Later this month, I will be presenting a webinar about why experience matters when it comes to selecting your Advanced Work Packaging software. You can sign up here. This blog will provide a little primer.
Firstly, let’s consider the software itself.
But this is where you have to ask the difficult questions: Has anyone actually used it before? Where has it been deployed? How long has it been in production? Because if you are the first ones using it, or it is very early in it’s development, there are going to be a lot of hurdles to overcome.
At O3, we have the benefit of more than 550 projects to call on. And, as anyone who has worked in the capital project space knows, all projects are different. So we have seen every possible permutation of setup, data, personnel and requirements. And because our software is a single code branch, every project that we do takes the benefit of the lessons learned on those previous projects.
We have also had more than 20,000 users in our software, providing a huge array of feedback over the years. Every one of them started their use of O3 with certain ideas about what it should be able to do, and many have provided valuable insights into development and enhancement.
Secondly, let’s consider the implementation.
With AWP, it’s not just about executing 550 projects over the last seven years: it’s about implementing them. Every new project comes with a different set of data, new people to train, new tools to integrate with, new challenges.
Data is a critical component for AWP success, but many of the projects we have worked on have had incomplete, missing, or just downright terrible data. Companies are learning the AWP data methodology, but it is taking time. So our implementation teams have become world-class experts in taking client data and making it work.
Attributes missing from your 3D model, for example? No problem, we can pull in data from another system and link it, or just create the association directly in O3.
Fabrication information not being reflected in your workface planning? No sweat, we can just import the pipe and steel fabrication data and overlay it right on your 3D model.
You need to make sure that you are putting your data and your AWP projects in the hands of people who know how to use it, and software that can support it. Experience matters, and the only way to show that is with a long history of successful use across a broad range of clients and locations.
To learn more, reach out to schedule your personalized demo today!