Making Greenfield Construction Effortless
The reality is that energy sector construction companies probably already use some sort of hybrid system: a bit of tech here, a bit of paper there. Construction management systems with varying degrees of sophistication are now commonplace. But many of these systems depend on paper-based work packs and manual data entry, which doesn’t come close to harnessing the potential of digital.
This has certainly been the case for JGC, who as one of the world’s premier engineering contractors have carried out more than 20,000 projects in 80 countries. Over the past five years, paperless processes have secured a foothold with JGC. This vision was put to the test in 2019 with a 6 billion USD liquefied natural gas (LNG) greenfield project located in a remote Canadian site using scoping contractors at a module yard in China.
JCG introduced a digital solution — MODS Origin — that evolved out of a JGC-software collaboration dating back to 2016. The initial appeal of MODS Origin (a greenfield-specific solution) was that it worked with their trusty construction management system that JGC had spent years refining in-house. JGC’s proprietary system was designed to suit the specificities of their working practices but relied on manual data entry.
MODS Origin solved that problem.
JGC’s Digital Transformation General Manager, Kazuyuki Kojima says,
“What we did with MODS Origin, we tried to eliminate paper and the manual encoding [required by our in-house system]…MODS provides the main user interface. Our in-house system provides the upstream data. Eliminating paper and manual encoding is an important first step towards digital transformation of our EPC business, which is our ultimate goal.”
Replacing Paper With Custom Digital Solutions
It’s this type of bespoke software solution, one that works with and not against existing ways of working, that carves out the path of least resistance towards paperless construction management.
Digital software solutions like MODS Origin, at their most effective, are designed with a fundamental understanding of project work and not from a theoretical standpoint. It’s this understanding that renders paper-based processes a thing of the past.
Digital solutions that force conformity to a digital package ignore client’s needs and their on-the-ground realities. Operationally, this can be more disruptive than beneficial. Software solutions prove their worth as infinitely more valuable than their paper counterparts when they are designed to acknowledge and respect current ways of working.
Removing the need for paper associated with things like work packs, for example, eviscerate tedious data entry that’s susceptible to mistakes and oversight. With traditional construction management practices, work schedules and progress can be difficult to make sense of, to query, or to share with remote stakeholders.
JGC implemented digital Advanced Work Packs (AWPs) from MODS Origin, which visualizes facilities and assets, replacing complicated engineering schematics with user-friendly visuals. These digital models speak louder than words and unify geographically fragmented teams by making communication easier.
Paperless systems show, they don’t tell.
Find out how digitalization helped JGC’s LNG Canada project in the original blog. They’ve streamlined the communication between Canada, Japan and China and effortlessly managed global teams.
This article first appeared on MODS Energy Industry Blog https://blog.mods.solutions/how-paperless-technologies-enable-global-collaborations
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