We are constantly striving to provide new and innovative services to deliver the best project outcomes for our clients. 五年前，当拉吉·艾扬格决定创立制造公司时, 一家软件公司，将把最好的制造业带到建筑业, approached 百家乐软件 to help develop a software system specifically catered to support pre-fabrication and offsite construction, we saw it as a perfect fit to work with him and his team as 百家乐软件 was still developing our approach to prefab. 快进到今天, we have seen Raghi and his team grow to 50 people and provide services across the industry.

Manufacton’s advanced cloud-based software helps companies manage construction materials, 离线生产, and onsite installation across their entire business–with expert support to keep them running. 五年前在康西格利的总部工作, Raghi能够直接从球队那里听到他们需要什么, 特别是那些有预制和模块化建筑组件的项目. It was also a unique opportunity for us at 百家乐软件 to see what happens behind the scenes in software development.

和我们一起庆祝他的工作, 我和Raghi坐下来聊了聊我们和他的团队合作的起源, 听听他对未来趋势的见解, and what he has enjoyed about working with the larger 百家乐软件 team for the last five years.

Q: 你能告诉我们百家乐软件和manufacture之间的合作是如何形成的吗?

Raghi我从事建筑技术行业已经30多年了. 在这十年的早期, 我开始看到一些建筑公司想把他们的建筑搬到外面去. They were evaluating opportunities to do more prefab, kitting and even volumetric modules. 从本质上讲，建筑业试图模仿制造业. I met Matthew 百家乐软件 to hear his perspective on how this could impact the future of construction. He confirmed noticing these trends as well and was thinking of ways in which 百家乐软件 could spearhead this movement. 他邀请我到康西格利在米尔福德的总部工作, so that I could be fully immersed in the industry and gain perspectives from project executives, as well as visit job sites to meet with subcontractors to hear first-hand about the needs and potential roadblocks.

Q: 在百家乐软件拥有一张办公桌有助于塑造manufacture的业务吗?

R: 有百家乐软件作为孵化器的机会真是太棒了. The best part of working in 百家乐软件’s office was having direct access to the team and being able to collaborate with project executives, 直流工程师和总主管. 百家乐软件 team members would stop by to ask what we were working on and talk through pre-fabrication and industry ideas. It was really helpful to get their perspective and insights as we were developing the software — especially in learning about the risks with transition to offsite construction. 他们还向我们介绍了创新的分包商. We would brainstorm together what pre-fabrication and 制造业 would even look like in construction, and I believe these collaborative moments helped shape Manufacton to what it is today.

Q: 在AEC中，您正在推动制造业的哪些创新?

R: When we started talking to superintendents about taking more of the construction offsite, it became clear that their biggest concern was losing visibility and control of the construction supply chain. 一位督学总结得很好. He said “I walk my job site at least a couple of times a day to make sure everything is running smoothly. I would not be happy if I was told that I needed to stay in the trailer and walk my job site only once every 2 weeks. 但当你把工作带离现场时，就会发生这种情况. 你不可能开车去所有偏远的工厂, but you need to ensure you have visibility and control of which subcontractor is building what prefab components in which factory, 它们应该什么时候生产并送到工作现场, 他们在这个过程中走了多远. I do not want any surprises about when things are supposed to show up at my job site.“项目中的每个人都可以访问云中的制造业, 并获得当前状态的可见性. Coordinated BIM/直流 models are automatically color-coded to show which prefab assemblies or modules are in detailing, 制造业, 交付或安装. 他们可以浏览模型来显示过去一个月安装了什么, 下个月计划交付什么，等等.

分包商 and modular builders leverage Manufacton to optimize their factory production as they push to do more prefab. Some of them are even verticalizing their business to become design-制造业-construction companies. Their biggest frustration before Manufacton was that their factory was a “black box” and their own design and field teams did not have visibility into their factory production.

Q: 你能描述一个百家乐软件项目使用了制造厂的技术吗?

R: 这个团队 罗杰斯街50号 project brought in Manufacton because they decided early during the planning phase that they were going to use pre-fabrication. The project is a mixed-use building in Cambridge with hardly any lay-down or areas to build. The prefabrication components of the building were coming from different areas: steel from Canada, 来自佛罗里达一家工厂的浴室吊舱, 以及宾夕法尼亚州的无限墙系统. 传统上, teams would have to call the different manufacturers to get status updates as well as keep track of lengthy project briefings. 在这种情况下, 然而, the team utilized Manufacton to track all of these moving parts during the entire process. 该软件提供了一个颜色编码, digital model of the building so that teams can quickly scan the model to see what part of the building is in the detailing, 制造业, 交付, 或者安装阶段.

Q: 在与康西格利合作的过程中，你最享受的是什么?

R: 文化. 百家乐软件 is an incredibly innovative company filled with people that do not accept the status quo. 团队会提出问题，总是对想法持开放态度，并且非常支持. 百家乐软件 has been a partner to us since our beginning and has helped us shape our thinking and validated what we were discovering along the way. 我希望我们在未来的许多年里继续共同成长.

Manufacton’s willingness to be part of the 百家乐软件 team proved to be an invaluable partnership for both companies. 当我们展望未来, 通过继续推进预制制造, Raghi and the larger Manufacton’s team’s responsiveness and insights will continue to produce rich outcomes for both companies to better serve clients.