If you own or manage heavy construction projects you have likely already started automating field systems, but coordinating A&E, subs, and owner reps on QA/QC while keeping production moving is a huge challenge.  Your goal for quality is 100% compliance and acceptance to make sure the job is done right the first time every time, but it is hard to track.  Thousands of inspections have to happen in the field and you are sending inspectors out with clipboards and paper.  Then staff compile the information and have trouble keeping up with communications and managing responsible parties.  As issues pile up it is hard to tell if you are really on schedule.  Costs of lost time and rework will be big and you will have to negotiate who pays for what.  This is what you deal with every day.

The LATISTA Field platform allows you to customize automated solutions that address these problems.  Major projects like oil and gas structures and pipelines; power and water treatment plants; and transportation benefit millions of people every day.  Such far reach requires a close, careful watch on quality and safety specifications throughout the construction process.  LATISTA Field maintains this watch by promoting collaboration between all members of a project team with mobile updates in the field on tablet PCs and an exclusive web portal available in the office.  With LATISTA, quality and safety inspection forms are standardized and automated, meaning that any deficiencies can be found, communicated, and corrected in a matter of hours rather than the days it might take with a pen and paper system.

Owner Requirements: Quality and Schedule

If you are the owner of a large project you care about quality and schedule more than anything else.  Owners pay the biggest price when their facility has quality problems or it is not ready for use on time.  For big projects each day a project is delayed can cost millions of dollars.  LATISTA Field addresses these issues and allows project stakeholders to collaborate on solving issues quickly during production.  This makes it an ideal platform for Construction Management contracts.

Field Mobile Software Tied to a Powerful Server

Tablet PCs, engineered for construction and loaded with LATISTA Field allow inspectors and engineers to go into the field with the office in their hands.  Drawings, QA/QC requirements, BIM data, camera, bar-code & RFID reader are all there in a powerful PC with long battery life and hot-swappable batteries.

LATISTA built its core server software to run on Oracle or MS SQL so you can self-host using software you know and can support.  You can easily scale it to hundreds of simultaneous users and integrate it with other applications.  Security is essential and a variety of permissions are available to the administrator as to who has access and permission to alter and view data. Read more about LATISTA Field software solution...

Distances & Connectivity

LATISTA has built fast and reliable on-line off-line synchronization technology that allows users to go into the field with no connectivity.  A one button click is all that is needed to snyc data two ways between client and server.  If needed, regional groups can snyc using a remote server that can later be synced with a central server.

Extensive QA/QC requirements

In a complex project QA/QC is measured by discipline or trade; mechanical, electrical, welding, etc.  With LATISTA Field you can set up custom workflows for inspections and disciplines and produce detailed quality reports of the results.  Compliance checklists are easy to set in the system by discipline, inspection type and location.  Compliance is recorded by simply clicking a button on the checklist.  If a deficiency is found, click the non-compliance button and a list of standard deficiencies appears, select a deficiency to have it not only recorded, but also linked to who is responsible to act on it. Read more about LATISTA Field QA/QC software...

Reporting

Reporting is also customizable in LATISTA Field.  If you need to benchmark acceptance ratios and view which deficiencies or sub-contractors are causing problems, you can create reports in PDF format or view them in a dashboard.  Issues reports with work orders can be automatically forwarded to subs or desired parties or you can require them to log into a portal you have provided and they can view or create reports for themselves.  The benefits are the ability to quickly spot trends, make corrections and enable continuous process improvements.

Reporting Features:

• Tabular reports with drilldowns
• Analytical cross-project reports
• Graphical dashboards for quick overview
• Inclusion of photos and drawing markups into reports
• Slice reports by company, division, area, systems, etc.
• Ability to customize reports heavily if required
• Ability to provide database “views” for cross applications reporting

Commissioning

Engineering testing and compliance is needed to make sure all systems are fully functional and ready for use.  LATISTA works with customers to create commissioning scripts in the system as well. Read more about LATISTA Field Commissioning software...

Safety 

There is no need to invest in a completely separate safety system when you can put your safety program in LATISTA Field as well.  You can use the same hardware, software and personnel to measure safety compliance and keep a record of problems. Read more about LATISTA Field Safety software...