Integration between Trimble Siteworks software and B2W Track promises automated production quantity tracking
Trimble has announced a new integration between its B2W Track and Trimble Siteworks software systems to automate and enhance progress quantity tracking for earthwork and civil contractors.
This site-to-office connection is designed to enable contractors to compare actual material production quantities achieved to planned quantities more easily and accurately.
“Civil contractors must continuously evaluate how well projects are progressing against budgets, timelines and productivity goals,” said John Sheedy, director of product management at Trimble.
“Relying on phone calls, forms, emails and other disconnected communications tools to report on production quantities limits timeliness and accuracy of that reporting. This new software integration brings automation to the process to increase efficiency, eliminate errors and provide an auditable progress trail for billable milestones.”
According to Trimble, the new progress-to-plan reporting workflow allows project managers to create requests for quantity measurements — such as the amount of material added, moved or removed at a site — within the B2W Track performance tracking application.
Those requests are relayed automatically to personnel in the field who use Siteworks software with a view to fulfilling the request at ‘survey-grade accuracy’ and send the data back to B2W Track via Wi-Fi or cellular connections.
B2W Track users can then review and validate the data and reconcile it with information from other sources such as field logs. Production quantity data can also be transferred from B2W Track to the Trimble Viewpoint Vista, Viewpoint Spectrum accounting systems, or to third-party construction accounting systems.
