Tracker is a tool for tracking building project life cycles. It is used to provide a method for tracing (tracking) items within a project cycle, and for evaluating time being spent between each department or station.
The example below illustrates a typical scenario for tracking the items from a drawing stage through to delivery to site.
With Tracker, all fabrication parts in a CADmep model, in an ESTmep estimate, or in a CAMduct manufacturing job, can automatically produce custom designed item labels to any of the bar code or QR code standards. For example: Drawing/Job Name, Item No, Description, EAN No.
You can also use Tracker to produce bar code labels or QR code labels for:
- manufactured items that are going into stock
- bought out stock items that are shipped to site
- plant items, tools, and equipment that can be booked out to a site
Item Statuses
Items can be assigned different user-defined statuses as they proceed through the cycle. For example, some typical user-defined statuses are:
- Drawing Office
- Approved
- Manufacturing
- QA
- Shipping
- On Site
- Installed
- Tested
- Valuations
- Completed
Some of the statuses can be updated at bar code or QR code reader station locations. Others can be updated on the AutoCAD drawing. For example, in a drawing, the status might need to be changed from "Drawing Office" to "Approved".
Certain types of data can also be recorded for each status; for example:
- Date
- Time
- Operator
- Custom field-1
- Custom Field-2
Reporting
Custom reports that list item statuses can be viewed or printed. Any of the data can be exported for use by third-party software. Typical uses for Tracker are as follows:
- Tracking items through manufacturing
- Tracking tools and equipment
- Tracking Delivery to Site
- Finding items on site and linking them to a status or payments (On site - Installed - Tested - invoiced)
- Quickly obtain a work sheet on the shop floor for a particular item being manufactured
- Quickly select parts or items for further processing i.e. select and nest insulation panels