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W.L. French Excavating Corporation Case Study

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Sensors - GPS
Applicable Industries	Construction & Infrastructure
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Maintenance
Use Cases	Construction Management Predictive Maintenance
Services	System Integration Training
Challenge	W.L. French Excavating Corporation, a family-owned company with 150 employees, was initially focused strictly on field operations, not software and computers. As the company grew and evolved, they realized the importance of technology in their success. They faced internal resistance, particularly from field and maintenance employees loyal to familiar, manual systems. The maintenance team relied on paper-based processes and whiteboards to manage more than 200 pieces of heavy equipment. Maintenance of equipment accounts for a significant percentage of their annual operating budget, and they saw a big opportunity to impact profitability through process improvement. Read More
About Customer	W.L. French Excavating Corporation is a family-owned company based north of Boston. With 150 employees, the company provides site development, mass excavation, and heavy utility construction as well as specialized site remediation and soil management services throughout the New England region. The company has a fleet of over 200 pieces of heavy equipment. Maintenance of this equipment accounts for a significant percentage of their annual operating budget. Read More
Solution	The company adopted B2W Estimate in 2004, followed by the B2W Dispatch, Track, and Maintain applications. These features allowed the company to bid with increased speed and accuracy, manage maintenance more proactively, and capture field data daily with increased efficiency. The benefits of a unified platform for estimating and operations, with common user interfaces and operational data and access to real-time information and reporting, were emphasized. The maintenance team at W.L. French moved from paper-based processes and whiteboards to B2W Maintain, which helped them cut costs and keep their equipment in production. B2W Maintain also drove proactive preventive maintenance programs and integrated seamlessly with GPS and telematics systems used for the W.L. French fleet. Read More Log in to view content
Contents

Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Sensors - GPS

Applicable Industries

Construction & Infrastructure

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Maintenance

Use Cases

Construction Management

Predictive Maintenance

Services

System Integration

Training

Challenge

W.L. French Excavating Corporation, a family-owned company with 150 employees, was initially focused strictly on field operations, not software and computers. As the company grew and evolved, they realized the importance of technology in their success. They faced internal resistance, particularly from field and maintenance employees loyal to familiar, manual systems. The maintenance team relied on paper-based processes and whiteboards to manage more than 200 pieces of heavy equipment. Maintenance of equipment accounts for a significant percentage of their annual operating budget, and they saw a big opportunity to impact profitability through process improvement.

About Customer

W.L. French Excavating Corporation is a family-owned company based north of Boston. With 150 employees, the company provides site development, mass excavation, and heavy utility construction as well as specialized site remediation and soil management services throughout the New England region. The company has a fleet of over 200 pieces of heavy equipment. Maintenance of this equipment accounts for a significant percentage of their annual operating budget.

Solution

The company adopted B2W Estimate in 2004, followed by the B2W Dispatch, Track, and Maintain applications. These features allowed the company to bid with increased speed and accuracy, manage maintenance more proactively, and capture field data daily with increased efficiency. The benefits of a unified platform for estimating and operations, with common user interfaces and operational data and access to real-time information and reporting, were emphasized. The maintenance team at W.L. French moved from paper-based processes and whiteboards to B2W Maintain, which helped them cut costs and keep their equipment in production. B2W Maintain also drove proactive preventive maintenance programs and integrated seamlessly with GPS and telematics systems used for the W.L. French fleet.

Impact #1	Increased speed and accuracy in bidding
Impact #2	More proactive management of maintenance
Impact #3	Increased efficiency in capturing field data daily

Impact #1

Increased speed and accuracy in bidding

Impact #2

More proactive management of maintenance

Impact #3

Increased efficiency in capturing field data daily

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W.L. French Excavating Corporation Case Study

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