Tag and Track Building Components Through the Utilization of BIM 360 Field

STEVE RUDGE: OK. Good afternoon, all. My name's Steve Rudge, I'm from Excitech. So you've probably never even heard of Excitech-- most of you. Anyone from the UK? Nobody. So you'll never even know who we are. So Excitech is the UK's largest reseller for Autodesk over there. I've worked basically for 23 years in construction, mainly around the design management role and joined the reseller market about nine years ago.

And I joined it really because I saw this transition in construction moving over into the digital world. And you will see that with over the next few days while you're at AU, it's all about digital information now. And a transformation of construction from our manual processes in that digital world and capturing information. In the UK, you've probably heard of the PAS 1192 documents and things of all that nature that's driving our industry over there.

And really what's happening now is we've seen a complete shift in what we're doing within the UK. And what we're seeing is the things like BIM are words of becoming things of the past. It is digital, it is information and more about lean construction. So, yes, the BIM processes are there, and this was really where this came from. So I probably work with probably the top 50 main contractors-- or general contractors, for you guys-- main contractors in the UK-- helping them implement technologies. Helping them with their processes and workflows.

And many of them start to come into me about, yes, we've got BIM 360 implemented, but it must do more than it can do. Just be checklists and daily diaries. What else can it do? Where can we start looking at lean construction and start getting benefits from [? internet ?] platform? So is anybody using BIM 360? Field? About half? Excellent, good.

So what we found was a lot of the contractors were implementing the system, but just using it straight out the box. Just capturing the qualities and the check lists and all that good stuff-- the safety issues. The issues, the snags and all up within the system. And then we start saying, right, OK. So what can we actually do to start getting benefits out of this implementation? How can we start reducing waste?

Now, waste to me, is coming from three areas, cost, time, and quality. But it's quite interesting now because you can have more than two. So if you work that out, it does actually work. If you're trying to reduce cost and reduce time, your quality goes down. You can't increase your quality time and cost. So if you sit there and actually work it out it does work.

So we start saying, OK, so if waste is our problem, what is waste? Is it just materials? Well, probably not. So we started looking and listing, and this isn't just with a single contractor. We're working with many of them over there. The list that came out was around these issues. You know, a lot of them was around poor design, poor constructability, lack of flow, lack of coordination, problems as we were building things. And we said, right, OK, So where can that list start working with BIM 360 over its single purpose of checklists and things?

And we started looking at this list, monitoring defects. So if something is delivered to site and it's got a problem, how do we track it, how do we know? Obviously, we raise an issue against it, and we can do it that way. That's great, we've done that.

Waiting around for parts. You know, a lot of waste is about labor on site waiting for people to come and waiting for things to be delivered. They can't get things in time for the right place and all that good stuff. Tracking the progress of everything. Now, how do we know where things are? Has it been installed? Can I go in and inspect it? Is it ready for sign off?

Time management. You know, a lot of people are on site. And I think-- a figure of top of my head-- it's about 40% of waste is people just walking around trying to find the right information to put it into the site the right time. That's what we're trying to get over by implementing systems like this. Transport management. Do we know the delivery schedule? Do we know when the manufacturers are ready to deliver things to site? And we're trying to reduce that movement. OK.

Getting some early warnings out, because that's key, really. Because if we can see things that's going to impact the program and delay some of the construction, we need to know as soon as we can because we may need to sort of reform the plan so it's not going to impact on everything we're doing. So this was where BIM 360 started to come in. And it wasn't just using it as a platform, it's things like we call an information station, over in the UK. So that's got things like BIM 360 Docs on it people can just come to and start using and capture the information in the models, et cetera.

Then there's obviously BIM 360 Field that a lot of you in the audience are working. So we're looking at that as a platform, and we wanted to start reducing that work. So as you can see, one of the first things that we all do we've BIM 360, hopefully, is get rid of paper. Paper goes into digitized forms. And what that's actually doing is reducing what actually happens on site.

Because normally someone would fill in a form then have to come back to the site office, they scan it, they probably email it, then put in a document management system. A lot of waste. Yeah? Whereas, now we can just capture it on the site, done, stored, reported, record. That's what BIM 360 is coming. But we're here to talk about tag and track.

And what we started to do was say, well, it can't be that hard because we've got things like barcodes that we can use in BIM 360. So is anybody a Forge developer in here anything? Excellent. Because I'm not either. I haven't got a clue what all that lot is. So this is about using the platform just with configuration.

So hopefully, after today, you could all go away and implement this straight away. There's nothing hard about it. It's just setting that workflow in the process of what we're going to do. Now, I've written a handout that you can download it from the app, et cetera. And I've basically put it into stages. So we can go through each stage together and find out how to actually implement this. Because it's so easy, but it's getting the impact. Especially, across the UK market at the moment. And it's just great to share it with you guys today.

So tracking is nothing new. In Amazon, you know exactly as soon as you hit order on Amazon what's happening to your order. You know when it's going to be delivered. You know it's en route to the delivery place, et cetera. Uber, you order your cab, you know where are you but car is, et cetera. Why are our materials different? Why is construction different? Why should it be different?

We've got asset tags, we've got barcodes, and all we're doing is bringing that into a platform to allow us to see where things are. So that was the principle of it really, to try and reduce the waste, to try and solve some of these problems we've got of tracking and finding out where materials are. And getting the site more informed of actually what's happening.

If you look at some of these questions that were always asked to us, do you know where your components are? When will the component be delivered to site? Will your components be delivered late to site? What do you do if a component has an issue when it's been delivered? Is the component ready for sign off? And more importantly, can it be handed over?

So it's this type of information we're trying to capture in the platform, but it's how we capture it and then get the analytics out of it so we can get benefits out of that. Not just on the site, but in the site office and, obviously, with procurement and that with the products and materials going forward. So for this to work, that's our tool kit that we need. OK?

So the first one is Ideate BIMlink or BIMOne. OK? Now, the BIMLink, obviously, is a purchased item. BIMLinks a free download for Revit. OK? And I'll go into where that fits in, and there's a purpose why I've put the two there. OK? And our clients want to get to that thing. So Excel we need. It depends what you're doing your planning in. Whether that be Microsoft Project Primavera P6, or Asta Powerproject, or whatever planning tool you may use.

It's not limited to them three, it's just an XML file after that. And then, Power BI. Most of the people now are on Office 365, so you have access to Power BI as well. And then the usual Autodesk tools there with Revit, Glue, Field, and Navisworks. Now, obviously, this is BIM 360 Classic because next gen has not got equipment and barcodes in yet. So we've had to stick in Classic at the moment, but hopefully, when it comes, we can start looking at this process again.

Right. OK. So let's go on this journey together. Stage 1, the process. Yeah. The process or the status. So this is the status of the material, the assembly, the mechanical kit, or whatever we're going to track. But as we know, process has three options. What you think it is, what it actually is, and what it should be. This is where you need to start chatting to people who are managing that project because we need to define the process.

If we're trying to track something, we need to know what stage is it's actually going to go through as we're tracking it. So by time you've had a few workshops and sit down, you'll probably come up with a nice process of where things are. Meaning, you place the order, it's kicked off your manufacturer, manufacturing complete. Your transport dates, your dates to delivered to site, installation date, subcontractor sign off.

And I'll assume this terminology might be a bit different for you guys. Main contractor sign off, any client acceptance. That's probably the bigger picture of what we're trying to track. So I should be able to tell you where any piece of kit is through which journey. I'm getting people are aware that-- especially on this stage here-- delivered to site that they're aware it's coming. So we can get people prepared. We can get the lift program sorted on the tower cranes, et cetera, to actually know what's coming so we can get it installed, get it signed off, and get that work completed as soon as possible.

So what I'm going to do today is I'm just going to simplify that a little bit, and change that to these seven items. OK? But that's your first stage, you need to sit and work out, what do you want to track against? What's the procedures you want to know where your objects and materials are as it's delivered to site? OK? So remember that. That's Stage 1, we'll come back to it because we'll use that less than a minute.

Next one, timing, planning. OK. So this is where we start engaging your planners. We need to know when these things should be delivered to site to keep things on that critical path, to keep things in line with the construction schedule. Yeah, so we know when the 20 doors are delivered, where do they going, what they should be doing. So we can close a room out, et cetera. So we need to engage in this system.

Now, the key bit here is just make sure you pick the high level thing. These things are massive, yeah? Everyone worked with Gantt Charts? If you look at a big construction site that-- you get lost with them. So you've got to work with the planners to pick up that critical path. What key things could delay that project? What key things could impact change as you're doing it? Because that's going to kill the lean construction that we're trying to resolve.

So that's two. Work with your planners to get the dates that you want to monitor. OK? Now you can get that out, it's like an XML file. It's all them three tools that I showed you before. It's an option, you don't have to do it. Get an XML file out of there. It's just simpler to save as XML, wherever. But you need input from your planners there. So it's project man as Stage 1. Planner, Stage 2.

Three, the assets. What do we want to track? OK? So we need to define exactly the components that we're tracking. If we try to track everything, it'll take you more than trying to build the job. So we've got to pick them key elements. Yeah? Now, if you're trying to make things somewhat weather sealed so you can start putting your services in, it's obviously curtain wall and things like that that you may want to track the assembly units that accommodate for that. So just define your list. OK?

Now, a lot the time try and get this list aligned to categories, such as in Revit and things, so you can bring them in through categories, as we go through in a minute. It just makes it easier. But that list has got to be linked do the dates that we've found in the Gantt Chart. OK? So there's three things now that we've now got to start collating. And I'll show you how all this lot comes together.

So today, we are going to truck a door. Yeah, just a double door that's in a Revit file. And what we're going to do is start applying all this information of picking up against this door. But what other information do we need? So this is stage four. Now, this is why I've done the handout notes so you can actually follow this stage by stage, really. So stage four is, what information you want against this door?

Because, yes, we've got all the design information. It's all great, the architect loves it. Is it any good to us? Probably not. A lot of it is design information, purchasing information, et cetera. There are bits in there that we could use for the Operation and Maintenance Manual at the end of the job, as we hand it over to our clients. But there's some other data that we may want to capture. The key one in that list is the top one.

We need to get a unique number against every asset that we want to try and track. If we've not got that, we've got 10 doors probably all named the same from the architect. Now, or all the windows are named the same. Doors may have a door schedule behind, windows may not. But we've got to sort out how we can attack these things. OK?

And then you might sort of say, OK, I want to know actually when the manufacturing is complete, when the delivery day is, when it is ready for sign off. So that's some of the other data that we can capture, but it's just additional data you want against your assets. OK? Once you've done that, we're ready to go. But them first four stages are crucial to being able to tag and track things, because if you've not got that data it just won't work. Because you won't know what you're collating, and you're trying to do analytics on things that just aren't there. OK?

So let's move forward now. So we now got to add that list of information to the elements in our models. OK? Now, you could get your architects or engineers or whatever to out this for you. But basically you've got to do is just set the parameters against the assets. Now, you can see why I said before. The assets that you're trying to track, if you keep them alive two categories, you can align it there as you add in the project parameters in Revit, et cetera.

Now, as you're doing this, just be careful. Because what you want to do is assign the values to the instance not the type. Are we-- Any Revit, users in here? A few? OK. So what this means is you can collate different information against different elements of an object. The top one is a group. So if you type in delivery date May 2019, all of them in that group will get May 2019, not just one door or something. So it's crucial that you go for that bottom tick rather than the group type.

It's great if you want to do the group if you've got a bulk delivery of doors. Do them as types. But if individuals keep it all as separate elements. OK? And we have that in, and assign it to the category. So that's that list that we had and we're enough good to go. And make sure we've got that list to respond to what we want to capture. And that's the basis of setting up Revit now. We're not far off, we can click the door in Revit, and you can see we've got them there. But the big problem is, they're all empty.

So going back now, we need to capture the dates that the planners past to us. We need to pull them in. But I don't want to sit there clicking on every single door or going through just a schedule in Revit, because I might not know Revit because it's not my tool of choice. I'm not a designer to fill all that data in. OK? So this comes now, the next step.

Everyone with me so far? Good. I say download this sheet because it tells you-- So Stage 5. Get those dates. And this is the first part of our workflow. So we start with that Revit file, and we choose what we want. That's free. That's not. So I know which I'd go for, but hey-ho. Well, the difference being is this one you can only add information per object. If you want to do a group, or you know a group of objects by your types, you have to use this one.

So if you want to group all your fan coil units that are coming on site, and you're not bothered where they actually are all individually, you just want to capture, and tag and track them all as a delivery, use this. If you want to do it one at a time, use that one. OK? So that's why I've put the two there. And basically, what this is going to do is strip that empty information out of Revit, but put a bi-directional link in place.

So we can actually go straight into Excel and type in dates, we can link the XML file to that to pull in the dates, et cetera. But all it's doing, that is a life schedule, it's not just Excel. It's actually still linked to Revit, and that's what these tools do. OK? So what's actually happening is we're trying to get this data out of this XML file, populated into these empty fields here.

Now, I did ask if everyone knew Forge or API development or not. Somebody who knew that could probably get that working with a bit of development. I'm not a developer, I'm a contractor, really. I just get out there and do the job. So I work and copy things. I just copy things out there into the schedule. I'll just show you quick video of how we do that.

So here it is. This is the Revit file. This is our office over in London. And basically what I;m going to do is create a door schedule. It's as easy as that. So there's the door schedule. So that's OK. And now what I've got to do is pick up these list, here, of fields that I want filling in. Now, the good thing about this is you don't have to create a list of everything. Think about where these schedules are going to go, because a schedule may go to your door manufacturer. So we can fill in the dates of when they're going to deliver things to you.

Another the schedule could go off to your fan coil unit manufacturers. They could fill in that sheet for you, it's only Excel. It's not Revit now. So once we've got all the listing that we need, we basically look to export this. And this is where them two tools come in. So we can do a better thing. It's always easier, as well, while you're here, sort them. Put them in the order that you want. Because what you don't want is people to go into Excel and start sorting things, because you've got a risk that you end up sorting data around and about in Excel.

So there's your schedule. Use the sorting in Revit, and click OK. So there we go, they're all sorted now. And basically what we do now is there's the fields, the asset numbers, the key you want-- because that's going to be the unique number-- and the barcode. We're going to export that one schedule door four out, save it somewhere, and export it. I'm just using BIMOne. It's bimone.com, you just download the import export.

That goes out, and it will open Excel. There it is as the Excel file. So that can be passed to anybody, anybody can fill that in. And you can see these two gray fields you can't type, they are locked out because they're obviously linked in Revit. They're Revit families and types and names. So it's this bit, the white bits that we need to get filled in.

So the first thing we've got to do is give everything a unique asset number. Now, it's not just a unique asset number, it's a unique number that's going to be the barcode as well. So you can see there, you can drag it down, give everything the number. Hopefully, the architect's done that for you, so you can use their number. If not, this is an easy way.

Now this bit, when's the manufacturing going to be complete? You might issue that Excel off to your door manufacture now, get them to fill that in. Yeah? And you go through this. Your planners may be able to fill in the XML file, pulling copy things into here. We need this completed. Yeah? And once we've got it completed, we're ready to go. So there is completed, all the doors and numbers are in. We've got the dates in of things we're going to track in there.

Now, we basically go and save, come back into Revit, hit the Import Export again, import. Find the file and bring it back in. And if you watch this Revit in the background, it will bring the data through and populate it all for us. Now, that's far easier than trying to learn Revit. Yeah? Let the Excel files and you can distribute them to anybody you wish who's working on your site with you. And it's this data now that we're going to use going forward. And that's the key bit, making sure that asset numbers in. Because that's the what was going to create our barcodes for us.

So if we click on a door-- there we go. We've copied one, I've have missed one. That I shouldn't have done. But you can see the workflow that's going to need to happen there just by using a free plugin. OK? Right, so we've now got some of the dates in there. And we've now got the unique asset that we're going to use for the barcode.

Next, we need to prepare that model to come into the BIM 360 platform now. There's just a few little pointers as we do that. So the next bit of the workflow is here, Revit file. It has to go through Glue. For those people who don't know BIM 360, to get a model from Revit to Field, it has to go through Glue. OK? So we need to prepare the model in Revit so it hits Glue. So here it is.

Now, what I would suggest doing here is create a 3D view in Revit. The reason I do that is I can select what's in that file. So if you imagine if you've got a load of steel manufacturing connections and all sorts of flange connections in your services, it's going to kill your model. Because he's going to be so big you're going to try and load it up onto an iPad on the site and it's going to take quite a while to load upon to it.

So create this view with the things that you actually want to see, and it's going to be useful to you in BIM 360. If you don't do that and just create a random view with everything in it, it may take a while to sink and it will fill your iPad up as well. So just be wary of that. So always create a view, strip it down, and you're ready to go. OK. And then we'll just save that out.

So here if you go into your Navisworks settings and you export out an NWUC, you've got two options. It's either the current view or the project view. OK? So always make sure its current view here. And that'll pull in that view for you. So it's got all the bits you've stripped out of it. And it is key that really, because you'll find you performance of your iPads within 360 is really helped by doing that process.

So, yeah, bring it into 360, into Glue. There's the model, and we can open it. So if we now open that door in Glue, select it, there's the dates and the asset number that we've captured from the system. OK. So now we've got to get it out of Glue into Field. And basically what we have to do to get the modeling there is use something called equipment sets.

So do you remember them asset types that we had and we defined? It's reproducing them again. So here I'm looking at the doors. So there's a door, create a door equipment set of double doors. So that's going to go off these picks, you see the yellow highlights? He's picked the nine double doors. Now this is the interesting bit with Glue and Field, because then you have to go and pick the single doors, and you have to go and pick the fire doors, and you have to go and pick the windows. And the curtain walling and all that good stuff.

But if you work backwards from that list that you created in stage four, you can start going through here, and then once you create the equipment sets, share with Field. So that's now ready, prepared, ready to go in to BIM 360 Field. OK. So we're now getting into the good bit, because we can start nearly using the data. But at the moment, Field is still empty. Yeah? There's nothing in there as in a model.

So what we need to do is get that Glue model now into field. So as you can see here, you have to be project admin to do this. You click the Equipment button, and Add Model from Glue. So once you've done that, you'll pick your project that you've been given access to. And as you click that, you can see there I've got a AU2018 project working, click that, there's that model we created. Click OK, that's now brought it in to field. Bit of a fragmented process, it's just because of other products were put in by Autodesk really. Next gen will change all this side of things.

Now, the big thing here, you can see equipment mapping, zero. So, yes, I've got the model in, but I've got no data in. So I now need to look at bringing this data in. So first thing I need to do is create types. I've got no types, I've got nothing in here. So I need to set up BIM 360 Field first. And I do that by these four tabs.

So the first tab, Types. This, again, is coming back to your list of assets that you want to track. So in here you could say doors. Yes, it's going to be visible to everyone. And now, you want to create equipment types for the different types of doors you want to tag and track going through the system. So you may have external double doors. You may have single doors, fire doors.

And if you've got other the things-- you may have mechanical equipment, you may have steel work, you may have all sorts of things here in a big list. And you create in this. So when you map it back into Field, it's both the same thing again. OK? Now, that's quite detailed but it's important we do this, because otherwise, it just won't go into the system.

Now, the other thing is now Statuses, the next bar in. The Status is default. This is no good to us. So let's create a tag and track status system there. We click out. You remember this from Stage 2, I think it was? So we've now got to bring that list into here. Again, this is so important that we get that list defined. And what we don't want to do is change it, because if we change it halfway through a project, we start losing some of the analytics because it won't know what to report against.

So that first or second stage that we went through is so important to add it into here. And it just keep putting them like so. And that gets the statuses. Now, statuses is going to be so important, because you'll see status is what we're going to use to bring it back into Navisworks later. OK? So just to make sure you're all with me while I'm trying to type that lot in.

The asset numbers, the planned dates, we brought it through in that model, and what we're doing now is setting up 360 Field to get all these data in ready to use in the BIM 360 system. So there we go. We've got all the statuses in there. Now is handover, we can come back to Types and change this to tag on track. There we go, and save it.

So now what we've got to do is Properties again. So these are the stand the properties out the box of BIM 360 Field. Do you want them? Do you not? Obviously, the one that we do need is bar codes, so leave that ticked on. The others you can take off if you don't want them. There's our types that we've just made. So now we can pick the doors that we're going to work on, which is these external double doors. We can click on that.

Remember this list that we made at Stage 3 now? We're going to use that list in here, because there are going to be property lists in Field on your iPad. And that was the key bit of making that list out. So we can bring them in. Now, you can see there's different things here. Yes, we can have dates. And the one the important one is-- I'm going to do it in a minute-- is signatures. Because what you'll find is, is you want your trades to do at least as possible with an iPad.

Now, if you just ask them to sign it as they've completed their action, it's not only just a signature, it's capturing the date, the time, and the date stamp behind it, and the name. So the three things name, date, and times are being captured there. And you can see what we're going to do them in a minute once they've signed them.

So we keep going, we keep filling all these in. So you can see there, change that one to signature, and we're now ready to go. So we keep going with that. We fill it all in, and once it's done, it's still not mapped. We've still got to map, and that was just setting up. So there's quite a bit to this. And that's why I've done it in stages for you, so you can follow it yourselves.

So there's our outdoors. Don't use the GUID, that unique number that comes from Autodesk. We need to pick that asset number so the asset number is used for the unique asset number, save it. So that means now the asset number is the unique ID for all the components that we've brought in. OK? Now what I've got to do is, them fields that I made, how to map them together?

So ready for site. And yo can see it's ready for site sign off. I'll move down there in a minute. So we've just trying to map that list that we've made custom properties to, we're trying to map it because these here, these are your Revit properties. These here are your properties in BIM 360 Field. It doesn't come over automatically or anything. So if you're on your iPad and you click a component in Field, yes, you can see the data. But it's not in the main part of the iPad interface that you see while you're out on site.

So this procedure is just bringing in data out of Revit-- them dates that we've put in-- and pushing it there so we can see out on the site. Now, we have some good fun at this point, because we are quite a few arguments with people. Because people say, I want that doing because I want to see the dates from the plan on site. So they want to map it over. Or they'll say, no, I want it blank. So when somebody enters the date, I know it's the date that is going to be delivered to site, et cetera.

So that's really a decision for yourselves and the people you're working with on what you want to map in. The one that's important is your number. The old you could probably leave and fill it in on site. And I'll show you a bit of that as we get into the iPod interface and get onto that side of it. So that is probably the most complex bit of this is literally, going through them four tabs and doing that mapping process. But that's just how BIM 360 Field is.

It's not a fully integrated system like the next gen of BIN 360 is. And that's why Autodesk have redeveloped it to get where they're going on the next gen. So have a look at some of the next gen field and build this week while you're here, and hopefully equipment is going to be here early next year as well. So we may get a little better than what we do in a lot of these processes. But we are where we are with this. Right.

The one thing that we've missed is the barcode. We've mapped the asset numbering. We've mapped the dates in. But we still haven't done the barcode. So again, if ever you forget anything, you can just come back in, you can go to your equipment mapping, click on the assets that you bring in through-- the doors-- click Next. We're happy with that. Next. And as you go there, we can find in this list-- make sure you tick that because half the properties aren't there.

Come down here, the asset number should be the barcode. And then you're done. That's the important bit, mapping the asset onto the barcode in your types. Still with me? So it is a bit complex, but we've got the. We've got there. We're done. OK? So with them eight steps that we did, going right the way from Revit working with people in the team to find the dates and the assets, is now all beginning to pay off. Because everything is in here now, and we're just ready to push it into them other systems.

So if we open Field up now, them doors that we brought through, we can look on the equipment in BIM 360 Field and you will see that the asset number and barcodes come through. And the dates have actually come through as well, if you want to bring your dates through. If you don't, leave them blank. Don't map them. If you leave it blank, you're sound, and just bring the asset number through and fill these in live.

Now, what you've got to do now is sit with your supply chain, because if they're not engaged in this process, it's going to be very, very difficult to track anything anywhere. So what we tend to do with most of the main contractors we work with is make sure it's in their contracts as they're appointed on the project to say that they will engage in BIM 360. They will work with barcodes, et cetera, through this process.

It's not hard for them. All they've got to do is literally scan this barcode, fill in two bits of information, and we're good to go. That's all they've got to do. So it doesn't matter what trade you're talking to, you usually get a good bit of fun saying, I'm not buying an iPad. But that's just to sort out between you and them. If you're giving them a job, they should be buying just an iPad, which isn't the end of the world.

So we've got to get this barcode as well yet. So free sites, you have barcodesinc.com. You can just type what you want in there, it'll generate bar code. Great. You can stick them on the wall or a piece of steel or wherever you want-- a door-- whatever you want to track. What I tend to use if I'm doing this for a big job and is lots and lots of bar codes to generate, these things called Zebra printers. I don't know if you've seen these over in the US or anything.

You basically upload that spreadsheet that we exported out of Revit before, just point it at that and it just prints them all off in one go for you. OK? So that's just easy. These things at the Zebra printers, it's where you can order different types of labels. So you can stick them on girders and steel work and things that aren't going to come off. You have to get a spray to get them off. The adhesive on them is just amazing-- and putting them on door jams or anything like that. So really worth looking at Zebra printers if you putting barcodes across lots of things on your site.

So, yeah. You got your barcode. Now, what we'd normally do is we'll pass the role of barcodes over to each of the manufacturers, and then just say, as you're starting your manufacture on this door, stick a barcode on it. And just scan it and just say started and sign it. Yeah? That's captured it that's all they need to do. It's as easy as that, but that's going to trigger things off in the site and in manufacture.

We know roughly the manufacturing period is four weeks, we roughly getting a time if they're going to actually deliver things. So that's our early Warning system now that's coming into place. So now let's have a look at the iPad itself. So while you're out on site, this is the iPod interface for those who have not used it. First thing you need to do is log into that project that we used before in Glue. And then the next thing we do is hit this icon, Barcodes, and go scan the barcode on the asset.

Once we've done that, this is the information that we've just mapped across. So these are the dates. Probably saw that. There's the dates that we brought through. If it's going to change, this is why I'm saying you may want to leave that blank or add them in. You might want to change them to the actual dates. There's the barcode that's being used, et cetera, et cetera.

And the big one for me is the status, because it should be blank when you bring in. The first time someone scans it, it's in manufacture now. That's triggered it off the workflow of what's going to happen. So usual things you can go through. If you come down there, there's your signatures. So that's them signatures we created. You just click signatures so they scan it, signature, sign it, done. That's all somebody needs to do. That's captured all the dates, who's done it, and got it going. So status and signatures are you two key ones really.

So that's now been brought in. So if we now click on the door-- so you probably noticed-- if I can scanner bar a little bit. No. Can't do it. But when you hit the barcode at the top it says Show Model. You can get straight to the models or barcode model. And you can see straight into the asset. So that's how we're going to thingy that. And then, obviously, you can change your status. So this thing here is huge

Yeah. And I'll show you why that's huge. So signature, status, and dates. If you want to do-- You might just want to do status and sign offs. That's probably enough to start your tracking process off, rather than getting into all that detail of mapping dates and things. That might be enough to get your analytics out. And then you sync it back, because, obviously, BIM 360 Field classic isn't live synced. You have to sync it. OK? And you'll see why I'm doing all this in a minute. It's going to get some nice pretty pictures and analytics out in a minute.

So that goes off and basically, populates the system, updates it with a change. So everybody's doing this across your supply chain and partners. And basically, now you can start looking at all the equipment that's in there. This is good as well. Because if you're on site you might say, what's due for delivery? So you could change the status and filter on it. Them three things are due for delivery.

So you can start using it for different filters and that while you're on site as well to know what equipment is coming into and things like that. And it's also here, you can see the filters. You know, install date. So if you foreman on site, or your superintendent that's trying to look at what's going to be installed this week or wherever, you can go there now and say, what's going to be installed today? This week? Next week? And they can start seeing some of the components that's actually going to be coming onto site, et cetera, just from the status codes and sign offs.

But it's just the way now that the iPod's been able to filter in all this information that you've set up in the past to get all the system and use it properly. Because it's not normally in the system as you use it just for check lists and all that good stuff. So that was the whirlwind tour of how to set it all up and get it going. Now what we can do is start using the data. And the first thing we've got to do is, yes, we've captured all that data in the field via an iPad. We're going to push it into Navisworks.