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A total fleet on the jobsite was not the number of that prevent the job from proceeding MCAA and MCAA of Canada; contributed to

platform to move hours or the contract size, but within according to plan, jobsite management several research projects for the Electrical
Contracting Foundation, MCAA, the New
and supervision have a greater
the direct control of the supervision
Horizons Foundation, and the National
and management of the jobsite. The
opportunity to control the fluid dynamics
Association of Wholesaler-Distributors. She
number of safety incidents was found
of their jobsite, which reduces the risks
your business to be directly related to the visibility associated with the unknowns that holds a Ph.D. in Construction Management,
Michigan State University. Additionally she
allow unexpected incidents to occur.
of the jobsite through the use of Agile
holds an MBA, University of Michigan-Flint,
Construction® tools and to the overall
and a B.S.E. in Industrial and Operations
jobsite productivity. The more productive
forward. your job is, the safer your job is. Dr. Perry Daneshgari is the President / Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor. She specializes in process design
CEO of MCA Inc. MCA Inc is a research and
and operations research. Heather was
implementation company that focuses
The results of this study, as shown in
a contributor for the ASTM Standard
on implementing process and product
Figure 3, shows that jobs that were
visibly tracking their productivity, and development, waste reduction and E2691 “Job Productivity Measurement”
and also was co-author of the published
were operating at a level that was on productivity improvement of labor, project ASTM book “Application of ASTM E2691
management, estimation, accounting
par or better than planned in terms of and customer care. MCA, Inc. has worked Standard Practice for Job Productivity
productivity, had fewer than half the with various national and international Measurement in Agile Construction .” Dr.
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incidents per $10 million of contract value companies all over the globe. Dr. Perry Heather has also recently coauthored 3
Connect your vehicle, worker, job than jobs that were either not tracking has taught several classes and conducted books for ELECTRI International, Books
and asset data all on one screen. productivity at all, or were tracking several presentations for MCAA, MCAA of 1, 2 and 3 on the Industrialization of
it but were not able to maintain their
Construction and the future of the industry.
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Canada, the Electrical Contracting industry,
initial estimated level of productivity. NWCCC and was keynote speaker at the Heather has experience working with the
2009 annual IEC National Convention. construction industry, and currently works
Different types of work do have different Dr. Perry has completed over 12 research with contractors and distributors across
levels of risk, but the results are still the projects for construction and distribution the country on process improvement and
same. Figure 4 shows the same story industries and as well as published several productivity measurement.
across multiple divisions of a company papers and articles. He has published a
performing different types of work handful of books, most recently: Books 1, James Ford currently is MCA’s Lead Data
in each division. In this comparison 2 and 3 for ELECTRI International on the Analyst. Jim’s educational experience
based on field hours instead of project Industrialization of Construction and includes a Masters in Accounting from
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revenue, the result does not change: the future of the industry. Dr. Perry has Oakland University, and a BBA from the
Mike Johnson productive jobs have significantly fewer also published an ASTM Standard for Job University of Michigan with concentrations
2 miles away safety incidents across the board. Productivity Measurement. MCA, Inc.’s in Accounting, Finance, & Marketing. Jim
Safety experience is available and applicable to leads the financial analysis and project
70 70 out of 100 2 This tells us that most accidents or companies of all sizes and industries. audits for the field; raising awareness of
Trending up incidents are not random occurrences. how to reduce unknowns and uncertainties
Oil Change They are a product of management or Dr. Heather Moore is Vice President of in the early stages of a project before it is
21 miles to go lack of management on the jobsite. By Operations for MCA Inc and has taught too late. His prior work experience includes
planning the job and identifying issues numerous classes for NECA, IBEW, IEC, 13 years as a low voltage subcontractor.
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