VisiLean

VisiLean is a cloud-based construction management service that supports lean production planning and control workflow and offers direct integration with BIM (Building Information Model).

VisiLean supports the lean construction workflow by providing specifically designed modules that support all phases of the pull production planning – including Phase, Lookahead (including constraints management), and Weekly planning. VisiLean enables real-time tracking of these plans through mobile apps and execution views, where crews can report back on progress and attach photos and notes.

The web interface of Visilean has all the tools for setting up, tracking, and managing your construction project in a collaborative way.

The mobile app, available for iOS and Android, is the day-to-day personal tool for onsite use – it provides foremen and workers with a personal to-do-list for the project and a convenient way of reporting on task progress or sending alerts/notes on urgent issues.

Save time – in real-time:
Visilean provides you with the project and activities in real-time – immediately when a task is completed you are able to see the status change in the weekly overview. A document attached to a task will be immediately available to the foreman or worker in the field. You will be able to take action as soon as something significant happens and not after an hour.

Save effort:
The plan and the actual situation are now in synch all the time. Everybody can focus on the work itself and the necessary actions to take, not on updating spreadsheets or manual reports.

Improve quality:
Since you can retrieve reports on project progress and on the work quality of subcontractors, it will be easy to compare performance (PPC, reasons for delays), and take necessary corrective actions on this or subsequent projects. The core of lean construction is about constant learning and Visilean will help you on that journey.

Visual feedback:
Visilean shows the project status using well-known symbols and colors. A glance at the weekly schedule will give you an overview of what is going on and what must be urgently addressed. BIM has now become a visual tool for everybody instead of technology for specialists.

Data crunching:
Every single update of the project data is recorded. In this way, Visilean creates a detailed database of the project events, which then can be used for in-depth analyses and comparisons between projects.

Collaborative Planning:
Your teams get access to their work packages and can participate in pull planning sessions by creating lookahead and weekly plans themselves. Each team or worker gets their own swim lane in our schedules where they can visualize their tasks and adjust the dates and duration as and when needed. They come better prepared for the pull planning session by doing their “homework” and add value by really coordinating the work with each other. VisiLean empowers your team to take true responsibility and the whole project gets full visibility of all the plans. You remove coordination waste from your production processes as there are no process clashes.

Import from your favored solution:
You can easily import an existing schedule in VisiLean from another system such as Primavera, MS Project, Asta, or Vico. The imported plan will preserve all the task dependencies and location information so that you can start assigning them to your teams. This way, your teams can still get access to key milestones and create sub-tasks which are then linked to high-level tasks. The progress tracking then not only updates the weekly or lookahead plans but also your master plans, giving you an accurate picture of where your project is headed. You are in complete control of your project.

BIM Integration:
Not only can your team visualize the models, but they can also link their tasks to the model elements and visualize the progress in a live 4D format. Activities and model elements can be filtered either by status (i.e. in progress, completed, quality checked) or by the responsible team (subcontractor or worker). The model viewer supports all the functions a standard viewer supports, including cutting planes, measurements, and a model selection tree. VisiLean supports native file formats, as well as open standards. Multiple models are supported, so you can load different models (i.e. structural, MEP, architectural) and still retain the plan links. VisiLean is a multi-project multiuser system. VisiLean even offers a 4D Simulator that can run the sequence of works on the model by both the planned and actual dates. A live Planned vs Actual view also helps you to review your progress in detail. With VisiLean supporting 2D formats (dwg, pdf, etc.), you can utilise all the 4D features on 2D formats as well by using mark-ups!