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Fabrication Technology of the Future By / Jessica Kirby © Can Stock Photo / sspopox In 2022, BuildCentrix is going to introduce its SaaS to plasma functionality. Industry-standard CAM software relays fitting information…
Total weight per day and weight per order have been added to the BCX Production and Delivery calendars, bringing through an important shipping and logistics metric. Having the weight available makes it easier to discern…
When an assembly is submitted and becomes an order, BCX generates multiple PNG files (top view and isometric view) documenting the assembly. The benefits of using a common file format, which has lossless compression,…
By / Jessica Kirby © Can Stock Photo / jirsak Depending on the business model , mechanical contracting companies can run hundreds or thousands of projects annually and use hundreds of thousands of labor codes between…
By / Bruno Couriol, InfoQ Microsoft recently announced that the Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) desktop application will be retired on June 15, 2022, for certain versions of Windows 10. Legacy Internet Explorer-based…
New user management UI BCX has built a new user management system, which includes an interface that simplifies managing internal users, organizations, trade groups, and permissions. New crew management functionality The…
BuildCentrix is set to launch its 3-Dimensional online take off-module, which takes its fabrication and estimation platform to a whole new level. By / Jessica Kirby As a platform that was purpose built with a…
By / Janko Roettgers, Protocol Everything went wrong for Daqri. The startup rode a wave of augmented reality hype and about $300 million in funding to a series of half-baked products before failing spectacularly and…
By / Nate Berg, FastCompany One of the biggest and best-funded companies in prefabrication and industrialized construction is going out of business. Katerra, a Silicon Valley startup backed by billions of dollars in…
Notifying field personnel about the status of their orders has always been a bit of a grey area, where too many messages become disruptive and too few create uncertainty. To solve the problem we've recently automated…
To our valued clients, The current global health crisis has created a lot of challenges for contractors. Worker safety is job one in the construction industry, so contractors are well positioned to respond to the…
Understanding Adopters Influential social theory says getting people to buy into innovation means understanding who they are and what motivates them to change. Implementing a new idea, behavior, or technology is a…
