Consulmet (Pty) Ltd continues on its #DigitalTransformation journey. Consulmet is one of #SouthAfrica‘s leading lump-sum turnkey (LSTK) service providers in the process engineering and project management disciplines, who have realised what the impact of #TechnologySolutions such as Autodesk Vault’s Common Data Environment (CDE) – can have for a multi-disciplinary company working across multiple teams and geographies. Consulmet’s drawing office manager Loman Bester shares, that having a reliable and secure CDE for a company like Consulmet is significant for multiple reasons and shares five critical challenges of NOT having a CDE: Inconsistent data | Miscommunication | #DataSecurity | Time-consuming workflows | Difficulty in collaboration. With about twenty people in the drawing office, multiple engineers, project managers, a procurement department, construction, and logistics teams all needing specific and correct information about a project, the importance of having a CDE became clear and critical. This is where they engaged with Autodesk Gold Partner Baker Baynes (PTY) Ltd to start their #DigitalTransformation journey to CDE, transforming their processes, technology, and people. Heinrich Lotz, Consulmet drawing office section leader and head of #automation, related these challenges to one of Consulmet’s recent large projects, in #Angola. This project became a shining example of the importance of having a CDE, as it was a project that incorporated not just the local teams at Consulmet but a variety of other vendors across geographical locations as well. Heinrich shares that without Autodesk Vault Professional, they could have easily experienced significant file overriding or deletion. However, they have set up robust content libraries in Autodesk Vault Professional that accelerate collaboration across multiple project stakeholders and speed up their design time by up to 60% – which inevitably creates huge cost savings. The team can fast track much of their design, procurement and logistic processes using various Autodesk solutions. Plus, the interoperability between solutions such as Autodesk Vault Professional with Autodesk Revit fostered even greater collaboration between vendors, further promoting the benefits of having a reliable CDE. For more information email: [email protected] | Adrienne Schattil Rochelle Botha #ConsulmetJHB
