. This simple, intuitive, easy to use system has been designed to save time and money for all that use it. This concept will allow each company to develop its own hierarchy for the flow of data on each project. All data will be collected at a central location and then be made available to the parties designated to receive it.