Worktile- curtain wall collaboration case

Worktile-幕墙协作案例​

Engineering design process has been the existence of long design period, drawing data and more difficult to coordinate with the problem.

How to solve this problem? Benefit from the vigorous development of the Internet +, a variety of collaborative work applications have been developed, such as Slack, Worktile, Teambition, Trello and so on.

工程设计过程中一直存在着设计工期长，图纸资料多，协调配合困难的问题。

怎么解决这个难题？受惠于互联网+的蓬勃发展，各种协作工作应用不断地被开发出来，如Slack，Worktile， Teambition，Trello等。

For the curtain wall industry, can improve the team's work efficiency, to ensure that the drawings design ideas to understand, follow the implementation of the progress of the project is the goal of the project can achieve the goal of the key. By comparing the use of various collaboration tools, the current Worktile is more suitable for use in the curtain wall design industry.Several of the other similar collaboration tools are not easy to use are the main reasons:

对幕墙行业而言，能否提高团队的工作效率，保证图纸设计思路的理解，跟踪设计进度的执行是整个项目的能否实现预定目标的关键。通过比较使用上述各种协作工具，认为目前Worktile比较适合于幕墙设计行业使用。其他几种类似的协作工具不容易被使用的主要原因有：

Third: charges.

Foreign collaboration tools are less free.

第三：收费。

国外协作工具的免费功能较少。

Second: the English version of the main.

In the enterprise to promote inconvenient.

第二：英文版为主。

在企业内部推广不方便。

First: the server in foreign countries.

 In the course of long-term use, the site service will be unstable or may be encountered by the wall.

第一：服务器在国外。

在长期使用过程中，网站服务会不稳定或者遇到被墙的可能。

Our current design project is an example.

 Project volume: building elevation: 224m; curtain wall area of ​​about 6 to 70,000 square meters.

 Time span: 4 months.

 Participate in the team members: 9.

 If it is the use of conventional team with the means of process communication with the efficiency will be relatively low.

 Reflected in the following aspects:

我们目前的一个设计工程为例。

工程体量大：建筑标高为： 224m；幕墙面积约6~7万平方米。

参与团队成员多：9位。

如果是采用常规的团队配合手段，过程沟通配合效率会比较低。

体现在以下几方面：

• Work schedule. Site changes frequently, resulting in work plan adjustments must be synchronized to make the appropriate changes. Regularly using the EXCEL table or the WORD form to set the time schedule is time consuming and laborious, because it is necessary to send the latest work plan to all team members every few days. There are too many work plan versions, and each team member must repeat the steps of receiving, saving, and opening. Disadvantages: file confusion is not easy to save, affect the focus.

工作安排：现场的计划变化频繁，导致工作计划调整必须同步做相应变化。常规使用EXCEL表或者WORD表格制定时间进度的方法比较费时费力，因为必须每隔几天就要给全部团队成员发送最新的工作计划。工作计划版本数量过多，每一个队员必须重复着进行接收，保存，打开的操作步骤。

设计痛点：文件混乱不容易保存，影响专注力。

• ​Design questions. As the design process progresses, engineering questions will continue to emerge. If the material is not clear, the design scheme is not feasible, the structure does not correspond to the architectural drawings, the detail design is not reflected, and so on. The conventional method is that each person reports and interprets it separately to the person in charge of design, and then the design leader then summarizes it. This greatly increases the workload of the person in charge, and the responsible person does not have time to pay attention to the issues that should be addressed. Another method is that everyone fills in a WORD or EXCEL document in a specified path folder; there is a problem that one must wait for another person to fill in before adding. Disadvantages: Increased communication time costs, wasted work time, and reduced work efficiency.

设计疑问：随着设计进程的深入，工程疑问会源源不断地出现。如材料不明确，设计方案不可行，结构与建筑图不对应，细节设计没有体现等等。常规方法是每个人都单独上报和解释给设计负责人，然后设计负责人再去总结填写。这样极大地加重负责人的工作量，导致负责人没有时间去关注应该着重处理的问题。还有一种方法就是每个人都到某个指定的路径文件夹的WORD或者EXCEL文档中填写；存在的问题是一个人必须等另一个人填写后才能去增加。

设计痛点：增加了沟通时间成本，浪费工作时间，降低工作效率。

• ​Repeated errors. The engineering design process is a process that continually corrects design errors. From the beginning of the design, everyone can make mistakes, but how to let others avoid the same mistakes is the point we should pay attention to. The general idea is to modify the comments through drawings, face to face corrections, and the meeting emphasizes. This kind of thinking may be feasible at the beginning of a design error, but as the design process progresses, the number of errors will increase greatly. Because there are people with different work traits in the team, some people work faster, but the work will be more careless; while some people rarely have problems, but the work progress is slow. Therefore, it is possible that after a meeting is emphasized, some players will repeat.

重复错误：一个工程的设计过程是一个不断地更正设计错误的进程。从设计的开始，每一个人都有可能会犯错，但怎么让其他人避免出现同样的错误是我们所要关注的点。常规思路是通过图纸修改批注，面对面指正，开会强调。这种思路在设计错误比较少的开始可能会为之可行，但随着设计进程的深入，错误数量会极大增加。因为团队中存在着不同工作性格的人，一些人工作速度会比较快，但工作会比较粗心一点；而一些人很少出现问题，但工作进度慢。因此有可能一个问题在开会强调后，一些队员还是会重复出现。

• External communication. The smooth progress of a project is the result of joint labor of various departments. How to communicate with the project department, procurement department, and factory production department is a factor that affects the smoothness of the project. Because everyone's focus will be different, which leads to a message that is filtered through various levels and eventually becomes unrecognizable. The common practice is to ensure accurate information delivery by constantly sending email files and telephone communication. But there will be a problem: the question will continue to be generated, and the question mail that has been sent is only passed away from history. The receiver must spend a lot of energy to track the additional questions that follow, and also need to sort and merge the documents sent in batches. .

• ​Important information points. A project will have a lot of technical difficulties and focus. Under normal circumstances, only the responsible person is likely to have all the important information points. But the actual process, the details of the design is to run by the team members, whether all members can understand the design of the project difficult and focus is to ensure that the design is correct or not the key. Under normal circumstances, only through a meeting to explain the meeting, so that everyone analysis of the design process of the design errors generated by the lessons learned.

​重要信息点：一个工程会有很多技术难点与重点。一般情况下，只有负责人才有可能掌握所有重要的信息点。但实际过程中，细节设计却是由团队成员来操作，能否让所有团员都能够理解工程的设计难点与重点是保证设计正确与否的关键。常规情况下，只有通过一次次地召开会议进行解释，让所有人分析设计过程中产生的设计错误而得到的经验教训。

Above these pain points through the WORKTILE can be better mitigated.

上面这些痛点通过WORKTILE可以较好地得到缓解。

The main interface of the software is as follows:

软件主要界面右侧：

1. Work arrangements can be adjusted in real time, the so-called plan can not keep up with changes. But now at least can be adjusted in real time, you can also set a specific person in charge to remind.

 1.工作安排可以实时进行调整，所谓的计划赶不上变化。但现在起码可以实时进行调整，还可以给具体负责人设置提醒。

 2. Design questions can be increased in real time.

设计疑问可以实时增加。

3. Repeated errors are posted on the designated page, and all team members can log in to view and learn to avoid re-offending later.

重复错误公布在指定页面，所有队员均可以登录查看学习，避免后期重新再犯。

4.Important information points can be saved in detail, communicated and shared with the outside world anytime, anywhere.

重要信息点可以详细地保存，随时随地与外界沟通，共享。

5.When communicating with the outside world, you can directly forward the design question link to the person in charge of the counterpart department. And the question can continue to increase in real time, there is no need to send multiple WORD documents.

与外界沟通时，可以直接转发设计疑问链接给对口部门负责人。并且疑问可以继续实时增加，不需要发送多份WORD文档。

All of the above operations are only possible by logging in to the website.

There are also some details that can improve productivity.

Of course, everything has its shortcomings.

At present, the mobile phone APP picture of this application is displayed slowly, which may be the cause of the network speed, or there may be a bug in the APP itself. In addition, the paste function of the image is very poor, can not support direct Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V operations, you must save the screenshot to the desktop and then import. But this problem should be solved, because it can support such operations.

Even if these small deficiencies exist, individuals believe that such collaborative applications can be extended to enterprises, which can effectively improve work efficiency.

上面所有这些操作只是通过登录网站这个步骤就可以实现。

另外还有一些可以提高工作效率的细节不一一列举。

当然，万事均有它不足的一面。

目前这个应用的手机APP图片显示比较缓慢，有可能是网络速度原因，也有可能是APP本身存在BUG。另外就是图片的粘贴功能非常差，不能支持直接Ctrl+C和Ctrl+V操作，必须截图保存到桌面再导入。但这个问题应该是可以解决的，因为知乎就可以支持这样的操作。

即使存在着这些小的不足，个人认为此类协作应用可以推广到企业中，这样能够有效地提高工作效率。