Quality management for construction machinery in civil engineering

  • Improved clarity and evaluation options for controlling the construction site
  • Reduction of process time by more than 90%
  • Ad-hoc information capability on construction progress and quality deviations
  • Independence from individual employees and specific knowledge
Customer
SGL Spezialleistungen
Field of Work
Construction, civil engineering
Technologies
Electron
TypeScript
React
CouchDB
RxJS
WebSockets
D3.js
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Digital monitoring of construction progress, performance data and quality

Construction projects - especially for the recultivation of landscaped areas - are subject to strict regulations. In order to fulfil the requirements and at the same time control construction projects in a targeted manner, machine data must be analysed to check the quality of the work and the execution in accordance with the specifications.

For the quality management of soil compaction work in old open-cast mines in Lusatia, we have developed software for our customer SGL Spezialleistungen that significantly reduces the time required, minimises dependence on individual knowledge carriers, simplifies the management of construction projects and automates the detection of quality deviations.

The tool not only saves us time, but also allows us to see what is happening on the construction site on a daily basis and react immediately.

Sebastian Vogel, Construction manager

Challenges and solutions

  • Daily recurring time-critical and time-intensive activities in the project
  • Time-consuming manual activities for checking and preparing machine data
  • Dependence on individual employees due to knowledge that only specific employees have
  • Automated processing of daily offline machine data
  • Automatic target/performance comparison with planning data
  • Early warning system for quality and performance indicators
  • Simple operation without prior knowledge thanks to intuitive user interface
  • Synchronisation with the company server for management reports outside the construction site
  • About the customer

SGL Spezialleistungen is a subsidiary of the General Atomics Group. With a focus on specialised civil engineering, environmental construction services and soil compaction/ground reinforcement, SGL is one of the leading companies in southern Brandenburg and is heavily involved in the recultivation of former open-cast mines in Lusatia

Desktop application with cloud technologies and synchronisation with cloud servers

Focus-Technologies

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Electron
CouchDB logo only
CouchDB
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React

Other Technologies

TypeScript
RxJS
WebSockets
D3.js

Technological setup

From the main area of application on the construction site, the application was developed as a desktop application and was later also deployed as a web application for simpler updates for use in the head office.

Implementation as a desktop application, based on the Electron framework, with React & TypeScript & D3.js
Automatic synchronisation of the local PouchDB database with a central CouchDB server upon successful connection to the company network
Simultaneous operation as a web application (React, Node.js, WebSockets) on the same code base

Technical infrastructure at the customer

The source of the measured values are computers installed on the machines. These were processed in our backend in the customer's virtualised Windows environment and distributed to the engineering offices in the form of predefined Excel reports.

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