ABOUT US AND OUR SPOOL TRACKING SYSTEM
We first faced this problem when the company of the day was awarded a sizable contract at a Power Station under construction. As Project Manager, the question of how we even began to plan for this work was overwhelming.
Different work areas, pipe sizes, thousands of welds and hundreds of spools that all needed co-ordinating so that Procurement and Fabrication could feed the Erection crew a couple of hundred kilometres away.
And so started my journey. A simple formula to calculate a duration for multiple activities of the same
type, developed into an Access® database producing Weekly-To-Do-Lists (WTDL’s) and the control that we were striving for.
Our biggest limitation at the time was both software and hardware performance.
20 Years later and with the technology now available, ideation and development once again took centre stage.
Full time software development, testing, and completely rewriting (four times) has finalised into our
W5 Spool Tracker software.
Our goal was clear. To resolve the problems that we are faced with when submitting tenders as well as all the way through the construction project, while also minimising risk
We knew what we had to focus on to make our goal a possibility. We had to ask the questions of WHO? WHAT? WHEN? WHERE? AND WITH WHAT? Hence inspiring the creation of our name ‘W5′ Spool Tracker – Our spool tracking system
OUR VISION
Our vision is to showcase to the industry that a solution to the seemingly impossible, is in fact possible, and where large amounts of information can be timeously captured in a controlled environment. For Piping fabricating and erecting contractors to rethink the planning phase of the piping industry, and to investigate the tools of the 21st century.
“It’s not the Durations, but the downtime between the durations that make the difference”
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