Middlesex unifies lookaheads, targets, and performance on CloudRig.
The Middlesex Corporation used to piece together HCSS, Vista, and Power BI just to manage payroll. CloudRig replaced all of them and powers better planning and more profitable jobs.
Before CloudRig
Middlesex tracked field time in a combination of Viewpoint Field Management and HCSS HeavyJob and ran its accounting in Viewpoint Vista. HeavyJob's static reports couldn't answer the questions project managers had, so the office built Power BI dashboards to fill the gap.
Plans stayed in the office and actuals stayed in the field. Nobody could tell mid-week whether a crew was earning or burning hours.
Foremen started the day without clear targets. Superintendents spent up to an hour digging through time cards to answer a single question about quantities. Project Engineers and Controls Managers sank time into pulling numbers together to prep for weekly financial reviews with execs.
Before CloudRig, there wasn't a strong connection between what was being planned in the office and what was happening in the field. By the time we saw a productivity issue, it was too late to fix it.
VP of Construction Innovation
Why Middlesex chose CloudRig
CloudRig pulls the estimate, projects, production, and cost from Vista and the field into one system. Engineers and superintendents build the plan, and foremen get their targets and cost codes for the day. At the end of the shift, the crew sees how they did against the plan, and those numbers go straight back to the office.
CloudRig closes the loop between the office and the field. Everyone is working from the same picture. It's not just timekeeping.
VP of Construction Innovation
CloudRig shows project health in real time, so the office no longer needs the Power BI dashboards.
What changed for project management
Project managers review productivity every week and talk it through with their teams. Execs rely on the field compliance leaderboard to ensure the app is getting used in the right way. And CloudRig surfaces problems in time to fix them and before margin gets burned.
With CloudRig, we can plan, execute, monitor, and control easily using one platform.
VP of Construction Innovation
What changed for ops
Tracking down information is dramatically easier in CloudRig, because the app is faster and gives live dashboards that superintendents and PMs can drill into, rather than static reports. Just a few clicks take project teams from division-level rollups down to job-level trends down to individual daily reports to find critical information and diagnose issues.
If I'm asked how many truckloads of material we pulled out of one bridge in April, I can go back and get that quantity in about 30 seconds. Before, it would take me 20 minutes to an hour clicking through every time card.
Superintendents also plan more effectively and set the field up for success in the CloudRig Lookahead. Here they set up the week's cost codes ahead of time, so crews know what to code to even when the superintendent is off site.
What changed for the field
Foremen see the day's targets when they open CloudRig and a scoreboard that lays out where they're winning and losing at the close of each day and week. Those that prefer talking over typing narrate their day as if they were talking to their superintendents, and CloudRig turns those notes into a clean daily report, complete with time, production, observations, issues, and more.
To get in and out of the app at the end of the day takes minutes. I'm a dirt guy. What I do is play in the dirt. I don't want to be on my tablet all day, and CloudRig makes it easier.
Foreman
How CloudRig is different
Field, ops, and financials in one system
CloudRig brings together estimate, production, and cost from your ERP and your crews, so you don't need a separate BI tool to see where a job stands.
Targets and results on the foreman's main screen
Crews see the day's goals in the morning and their results at night without going to another part of the app.
Voice field journal
Foremen dictate their daily notes and CloudRig records them, which gives the office more complete and accurate field data.
Scheduling, field, and reporting built together
The office gets usable reports without building its own.
I highly recommend CloudRig to all the construction industry guys. It definitely makes our life easier.
Foreman
The Middlesex Corporation
