Name: Prefab Tracking for Construction: Pro App Showcase
Uploaded: 2025-02-13T19:46:02.102Z
Duration: 55 min 56 s
Description: Prefab Tracking for Construction: Pro App Showcase

Transcript for "Prefab Tracking for Construction: Pro App Showcase": Hi there, everybody, and welcome to our prefab housing for construction webinar. We're gonna get started in just a minute. So if everyone's while they're funneling in, would like to just let us know, a, where are you joining us from? I'm Evan, and I'm joining here, as part of the Quickbase team from Salem, Massachusetts. And then also, if you just let us know where you're from, we have a quick survey for folks. We would love to know, do you think prefabrication saves time and money in construction projects? Perhaps a controversial question if you are a if you are a big fan of prefab, or maybe this is something that you get asked a lot and also wonder, like, does it? I'm gonna open up that poll to folks if they just wanna share their own experiences or their own thoughts. Perhaps yes, perhaps how am I supposed to know, and we'll give everyone another minute or two to funnel in before we get kicked off. One of those age old old questions. Does it save time, money? Can you prove it? That is great. The proving it is the proof is in the pudding, I guess. Oh. Alright. We're getting some getting some answers funneled in, so I'll get us started. Like I said, I'm Evan from the Clickbase team. I'm just helping out today doing a little hosting. Your actual speakers will be Freddie and Bob who are on the screen with me. They're gonna jump you in today and take over for and you know a little bit more about our prefab app, pro app, and our prefab tracking for consumer. They have a presentation for you, a little demo, and then we're gonna be doing q and a at the end. You can find a chat right in the right where you can let us know if you have any questions during, or, sorry, if you there's anything you wanna chat about during the session. And then there's a q and a section that's up in that same place where you can leave your questions for us that they'll be able to circle back to at the end. You'll see some polls throughout the course of our event that will also pop up, and then there's a document section which will have some helpful resources. That's all for me. I am gonna hand it off to Freddy and Bob who are gonna take over and do the actual presenting. Perfect. Thank you, Evan. Appreciate it. Hopefully, everyone can still hear me. Glad. Really excited to have everybody join us here today. Excited to see everybody really around the country, up in Canada. For those that are hockey fans, there is the four, nations tournament going on right now, I think, in place of the, all star game. I was watching some of that last night, Canada and Sweden. So congratulations, Canada, on that overtime win. So, really excited for everyone to join us. Prefabrication is near and dear to my heart, and let's see if I know how to work these slides out. But for those of us who either are new to prefabrication within this environment, really, what are we talking about? So I think it's probably good just to define that really quick. Then we then, Freddie, we can get into some introductions, go down through some of the use cases and workflows, and then ultimately showcase the app and answer any questions you have. So please, let's make this interactive. Please use the, chat as well as the q and a and any messages that you have for that, and we'll be monitoring and answering any questions. So the wonderful world of prefabrication or off-site labor or industrialized construction, some of us might know it as, is really the concept of how do we move off labor off-site into a climate controlled environment that really the intention is to improve quality, is to really help actually understand efficiencies and moving all of these costs downstream and getting control over that. And it's really a good environment for safety so that we can make sure that people are safe. They're not down in the ditch, in the trenches, in the mud trying to actually stick build, and ultimately cause maybe more issues down at the end of the day. But the natural tendency as as us as humans is if we can kinda pull this all together and create a manufacturing type like environment that we should be able to actually see efficiencies grow from that. So, I'm really excited, to have everyone join us. Whether you're at the beginning stages of that journey or on the very mature end of that journey, we're seeing across the board people at different arenas of that. And, hopefully, with this application, it can kinda solve a lot of those questions or at least give a road map and a vision to really how we can adapt really to your workflows at the end of the day. So I'll share more. I've been part of that, process and journey from a long ago, and excited to share some of that thoughts here today. So with that, let's continue moving forward, and we'll introduce the panel here. So alright. I think I got that. Freddy. Awesome. Would you like to do your stuff? I'd love to. Hey, everybody. I'm Freddie Sabs, director of presales, and I support, our vertical teams, construction and manufacturing. Really excited to be here. I've been with Quickbase for a little over nine years. Really excited about this topic. I've I've thanks to Bob and others, have learned a lot about the, the prefab effort, and and excited to just talk through some of the the benefits of the app that we're gonna talk through here and and pretty fab in general. So, thanks. Excited to be here. Perfect. Thanks, Freddie. And, I'm Bob Salai for everyone out there. I'm the principal industry adviser for construction. Spent about ten years actually in the electrical, side of the fence, so for any of the trades that are out there. And as I mentioned before, this is really near and dear to my heart. I started my career off in Lean Six Sigma with GE and actually got really into construction. And they brought me on board to lead off a culture shift. We heard about this thing called prefab a decade plus ago, and I was trying to understand how do we go about this process. And it was a really fun journey. So I can personally say that I was a part of this really from the beginning stages of seeing one to two people of understanding how to model, how to layout, and how does it actually feed into a prefab shop area. We actually went from a smaller type area. Not sure how many how big a size square foot, everyone has on the line, but it was about 10,000 at the time. And we grew to, like, a multi facility over a hundred thousand square feet in each one to a massive operation with 50 plus, individuals of VDC and PLD feeding those prefab shops. And so it was really exciting. I think prefab is the culmination of people, process, technology all coming together because it really starts, in the day where you get a phone call in. Hey. I need this prefab unit, whatever it might be, and someone goes off and does that or send an email. But it was exciting to see the evolution and journey continue to grow and change and adapt with Quickbase really in the back end of that to say, okay. Well, what about all these other areas that we begin to explore? How do we connect that into the model? How do we do all these instances with it? So at the end of the day, it became a really good flagship application for us and, excited to share a little bit more about that journey and showcase some of the foundational app. So if you have questions, please put them in the channel, and we'll answer them as we go. But I think maybe to start off real quick, we gotta have some polls. I wanna make sure this is interactive. I think the next one up is which of you, the following or which which of the following, excuse me, are your biggest challenges with prefabrication today? And if you don't have prefabrication, if you're just joining us to learn a little bit more, maybe what you think it might be for us. So we'll start that poll. Hopefully, I can figure this one out, and we'll get that rolling and see what we got with it. We'll share that on the screen. I'm good with Quickbase Friday, but we'll see how good I am with the pulling here. So we get good. 10 out of 10 so far. Perfect. Can you see the results, Freddy? Where am I? I gotta click it. Not yet. There you go. There we go. Perfect. So some of the questions with the biggest challenge of prefab, nothing. Everything is perfect. We expect all the results to go there. Whether or not you have planning in BIM feeding the shop. Some of us don't. Some of us might have the form and just calling directly in and see what we have with that. It kinda opens up the door for its capacity capacity constraints. How are we resourcing the manufacturing slot shop floor? And how are we seeing ahead and really visualizing that projection of what's gonna be needed across the jobs as well as manpower of the shop. And shipping and logistics, it was interesting to see how that began to expand, open up really seeing things that we didn't really think, at the time, and how we actually had to begin creating a lot of standard operating procedures to make sure that that was safe as well as maneuverable when it got to the job site as well. So and communication at the end of the day. So what's leading the trip here? So we got capturing estimates versus actuals. Does it actually save us time and money at the end of the day, and how do we require that? And planning and BIM, feeding the shop. So those seem to be the two leading. Communication is the underlying theme throughout that we've seen, and connecting that all under one roof to see that process from beginning to end is absolutely the hope and dream. And maybe we can start you off with that journey here as we continue. So very good. Thank you all for sharing that. I think that's, absolutely in line, and we shall continue here. Perfect. So I thought it was interesting before we jump into really the demo. It's, the 2025 state of construction of courses. I think there's three main characteristics that come out of this. It's eighty eight percent of respondents say that labor shortages are impacting their ability to complete work on time. And, really, I'm starting to see a lot more studies basically say, how do we do more and more prefab? How do we actually get more efficient? It's one mechanism. It's not the end all be all in terms of solving actually the industry need, but it also kinda helps us in a in a wide array of things. And we're gonna do a webinar actually in a few weeks with a customer, but this is also about culture in training and helping to understand as the apprentices and everybody comes into the shop floor, we're providing really a climate controlled mechanism for training. And it's a good culture shift. So it's exciting to kinda see these prefab shops begin to kinda grow across the country. I'm excited to see that, but we also gotta make sure it's efficient at the end of the day and still bringing in money. So, as you look at the second statistic, 91% still use paper. It's natural. It's human tendency. Right? When we first created our prefab app, one of the things is we began creating, packets of paper to go along with each of the assemblies. And so I had the opportunity to really walk the shop floor and get out to the Gemba and see what's actually going on and ask why. Why are we doing this? And so it was interesting to see how we can kinda morph the application for time tracking and understand for the people on the shop floor, how can they see the assemblies moving down on a digital monitor right there out in front. So being able to kinda see those challenges, making sure that the culture of the organization can raise their hand and understand that quick base can adapt, you just gotta tell us what we needed to do at the end of the day. So it was really exciting to see that shift and us really kind of eliminate that paper trail all the way from beginning to end for it. So and then hopefully, obviously, connect into the ERP system, implement any project or job numbers that you guys might need for it. So, hopefully, we can touch base on a couple of those throughout the demo. And we shared this slide a couple of times for those that are new to it. Prefab is a process like everything else. Right? And we have a lot of different systems involved, understanding we just had to pull before about how do we begin pushing and feeding the prefab shop with Revit, with any of the BIM modeling, or maybe it's actually, like, bill of material and and and information that really needs to continue along that way. So understanding, if we don't solve this crisis of what's really occurring, we're spending 67%, ten to twenty hours per week chasing down that information, ultimately impacting prefab, ultimately impacting shipping, the job site foreman, and now you have a trickle down effect. So as we begin to kinda raise our hand and say, yeah, I would really like to do prefab, we really gotta make sure that each handoff along the way is efficient and we got the information at our fingertips for that and we're not hunting it down. Otherwise, the entire mechanism begins to implode on us. So, we can ask questions and take anything offline for that, but, I think this is a great opportunity to showcase what Quickbase can do. So, we kind of asked ourselves too is we implemented prefab. We try to make this on every single job site as possible is what percentage of it might be. And we have to ask ourselves, how can we demonstrate the value of prefab? And it was interesting because, obviously, a lot of, really, the bids that are coming out are even asking those questions upfront. Are you gonna do prefab? Can you do prefab? And that starts the whole process, quite frankly, with bid management. Or how are we gonna estimate? How much is this prefabrication going to be? How many hours do we think we can reallocate from the field into estimating, into prefab, into VDC, and see how these hours begin to take shape? And do we have a mechanism to understand how much time is being done with shipping, how much time is being done on material handling, getting it to the job site, and are we factoring those costs into the overall estimate versus actual? So even though managing dates and delivery on time is absolutely critical, we gotta get the assembly on-site when it's when we say we need it. But we also gotta make sure that the processes are efficient so that the overall hours and budgeting makes sense. And then the at last piece of this is how do we avoid the rework? If we're shipping out the assemblies and it's just gonna come back or we need to do some rework actually out in the field, then it's wasting everybody's time. And now there's a lot more hands in the pot, so that actually begins to get a little bit bigger in terms of hours rework because because you might actually have to do a lot with the BIM model, if not any of the PLD layout, etcetera. So we gotta make sure how do we demonstrate that we're capturing that information and taking actionable steps to fix it incorrectly. So, hopefully, we're thinking along the ways. I'm sure we can probably identify a lot more values of demonstration of of the value for it, and we welcome all of that feedback. So, hopefully, we can see this slide. It might be a little bit of an eye chart, but, really, at a high level, we all have our own prefabrication tracking process. What we're looking at is really one potential where we're talking about maybe we're actually getting a bid, we're getting a job award, and we're understanding what are we going to prefab at the beginning stages of it. So the question naturally comes up, how much should we estimate? And one of the things that's not in this application that we're about to demo, but begin thinking about maybe a survey, and we built that in our past life about what can we prefab, and what does the budgeting process look like with your project manager, your foreman, accounting, and making sure that we're allocating the right amount of budget for prefab to all of your cost codes. So it was always an interesting topic in making sure how do we hone that in. Is it 10%? Is it 25%? Could it be more? But we need those estimates in the history to actually begin to inform it. And that's not what and we didn't have that out of right away. We had to create the application to bring this information here. So so then once we define the prefab requirements and move it along, with really where we're working up the modeling, moving it forward, and it says, yes. But what date do you absolutely need it on-site? The date won't change. Right? So as we begin to coordinate the production schedule, the first thing that we're asking ourselves is when do you need it by? And as that date is out there in the future, we need to begin working back. And so the earlier that we can plan, the better it's gonna help out the prefab shop, resource capacity, material planning, everything from there. And you might have a prefab shop today. We had it. We're we're asking for that prefab assembly tomorrow. And you can imagine that the impact that might have, we can't turn that around quick enough. How do we begin to create a mechanism that showcases what is that backlog, what do we have the capacity for, and where does it move in the next step. So if you're getting any of these questions along the way, these are things to consider. But once it's in the production floor, now you're moving along. Now you're understanding, okay, it's in process to be manufactured. It's in production. It's it's being actually packaged and delivered, all while someone's asking, where's my assembly? And either they need to sign in to see a spreadsheet, they call up, maybe they're going to the model to see if you got any metadata information or color coding on it. But somebody at some point is asking where's the assembly and when is it gonna arrive. And that question tends to keep going throughout As we continue to understand how are we updating project stakeholders and maybe there's date changes that occur or change orders, maybe that begins to impact the overall process. As we look at logistics, even shipping is asking, where's the assembly? We heard that this is coming down the pike. We need to plan for shipping and logistics if we actually have to ship it, far distance. Is it at a local job site, wherever it might be? We need to begin planning for that. So all while making sure that we have the dashboards and the right communication. And then all the way through, as we continue to get that out to the job site safety, logistics, even to installation, I can't use what you built. So now you can imagine as you backtrack that all the way to the beginning, how many pieces do we need to repeat that, how many more hours of rework, What is that pain? What is that cost analysis for your organization? And are you effectively managing it? These are all questions that we had to ask ourselves on how quickly we can turn this around and make sure that all the parties are notified at the right time for it. So it was a fun journey. So, phew, did prefab save us money? Hopefully, it does. And, honestly, not to scare anybody on the line, for those that are looking for these prefab shops, when done correctly, I can actually really say, it's amazing some of the videos. You can look them up on YouTube on how much time and efficiency are saved by what getting an overhead rack, putting up 20 foot sections, whatever it might be, and installing it and moving it along, how much labor that can save out in the field. So, I'm excited. I've witnessed that it can be done, and it's just a process in in a system and communication to make sure that it's right at the end of the day. So well, why don't we do another pull, and then I think we'll get into some of the demo, Freddie. So how many times throughout the prefab process does the team experience a handoff or collaboration or a cross functional communication? So think about all the steps. If you guys are doing prefab today, how many times is someone asking a quick question? Is it open? There we go. We'll share it. We'll pull it up. That way we can see the results as they come on in. So how many times today is someone actually asking those questions? Where's my assembly? How much time is it saving? How many handoffs and collaboration? How many times is that occurring throughout your process? I think I'm still seeing the old poll. Did we close-up the fir the with the one oh, there it goes. Perfect. Gotcha. Did that work? Okay. Yep. See what we did now. 10 and more. Love it. Wow. I'm not sure. There's a lot of pieces and a lot of points of potential failure along the way too. And it's something that we really need to make sure that we have our our grasp on at the end of the day. Four to six? Pretty good? Nobody has just one a lot. Well, it's not. Surprising to you, Freddie? The 10 of them were definitely surprise well, I don't wanna say surprise me, but, you know, that's a lot of it's a lot of, opportunity for for misinformation. It always it always boggles my mind. You know? Prefab, if you miss it by an inch or a quarter inch, you know, it's like it's not usable. So there has to be total visibility and insight and, you know, if you if you deliver a day early and that thing sits out in the elements, you know, then you you have another, issue. So for me, I can see why prefab might be a little daunting to some to some groups. Hopefully, the app we show helps, you know, helps make it feel a little bit more, approachable because it does sound like if done right, it can save a ton of time and and resources. You know, that's a good point too. It's like, when we started the journey, the very first mechanism of prefab was really just simply calling in with 90 degree bends or just any in wall kits and stuff like that. And and some of the prefab more on the simpler side of the fence, but it's prefab. It's off-site labor. And, honestly, you might not even need modeling or anything like that. It's about calling it into the shop, having it packaged and ready for pickup and whatever it might be. That's where we see the majority obviously starting. That's the beginning of the journey. And then it can get more and more sophisticated. And to your point, if you're off by an inch, what gets really interesting is as you're ordering the material, as you look at tolerances from the manufacturer, if you're off by quarter of an inch, imagine of every 10 foot six being off a quarter of an inch. At the end of it, you might be off a foot at the end of the day. Mhmm. And that can have a big major impact in making sure that we have that information upfront has a big tremendous impact for the quality at the end of the day. So, I say that to say this, is that in the application that you're about to see, getting those initial sketches on a napkin from a foreman, doable. The shop still needs to know what are those I call them straight to fab kits, straight to fab assemblies. We need to know that. That has an impact on resource and capacity planning, but you also might have something a little more sophisticated that's coming from your VDC department to actually feed your shop. So managing all of that, let alone multiple prefab facilities, becomes really an interesting, obstacle to tackle. So, but this application kinda helped out both arenas for that. So well, thank you for everyone taking the poll. And with that, we'll close that out and move back to the slides. I think, Freddie, we might be at your point. We'll do an app overview and demo, and we'll we'll kinda go for it. Yes, sir. Awesome. Let me stop this share, and I'll pull up my, my screen. So, yeah, wanna get into our, prefab application. So can you see my screen there, Bob? Yes. I can see the dashboard. Yeah. Awesome. So, so again, with with the help of Bob and some of our team, we have this application in our what we call our exchange. So anyone can install this app today. Wanna talk through a couple of key components. I'm gonna start in what what I'm looking at right now is is the planning role, and then we'll we'll just look at a couple of things and we'll zoom out, and and talk about the other audiences that this application, serves. So the first thing that might jump out to you on this dashboard is I've got two different reports that are really showing me my active assemblies or kits, that are in some stage of the prefabrication process. These stages can be defined by you. So to to Bob's point, you all might have a different workflow. So you can actually define what these stage names are, and I can see all of my different, assemblies in those stages. Down below, here's a list of assemblies. In this case, it's showing me the ones where I'm the, the requester for projects that I might be working on. And, one of the things that I think this app does really well is helps us just manage the stages. Right? So, here's an example where I've got, an assembly that is in transit to the job. I'm gonna come into this really quick, view this assembly. And, we'll we'll kind of talk through the different tabs here, but, really, what I wanted to do is just come in here and mark this as delivered. And what this is gonna do is it's gonna update the status across my application so everybody knows that this piece was in fact, delivered. And when I go back to my, go back to the dashboard, you'll see that it, was is updated and removed off those reports. So let me go back to, the main dashboard here, and I'll get to the pre to the planning section. Fred, Freddie, why don't you bring that up? There was a question, or really just some comments, actually. I just wanna make make a quick note of. We do see, so there are systems out there that really help. Right? I mean, with the material tracking, maybe you're in the model and you're connecting to it and it's actually telling you the bill of material right there. We have a and we have a material list and all of that is really connected into it. But we do quite often see that this use case of prefab, there's so much involved with just the prefab operations in and of itself. And Freddy's, I think, gonna showcase that even with, like, off-site labor, even subassemblies of what might come into it. So I think as we go down through this dashboard, it's actually seeing how many steps and how critical it is to track a lot of that information at this stage in the game because we have to get those estimated hours. We have to we have to manage those dates. We gotta manage all the subassemblies. Maybe there's date change logs, etcetera. And we've seen this application grow to invoicing and POs. I and that's not in this app, but we've seen it grow just in this instance. So what you're going to see is really what we have here. And then once this is established as a culture change and and a process change, quite often, we now see, okay. Well, can we integrate? Can we pull in maybe the bill of material from Revit? Or can we get a Excel spreadsheet and put in the bill of material? And this naturally gets into the inventory side of the fence, at a later stage. But this app right now from a pro app is getting the foundation of what is that prefab process and how your assemblies move through through that shop to get to delivered overall. So Yep. Yeah. Excellent call. And and I saw Amanda's post in there that, she has systems that track materials and the installations, but not the actual process. Right? The prefab Right. The statuses. So so step one is you might already be to to Bob's point, you might already be, you know, you know, prefabricating parts either simple or sophisticated, but you don't have a system. So the first thing is, well, we need to track the stages that these things are in. Right? Now from there, we've got, and we'll we'll talk about this a little bit more. But, you know, to to Bob's point, if we wanna expand to have multiple prefab facilities, we can say, alright. Well, we have these prefab plants and perhaps they're only outfitted to support certain types of projects. Right? So, why don't we since we're on the topic, we can we can dig into that now. But, right now, all I have is one, and I'm gonna turn off my camera just while I'm demoing here to speed things up. But, let me go back to sorry. I clicked it on. So if I go to the prefab plants, we only have one in here right now, but I could add another and then specifically what we want to track for each of those prefab plants is the assembly options. Now now we can get into a scenario where, oh, well, if it's this type of, assembly, these are the default list of a bill materials that go with that assembly. Right? Or if, you know, if it's this type of assembly, it has to take place at a certain location. So so, again, to Bob's point, the the possibilities are endless where we can really, help, us align, you know, what we're able to accomplish at what at what site and and really expand this application. Yeah. That's a really good point, Freddie. I'm glad you brought that up. Even with the conduit bends and everything else too, like, having the required documentation, the bill of material, over time, I've seen the application morphed to give you that rough order of magnitude estimate just by having some of this information at the forefront of it. So not every prefab shop is built the same. Not everyone can do full electric rooms or whatever it might be. So, having a mechanism to to funnel those information into each of the prefab plants is critical. But Yeah. Great great call out. Awesome. So I'll go back to the to the planning dashboard. And, another thing I wanted to to call out, which I think is a really valuable example in here is, let's just pick one of our, our sort of healthy healthy projects here. So it says it's ready for fabrication. I'm gonna go in and view this and let's say there is a date change. Right? Let's say that, I I either request that I want that to be on-site earlier or later depending on, the need. So the initial date request is February 26. I'm gonna come in here and I'm gonna add a date change request. Now this could be done mobily, from from the job site. In this case, I'm just going into the application and let's just say that, I'm gonna I'm gonna request it two days early, and I'll say schedule change. I'll just say it'd be ready for two days early, and I'm going to click save. So now the beautiful thing about the way that this app is set up is that it's actually going to prevent us from moving this forward in our prefabrication process until that date change gets reviewed. And it could be accepted or rejected, but that is in need of of approval so that we can make sure that all parties are aligned. And in this case, the relevant, facility manager will get an email, letting you know know that there has been a request, but, you know, it puts the brakes on things in terms of moving it through the process until all parties have signed off. So this is just a really great example of something that, you know, I've I've been on a few calls where we've been talking about prefab and this coordination is is really the challenging part of it is making sure that it doesn't get there too early or too late because what's the point of prefab if I I'm ready for it and I've gotta wait two days before that that piece can arrive for whatever reason or not sure where it is. So, the coordination piece, of this is huge. That's great. And I and I just got an email for it, Freddie. And, I've seen the date change logs be 20 lines long overall, I mean, in some instances. So tracking that and having a good back backup for change orders would be key too. So so I'll I think I'll just take a step back. I wanted to show a couple of things there. If there are any questions, please, feel free to to throw those in the chat. But here are some of the, the roles or the identified profiles that we have created views for. So you've got planning detailers, shop floor personnel, logistics, field foreman, and and project managers. So all the folks that would have a say in the the timeline and and having to input their information and have visibility, into that. We've been primarily focused on the planning dashboard, but if I just click on the field form and dashboard as an example, right? They're really only going to see what's relevant to them, which is a key benefit of quickbase, right? I'm just I'm just really worried about my work either the kits that I requested or the kits of to that are related to jobs to which I'm assigned and I can assert of course submit a new assembly request here. You any date change requests that are related to any of the kits that are related to my projects. So narrowed scope just for that particular group and what I'm interested in. We go back to the planning dashboard and I'm just going to click through a couple of tabs here and then we'll, we'll kind of circle back, but as you can see, they change request for any of the, the assemblies. And then this is really, I'm looking at each of the assemblies in their status. Right? So, this one's needing these ones are waiting to be, you know, approved for fabrication because of the date change request. I don't have the ability to move this one forward just yet. So let's just say for, the smart gang box here, I'm gonna click ready for fabrication. Alrighty. Real quick with that one, if you wanted to bounce back to that, I'm good. I just pre press it. So this is one of the instances where I've seen people take the application that they will hide the button for ready for fabrication until the check mark for deliver to commitment and estimated hours is actually filled out. And this is the first stab at making sure that we do not jump the gun and someone's looking through all the drawings, the bill of material, and saying, how long do I think this is gonna take to go build? And this is the first instance of getting that estimate to which we need the actuals to be compared against. And so you can actually poke a yoke or or dummy proof the system, you know, of not moving it along until you can actually say, yes. I can meet the three five commitment, and I think it's gonna be four hundred hours to go build, whatever it might be. So that's really some of the intention as well with this tab. Yep. Excellent, Kala. Yeah. So the dynamic sort of nature of, hey. Don't even show this button, like, you know, like we have here. If there's a date change request, you can't move it forward. In that case, you'd say until these two fields are filled out. And then just moving along now, we're in the on the, fabrication dashboard. So these things are ready to fab currently in fab and then fabrication complete. So sort of the different stages of the process and, you know, be able to easily print out a label so that I can scan that barcode, pull up that piece if I need to add a date change request to slap this on the side of, you know, the box or the unit. So already built in there for you, which is a really nice feature of of the application. And then, again, I can move these, into these various stages, move it from in fabrication to fabrication and plate, and then move from fabrication and plate to package and stage, and then the next the next stage would be, to be in transit. Right? So overall, just management of the flow. Right? I think there was a couple couple of notes in the chat like this is this is sort of the missing piece for a lot of folks that are either currently doing prefab or thinking about it, but but, you know, maybe worried about making the jump. It's because you don't have a tool that allows you to, to track the the the flow, as we have here. So, just go to the add there, Bob? Yeah. The go to the shipping dashboard. So the the planning dashboard, the intention too is, like, you're gonna wanna know you started this whole journey if you're the one providing all the drawings. So you wanna see this all the way through. But, obviously, people in the shop floor will only have the dashboard that makes sense for them. And logistics and shipping will only have the the dashboard that makes sense to kinda tell them what's about to be created and and produced, and then what is your dashboard for availability in transit. And the whole process piece of saying, well, what is being assembled? What what type of carrier do I need? Do I need any rigging? Do I need any safety information? How many pallets might it be? There's a whole mechanism here that we can even drill down further, but it allow this to be the foundation of where it gets to. And so I think, man, to your point, like, it's great that we know how much material is in this unit, but all of these pieces matter because as a foreman coming into it, they're gonna run a razor and say, hey. Can you ship that tomorrow by any chance? I can't. I didn't even figure out the logistics piece of this either, coming into it, if that is of issue for you. So, hopefully, that helps kind of enlighten a few opportunities in the different dashboards, but it's kinda nice to have it all on one here to see that. Yep. Any, any other key points that you that we should call out here in the app, Bob? Alright. Yeah. Do you wanna go into one of these assemblies? And, Jake, I love your question. I think Freddy's gonna talk to that with the Fast Field connection or show a demo on that, and very glad you asked that. So thank you. Yep. Yeah. Awesome. So if you go to the prefab details tab so one of the things as we started off, you guys are setting the polls with estimates versus actual. So you can see here that this is thirty four hours to complete. And as you add prefab hours, that's obviously gonna summarize to give you your total actual prefab fab for what it might be. I've seen integrations with your other time card tracking system that if that's where you choose to track your time, great. But I've also seen right here, and if you hold that drop down, sometimes when you do time cards and everything from your own system, it might not be at the granularity that you wanna track some things in manufacturing and industrialize. So, in this instance, we had created a time tracking mechanism so we knew how long were we cutting, how long were we actually performing the assembly or welding. We needed that level of granularity, and this gave it to us. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah. I've been on a few calls where this is this has been, like you know, we already entered our time in in, you know, h h two. Do we really wanna do that here? You don't have to. Right? That's that's that's the point. If you're already entering your time but usually, there's a gap in the connection of it was this time where was this time spent? Was it spent in prefab or on the job site? So, gives you that level of granularity to actually determine, hey. Is prefab working for us? And then I think, there was another question in there just around, some maybe around shipping and logistics. In this case, we've we're just entering in, you know, is it being how is it being shipped, and some details there. But we have seen folks if you you can you can integrate with, you know, like, if you have a UPS tracking number or anything like that, you can get you can get updates put into the application as well. In this case, we're just setting it up so you can put in, you know, are we shipping it? Are we outsourcing that? You know, date and address, plug in all that information. And then, you know, I think, Bobby can kinda fill in some gaps for me too, but we can even get creative with you know, depending on the size or the weight of this thing, that could have all sorts of safety implications in terms of getting it to the job site, what needs to be available on the job site. So, you know, making and if it's in p if it's still in, you know, pieces or not. So Yeah. You can kinda even do a checklist that might come up. And I just wanna talk about the address for the second. The address was actually an interesting thing. And and, again, going back to it, we we kinda take that for granted. And it's easy to say, well, listen. It's the address of the job site. Not all the time. Depending on how large your job site might be, you could potentially be delivering to different areas. And so we had a project management application or a project hub that really it allowed the PMs and the foreman to see high level where all my assembly's at. But it was always the question, well, why can't we just default the job address to where this is? You gotta make sure that all that information begins to flow because you might have multiple areas, Dock A, Dock B, Warehouse 2, whatever it might be. And so allowing your shipping and logistics department to figure this out, I've seen a routing mechanism. So even within quick base, you can actually identify, okay. Well, tomorrow, what are all my deliveries and how am I going to route this, effectively and optimally, for the next few days becomes the next question. So now you can use this as a foundation to really help out your shipping department that tends to get kinda forgotten in this entire process. So so I know we're hitting about the forty five minute mark. I wanted to to shift gears just to to show the the Fast Field, high level demo, and see what questions we have. So and then we can we can maybe touch on a few more points and wrap it up and make sure we have plenty of time for q and a. So let me stop that share. And so it was a great question that came in the chat from Jake. In the interest of not fumbling around trying to share my share my mobile device, we created a quick video. And in this example, we're gonna be capturing let's say let's say a a unit comes to the job site and there's an issue. Right? So we capture that via fast field. We annotate it, and we send it to this application. So I'll just Okay. I might have been talking to myself while, the video is here. Yeah. I gotta know. Yeah. But that was awesome, Freddie. I I think, just to chime in on that. So, obviously, as the assembly gets delivered, that's the key to getting the feedback. Right? When it's getting ready for install, let's say someone sees something is moving forward, taking the pictures. Picture says a thousand words. Right? The whole whole cliche kind of thing. But being able to mark that up, being able to kind of database the feedback as opposed to calling up the prefab manager and saying, what the hell? This didn't fit or this was off or the quality was bad. It's good that we're getting that feedback in the first place. One, if you're not, we're not improving the prefab and it can slow down the momentum. But using Fast Field to capture it like that, to bring the picture back, Freddie, that was awesome. That was a nice deal. Yeah. And just so, so I it sounds like we might have some Fast Field folks that maybe aren't leveraging Quickbase and vice versa. So, again, that the if the reason that we would use Fast Field in that instance, a number of reasons. The first thing is that you can annotate on those photos like that that we demonstrated. You can geo you can you time and geo stamp that activity. So if you wanna make sure that they're they're logging that information from the job site, there's also mobile offline. And the beautiful thing about the partnership with Fast Build and Quickbase is that you can pull in easily all of your job information, your assembly information into Fast Field, so there's no duplicate data entry. Right? So, again, I could just scan the barcode. In that case, it pulls that pulls that unit up. So, I know, again, we we it sounds like we have at least one Fast Field, user that may not be a customer, QuickBase customer just yet, and vice versa. So happy to answer any questions on the partnership there as well. But I thought I thought I was I thought I was being so smart by just recording the video so I could speak to it, and it turns out you couldn't hear me. So, I was dropping some knowledge, and you just you just didn't know it. We'll we'll get that next step. That was awesome. Yeah. Well, Freddie, that that was great. And there was one question that came in by Haley. Even though she's late, I mean, I'm gonna answer the question. Basically, around, like, connectivity with with s d s two, which I'm a little unfamiliar with. But with my trusty friend, Filpilot, they do have an open API, for it. So just talking about that connection point, I think, typically, even with Revit. Right? I mean, if we're dealing with with scripts or anything to kinda pull that information in, getting that metadata, getting the bill of material, whatever aspect or maybe it's a unique identifier that's connected into it, I have seen those subassemblies come in directly from it. The challenge becomes and work with your CSMs and work with your solution architect or or we can talk through it. And it's about understanding the change orders and when that impacts and when you're allowing it so that when you push it in, how do we make sure that we update that accordingly with inside of it? So, absolutely, it can be done, and it's all about that process and some advanced coding with it. So perfect. Yeah. I'll call and I'll just at a high level, I'll quote one of our our customers who's actually in the manufacturing space, but they said that they haven't they they've yet to find something we cannot talk to or integrate with. Right? It's usually, we as long as we're allowed to get creative on the how depending on that system, if it's on prem or cloud based, there's usually a a way to connect. And if they have an open API, that just makes, life life easier for everybody. Awesome. So, yeah, Bob. I don't know if you had a few slides if you wanted, We got some final slides here. Yeah. Bring us home and then we can, you know, wrap up with the and then we'll ask some questions. So over the series here, I think we're leading into it, and you guys have seen, I think, before, if you haven't, our bid management application, which, by the way, could actually grow to understand how much time is needed for VDC and PLD and prefab to help out with some of the bids. That's a whole another topic we can we can talk through. But a be a lot of this begins to kinda funnel all back together. So when we look into the environment and construction, a lot of this is really about a project hub that can kinda talk to all these different instances of fleet tracking, workforce planning, equipment, prefab. So as we can help our project managers open up that communication, seeing the handoffs and manage that process all the way through, we can begin to connect all of these arenas under one roof as well as and with any point systems like s t, s two, as well. So I'm excited to kinda hear from the audience and really some of the challenges you've explored. Always kinda hit me up. Shoot me any messages that you might have for that. So, more to come on that. Try our prefab tracking app now. Scan it. Go to our website. Go to the Exchange. Pull it down. Open it up, and and I would be really, really curious to see, what you create, how you can tailor it to your process. And please get me on the line, and I would love to explore this further with you, at any point. So please talk to your AE, CSM, whoever you might be talking to, and let's get in touch some more. But it is available right now for you to explore. Last but not least, I hope to see you in person at Empower. I will be there, and I hope to see you, good old New Orleans, and try some of the good food that we have down south there for that. So, if you haven't heard and you can register, get your flights, book your hotel rooms, and we're gonna be covering a lot of the product updates as well as see what maybe other potential pro apps might be available around that time. So wink, wink, nudge, nudge to everybody. But, yeah, we can talk deep, at length with, prefab and a lot of the other apps whenever you're in on-site. So Yeah. I think that's it. Go ahead, Brad. Just another plug for Empower. It's great that it's back in person. It's been, five years since we've been in person since 2020. And and it's it is my favorite time of year. People leave leave just so energized and, you know, it's great to see customers that have have, you know, changed their careers with Quickbase. So really hope that folks are able to attend. We will stick around for any questions. Please don't rush off. I love this topic. Even if you just wanna talk even outside just about the process in general, please reach out. But is there any other questions that we can help answer? Please use the chat, and we'll stick around for a little bit longer here. Hopefully, this was of value to everybody and saw a little bit of the dashboards and view. Hopefully, everybody has their Valentine's Day gifts prepared and bought. I do not. This is where Evan joins and pulls us off stage with him with me. This is where I joined in to say I did see a question I wanted to make sure you saw. There's someone Jordan had a question around, is I see there's a way to make a label button. Is there a way to make a label that can be a FedEx label, or is it just like internal labeling? Gotcha. Freddy, you want me to take that, or you got it? In the the label that we showed there was just internal labeling. I I my my answer is I'm not sure in terms of if we wanted to click a button to create a FedEx label, especially because I imagine that has you know, we we if we enter in the weight and size and things like that, I imagine there's a way, but, I have not I have not, come across that either. I have seen some folks build inside their workflows. Often, like, FedEx and other company will have their own website. I've seen people build in buttons that will take them to that website and autofill some of the form for them. So even if they can't do it in Quickbase, they can kinda, like, jump start the process. And then when they're ready, bring it back and save it there. So, like, I've seen folks sometimes we don't can't always do every step, but we can usually get close and save you some of the, like, duplication time and effort manual work. Because I know there's plenty of folks who also have it where they store information on all their FedEx shipments, and they've set up a button that will take them to, like, the tracking status for everything. So have a quick report where they can just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, see everything. Yep. Right. Alright. Well, it seems like we don't have any other questions right now. We've gotten to the end of our q and a session. I will use this as an opportunity to make a quick plug that, if you are interested in joining us for any future events or if you have other things you'd be interested in knowing, you can find a ton of our, previous webinars and future webinars at quickbase.com/events, including empower. So if if today you're not sure you're ready to come to New Orleans and you need some time to think about it, you can find all that information there. And if you are looking for some of these pro apps, you can find a bunch of them on our website. Or if you're a quick existing Quickbase customer, you can find them right inside the exchange, which you can find inside the product. Right inside the UI, you'll see exchange as an option. As long as you have the ability to create apps in your account, you can see them. If you're one of those folks who has a Quickbase account but you're not an admin yet, be aware that you can also always create a builder account. That's a free account that allows you to do some testing. You can't do anything production level, like, actually roll it out to folks there, but it's a great space to test things out if you yourself aren't yet an app builder, but you think you wanna become. And that's my PSA on ways you can access this stuff if you can't. Awesome. Thank you, everybody. Really appreciate the time. Thanks, all. Perfect. Thanks, Evan. Thank you, Freddie. Reach out.