CSS AUTOMATED PLANNING GUIDES FOR SUCCESS
The CSS top to bottom process provides the user precise mathematical calculations, measuring RFI’s, Change Orders, Drawing Releases, Engineering Progress, Construction Progress for Schedule updates and Cost projections.
According to CII, 95% of all construction projects fail to meet one or more business objectives and 70% of all construction projects are not completed within 10% of budgeted cost or schedule.
CSS automated processes proactively validate and measure the critical elements of INFORMATION. The methods are easy to use, allowing the team to make regular and accurate decisions.
Schedule Compliance: Front End Planning (FEP) Guide utilizes historical earned value metrics, producing “real time’ planning scenarios.
Using the selector, the team determines the plan that fits the project workhours required. This is accomplished by using the engineering detail design hours and the construction direct hours from the estimate.
Selecting a bell curve provides analytics for selecting the optimal workforce plans, peak percent complete and duration requirements for both engineering and construction. the integrated workforce curve allows the user to review a template for planning.
Multiple choices are available for selecting the construction mobilization percentage related to engineering completeness.
Workfront saturation options are available to choose the best plan.
Predictive Project Analysis: Utilizing three easy guides, you can measure progress and proactively;
The Engineering and Construction plans are regularly updated, providing calculations to instantly measure changes to the schedule in both days and dollars.
The Quantity Trending Guide allows the user to measure changes to both engineering and construction. The changes calculate the impact of change in both dollars and schedule.
Accurate INFORMATION allows the user to make precise schedule and cost forecasts.
Field Supervisor Planning Guide: Automated plans built for crew planning.
Select workhours and duration planned for the supervisor, input into the guide.
Select the options for impact items.
The guide produces a workforce plan with weekly updates for progress, variances to the plan, and ultimately a performance factor.
Superintendents can use to review progress for multiple teams.
Field Staffing Plans: Current hiring practices need to be significantly changed to meet industry demands. Precision Efficiency Apps for individual testing and scoring determines an efficiency skill level based on skilled standardized units of measure. Combining the score with the automated crew mix analyzer, provides a precise method to meet or improve on the as-sold labor rate. This creates opportunities to reward high performers and showcase a career path for individuals new to the industry, highlighting the need to develop their skills. This information also provides historical data for recruiting and retention. This process differentiates your company by locating and selecting employees by “Winning Through Hiring Superior Talent”.
Leadership: CSS has developed a curriculum for teaching frontline supervisors cost control and accountability methods. This approach involves earned value metrics to understand the time relations to productivity. This business approach teaches how to “Win the Minutes” each day. By making our supervisor planning guide available, it insures the knowledge gained will be used on a daily basis.
Welder Testing Productivity: The easy to use productivity pipe welder app delivers instant feedback for individual and overall team productivity. The testing app allows the user to determine pipe welder efficiency at hire-in. The combination of both, offers the option to hire at a higher rate for high performers and track overall piping progress. “Measuring Individual Performance” increases morale and production.
Efficiency Testing: Easy to use apps provides certainty of skilled professionals abilities to perform standardized task. The goal is to score the worker for paying for performance.
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The 3 step approach for implementing the CSS Efficiency Apps:
Test the user in a controlled environment using the precision scoring app and standardized design drawings.
Record the instant score into the data base.
Determine the amount of crew mix reallocation you desire to maintain the as-sold rate.
Click above to review an example of how the Efficiency apps allow the reallocation of labor dollars for high performers.
Implementing the Process
“WHY” Implement the Process
The CSS mission is to revolutionize the industrial construction industry workforce hiring process through technology applications located on a single platform. With the challenges of winning work, potential supply chain delays, and shortages of workers, CSS offers a process to objectively identify resources for your company. Providing tools for a world class construction organization is our “WHY” for what we do, providing a connection to “FINDING YOUR WHY”.
The Construction Industry faced a shortage of 546,000 workers in 2023”. The industry we dedicated our careers to will be facing a drastic shortage of skilled labor to fill various roles for job sites across America in the future. Think about the number one complaint from management - lack of reliable and skilled labor. CSS next generation applications provide opportunities for your company to strategically hire, measure worker efficiency, pay for performance, and retain key workers.
We believe technology offers means and methods to precisely measure individual performance, creating a more equitable way to reward workers.
“HOW” to Implement the Process -3 Simple Steps
Precision testing using CSS scoring apps, validates the individual efficiency prior to hiring. The standard tasks allows each individual to “run the same race”. Like the NFL Combine, we don’t hire the individual, we only measure their speed and efficiency. Reward for efficiency.
Crew-Mix Analysis has been around forever. By taking the CSS scores, a company is able to establish their own project crew-mix by categorizing the individuals by training levels, skills and maintain the as sold labor rate.
Performance pay can be one outcome from the efficiency test scores. A company can now determine pay wages per the adopted ranges and know with certainty the individuals can execute the work at a rate that coincides with the expectations. We are in the business of developing people and promoting talent while delivering the project.
Vision
CSS efficiency apps (CMS for CyMyScore) are built to a patented calibrated measurement and scoring system, providing a precise score, like a credit score. All tests developed have specific tasks and precise timeframes delivering a specific score with a top score of 500. Combining both, the precision approach will replace subjective methods used today. The future will demand every worker and company understand the efficiency for each employee and reward them accordingly. Worker productivity in the future means the difference between success and failure.
CSS Applications Introduction
Recruit, Reward, and Retain High Performers for your company. ADVANCING EVERYONE ON THE TEAM
CSS Leadership Development Process
Estimate Review Process
Schedule Duration Targets
Engineering /Construction Measured Mile Ratios
Engineering/Construction Quantity Trending Plan
Integrated EPC Plan
Document Control Process
Detailed Execution Plans
Note: Tools and processes originally built as a method for building recovery/acceleration plans.
Left of Zero-Before Mobilization: Every project has a choice, Proactively Plan or Reactively Mitigate
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Applications/Databases/Management Tools
- Testing Centers-CSS envisions testing centers where applicable testing equipment (CSS designed) is used to achieve precise metrics for standardized testing parameters of each test. To maintain integrity of the tests, locations would utilize CWI’s or certified personnel as proctors. The client/contractor may elect to perform efficiency tests upon hire-in. Over time, an individual will have multiple test scores applied to their resume. Understanding the efficiency of workers compared to each other on identical tasks will allow users to know workers abilities to perform.
- Construction Management Apps: CyMyScore (CMS)
- Electrical apps for commercial and industrial use are built and ready for use.
-Pipe welding - app for testing, scoring is built and ready for use.
-Concrete Efficiency- pending.
- Structural Efficiency- pending.
- Mechanical Efficiency- under development.
- Pipe Fitter Efficiency- the app needs to calibrate (beta test) the app to the test.
- Project Duration Guide- prototype built, app under development.
- Engineering/Construction Ratio Guide- prototype built, app under development.
- Quantity Trending Guide- prototype built, app under development.
- Welder Productivity- app for measuring field productivity for individual and team welders.
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CSS Leadership Development
CSS assists leaders with a detailed program outlining processes required to execute projects efficiently. HOW AND WHY
Module 1 Overview
Safety, Quality, and Project Administration. PRICE OF ADMISSION
Module 2 Overview
Workforce Development Process. CORE BUSINESS DECISION
Module 3 Overview
Estimates and Targets. BUILD A WORKPLAN
Module 4 Overview
Bridging the estimate into a workplan. EXECUTE THE WORKPLAN
Module 5 Overview
Project Impacts. RECOGNIZE AND CALCULATE IMPACT
Module 6 Overview
Schedule and Change Management. PROTECT THE SCHEDULE
Module 7 Overview
Outage Planning. SIMULATION OF SUCCESS
Module 8 Overview
Construction Complete, Checkout, Mechanically Complete, Commissioning, and Performance Testing. BRIDGE THE GAPS
CSS Leadership Development Processes are built to teach proactive planning, improving performance.
Processes built to provide tools for accelerating future construction leaders careers.
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