Industrial Owners & EPCM Contractors

Clear line of sight on project performance

Real-time project visibility and transparency, all of the time.

E7 provides real-time performance tracking, giving project and organisation leaders a clear line of sight across all aspects of a project.

Best practice methodologies such as Advanced Work Packaging, and robust rules of credit progress measurement are implemented so that performance can be tracked and analysed, variances identified and corrected before they become unpleasant and costly surprises for a project or across the portfolio. Progress Measurement and Real-time Schedule Performance Analytics to ensure that good news is bad news fast so you can keep your project on track.

Data offers a wealth of useful information for capital-project teams. Project data can be used to determine what drives better performance, while inspection reports can be used to improve project quality.

Unfortunately, Industrial project teams rarely make full use of the project data available to them largely due to such data exist in thousands of electronic spreadsheets or even on paper, with no central repository. And since project reporting is done in different formats, styles, and systems, the way data are captured is not standardized. As a result, any data generated from a project are in effect lost once it has come to an end.

Structured, real-time data directly from the field provides owners accurate and timely insight into the true field conditions, illuminating opportunities for risk mitigation and project governance. By standardizing how data is captured and stored, real-time performance data from projects is accessible across the company enabling project teams to anticipate and mitigate issues related to cost, schedule, and quality.

Contractor collaboration

Learning and benchmarking through contractor collaboration.

When a project is 20% complete, it is almost impossible to change its trajectory, and remedial action requires massive spend to try and mitigate an overrunning schedule.

Lean, efficient project teams are teams that are set-up for success. Through active monitoring and analysis, project performance is continually evaluated, giving you confidence that project partners are performing their role in line with expectations. Efficient collaboration between Owners and Contractors requires data from the Contractors to be easily published as repeatable project deliverables that are validated automatically and instantly made available for inclusion in progress and performance management.

The Challenge: Systems are typically updated on a monthly cycle and therefore real-time insight actually becomes “real-time insight … once a month”. This results in a Time to Decision that is far too long to be of maximum benefit, and in many cases, the opportunity to influence corrective action is lost or greatly reduced.

The Solution: E7 enables contractors to provide data, not reports, in a structured, consistent environment. With the data maintained in a single, trusted data environment, the quantification of the impacts of change and disruption can be evaluated and captured minimizing the Time to Decision and maximizing transparency.

This is achieved by providing a digital platform for Contractors to publish their progress reporting deliverables as data rather than traditional reports. This greatly reduces, the Time to Decision the time typically spent by Owner team project controls personnel managing adhoc manual methods of processing, massaging and organising data that can then be integrated into the planning and cost management systems.

Rather Contractors publish progress on a daily basis that can be reviewed and used by all members of the owner’s team each day to reduce Time to Decision and ensure clean structured data that can easily be imported into Planning and Cost Management systems to support the end of month reporting cycles.

By reducing the Time to Decision, Owners and EPCMs are able to quickly analyze information from the field, assess mitigation opportunities, implement corrective actions and update the Planning and Cost Management systems with accurate, up-to-date information.

Total project transparency means that actions can be taken to support project teams as they deliver major works. E7 provides complete peace of mind that a project is on track.

Learning and benchmarking

Rich data for future project learnings and continuous cross-portfolio benchmarking.

Benchmarking is the process of comparing one’s business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and/or best practices from other industries. Benchmarking is a continuous effort of analysis and evaluation. Care must be taken in deciding what to benchmark. Deciding what information to benchmark against is usually easier than obtaining that information.

E7 enables contractors to provide data, not reports, in a structured, consistent environment. With the data maintained for each project in a single, trusted data environment, the quantification of the information, along with the impacts of change and disruption can be evaluated and captured, greatly reducing the Time to Decision. With a standard approach to data collection across a portfolio of projects, benchmarking is accomplished by consistent evaluation of quality, time and cost using E7’s Analytics and Deep Insights into project performance; with learnings applied to each successive project.

Through E7 project performance is controlled and maximised to reduce waste and delay and boost productivity and profitability.