Valley Interior Systems is a specialty contractor that’s grown their team over three generations to over 1000 employees. The team has completed major commercial projects including the&nbsp;<a href="https://buildwithvalley.com/portfolio/tql-stadium/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TQL Stadium in Cincinnati, OH</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://buildwithvalley.com/portfolio/omni-louisville-hotel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Omni Hotel in Louisville, KY&nbsp;</a>and the&nbsp;<a href="https://buildwithvalley.com/portfolio/bna-delta-sky-club/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">BNA Delta Sky Club in Nashville, TN</a>. Valley Interior Systems is actively investing in their prefab business and considers offsite construction a major competitive advantage for growth and scale over the coming years. Hence, they’ve turned to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Offsight</a>&nbsp;as their core platform to help manage their end-to-end prefab project lifecycles.







In this case study, we review how Valley Interior Systems (Valley) leverages Offsight to manage their entire project lifecycle from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/forecasting-estimating" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">pre production and planning</a>, through&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/forecasting-estimating" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">prefabrication</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/reporting-auditing" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">final verification and shipment</a>. We review how an end-to-end platform like Offsight allows the team to collaborate on complex commercial projects and deliver projects faster and more efficiently, while maintaining exceptional quality.







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<h1 class="wp-block-heading">Planning A Commercial Prefab Project</h1>







By leveraging Offsight’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/forecasting-estimating" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">pre production capabilities</a>, Valley can begin planning an entire project from design through prefabrication and shipment. Valley leverages Offsight’s Planning Dashboard to identify key stages in their project lifecycle including design, machine cutting, assembly and shipment. They assign labor resources to each phase or step in the process and plan out both the fabrication of steel components and the final assembly of their steel panels. Valley then generates a robust prefab project plan by leveraging Offsight’s algorithms for forecasting and estimating. The forecasted start and end dates of the design process, the fabrication of all components that feed into a finished product and the assembly of the finished panels themselves are all displayed in a dynamic Gantt chart and made available to production and project teams for reference once the project starts.



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<h1 class="wp-block-heading">Managing the Prefabrication Process</h1>







With Offsight’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/production" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Production &amp; Quality Tracking</a>&nbsp;capabilities, Valley can manage the entire factory prefabrication and manufacturing process from start to finish. Like with the planning phase of the project, all finished panels and subassemblies can be tracked in real-time from the shop floor. Operators can utilize Offsight’s mobile app to access shop drawings specific to the product they are working on at their specific workstation or process step. Production is tracked against the target start and end dates for each panel and all quality issues can be recorded and resolved through Offsight’s Alert Dashboard.&nbsp;



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="573" src="https://cms.offsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Valley-4-1024x573.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1614" srcset="https://cms.offsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Valley-4-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https://cms.offsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Valley-4-300x168.jpg 300w, https://cms.offsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Valley-4-768x430.jpg 768w, https://cms.offsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Valley-4-1536x859.jpg 1536w, https://cms.offsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Valley-4-2048x1146.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></figure>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading">Coordinating Shipping and Delivery</h1>







Once prefabrication completes, Valley leverages Offsight’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/reporting-auditing" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Reporting &amp; Auditing</a>feature set to complete final quality verification and sign offs for all finished panels. Image verification and digital quality checklists can be provided in daily reports to project stakeholders as confirmation. Valley can set up workflows in Offsight’s Reporting Dashboard to automatically generate these reports for project stakeholders and coordinate on onsite delivery and installation.







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&#8220;At Valley Interior Systems we pride ourselves at being a leader in prefab and offsite construction. We are rapidly growing and expanding our prefab operations and turned to Offsight&#8217;s industry leading software to help us scale our factory production, manage our materials and plan, forecast and estimate costs on our prefab projects.&#8221;
</blockquote>



Jake Wolfer, VP of Prefabrication



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Valley Interior Systems is a specialty contractor that’s grown their team over three generations to over 1000 employees. The team has completed major commercial projects including the TQL Stadium in Cincinnati, OH, The Omni Hotel in Louisville, KY and the BNA Delta Sky Club in Nashville, TN

How Valley Interior Systems Manages their Prefab Project Lifecycle

Offsight 2.0 &nbsp;is a robust solution designed specifically for your factory workforce. Stay focused on building, drive ROI and eliminate garbage-in/garbage-out data. With our easy to use UI, fully mobile functionality and behind the scenes workflow automations, Offsight 2.0 can help your business transition off of cumbersome spreadsheet solutions that are difficult to manage and even harder to use on the shop floor.







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&#8220;Before Offsight, we relied on spreadsheet solutions that only a few team members even knew how to manage. Getting updates on production status or progress meant going to the floor over and over again. Operators complained they were wasting more time with complex spreadsheets instead of focusing on work to meet production deadlines. The switch to Offsight has been a complete game changer for our team.&#8221;
</blockquote>



Ky Ghosh, VP of Operations Z Modular



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<h1 class="wp-block-heading">Focus on Building Over Admin Work</h1>



Offsight is a solution built for your desk-less workforce. Our mobile apps have been designed to streamline data input from your operators, team leads and supervisors on the shop floor, while saving you from costly and unnecessary admin work. Leverage our Workflow Automation dashboard to create multiple, IF-this-Then-that algorithms and process workflows that save your team time from submitting quality and conformance checklists, confirming product status, recording material consumption, and logging labor hours.&nbsp;



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<h1 class="wp-block-heading">Get High Quality Data From the Shop Floor</h1>



Abandon overly complicated, unintuitive spreadsheet solutions that make data input from the shop floor impractical. With Offsight’s easy to use interface, deliver consistent real-time production progress and factory visibility to your management and executive team. Leverage our User Group Access permissions to make sure operators, quality inspectors, material handlers, team leads and supervisors see only the information they need—right when they need it.



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<h1 class="wp-block-heading">Leverage Our Fast Learning Curve to Drive ROI</h1>



Offsight 2.0 combines a simple, intuitive interface in a fully robust enterprise solution. With Offsight’s Form Builder, you can leverage multiple digital elements including checkboxes, radio buttons, signature blocks, image capture and tags to make data entry and training easy. We’ve also designed Offsight 2.0 to allow access to any major functionality from Offsight’s Live Dashboard. This allows you to get your entire team on-boarded and realize the full value of Offsight faster.

Offsight 2.0  is a robust solution designed specifically for your factory workforce. Stay focused on building, drive ROI and eliminate garbage-in/garbage-out data. 

Switch from Cumbersome Spreadsheets and Scale Your Prefab Operations With Offsight

<a href="http://www.offsight.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Offsight</a>&nbsp;customer&nbsp;<a href="https://www.fullertonbuildingsystems.com/home" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fullerton&nbsp;Building Systems</a>, is a third-generation, family-owned business that has evolved over its 75 year history from a lumber provider to a state of the art commercial prefabricator. Some of their retail projects include quick serve restaurants (QSRs) like Starbucks, Taco Bell, Chick Fil A, and convenience stores including Circle K. &nbsp;&nbsp;



Retail projects can greatly benefit from the speed and cost efficiencies of prefab by accelerating the build time and enabling earlier openings for faster return on investment (ROI). Furthermore, retail chains maintain similarities in look and design which can be a strong fit for industrialized construction, which leverages repeatable manufacturing processes.&nbsp;



In this case study, we review how&nbsp;Fullerton&nbsp;Building Systems leverages Offsight’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/production" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Production &amp; Quality Tracking</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/reporting-auditing" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Reporting &amp; Auditing</a>&nbsp;capabilities to manage multiple projects from the shop floor and provide regular progress updates to executives and other project stakeholders.



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<h1 class="wp-block-heading">Tracking Production from the Floor&nbsp;</h1>



With Offsight’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/production" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Production &amp; Quality Tracking</a>&nbsp;feature set,&nbsp;Fullerton&nbsp;Building Systems tracks production progress as multiple wood frame panels are manufactured and assembled for their retail projects. Operators select the specific panel they are working on, review the current progress and record crucial assembly tasks that are completed in real time.



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With Offsight’s Subassembly linking capabilities, all components that end up in a finished exterior or interior panel can be tracked and their progress can be viewed from the Live Dashboard. Managers can access their finished panels to track live production progress and see which subassemblies have been completed, which are behind schedule, and identify potential bottlenecks that could impact overall project delivery. 



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<h1 class="wp-block-heading">Managing Visual Inspection</h1>



Offsight’s quality capabilities allow&nbsp;Fullerton&nbsp;Building Systems to manage sign-offs and visual inspection at various stages of the production process. If issues are discovered for specific panels during prefabrication, these issues can be marked up in a checklist and linked to the specific product and stage, or process where the error occurred. With Offsight’s Alerts Dashboard, operations managers and quality personnel can live track all open issues. Once rework or repairs are performed to close these issues, their status can be marked as Completed in Offsight’s mobile app to remove them from the active alerts. In this manner, managers can ensure that all active issues are resolved before shipment.



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<h1 class="wp-block-heading">Providing Project Progress Updates&nbsp;</h1>



With Offsight’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/reporting-auditing" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Reporting &amp; Auditing</a>&nbsp;capabilities, the team at&nbsp;Fullerton&nbsp;Building Systems can set up automated reports to pull live production and quality information directly from the shop floor. This information is automatically emailed or downloaded as digital reports sent to specific managers and stakeholders. For example, daily quality reports with all open issues and rework performed can be sent to operations and quality managers. Similarly a workflow can be created in the Reporting Dashboard to send production progress reports to project stakeholders and customer facing representatives, with updates on how the overall project is tracking against its schedule and what percent has completed production.







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&#8220;Fullerton&nbsp;Building Systems is a leader in custom commercial prefabrication. We undertake many major retail projects and leverage our climate controlled manufacturing plants to produce and deliver prefabricated products to help our customers open business 60 days sooner. &nbsp;Offsight has been a huge value add, as a tool to help us manage our prefabrication process, control our costs and ensure that we are delivering the highest quality products to our customers. Their solution is built for manufacturers serious about quality control and cost efficiencies.&#8221;
</blockquote>







James Honken, Production Manager



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Offsight customer Fullerton Building Systems, is a third-generation, family-owned business that has evolved over its 75 year history from a lumber provider to a state of the art commercial prefabricator. 

Fullerton Building Systems Brings Retail Projects to Market Faster With Prefab

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Jason Dixon







Actively Manage Your Prefab Schedule



In this edition of the How To Guide for Prefab Leaders, we review how to generate a schedule forecast and factory production plan and how to manage the prefab project cycle to ensure that you are hitting the schedule targets.







In order to manage prefab project delivery in real-time, we will turn to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/forecasting-estimating" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Forecasting &amp; Estimating</a>&nbsp;feature set to build our plan and then leverage the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/production" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Production &amp; Quality Tracking</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/real-time-analytics" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Real Time Analytics</a>&nbsp;feature sets to manage factory production, live, and ensure we are meeting our deadlines.







If production falls behind schedule, we will review how to take proactive steps to accelerate work and how to better understand the cost implications of these corrective actions.&nbsp;



Generate Your Prefab Project Schedule



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Begin by generating your project schedule and leveraging Offsight’s <a href="https://www.offsight.com/forecasting-estimating" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Forecasting &amp; Estimating</a> suite with built in algorithms that factor in labor capacity constraints. These constraints also apply to the unique prefabrication process for the products you are assembling. With <a href="https://www.offsight.com/templates" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Offsight’s pre-built prefab planning, forecasting and estimating templates</a>, you can define your prefabrication process by your product type (e.g. EIFS panels, bath pods, volumetric modules, etc).



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Once each process step is identified and hours are assigned to complete each process, you can then add your current labor resources and capacity constraints to generate an accurate factory production schedule to forecast start and end dates. Projected delivery dates by panel or bundle of panels (e.g. 1st floor, 2nd floor, etc) can then be provided to other project stakeholders to coordinate on-site installation. 







Compare Real-Time Production with Your Planned Schedule



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After building your forecasted schedule, you can turn to <a href="https://www.offsight.com/production" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Offsight’s Production &amp; Quality Tracking</a> feature set to track your progress against your prefab schedule once factory production begins. As operators actively work on products on the shop floor and products move through assembly, Offsight’s Live Dashboard actively tracks status in real time. In order to compare your real time progress against your planned project schedule, you can leverage Offsight’s Real Time Analytics capabilities.



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With Offsight’s Schedule and Analytics Dashboard, you can automatically pull a real time production Gantt chart for all live products on the floor and track when they start prefabrication. We also track the production status of all live products in the overall assembly, including which processes were completed e.g. framing, and which are still pending. 



Identify Schedule Delays and Correcting Course



In order to get a real time view of how you’re tracking against your original project plan, you will need to leverage the linking functionality in Offsight’s Schedule Dashboard to search and apply your forecasted schedule overlaid on your real-time production Gantt chart. By automatically linking forecasted product start and end dates by process and workstation, you can see how each individual product is tracking against your plan. Thereby you could track a large panelized project by individual panel or section, e.g. floor 1, and immediately identify when production is falling behind your schedule.



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In this manner all operators, team leads and supervisors can see when products and processes need to be completed to achieve your schedule targets. If updates to your forecasted schedule are needed to account for delays,  you can use the drag and drop feature to move the target start and end dates in the Schedule and Analytics Dashboard. This will ensure you are always tracking your progress and managing prefabrication against your overall project schedule. Furthermore by leveraging Offsight to communicate updates to all stakeholders in real time, you can enable collaboration and coordination throughout the project lifecycle.

In this edition of the How To Guide for Prefab Leaders, we review how to generate a schedule forecast and factory production plan and how to manage the prefab project cycle to ensure that you are hitting the schedule targets.

The How to Guide for Prefab Leaders: Actively Manage Your Prefab Schedule

&nbsp;Process Improvement



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Drive Projects Offsite with Accurate Prefab Planning, Forecasting and Estimation







Builders and contractors need a better understanding of which parts of a large scale project are best suited to be prefabricated and how they need to manage their labor, materials and logistics to achieve the major cost, speed and delivery advantages that come with building offsite.&nbsp;







In our last edition of the How To Guide for Prefab Leaders, we review how&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/forecasting-estimating" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Offsight’s Forecasting &amp; Estimating</a>&nbsp;feature set can be a gamechanger when it comes to accurately estimating prefab costs and forecasting your prefab project schedule. This tool is built to help with planning and bidding on major offsite projects and can help drive projects to your prefab factory.&nbsp;







Check out the full How To Guide post from Offsight Solutions Engineering Manager,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncdixon/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jason Dixon</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/post/drive-projects-offsite-with-accurate-prefab-planning-forecasting-and-estimation" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here.</a>







Live From The Floor



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Tomu Builds for Hospitality with Offsight



<a href="http://www.offsight.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Offsight</a>&nbsp;customer&nbsp;<a href="https://tomuhaus.com/villas" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tomu</a>&nbsp;leverages modular construction to build luxury villas for hoteliers and hosts. Their products merge state of the art interior design and appliances with a factory-based construction process for speed, quality and cost efficiency. They have paired their expertise in building with Offsight’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/production" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Production &amp; Quality Tracking</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/reporting-auditing" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Reporting &amp; Auditing</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/materials-inventory" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Materials &amp; Inventory Management</a>&nbsp;toolsets to manage their end to end prefabrication and offsite construction process.&nbsp;







Check out our full case study&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/post/tomu-builds-for-hospitality-with-offsight" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here.</a>







Product Updates &amp; Enhancements



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Analytics &amp; Dashboards for Prefabrication







Offsight 2.0’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/real-time-analytics" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Real Time Analytics</a>&nbsp;feature set drives process improvements in your prefab factory and helps actively manage your offsite projects and supply chain. Offsight’s real time analytics dashboards pull live data directly from your shop floor and centralize labor, material consumption, inventory, quality and forecasting information. We provide you with the dynamic charts, graphs and tables you need to visualize your prefab factory performance and act in the moment to ensure your prefab projects meet and exceed their target KPIs.







Check out our full showcase of the new Offsight 2.0 Real Time Analytics feature set&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/post/analytics-dashboards-for-prefabrication" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here.</a>







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Drive Prefab Success with Project Collaboration &amp; Coordination



With Offsight 2.0, customers will gain functionality around project collaboration and coordination within their factories and across their project partners and stakeholders. Our enhancements will streamline data sharing between factories, materials suppliers, and onsite installers where sharing of progress updates between prefabricators, owners, and general contractors will benefit overall schedule tracking across major projects with many complex building components.







Check out&nbsp;<a href="https://www.offsight.com/post/offsight-2-0-drive-prefab-success-with-project-collaboration-coordination" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the article here.</a>

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