GRE_Healthcheck_073117

Company: Great River ElectricWorkflow Contact: Debbie Felland (Senior Engineering Technician)Date: June 28, 2017 Workflow Healthcheck

1 23Workflow Healthcheck Discover and Score and Recommend and Document Summarize Review Select a product workflow, Score the worfklow based on Review the scores and preferably exhibiting one or best-in-class industry stanards documentation with helpful more of these characteristics: and capabilities that meet the recommendations on following criteriea: increasing efficiency - Typical workflow (i.e. day-to- day usage) - Design efficiency - Collaboration and Coordination - Workflow incorporating multiple - Simulation and Analysis products - Industry Standards - Communication and Delivery - Workflow based on new or old releases Document the workflow in Autodesk Praxis

Discovery Questionnaire Question Response / Notes1 What Industry does your business Electric Utility Co-op serve? Discover and Document What projects/products is your Generally successful at using 2D CAD workflows to deliver projects business most successful at? Overview: Business and workflow What is the largest obstacle facing Communication between office and field and between divisions related information your business today? What does your organization in the Telecommunications, Engineering, Substation layouts business provide? What does the selected workflow A mechanism of communication between office and field today provide? What does the selected workflow More real-time communication and feedback on project work today not provide that you wish it did? OTHER …

Current Workflow1 Discover and Document Workflow Description: Typical office / field communication process

Current Workflow Score2 Broken Poor Average Good Innovative Score and Design Efficiency NA Summarize NA Design and data creation and accuracy Workflow Description: Typical office / field Collaboration and Coordination communication process Workload sharing and load balancing Simulation and Analysis Data generation, metrics and interpolation Industry Standards Conformance to industry protocols Communication and Delivery Proficiency in production of deliverables Broken: Loss of work and or data Poor: Manual intervention, rework and or recreation of design or data Average: Features and capabilities yield desired result with minimized risks to performance and data Good: Efficient by industry standards, leverages BIM approach to data sharing Innovative: Best-in-class, incorporating cloud-based solutions and collaborative load balancing

Workflow Summary2 Benefits Risks / Issues Score and 2D design data is checked back into Adept document Archival of design data is manual process. Summarize management solution. Workflow Description: Standards are used and reviewed on a regular basis. Enforcement of standards is not a priority. Typical office / field communication process Contractors have access to design files. There is no time limit of files that have been checked out. Record plan information collected in field. Communication of the information is a manual process. ……

Recommended Workflow3 Recommend and Review Workflow Description: Enhanced communction workflow utilizes Autodesk BIM 360 Field.

Proposed Workflow Score3 Broken Poor Average Good Innovative Recommend and Design Efficiency NA Review NA Design and data creation and accuracy Workflow Description: Enhanced communction Collaboration and Coordination workflow utilizes Autodesk BIM Workload sharing and load balancing 360 Field. Simulation and Analysis Data generation, metrics and interpolation Industry Standards Conformance to industry protocols Communication and Delivery Proficiency in production of deliverables Broken: Loss of work and or data Poor: Manual intervention, rework and or recreation of design or data Average: Features and capabilities yield desired result with minimized risks to performance and data Good: Efficient by industry standards, leverages BIM approach to data sharing Innovative: Best-in-class, incorporating cloud-based solutions and collaborative load balancing

Review Recommendations3 Observations Recommendations Recommend and Proposed workflow partially addresses the risk issues of The use of BIM 360 Field enables real-time Review outdated or incomplete data. communication between office and field, however, 2D CAD workflows do not fully resolve coordination issues. Next steps and owners Proposed workflow improves the efficiency of communication between the office and the field. Explore a small-scale project with BIM 360 Field and measure the efficiency with an ROI report. …… …… Next Steps Owner Resources Determine urgency / timeline to move MD AEC Sales (James Kozlowski) http://au.autodesk.com/au- online/classes-on-demand/class- forward. GRE Contact (Debbie Felland) catalog/2014/bim-360-field/co5007-r Review demonstration of BIM 360 Autodesk TS (TBD) https://bim360.autodesk.com/bim-360- Field with Autodesk technical sales MD AEC Sales (James Kozlowski) field MD AEC Technical (Doug Benoit) GRE Contact (Debbie Felland) … Coordinate the scope and duration of MD AEC Technical (Doug Benoit) … the pilot project. GRE Contact (Debbie Felland) ……