28 September 2021
Profits Soar with Correct Software for AEC Industry Project
“We are working on a project for one of the largest refineries in Saudi Arabia. Axiom's productivity tools have saved us upwards of more than a million dollars in overall costs for just this one project. And your Tech Support is always outstanding. I'm not kidding, your tools are amazing. I couldn't be happier with Axiom and our tools.” — K.S., Principal Specialist, Information Management, KBR Inc., Houston, Texas.
A jaw-dropping million-dollar savings on just one project?
A great productivity tool in the hands of great CAD users can produce truly astonishing results. Time is money, which means that timesaving on any project is always desirable, and we all understand that the bottom line is, well, the bottom line.
When a customer shares with us the success they’ve had using one of our productivity tools, it seems only fair to pass that information on in case you’re in a similar situation and their story resonates with you. When that customer actually references the amount of time and money that was saved, it’s doubly compelling. Such was the success shared by KBR, a Houston, Texas company that provides comprehensive science, technology, and engineering solutions for a wide range of markets, from aerospace and defense to industrial, intelligence and beyond. Here’s what their contract work information manager had to say:
“It is hard to say how much time Axiom’s productivity tools save us. It has minimally saved us thousands of hours. I'm not exaggerating. We use these tools for checking for consistencies in contractor work, for altering drawings and for extracting information from files. Without the automations provided by your tools, it's hard to estimate the savings.”
A jaw-dropping million-dollar savings on just one project? MicroStation Acceleration Garage™ is a suite of ten custom-designed tools to speed you through some of the time-consuming quirks that can arise in the MicroStation platform. Clearly, KBR’s efficiency and profitability skyrocketed when they employed it to save their company both time and money. What kind of tools does MicroStation Acceleration Garage contain? Here are a few examples that could help you save time and money:
Microsoft Office Importer
You know what a pain it can be to import data from Excel spreadsheets or Word documents. If you want perfect imports, every time, and you want it happen in a snap, then this is the tool you need. If you want to eliminate problems with issues such as text size, bolding, italics, font, column widths or row heights, this is your tool. If you want data outside your CAD files linked and synced with data inside your CAD files, this is your tool. The amount of time you can save with this one tool alone is truly remarkable.
If you keep this tool a secret, people will think you’ve acquired superpowers.
Title Block Manager
Your project is 478 sheets long. It’s due to go the client on Monday. On Friday, someone inserts two new sheets close to the beginning. Someone has to manually change 422 sheet numbers and that someone happens to be you. Ugh. Kissing your evenings and weekends goodbye is a drag. But you’ll never have to deal with that again once you have Title Block Manager™. Or, how about having bi-directional synchronization of information between title blocks in any number of DGN files and Microsoft Excel? That would save some time, wouldn’t it? What’s more, Title Block Manager is also a powerful general-purpose block attribute or tag value editor — it’s not limited to title blocks, making this a very handy tool to have.
RefManager
This smart tool makes you a speed demon when it comes to locating references that have been moved, renamed or deleted. (If you keep RefManager™ a secret, people will think you’ve acquired superpowers. We won’t tell.) Maybe you need to attach a reference file to hundreds of design files and you’d like to do it with a single command. Or, how about adjusting reference file level symbology on hundreds of design files? With RefManager, it happens with a single command, naturally. How much time did that just save you?
FileFixer
This tool should have its own soundtrack, perhaps something like Canned Heat’s “On the Road Again.” Why? Because if you’ve ever had a DGN file that produced an error message when opened, or a design file that wouldn’t open at all, or elements that wouldn’t plot the same way they appeared on your monitor, or DGN files that converted incorrectly to AutoCAD or other file types, or any similar issues, then FileFixer™ is exactly the tool you need to get you on the road again.
Is Time on Your Side?
Whether you want potentially massive savings on your projects or you’re looking for ways to save time so that you can get out of the office and have more free time for the things you love the most, then MicroStation Acceleration Garage should be part of your repertoire.
We’ve covered four out of ten timesaving tools. Imagine the possibilities with all ten tools going to bat for you! Call 727-442-7774 to talk with a friendly Service Consultant or to receive a free demo. For more information or to download a free trial, visit Axiom on the web.
Get out of the office and have more free time for the things you love.
