Field inspection management software helps organizations move beyond paper-based quality inspections by streamlining workflows, reducing errors, and increasing visibility. With real-time data collection, standardized guidance, and automation features, teams can adapt quickly, demonstrate value, and maintain quality across changing conditions.
Construction rework isn’t just a minor inconvenience; it can be a reputation-shattering, profit-draining disaster. The impact goes beyond financial losses – it could determine whether your construction business thrives or dives.
When you look across your projects, consider how your digital data collection processes, quality inspections, safety inspections, and SOPs are ensuring that you’ll realize a profit rather than a loss. Specifically, start with the data — and the ability to measure the quality, safety, and effectiveness of your processes and teams.
Quality assurance inspections keep operations running smoothly but require effective data collection to assess if work is up to standards, identify problem areas to improve, and avoid rework.
Struggling with manufacturing safety and quality standards? You’re not alone in facing these challenges.
Fulcrum sets your program up for success with intuitive new features.
Fulcrum sets your program up for success with intuitive new features that provide you and your field inspectors with the right information at the right time.
You need to make keen observations of the workplace, whether with scheduled inspections or through real-time issue observation.
You need to make keen observations of the workplace, whether with scheduled inspections or through real-time issue observation. But these moments in time become substantially more valuable if they can be aggregated to help you describe, justify, and make decisions about your quality program. Converting quality inspections, observations, and even everyday actions into easy-to-access data can provide the quantitative basis for higher-quality outcomes and better decision-making.
Enhance your construction field inspections with practical, data-driven solutions. This datasheet provides actionable insights to boost efficiency, safety, and accountability. Download it to explore ways to improve your inspection workflows and ensure high standards across all projects.
Whether critical installations or safety inspections, field teams perform a wide range of essential functions for many companies. By the nature of their work, however, field teams risk being isolated from not just the main office, but from the very processes which produce quality work. When field teams fall behind a quality curve, potential rework and unchecked safety hazards can threaten both bottom-lines and business reputations. And if they’re isolated, field teams may not adopt the culture of quality that safety managers strive so hard to cultivate.
The Challenges
Quality control data is not easily accessible from paper inspection records
Paper checklists promote cursory examinations, often resulting in incomplete quality control audit documentation
Inability to share quality control inspection data to promote constant improvement
Ineffective and delayed identification of quality issues
Key Outcomes
A single source of truth for easily referenced digital files (including photos) documenting quality of every product
Digital inspection apps promoting interactive quality control engagement and accountability
Streamlined product quality issue resolution using auto notifications directly to involved departments
Insight on training requirements and repetitive quality issues using consolidated quality data across inspections
A quality-first culture empowering the assembly line to report issues on mobile devices for early intervention and design review
Creating a superior product through quality control digitization
The Halton Company corporate vision and strategy focuses on a premium customer experience, innovative digital capabilities, and high employee commitment. Delivering a quality product is at the heart of its business.
Quality field inspections help make sure work is up to standards and keep operations going smoothly, but that’s just the beginning.
Why it’s critical for companies to begin digitizing their field quality inspection efforts.
Quality inspections are a crucial step in the building process for every project, at every site, and for every construction company.
Digital quality inspections in construction can make the difference in the time and money lost chasing rework.
This research report is jam-packed with data that will help you understand inspection-related challenges across multiple industries.
It’s been a wild ride for the construction industry. First we have the pluses: a surge in construction spending due to pent up demand post-lockdown, $550 billion in federal funding which will spur large infrastructure projects, and a (temporarily) red-hot housing market leading to new residential housing starts increase of 15.6% in 2021. In this dynamic environment, digital field inspection management platforms have become increasingly important.
In its 2021 Global Construction Survey, global auditing firm KPMG reports that nearly 60% of construction and engineering companies interviewed agree that visibility into (and integration of) risks associated with enterprises, portfolios and projects is important for capital project success. Let’s unpack that.
So, we’ve discussed the problem of construction rework, and the devastating effect it can have on your deadlines and your profits. We’ve also shared how digital quality inspections can help open lines of communication, empower employees to follow the latest processes for quality assurance, and deliver location-based insights to keep supervisors in the know about conditions on-site. But even if you’ve followed all the advice and done everything you can to avoid rework, sometimes it can’t be avoided. Then what?
Few words make a construction contractor’s heart sink faster than “rework” – redoing or correcting work that was not done correctly the first time. Construction work is all about margins – margins for time, employees, and profit – and these margins are notoriously thin. When something must be redone, or worse, dismantled and then redone, all of these margins quickly evaporate resulting in missed deadlines, cost overruns, and projects failing.
Having problems finding skilled construction workers? You’re not alone. The labor shortage has hit the construction industry particularly hard: home builder contractors estimate that nearly three-quarters of a million construction workers will be needed each year to keep up with demand and account for attrition, while 92% of commercial construction contractors report moderate to high levels of difficulty finding skilled workers.
Improved quality control through better data and digitization
Location-enabled mobile data collection has helped Wonderful Orchards grow nutritious foods safely and efficiently.
Download this free guide to learn ways to avoid costly rework and deliver high-quality projects on time and on budget.
Use this form to outline all the work agreed to be performed as part of a contract or subcontract for a construction or engineering project.
Download this free PDF checklist to inspect the condition of road surfaces.
Download this checklist to prevent structural failure and ensure compliance.
Watch this on-demand webcast to learn how to leverage checklists for process optimization.
Use this free PDF checklist to complete thorough electrical system inspections.
Download this checklist to conduct thorough HVAC inspections to ensure proper function and good air quality.
Establishing a quality culture within your mobile workforce is more important than ever.
Performing maintenance inspections on roadways, runways, and other asphalt or concrete surfaces.
If you work in construction, you’ve probably noticed smartphones, tablets, and other new technology solutions appearing on job sites over the last few years. If you’ve been in the industry for a long time, you might even find them annoying: Why create complicated new processes when the old ones work just fine?
This month in our continuing series of customer interviews, we talked with one of our long-time customers in the manufacturing industry. Manufacturing companies are a growing user base for mobile data collection applications, and Fulcrum is a great match for manufacturers because it offers an integrated mobile solution that speeds up quotes, customer service, and order management. Real-time data capture is what differentiates the leaders from the rest. Mike Merrill is the NDE Coordinator & Field Service Tech at Turbine Master. He has worked there since 2000 and has seen many changes that technology offers to workflows. Our team sat down with Mike and asked him about his data collection methods, the turbine industry, turbine inspections, and the future of data collection technologies.
