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Canadian CAD manager speeds up quality
control process of MicroStation files by 78%.
An interview with Jim Lewis,
of KMD Mapping.
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KEMPTVILLE, ONTARIO, CANADA
— Jim Lewis, CAD Manager for Canadian mapping company
KMD Mapping Inc., was concerned about the rejection rate of
his design team's MicroStation deliverables. Looking for a
solution that would save his team time and KMD money, Mr.
Lewis reviewed several products and selected SpecChecker
— Axiom's premier MicroStation quality assurance solution.
MicroStation Today interviewed Mr. Lewis about his
quality assurance plights and how SpecChecker streamlined
his operation.
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| Jim Lewis of KMD Mapping in Kemptville, Ontario, Canada. |
MST: Please tell us about the
design projects that prompted you to inquire about SpecChecker's
capabilities?
Jim: We work on mapping projects
that, due to their scope and the accuracy demanded by our
clients, require strict adherence to CAD standards.
Due to the thousands of MicroStation files involved in the
projects and the lack of a rigorous CAD standards quality
control tool, the efficiency of our design team sometimes
suffered as a result of the corrections we had to make when
deliverables were sent back by our client. I inquired about
SpecChecker because I wanted to reduce the number of
deliverable rejections we incurred and the time taken to fix
the errors.
MST: How are things now that
you have implemented SpecChecker?
Jim: The situation has changed
completely. Our design file rejection rate for violations
of specifications has decreased from eighty percent to two
percent.
Whenever any MicroStation file came back from the client,
our drafters would spend an average of about two hours finding
and correcting the CAD standard violations. If one figures
that we get about 20 files sent back to us by the client,
that it took the drafter about two hours to spot and correct
the violations, and that there are about two to three submissions
in the lifecycle of our design projects, this totaled approximately
120 man-hours spent in corrections — time spent not earning
any new revenue!
When there are rejections from the client, our drafters now
spend about five minutes on each MicroStation file, because
they don't have to hunt down the errors anymore — SpecChecker
takes care of this for them. The cost of doing the same tasks
using SpecChecker is a fraction of what it used to
be. SpecChecker has already paid for itself.
We also have contractors that do MicroStation work for us.
When they submit files to us, we run them through SpecChecker
first. SpecChecker usually finds CAD standard violations
in their files. But we don't have to worry about correcting
these errors. We simply send back the files with an error
report generated by SpecChecker and tell the contractor
to fix them.
MST: What will you do with
all the extra time on your hands, Jim?
Jim: Ah! There are always
new jobs to map.
MST: Excellent. Thank you for
your time and best of luck in all your future endeavors.
Jim: Thank you.
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For more information on SpecChecker,
contact an Axiom MicroStation Consultant today! Call 727-442-7774
extension 8969 or email
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