Labor Savings Data
Actual Customer Information About Their Savings On A Project
Solutions as Strategy – Results
SWC’s solutions saved our customers between 55% and 70% on their“estimated” labor.
- Proven savings on the back end
- Organized strategy will increase the percentage of savings by at least 10%
- Project Types tested – 10 Hospitals, 8 Waste water treatment facilities, 2 Dams, 79 commercial projects, 12 Education, 2 theme park rides, 9 trolley stations
Case study participants reported a clear advantage during bid times for having the ability to:
- Quote Quicker Project Completion Times
- Reduced Labor Projections
- Created Another Profit Center After Project Award to Increase Contingency Buffers.
Examples of Breakout Style Cables
Stockton Correctional Facility
- 476 Breakout Cables consisting of 88 conductors of #14 THHN Stranded – Cell Door Lock Cable
- Finished cables (88 conductors) – 1,158,618’
- Total Conductors – 31,1008
- Total Linear Footage – 9,268.944’
- Installation labor days reduced from 340 days to 102 days (set up / install / verify)
- Material Waste Savings – 1,435,949’ of wire
- Total Project Savings: 83%
Broadcom Tenant Improvement
- 82 Point to Point bundles – Various lengths and conductor counts
- Bundles stacked on 5 reels; One per electrical panel
- 131,721’ #10 THHN Stranded
- 1005 conductors
- 10,579’ of finished cables
- Installation labor hours reduced from 128 hours to 24 hours
- Total Project Savings: 67%
California State Prison - Corcoran
Oregon Arena
Solutions as Strategy - Variables
Pull Logistics
- Supplier and Product Availability and Lead Times
- Site Logistics (Delivery)
- Site Meetings (Safety, General, Company)
- Offloading and Storage
- Organizing, Counting, and Staging
- Pull Planning and Wire Requirements
- Assignments
- Transporting Multiple Reels
- More Trips for Stock
- Standing over the drawings
- Matching Lengths to Optimize Wire
- Set up of Multiple Reels
- Waste Management
- Filling the Dumpster
- Construction Schedule
- Wire Pull
- Ringing-Out Conductors
- Brady Labels, Print Machine, Consumables (How many people touch this part?)
- Scrap Percentage
Human Element
- More Reels Looks Like More Work (Slow Starts or Longer Morning Meetings)
- Bathroom Break Syndrome
- Transporting Wire (The Apprentice Lesson)
- Not having a complete understanding (Standing Over the Drawings with Another Person or Team)
- Measure Once, Cut Twice
- Keeping a Consistent Flow
- Coffee Break, Rock in My Boot, I Forgot Something Behavior
- I Thought He / She Was Going to…
- The General Superintendent is riding us…
- Safety Considerations (Less Movements, Less Overtime, Less Accidents)
- Time to Pull, Contingencies, Staying on Track
- Company Image with all Other Stakeholders
- Illness, Injury, Interstate (Time Delays)
- Where did my scrap go?
- Left Overs (Brain was hungrier than my stomach)
- More hands in the pot
- Control from the beginning
- Real Data vs. Reel Data
- Lessons Learned