Fora Planning
Resource planning for the companies that dig, drill and lay.
Fora Planning keeps machines, crews and projects in a single schedule, so the office, the workshop and the site are never working from three different versions of the same week.
What is Fora Planning?
A planning tool for construction and infrastructure. Machines, crews and projects sit in one schedule, and every job travels the same route: the office orders it, planning assigns a machine and a crew, and the site carries it out.
What it is there to help with is keeping everyone on the same plan. When a date moves, it shows you what that affects before anything changes, and it tells the people it concerns. Nobody has to ring round to find out what applies today.
Three views of the same work
One product, not three systems. What you see depends on what you do, and everybody is looking at the same projects underneath.
The office
Orders the work
Raise a request: the address, length and profile of every drilling, the drawings and the permits. Then follow it. You can see when it has been planned, which machine it got, and which crew is coming.
Planning
Allocates machines and crews
The whole fleet in one calendar. Assign a machine and a crew, put the drillings in order, set how long each one takes, and approve. If two drillings would run at the same time, you are told before you commit, not after.
The site
Carries out the work
Today's job, the address, the machine and the crew, on a phone in the van. Report progress and photograph the site as you go, so the office knows where things stand without ringing to ask.
Why Fora Planning
A drilling gets moved, and nobody knows what it does to the rest.
You see exactly which drillings it affects before anything moves.
A machine runs late, and the next job is still in the calendar.
Change the duration and see straight away what it collides with.
A crew calls in sick, and the message does not reach everyone.
Swap the crew on the job. Everyone affected is told.
Nobody can say when a machine is free without ringing round.
The whole fleet sits in one calendar, week by week.
The office rings planning to ask whether the job is scheduled.
The office can see the status, the machine and the crew itself.
The planner's week
Machines down the side, days across the top, and the work in between. Every schedule in the product is this one, so it reads the same wherever you are.
What you can rely on
- One plan. Nobody works from a spreadsheet that is three days old.
- Nothing moves on its own. A date only changes because somebody decided it should, and everyone it affects is told.
- Everyone sees the same thing. The office, the workshop and the site read one schedule, not three.
- The history stays. Who asked, who approved, what was attached, what actually happened out there.
Want it for your company?
Fora Systems sets the company up and creates the first account. Your own administrator handles everything after that: people, crews, machines. Tell us a little about yourselves and we will come back to you.
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