Axiom provides industry technology support tailored to the energy sector for construction and fabrication.
Industry Expertise
Customized System Development for Our Industry
Axiom focuses on the energy sector for construction and fabrication systems. This is where our 25 years of experience has been and where we know we can make a difference. With many years of frontline experience in quality control, supervision, and project management, we know that each project and even each client can provide particular challenges and expectations that you will need to live up to.
Your company has been built on getting the job done right in a safety-sensitive and regulated industry. Do you have the tools to repeat and pass on the processes that you have developed to new teams? Do you have the ability you need to see into your projects in real-time as your business grows? With good systems, you can be assured that the safety, quality, budget, schedule, and progress considerations of your projects are visible and informing your decisions.
You may already have many systems working and locked in, and that is great. We can help with any of the missing pieces or weak areas in your workflows.
If you are wanting to expand your services and build up new systems, then we can help define and fill broad chunks of workflow to support those activities and deliver that information and assurance to your clients.
Your company has been built on getting the job done right in a safety-sensitive and regulated industry. Do you have the tools to repeat and pass on the processes that you have developed to new teams? Do you have the ability you need to see into your projects in real-time as your business grows? With good systems, you can be assured that the safety, quality, budget, schedule, and progress considerations of your projects are visible and informing your decisions.
You may already have many systems working and locked in, and that is great. We can help with any of the missing pieces or weak areas in your workflows.
If you are wanting to expand your services and build up new systems, then we can help define and fill broad chunks of workflow to support those activities and deliver that information and assurance to your clients.
Tracking and Monitoring Systems
Tracking and monitoring are some of the most helpful systems you can develop in the construction industry. Some projects are small enough to track easily with your own eyes and instincts, but stack a bunch of small projects together, or start adding large projects into the mix and you will quickly realize how difficult it is to keep tabs on everything you need. Good tracking data is the best way to stay connected to the grassroots activities of your projects as well as see the big picture of all the moving pieces.
At the core, a good tracking system provides some common elements that are helpful at a granular level and also feed good summaries and trend data that give you the information you need to act in the best interest of the project. If you have a tracking system that is useful to the workers that are using it in your day-to-day essential activities, then you will have a motivated team that can feed that useful information to management and even your end-use clients for a whole host of other purposes. Tracking should not just be an administrative burden, it should be a helpful process that aids the work fronts, but also helps identify risks and support your progress claims.
We can help you develop a tracking system that is simple and intuitive so that new project team members can learn the process efficiently and contribute to producing consistent project data. The system can be simple enough to handle a single location and a single process, or robust enough to manage multiple projects over various locations through different phases of construction. You can have real-time, shared data available to your team anywhere and from anywhere. It's not just the big companies that can have powerful systems behind them; we know how to help you deliver what your clients want and what you need in this industry.
There are many ways to do this, in fact you may already have the tools to have this developed, but in any case, we can help get the right systems in place to make a tracking and monitoring system that does exactly what you need it to do.
At the core, a good tracking system provides some common elements that are helpful at a granular level and also feed good summaries and trend data that give you the information you need to act in the best interest of the project. If you have a tracking system that is useful to the workers that are using it in your day-to-day essential activities, then you will have a motivated team that can feed that useful information to management and even your end-use clients for a whole host of other purposes. Tracking should not just be an administrative burden, it should be a helpful process that aids the work fronts, but also helps identify risks and support your progress claims.
We can help you develop a tracking system that is simple and intuitive so that new project team members can learn the process efficiently and contribute to producing consistent project data. The system can be simple enough to handle a single location and a single process, or robust enough to manage multiple projects over various locations through different phases of construction. You can have real-time, shared data available to your team anywhere and from anywhere. It's not just the big companies that can have powerful systems behind them; we know how to help you deliver what your clients want and what you need in this industry.
There are many ways to do this, in fact you may already have the tools to have this developed, but in any case, we can help get the right systems in place to make a tracking and monitoring system that does exactly what you need it to do.
Specializing in Small to Medium-sized Companies
Passionate for Industry Systems that help your company grow.
Client-Centric Approach
Energy Industry Specific Systems
Enhancing Operational Capabilities
At Axiom, we deliver services that cover a lot of tech territory. One of the main things that has driven us all these years is seeing many industry challenges continue to re-emerge despite the technological advancements of the past several decades. This is not because there are not good tools to harness and make productive systems, but because many of underlying solutions were never harnessed into practical and repeatable workflows. There is a real problem in our industry of losing experience and wisdom from people that have developed sound methodology for their work through lifetimes of effort and experience. At the end of a successful project you might have a lot of contributing factors to assess, but you will definitely have invaluable contributions from important and skilled people.
Creating good systems based on your companies successes is a way of preserving the legacy of the important people that helped shape the way you do business. It helps set an expected standard to be attained and helps to support the means to attain it. There are industry standards that all companies need to adhere to in their disciplines, but there are also unique strengths and methods within your company that can be amplified with good supporting systems. We like to hone in on the un-tapped potential of the simple strengths of your company so they can provide the scaffolding to help support all the other activities and areas that benefit from doing what you do best.
Creating good systems based on your companies successes is a way of preserving the legacy of the important people that helped shape the way you do business. It helps set an expected standard to be attained and helps to support the means to attain it. There are industry standards that all companies need to adhere to in their disciplines, but there are also unique strengths and methods within your company that can be amplified with good supporting systems. We like to hone in on the un-tapped potential of the simple strengths of your company so they can provide the scaffolding to help support all the other activities and areas that benefit from doing what you do best.
Project Management Enhancements
Risk Management Solutions
The discipline of project management is a wide topic, but it is an essential discipline in any construction project. Project Management can be aided greatly by clear and timely information systems that give the project team insights into what is happening on the project.
RISKSRisks are inherent in any project, but no risk is as dangerous as that unknown unknowns. These can be difficult process until after they become apparent, but good information and useful systems can reduce the blind spots by helping to shed light on otherwise unseen areas of your projects. Once a risk has been exposed, you don't need to settle for the "known unknowns", but can face them head on to minimize the impact and prevent reoccurrence in the future. We have helped with many client system enhancements that have come about through lessons learned so that the value of the surprise lesson is that it can become an alarm bell before it surfaces again. Project management will always be needed to navigate the water of right choices for the success of your project, but how much better is that process when you have an operating "sonar" system to see what is trending towards you and what mines you need to avoid.
PROGRESSThe unique thing about working in a heavily project based industry is that projects all come to an end, and necessarily so. Get the work done, take a moment to appreciate what has been accomplished, and move on to the next one! In some cases getting to the end is more complicated than it appears. Along the way, progress must be tracked and accounted for to make progress claims and feed updated project metrics and schedules and support resource planning. Having a good tracking system lets you integrate your real project data into how you follow your project's rules of credit. Using real tracking means that are grounded in metric data from the various stages of production and installation will help you give rock solid justification for your progress billing and also provide accurate trending for the rest of your project. This can help over-stated progress which can skew trending and provide schedule and costing surprises late in the project.
FULL CIRCLE INFORMATIONGood estimates provide a foundation for accurate work execution. Good data from work execution provides excellent support for estimating future work. This simple sounding cycle can be an elusive goal if the data from your projects is not tracked, or even if it is not being tracked in a useful way. We can help identify the key metrics that you want to keep a close eye on through the entire project life cycle so that you can have meaningful outputs for future estimates. At the estimating stage, you can have multiple output criteria to match the client bid breakout and your internal WBS. This is the same with project execution, you can define what you need for the project as well as for internal metrics and get the dual purpose out of the data.
RISKSRisks are inherent in any project, but no risk is as dangerous as that unknown unknowns. These can be difficult process until after they become apparent, but good information and useful systems can reduce the blind spots by helping to shed light on otherwise unseen areas of your projects. Once a risk has been exposed, you don't need to settle for the "known unknowns", but can face them head on to minimize the impact and prevent reoccurrence in the future. We have helped with many client system enhancements that have come about through lessons learned so that the value of the surprise lesson is that it can become an alarm bell before it surfaces again. Project management will always be needed to navigate the water of right choices for the success of your project, but how much better is that process when you have an operating "sonar" system to see what is trending towards you and what mines you need to avoid.
PROGRESSThe unique thing about working in a heavily project based industry is that projects all come to an end, and necessarily so. Get the work done, take a moment to appreciate what has been accomplished, and move on to the next one! In some cases getting to the end is more complicated than it appears. Along the way, progress must be tracked and accounted for to make progress claims and feed updated project metrics and schedules and support resource planning. Having a good tracking system lets you integrate your real project data into how you follow your project's rules of credit. Using real tracking means that are grounded in metric data from the various stages of production and installation will help you give rock solid justification for your progress billing and also provide accurate trending for the rest of your project. This can help over-stated progress which can skew trending and provide schedule and costing surprises late in the project.
FULL CIRCLE INFORMATIONGood estimates provide a foundation for accurate work execution. Good data from work execution provides excellent support for estimating future work. This simple sounding cycle can be an elusive goal if the data from your projects is not tracked, or even if it is not being tracked in a useful way. We can help identify the key metrics that you want to keep a close eye on through the entire project life cycle so that you can have meaningful outputs for future estimates. At the estimating stage, you can have multiple output criteria to match the client bid breakout and your internal WBS. This is the same with project execution, you can define what you need for the project as well as for internal metrics and get the dual purpose out of the data.
