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How Networking Plants Using ConcreteGO CloudBatch™ Benefit Concrete Producers

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How Networking Plants Using ConcreteGO CloudBatch™ Benefit Concrete Producers

Maximo Ares Garcia has been working in the construction industry for over 7 years. He began as a sales consultant for concrete equipment with a variety of concrete companies in Latin America. He was responsible for helping and guiding them to maximize plant production output from their equipment and getting the best return on investment. Maximo knows concrete batch equipment, and in his opinion, the new CloudBatch from Sysdyne is changing the way we batch concrete. What is the real value of CloudBatch for Concrete producers, especially those with plants in rural areas? Traditionally to perform batch plant maintenance and system upgrades, resources are dispatched to go onsite to each individual plant, costing man hours and a loss in production revenue. For producers with plants in rural areas, this is especially a problem. It forces the plant to shut down and production to stop which cost money, not to mention the cost of sending people for the day or in some cases several days to install, troubleshoot and test new batch software updates.
"With CloudBatch, plants are centrally networked so any update or upgrade can be done remotely from a central location. It’s simple, straightforward and reduces plant downtime significantly."
How many concrete producers have held off updating batch software to avoid the headache of shutting down the plant? Using CloudBatch, software upgrades are carried out without moving resources or shutting down production. A backup of the plant's data, including mix design information and plant configurations, is already available in the cloud, so loading the information is seamless. As part of SaaS (Software as a Service), the batch software is updated smoothly and continuously on a regular basis. In fact, if the physical batch computer were ever to go down, the batch man can easily switch to any other device, whether it be a computer, tablet or even their phone and continue batching within minutes. The data is cached or saved both locally and on the cloud, so production can continue to push forward regardless. No more waiting days for proprietary computers to arrive, then wrestling with data back-ups to get operations up and running. The future is friendly and this is a great example of how technology is working FOR concrete producers and not the other way around. What about predictive plant maintenance using CloudBatch, how would that work? Every ready-mix plant requires some level of maintenance, however if you see the problem coming before it forces a shut down, that is money saved. Using IoT (internet of things) and sensors on the plant, CloudBatch could possibly run diagnostics to detect potential operational failures before they happen. This would avoid forced plant shutdowns that not only cost money and loss of production but also reduce maintenance bills for replacing parts on the plant.
"Being connected using CloudBatch gives producers, especially those with plants in rural areas, the chance to keep their fingers on the pulse of their batching operations to reduce operational costs and maximize output."
As ConcreteGO CloudBatch rolls out on the market, concrete producers will also benefit from having access to both batch and dispatch data in one central location. The single database for batch and dispatch information will dramatically improve any concrete producer’s ability to track and measure performance and monitor costs more effectively from the palm of their hand. Ready-Mix operations will be able to train new batch men easily online or organize refresher courses to ensure they are using all the key features properly and getting the best return on their investment. Using the cloud, all plants and personnel can be networked as one. Additional capabilities like monitoring production volumes from mobile dashboards and consolidating inventory and material consumption as it happens in real time, is a game changer. All these benefits are only possible by connecting batch systems to the cloud and managing a single database for the entire operation. Once installed, CloudBatch will give Ready-Mix producers unprecedented access to the information they need, when they need it, so they can run their operations more profitably.

La innovación impulsa la eficiencia y la rentabilidad

Un estudio de caso de CowTown Redi Mix
Parte 1: Proceso de facturación simplificado

“iStrada agilizó nuestra facturación hasta el punto de que hemos recortado cuatro días de nuestro DSO (Días de ventas pendientes)”

– Les Hogan, director general de CowTown Redi Mix

La historia de CowTown es de innovación e inspiración: a partir de 2002 con una pequeña flota de mezcladoras y una planta de concreto, CowTown se ha convertido en un jugador regional feroz con más de 150 camiones de concreto premezclado y seis plantas de concreto que prestan servicios en el área de Dallas / Fort Worth.

Los propietarios de CowTown tienen un buen ojo para las nuevas oportunidades comerciales y saben cómo aprovechar el software en la nube para acelerar su crecimiento. CowTown fue uno de los primeros en adoptar el ConcreteGO Cloud Dispatch de Sysdyne, lo que les permitió minimizar la necesidad de construir y soportar una compleja infraestructura de TI interna, lo que a su vez ahorró costos y recursos. Agregar plantas al despacho de ConcreteGO es tan simple como unos pocos clics: después de implementar con éxito ConcreteGO, CowTown decidió seguir adelante e instalar Sysdyne Batch Controls en sus plantas.

A medida que crecían, CowTown enfrentó desafíos comunes en la industria del concreto: agilizar el proceso de facturación y reducir el costo y los días de cobranza de cuentas por cobrar. Antes de implementar la solución de Sysdyne, los mensajeros conducían a cada planta y recolectaban boletos de papel a diario. Regresarían a la oficina principal con montones de boletos que luego fueron escaneados, archivados y finalmente archivados en cajas. El personal administrativo dedicó una gran cantidad de tiempo a clasificar el papel para asociar los tickets con las facturas adecuadas. Luego, los boletos se escanearon individualmente, se adjuntaron a facturas separadas y se enviaron a los clientes. Todo el proceso fue costoso, lento, ineficiente y propenso a errores.

CowTown se acercó a Sysdyne en busca de una solución. En 2019, CowTown comenzó a implementar iStrada de Sysdyne, una solución de rastreo de camiones GPS con todas las funciones que incluye emisión de boletos sin papel, cronometraje, plataformas de colaboración entre contratistas e inspectores, paneles de control de KPI (indicadores clave de rendimiento) y la herramienta de integración ERP bidireccional de Sysdyne, Quicklink. Con la emisión de boletos sin papel de iStrada, todos los boletos finales recolectados por los conductores se almacenan en un lugar seguro en formato PDF. El nuevo proceso hizo que el personal administrativo usara Quicklink para abrir tickets de ConcreteGO y crear una factura en su programa de facturación descargando el ticket PDF de iStrada y guardándolo en una carpeta local en su computadora. Luego, harían clic en el botón adjuntar archivo en su programa de facturación y navegarían por las carpetas de la computadora identificadas por el número de factura para encontrar los tickets en PDF y adjuntarlos a la factura. Vea el diagrama a continuación:

“Lo que solía llevarnos más de cuatro horas, ahora nos lleva menos de 15 minutos.”

– Les Hogan, director general de CowTown Redi Mix

Sysdyne ha sido el socio tecnológico de CowTown en cada paso del camino. El siguiente paso en el viaje de CowTown hacia la transformación digital es implementar un proceso basado en códigos QR que vincule el cronometraje con la nómina. El flujo de trabajo se desarrolló con Sysdyne y agilizará significativamente el proceso de entrada / salida de los empleados y mejorará la nómina. Esperamos continuar nuestra larga y exitosa relación con nuestros socios en CowTown y saludamos el espíritu innovador que les sirve a medida que continúan creciendo y prosperando.

“Los productos de Sysdyne hicieron posible nuestro rápido crecimiento.”

– Sam Shmaisani, director ejecutivo de CowTown Redi Mix.
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