Category: How To Prefab Guides

The construction industry has a record high 422,000 unfilled job openings which is almost 4x the unfilled openings a decade ago and represents a growing crisis. Many construction execs have rightly identified the need to retain talent in a competitive market and boost productivity dramatically to complete more projects with fewer resources. Thus, many builders have […]

In this summary of our How To Guide For Prefab Leaders we cover the crucial aspects involved in planning your projects for factory production and prefabrication. These posts will walkthrough the key aspects of staffing your prefab projects and then accurately planning your production to hit your schedule and delivery timelines. This series can be a great […]

As the prefab and offsite construction industry continues to grow rapidly, an industry wide problem is emerging on how to hire the right talent at the right time. The goal is to staff your factory and manage your capacity and production pipeline to ensure your factory is operating year round efficiently without downtime. Downtime can […]

In this Live From the Floor case study, we summarize how speciality contractors leverage Offsight to plan their prefab projects and forecast their schedules based on their factory capacity and labor constraints. Offsight helps manage production, quality and rework directly from the shop floor and can be easily scaled across your multiple production lines or […]

Correctly and systematically streamlining final sign-offs, building code review and visual inspections at the factory level can be the difference between achieving the efficiency advantages of offsite construction or getting bogged down by costly on-site repairs/rework that eat into your profit margins. In this How to Guide for Prefab Leaders, we review how to build […]

Jason Dixon Actively Manage Your Prefab Schedule In this edition of the How To Guide for Prefab Leaders, we review how to generate a schedule forecast and factory production plan and how to manage the prefab project cycle to ensure that you are hitting the schedule targets. In order to manage prefab project delivery in […]

Jason Dixon Many builders and contractors are actively investing in offsite construction by launching new self-perform prefab businesses and factories. While this is great news for the construction industry at large, it is crucial that technology and processes are implemented in parallel with these investments to ensure these new prefab businesses and operations are successful. […]

Jason Dixon The goal of running any successful prefab operation is actively managing your materials costs on current projects, accurately tracking these costs to improve and optimize for future projects, and managing your materials ordering, delivery, and installation process to avoid costly factory downtime.  In this edition of the How To Guide for Prefab Leaders, we […]

Jason Dixon Tracking, Managing and Optimizing Labor Costs on Prefabrication Projects Prefabricators who are actively investing and growing their factory operations are well aware of the importance of managing labor costs for the overall success of their projects. This can be the difference between delivering on the speed and cost efficiency advantages of prefab and […]

Jason DixonA recovering control freak Being a part of modular manufacturing for over a decade now and having my hands in operations has taught me some hard lessons.  One of which is the importance of giving the people on the production floor the ability to do their jobs without wasting time gathering data. My first […]