Technology That Will Change the World: ZoomPMC
ZoomPMC
Jeff Berline & Will McCuen, OnSight Inc.
How do you improve efficiency in operations? If you're a manufacturer, you embrace information technology and utilize real-time data to assess and implement change. But what if you operate in a mobile workforce, without the luxury of a fixed "laboratory-like" environment, where the scenery's always changing and variables abound? Is there a way to capture such real-time data? OnSight's Will McCuen and Jeff Berline have introduced ZoomPMC and a better method of tracking and measuring job activities such as tasks, time and materials, regardless of location, while delivering crucial information back to senior management. "Staggering inefficiencies from poor record-keeping to delayed project reporting has resulted in productivity decline over time. ZoomPMC brings the same game-changing project visibility that manufacturers have enjoyed," says McCuen. "Once job behaviors, skills and material consumption are measured, they automatically begin to improve." Using an inexpensive smart phone, data is recorded by a crew foreman in a simple, quick, patented approach and immediately time, date and GPS stamped and transmitted to the data center where it is formatted in one of four simple consoles via the web. ZoomPMC automates payroll, maintains project scorecards and presents information via web in real-time. Such data gives project managers critical visibility into labor costs, efficient man hours and other scheduling or cost-affecting events. Ron Smith, an investor in the ZoomPMC technology and Managing Principal of the architectural firm McMillan Pazdan Smith, suggests that not only does ZoomPMC more efficiently measure employee time on-site, but that when constructing a building it may be possible to track construction materials as they are delivered to the site and the placement of those materials on a daily basis in real-time and record that data to create a 3-D image of the work erected that day. Ron and his company have been on the cutting edge of technology and suggest, "those that don't embrace technology and change in project delivery may be left behind."
For more information, go online to www.zoompmc.com.