BPO

CONCRETE

The technical requirements are rising with increasing cost and pressure for quality. To resolve this conflict sustainably and without extra work, we developed the most progressive solution for concrete road construction. BPO CONCRETE supports the construction management during planning, controlling and documenting infrastructure. Originating from the project planning, which can take from several days to weeks, the concerte deliveries are planned and cycled in a few minutes following the just-in-sequence principle. During the paving process the concrete deliveries are illustrated clearly on the tablet in real-time. Short-term adjustments because of weather changes or technical faults can also be taken into consideration.

BPO CONCRETE also supports during planning of the mineral logistics and inventory management. The integrated mineral module allows easy and transparent management of the aggregates. The amount of aggregates gets calculated taking the recipe and actual delivery of the concrete volume. The system predicts when
repeat orders are necessary and creates an order automatically that can be sent directly from the system to the suppliers. This is how the construction management is constantly informed and ensures enough material at the mixing plan at all times. BPO CONCRETE is ready for immediate use. You don’t need specialist hardware. Either a laptop, tablet PC or smartphone is enough.

Scope

Mineral

This module enables a transparent management of the aggregate types. The system predicts reorders and automatically generates an order request.

Work preparation

The mobility of the work preparation allows location-independent access. All documents are constantly available on the smartphone or tablet PC.

Planning and Documentation

All planning documents can be generated easily. After paving all parameters are ready for analysis in interactive diagrams and simulations.

Mixing Plant

BPO allows to plan the capacity of the mixing plant, generate cycles and to adjust them in real-time. The truck feed as well as the construction progress is neatly arranged.

Transport

Cycle planning ensures that the logistics are used to the fullest capacity. Locating the trucks happens via GPS to document idle time.

Site

The construction progress is illustrated for the construction management and the foreman. The virtual delivery chain visualised the trucks with their respective arrival time and cubage.

Mobile Project Planning

The Planning process in road construction is significantly more complex that in man other sectors. Constant change in frame conditions require fast response and make numerous planning adjustments necessary. This is why we created a synthesis of cutting-edge software and mobile technology. BPO CONCRETE shortens the entire planning process to a couple of minutes and increases the planning quality by using all available. With BPO CONCRETE you plan more efficient, faster, easier and if necessary out and about. The licence holder conducts the project planning in a small number of steps to end up with a complete time and sequence plan. The paving and logistics concept is created in a significantly more detailed and faster way than usual.
Also: BPO is completely flexible. Adjustments during construction is not a problem even if the construction process has to be changed during the day. BPO supports you exactly how you expect it to do.

Cycle Planning

After defining all required data of the construction project during planning, the detailed cycle planning is conducted for the construction process. With all paving parameters the entire process is clocked and the target values for mixing plant, logistics and site are calculated. The result is a minute-by-minute target construction sequence following the just-in-time principle. In case of infrastructure projects the cycle planning can be adjusted to the ideal relation between the top and bottom layer of concrete. The results are presented in a cycle diagram or in a clear simulation for the management. The cycle planning is the basis for the comprehensive logistics concept that pools all important construction parameters in a manageable planning report.

Paving and & Logistics Concept

The requirements of the federal Ministry of Traffic and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) and of the clients are consistently rising. With BPO you already cover future requirements today and position yourself for the future. All important parameters, drafts and planning data are summed up in the paving and logistics concept in a clear and detailed way. All planning documents are available at the push of a button and can be forwarded to the client immediately on request.

Features of the Real-time System

Actua-Target Comparison

During the concrete paving the actual data is compared to the target values in real-time and neatly arranged for the construction management and the foreman.

Network in Real-time

Mixing plants, truck logistics and sites form a real-time network to enable comprehensive controlling of the processes and fast intervention.

Locating Trucks via GPS

The trucks can be easily localised via the "BPO LIVE" app or via an interface connection to the fleet management system.

Construction Diary

In the construction diary sampling, air void content or construction progress is documented. All data is connected to its respective delivery note for analysis purposes.

Real-time Network

The network between site, freight space and mixing plants generates transparency about the progress on site - for everyone involved. The dispatchers are able to react quickly and are always up-to-date.

Individually Customisable

You have further ideas, requests or incentives for your system? This is not a problem! BPO is individually customisable and adapts to every client's needs.

Evaluation of the Site

To evaluate the construction progress every delivery note is connected to the respective unloading location. After completion of the construction measure it can be retraced where which delivery note was unloaded and paved. All available data is connected via the causal relation of the construction sequence and are available for evaluation on the push of a button. This is how the time of unloading, the paved volume of concrete, grade of concrete, the air void content, licence plate of the respective truck, the paving location and further is documented and can be evaluated in interactive diagrams through the Business Intelligence Solution (BI). The interactive evaluation options enable to easily identify if the target requirements were met or if cost calculation needs to be adjusted for further projects.

Evaluation of the Mixing Plant

The loading process of the trucks is conducted either manually, via QR code or via an interface connecting the weighing bridge. The documented loading times are ready for analysis. With the comprising between actual data and target estimations conclusions can be drawn on wether the estimated cycle times are realistic for the next days or if adjustments of the performance data are necessary.

Evaluation of the Transportation Logistics

Not just the site and the mixing plant are forming a real-time network during construction. The entire truck logistics can be integrated with the free “BPO Live” app or via interfaces connecting the fleet management system. With a geofence the truck’s idle time on site or at the mixing plant are automatically documented. the idle time analysis is ready for evaluation during the paving process and allows the foreman to check on idle times for specific trucks. At the end of a work day the time spent driving, unloading and waiting of every truck are identifiable. Rout deviations, lap times and time spent in traffic jams are discernible as well as pack formation of drivers or non-coordinated process speeds.

Our Clients about BPO:

With BPO you have control over every process and you are able to get information about the progress and logistics in real-time.
Jens Haberkorn, Construction Manager
ARGE A7 Hamburg-Bordelsholm
Thanks to the training and the effective support on our pilot experiment site we increased our daily capacity.
Dieter Schmid, Foreman