See how a panel shop tracks work
A panelized home builder needed to understand project labor across design, plant and site. Hours logged by hand made it difficult to see where the time was going.
With Building Swell, teams recorded time against work orders and reviewed attendance and timesheets in the system. The hours rolled into project-cost visibility, helping the team see which stages took longer than expected and where estimates needed attention.
Customer storySet up each panel package
Set up the stages your shop uses and keep drawings with the order. Break down the work as the design develops, so the people planning and building it can see what the package contains.
Review that work alongside the other jobs using the same crew and stations. Two packages with similar panel counts can occupy those resources for different lengths of time. The stages and labor estimate give you more to plan with than a count alone.
Find the hours behind the overrun
A total at the end of the week can hide where a job changed. Building Swell connects recorded labor to the work and shows hours against the estimate, stage by stage.
When a stage takes more time than planned, review the hours alongside progress. Extra hours on a nearly finished stage mean something different from extra hours with most of the work still ahead. That distinction helps you identify the remaining work to examine before revising the plan.
Plan what follows
Framing is taking longer than estimated, and another panel package is due to follow it.
Review the unfinished stages, crew and stations. If the next package needs those same resources, its start depends on work the crew has not finished.
Check the remaining work against other bookings and revise the sequence. If it misses a field requirement, keep the requested date visible and raise the shortfall with the project team.
The crew has a sequence to follow, and the project team knows which delivery needs attention. Use the recorded hours to review estimates for similar work.
capacity planning guideBring your panel package
Bring a panel package, the stages it passes through and the labor question you want to answer. We can show how Building Swell connects the production plan with the work recorded against it.
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