Key Features

How many people are touching your data? How many keystrokes are being spent before your field data gets into your ERP systems? How many days or weeks have passed before you are looking at your project reporting, and how accurate is that data by the time it gets there?

Sigma provides all your project reporting including updating your P6 schedule with Zero administrative effort, no duplicated entries and in near real time. The “near real time” is the time it takes for the approvals in your automated workflows to be executed.

Click the link below to learn how Sigma can help reduce overhead costs while at the same time enabling project teams statistically the best opportunity for increasing field productivity and decreasing safety incidents.

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There is no silver bullet to control cost and schedule overruns, only many lead bullets. They come in the form of practical real-life steps to systematically reduce waste.

Sigma provides the means to reduce waste through the smart use of technology

Productivity studies from the University of Calgary show that a field supervisor loses180 – 200 minutes every day to IIMS (ineffective information management subsystems). Meaning they spend over 3 hours a day looking for information they need to do their job. Sigma's drawing viewer provides construction teams a real-life step to systematically reduce this waste.

Contact us to learn how Sigma can help reduce overhead costs while at the same time enabling project teams statistically the best opportunity for increasing field productivity and decreasing safety incidents

Some of the key benefits in using Elements Sigma Software are.

• Reduces project overhead costs
• Increases reporting reliability & accuracy
• Reduces keystrokes
• Provides near real time reporting with no administrative effort!
• Increases your project planner's effort by 50%!
• Enables proactive decision-making vs reactive

If your doing construction Reach Out to Element today to find out how our Sigma software solution can decrease your administrative efforts in managing your projects while increasing your bottom-line profits.

Sigma not only enables planners to build 3 types of work packages for your construction teams, but it also manages the different lifecycle for each of these packages. Sigma also allows your construction teams to create, assign, close out and validate punches for each of these work packages. Each of the packages below are viewable on desktop or iPad by your construction teams when they are using Element’s Sigma software.

IWP (Installation Work Packages), a grouping of tasks dissected from a single CWP, created by a Workface Planner targeted TO ALIGN WITH THE OPTIMUM PATH OF CONSTRUCTION. These IWP’s contain all the necessary documents and descriptions required to carry out the scoped work, which is to be for the most effective and efficient installation or completion of the work.

SWP (System Work Package) which is a single-discipline work/walk-down  package for a pre-determined process or non-process system.

PSSR (Pre-Startup Safety Review) which is a multi-discipline walk-down package for a pre-determined process or non-process system.

Sigma has proven to reduce our planners time in building these work packages by over 50%, providing you a competitive advantage.

Click the link below to learn how Sigma can help reduce overhead costs while at the same time enabling project teams statistically the best opportunity for increasing field productivity and decreasing safety incidents.

Every contractor doing construction is doing some form of work packaging, this practice (process / procedure) varies widely between disciplines, industries, owners and project sizes, however at the principal level there remains the constant requirement for all construction – your crew needs the correct information the first time, the material you expect them to install and the tools and equipment to get their job done. Defining / refining and then getting consistency in how your company executes this process is one of the key factors that will determine your level of success.

“WorkFace Planning is and subset of the industries best practice “AWP – Advanced Work Packaging”, WFP is simply the business process of ensuring your crews have the right information the first time, the material you expect them to install and the tools & equipment to get their job done – If you are doing construction, you are doing WorkFace Planning”

No matter where you are at in your journey in implementing your version of WorkFace Planning, Elements Sigma Software can help you gain new efficiencies while at the same time decreasing your projects administrative burdens.

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One of our 16 key features of Sigma is Workflows. Through the user, roles & permissions functionality key tasks required of your project team can be automated in a way that keeps your entire team up to date and more efficient.

Save time and money with Sigma's automation of the approval and close out of your digital work Packages, times sheets, ITPs, ITRs, RFIs, FCOs, and punches.

Sigma Workflows also allow parallel steps within a workflow as well as you can add a submission and or approval e-mails to any of the workflow steps to keep your entire team informed, enabling your project teams to be proactive … not reactive.

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There is no silver bullet to control cost and schedule overruns, only many lead bullets. They come in the form of practical real-life steps to systematically reduce waste.

Sigma provides the means to reduce waste through the smart use of technology

The start of the day for your foremen is not as easy or as simple as it looks, and unless you’ve lived it you don’t understand what it takes to get their crews going at the start of the day. Beyond that, reporting back to the office of who is on site so your projects manpower reporting can be in on time, and Safety has a record of workers attendance for each toolbox talk, can be a daunting task!

Element’s founders came from the field where they grew from apprentices in their chosen trades into senior Project Managers. Element understands this pain point firsthand and created a field solution to resolve these morning issues.

Click the link below to learn more about our Sigma Crew field mobility app built by foreman for foreman.

With the form builder, document libraries, and workflow functionality Sigma can digitize and automate any and or all of your current processes

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Daily on construction foreman complete manual timesheets identifying who worked on what and for how long, some contractors include progress capture on the same paper, some have a second paper document that gets updated, some, most capture progress at the end of the week.

The purpose of this task of capturing time and progress is 2-fold, first this data needs to get into the parole software in order to pay the workers and second, we require both the time and progressed quantities to compile the construction reports.

How many people are touching the data, how many keystrokes are being spent before the field data gets into the parole system, how many days, weeks have passed before we are looking at your project reporting and then how accurate is that data in the reports by the time it gets there?

One of the Advantage Sigma provides is the opportunity for you to digitally capture each foreman's time and progress daily, in the same or less time it takes them to manually do the same task in way that guarantees there will no cost coding errors, eliminates the administrative effort of data entry, and provides the data in near real time for your project reporting.

If your doing construction Reach Out to Element today to find out how our Sigma software solution can decrease your administrative efforts in managing your projects while increasing your bottom-line profits.

There is no silver bullet to control cost and schedule overruns, only many lead bullets. They come in the form of practical real-life steps to systematically reduce waste. Sigma provides the means to reduce waste through the smart use of technology

If you’re looking for new ways to save your projects time and money contact Element to discover how the Sigma Advantage can help you!

Sigma not only enables planners to build 3 types of work packages for your construction teams, but it also manages the different lifecycle for each of these packages. Sigma also allows your construction teams to create, assign, close out and validate punches for each of these work packages.

Each of the below packages are viewable on a desktop or iPad by your construction teams when they are using Elements Sigma software.

1. IWP (Installation Work Packages) which is a grouping of tasks dissected from a single CWP, created by a Workface Planner targeted TO ALIGN WITH THE OPTIMUM PATH OF CONSTRUCTION. These IWPs will contain all the necessary documents and descriptions required to carry out the scoped work, which is to be for the most effective and efficient installation or completion of the work.
2. SWP (System Work Package) which is a single disciplines work / walk-down package for a pre-determined process or non-process system.
3. PSSR (Pre-Startup Safety Review) which is a multidiscipline walkdown package for a pre-determined process or non-process system.

If your doing construction Reach Out to Element today to find out how our Sigma software solution can decrease your administrative efforts in managing your projects while increasing your bottom-line profits.

When it comes to completions punch management often bleeds both cost and schedule as we drive scoped work through Construction Complete - Mechanically Complete - Total Care Custody & Control - Project Close Out.

Elements Sigma software can stop that bleeding for you. Beyond the cost and schedule savings additional benefits include Trustworthy ERP data, Accurate Performance Metrics, Real-Time Progress Monitoring, Reduced Keystrokes and you'll save the planet a few trees along the way.

Reach Out today and find out how we can help you on your current and or future projects.

There is no silver bullet to control cost and schedule overruns, only many lead bullets. They come in the form of practical real-life steps to systematically reduce waste.

Sigma provides the means to reduce waste through the smart use of technology

One of the most critical moments on any industrial construction project, that carries either a heavy risk of failure or an opportunity for success, is the transition from bulk construction to systems completion.

A key advantage in working with our software that you’ll experience is that Sigma makes this transition easy and painless for your site construction teams.

Reach Out today and find out how we can help you on your current and or future projects.

Some of the key benefits in using Elements Sigma Software are.

• Reduces project overhead costs
• Increases reporting reliability & accuracy
• Reduces keystrokes
• Provides near real time reporting with no administrative effort
• Increases your project planner's effort by 50%!
• Enables proactive decision-making vs reactive

If your doing construction Reach Out to Element today to find out how our Sigma software solution can decrease your administrative efforts in managing your projects while increasing your bottom-line profits.

The 10^th key feature of Sigma is RFI Management. RFI’s in Sigma have full access to all project drawings and pictures with markup functionality for both. Each step of the RFI is managed through the RFI workflow. Sigma's RFI log captures the data at each step and updates the status.

1. Sigma provides the ability to initiate an RFI from your iPad in the field
2. Your office staff can answer the field request, or they can create and submit an RFI
3. Someone new doing your RFI’s? You can add a reviewer to the RFI Workflow which is a great training tool!
4. Engineering can easily access and answer the RFI

When you want to start saving your projects time and money contact Element to discover how the Sigma Advantage can help you!

Reach Out today and find out how we can help you on your current and or future projects.

Its People – Process – Technology and increased success comes to those who put their efforts in getting alignment in this order.

Element can introduce you to some of the best trainers in the industry, for your PEOPLE, we can consult with you, on your PROCESSESS as well as the best TECHNOLOGY for your company that will support your people in executing your processes.

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Field Change Orders in Sigma have full access to all project drawings along with drop down menus for every aspect of the FCO creation, each step of the FCO is managed through the FCO Workflow, and e-mails can be sent to team members on both an FCO submission and approval ensuring key members of the project are kept up to date.

Field delays are captured through the Time and Progress process in Sigma Crew and once approved by the client representative are available to create an FCO. Sigma’s FCO log captures the data at each step and updates the status.

If your doing construction Reach Out to Element today to find out how our Sigma software solution can decrease your administrative efforts in managing your projects while increasing your bottom-line profits.

There is no silver bullet to control cost and schedule overruns, only many lead bullets. They come in the form of practical real-life steps to systematically reduce waste.

Sigma provides the means to reduce waste through the smart use of technology

One of the most critical moments on any heavy industrial construction project, that carries either a heavy risk of failure or an opportunity for success, is the transition from Estimation to Construction

Estimators generally do a great job at estimating labor and material costs, but these estimates are not at a granular enough level to plan, delegate, execute and report project completion. Construction requires a class-one material take off to effectively plan, properly delegate, safely execute and accurately report right through to project completion!

Although the bottom line rarely ever changes in this transition the WBS of execution when not checked and updated prior to the start of construction often has catastrophic consequences in relation to whether the project ending on schedule and within budget or not.

A key advantage in working with our software that you’ll experience is that Sigma makes this transition is easy and painless for your site construction teams, on-time and within budget!

Sigma is a contractors best in class construction management software that provides the means to reduce waste through the smart use of technology, click the link below to learn more about Sigma.

Remember there simply is no silver bullet to control cost and schedule overruns, only many lead bullets. They come in the form of practical real-life steps to systematically reduce waste.

Meetings aren’t the enemy. They are a tool, and tools work best when used intentionally. Efficient and productive meetings offer many benefits to owners and contractors alike. Problem-solving, collaboration, team building, and innovation can be sparked in meetings, to name a few.

Sigma now has the added value of a new feature, in our mission of helping contractors to enable their project teams to do more with less.

Our new feature Meeting Minutes allows your team to.

1. Create groups, teams, meeting types
2. Create meeting agendas or templates
3. Record meeting notes
4. Identify action items
5. Assign priorities, people, due date, update status of action items

Reach Out today and find out how we can help enable your project teams to increase field productivity, decrease safety incidents, and increase their bottom-line profits you on your current and or future projects.

Elements Sigma CM software provides contractors the best opportunity to increase field productivity, decrease safety incidents, and increase their bottom-line profits

We have added yet another new feature!!
+ Inspection & Test Plan (ITP)

Easily create each section and its content for your ITP, and if the ITP needs to be slightly adjusted project by project due to client requirements Sigma allows for these nuances to satisfy your client while staying true to your Quality Management Program or system.

Roughly 70% of the ITP is prepopulated directly from your estimate based on the project data alignment executed in our Sigma Portal module. Then with efficient and easy to use drop-down menus the balance of the Inspection & Test Plan your ITP is easily and efficiently populated. The time to create a project ITP for contractors is reduced by more than 50%.

The approval process of the ITP is then easily managed through the Sigma Workflow assigned by the project team.

Reach Out today and find out how we can help enable your project teams to increase field productivity, decrease safety incidents, and increase bottom-line profits on your current and or future projects.

Yesterday Element identified the new Meeting Minutes feature, today the new Inspection & Test Plan feature, how many of you can guess what the next new feature is that Element will be introducing tomorrow?

We have added yet another new feature!!
+ Inspection & Test Record

This new feature provides contractors a plethora of benefits in and of itself. From the immediate environmental impact of reducing the amount of paper, reducing your carbon footprint in today's new economy, saving space, increasing accessibility to the data, generating greater ROI from your front line, eases transfer of information, increased reliability of project progress, and early indications are showing a 15-minute reduction in time per ITR.

There are many examples of the value to the owner and the competitive advantage to the contractor of being able to provide ease of access to the original digital data record of a test to the owner for their digital twin to be used in the future by their maintenance teams as the original baseline for ongoing maintenance & operations.

Easily create each section and its content for each ITR. No more manually filling in the administrative section of the ITRs, Sigma auto fills this section for you including system name and description when required. Then digitally capture in real time the field data from your front line's tests and recordings as well as the sign offs from your front line, QC leads and client's representatives.

The lifecycle of the ITR is then managed through the Sigma Workflow assigned by the project team.

Reach Out today and find out how we can help enable your project teams to increase field productivity, decrease safety incidents, and increase their bottom-line profits on your current and or future projects.

This new feature excites me the most out of all of Sigma's features! Why you might ask, because we are now one step away from automating a digital turnover binder for the contractor!!

This new feature is providing construction contractors a new competitive advantage in the marketplace. If you’re a leader in the construction contractor space Reach Out today.

We have added yet another new feature!!

+ Service Calls

This feature was specifically added for 2 reasons.

1. For contractors who beyond executing project work provide a service side to their business.
2. For contractors that have small teams doing maintenance for their clients.

Create a Service call or Preventative Maintenance Task or Work Order with a click of your mouse in the calendar, assign workers, attach pictures, documents, instructions, drawings and show the location of the work location in Google Maps just to name a few of the growing functionality of this feature.

Reach Out today and find out how we can help enable your project teams to increase field productivity, decrease safety incidents, and increase their bottom-line profits on your current and or future projects.

Wow! 16 time saving, productivity generating, safety incident reducing, and near real time reporting features now available through Elements Sigma Construction Management software.

I know that there are a lot of options in the market for construction contractors but if you are a contractor and have not yet booked a free ½ hour, free, no pressure, assessment to evaluate the potential fit and early ROI of Sigma for your company you are missing out.

Reach Out today and book your 30-minute assessment!