Success Story
The City of Madison’s biggest challenge was providing solutions that streamlined services while maintaining each department’s specialized knowledge, workflow, and individuality. Many of the departments had unique templates and customized tools built into their Bentley workflows that they liked and wanted to replicate in the new Autodesk BIM platforms. They needed a partner that could help them analyze their workflow between teams, then transition their templates over to the appropriate Autodesk tool followed by focused training and expert advisement as they made this transition.
Two (2) priority project goals were identified:
1) Preserve historic templates and customized tools through replication of those features in the new Autodesk BIM platform.
2) Provide for a city-wide adoption of the new Autodesk BIM platform through a comprehensive training program while allowing each department to retain their necessary indigenous workflows.
Team D3 services began with a Design Process Assessment of affected departments and the technological disposition of each. Continually breaking the big picture program down into smaller segments like departments and then groups within departments helped establish a clear picture of both macro and micro-objectives, challenges, and opportunities. Team D3 used interviews with department leaders to understand how they do things, what they like, need, and want, and how enterprise information needs to be shared within and across departments. Team D3 mapped the entire suite of new programs to eliminate deficiencies and redundancies and developed a detailed plan for limited-disruption implementation. The implementation process included creating customized BIM content for all seven departments and phased software rollouts.
The following business outcomes emerged:
1) Customization of the system’s architecture accommodated departmental individuality, while also improving coordination and consistency across the entire program.
2) Team D3 provided customized digestible training addressing the specific needs of each department and the content created for them. Training modules incorporated real-world scenarios for each department.
3) Understanding how each unit operates and a willingness to account for small but significant individual differences was the key to quickly getting more than 70 different city staff in seven different departments up-to-speed on their respective systems.
The City of Madison retained Team D3 as a consultant collaborator invested in their efficient success. Team D3 troubleshoots situational challenges, pre-thinks innovation strategies, and provides a fresh and informed perspective. Collectively, the City of Madison and Team D3 then decide the best course of action to address each situation.
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The Moth Wing to Sound Absorbing Acoustic Panels
The Biomimicry Alliance wanted to find an alternative method for creating sound absorption materials for application in open office work environments. They posed the question, “How would nature absorb sound?” Through investigation, they discovered the “Cabbage Tree Emperor moth” (Bunaea alcinoe) a moth species belonging to the family Saturniidae, native to Southern Africa. This unique moth can avoid its most notorious predator, a bat, and its “sonar” like ability to track its prey. The moth's wings are covered by overlapping scales that are less than (0.0098 inches) long and have a peculiar porous structure. This structure absorbs the "echolocation" sound of their predator, the bat, and thus helps them to camouflage themselves acoustically. But could The Biomimicry Alliance successfuly emulate the acoustical features of the moth’s wings and apply it to the design of acoustic panels?
Large Greenfield Expansion 2
Hargrove is a multi-discipline Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) firm that provides comprehensive on-site support to their clients in the energy generation, manufacturing, research and development, infrastructure, and process-heavy sectors. They have completed over 22,000 projects and served over 2,100 facilities since inception. Over the last several years margins on projects have gotten tighter and project timelines have become shorter. To meet these heightened demands, Hargrove began to realize that they needed to be able to communicate more effectively between engineering disciplines, field employees, subcontractors, and owners. Also, with the constraints imposed by the current Covid-19 pandemic, employees that are being kept out of the office are creating even greater challenges when it comes to sharing data across projects. Included in their desired enhancements is to automate data output during projects whenever possible.
Better Accuracy and Efficiency for Plastic Parts for MK Machining
Founded in 2015, MK Machining set out with the goal of delivering innovative products to the precision shooting community at an incredible value. All their products are manufactured using cutting-edge technology and materials produced here in the USA. They began a search for a solution that would help them improve productivity while decreasing labor in their manufacturing process and allow them to refine the “nesting” process of parts.
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