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DCM Inc. | The Drawing Specialists Case Studies

 

Facility Managers across the globe are struggling with keeping their engineering drawings organized, up-to-date and accessible to their teams.

The Drawing Specialists solve this problem by implementing a Drawing Management Strategy for their unique situation.

Our strategy ensures you have the most accurate drawings and gives you the ability to locate the drawing you need within seconds.

Echo Software Drawing Management Software for Facility Managers

Echo DMS Case Studies

Engineering drawing management software simplified & tailor-made for your business. Software for engineering drawings that keeps up with your building today & the history of your building.

Client Case Study #1

  • Location: Toronto, Canada

    Situation: UHN NEWS TGH

    Maintenance Department takes action
    Imagine the task of trying to find one drawing among tens of thousands that illustrate the various structural, architectural, electrical and mechanical elements of TGH. Just the thought of locating the correct drawing, which could be stored in various locations onsite or at external firms, is a daunting task. With the numerous active maintenance projects of the TGH Facilities and Maintenance Department, easy accessibility to drawings became an increasing challenge for staff, project managers and contractors: Which one was the current drawing? Which one was a duplicate? That’s why TGH Facilities and Maintenance staff took action and compiled all the drawings into a Hospital Technical Document Management System (H-TDMS). More than 60,000 drawings were reviewed and audited, catalogued and scanned into digital images called “master files” allowing access to any drawing from any terminal connected to the intranet or external internet. “We now have quick access to the most current drawings, with a process to update the electronic system every month to ensure our files are always accurate,” says Mirek Balcy, Director of Facilities and Support Services. “This system will ensure that we don’t reference the wrong drawing and reduce the risk of inaccurate assessments when working on a maintenance, facility or construction project.” An added benefit of moving to a paperless system is bringing TGH one step closer to becoming a fully green facility. Future additions to the system could include an electronic project management element so staff, and project managers may easily access and share such information as tenders, schedules as well as electronic space management to keep track of space vacancies throughout the buildings. Special thanks to Amelia Hoyt from SIMS, Shawn McIntosh from Telecommunications and to the Facilities team (Rommel Berdos, Barbara Tabuno, Sylwia Zyman and Cynthia Chew) for their support in this project.

    Project Scope: Document Management System

Client Case Study #1

  • Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Project Manager: Robert Rennie

    Project Scope: Drawing Management System

    Statement:

    “Our Situation” By Robert Rennie P. Eng. , Chief Engineer of TEGH There had been many attempts over the years to organize by different folks, which led to a number of different and half-completed methods and systems. And the end result was frustration in trying to find a drawing, and if you eventually found it, not knowing if it was even the latest version made the effort almost redundant.

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Redraw CAD Conversion Service Case Studies

AutoCAD Conversions. You Design, We Redraw and You Save.

Hands-On Case Study #1

  • TGH (UHN) original situation with one site.
    63,364 total drawing files handed over to DCM in 2009 which we processed through our Hands-on service.

    12,044 relevant drawings were uploaded into echo; archiving 51,320 drawing files from daily
    operations

Hands-On Case Study #2

  • Through our Hands-on service, the Drawing Specialists sorted through 50,000+ project drawings narrowing down to 7,062 after DCM Stage 1 – Audit, Data Collect, File processing, and echo.

Hands-On Case Study #3

  • Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board original situation totalling thirty-four sites.
    Hands-on Service – we received 8,300 total drawing files for 34 sites.

    Updated 4,115 relevant drawings to their customized echo system.

Hands-On Case Study #4

  • Ottawa Hospital (Civic site only)

    24,000 total drawing files (digital only) handed over to DCM in 2011. After completing the Hands-On process 6,000 relevant drawings were uploaded to echo Drawing Management System.

Hands-On Case Study #5

  • Chatham-kent health alliance (2 sites)

    Back in 2006, CKHA handed over 8,000 drawing files to the Drawing Specialists. Through our Hands-on process, we uploaded 1,700 relevant drawings into echo.

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Redraw CAD Conversion Service Case Studies

AutoCAD Conversions. You Design, We Redraw and You Save.

Client Case Study #1

    • Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

      Project Scope: Conversion of 28 various size Plan & Profile drawings to CAD

      Turnaround:2 weeks

      Cost:$4,872.00

      Savings of $14,616.00

      Statement: “We were happy with the work that was done for us and the professionalism in which it was handled”

Client Case Study #2

    • Location: Windsor, Ontario, Canada

      Project Scope: Conversion of 34 “E” size very dense Mechanical
      drawings to Auto Cad

      Turnaround:1 ½ week

      Cost:$8,322.18

      Savings of $24,966.54

      Statement:“This service allowed us to respond to a clients need in a very short period of time. The deliverable was high quality and a great asset to the design team. Overall we were very pleased with the service and product.”

Client Case Study #3

  • Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

    Project Scope: Conversion of 1 “B” size drawing into Auto Cad 2000. Appling all specifications as requested.

    Turnaround: 2 days

    Cost: $135.00

    Savings of $405.00

Client Case Study #4

  • Location: North America Wide

    Project Scope: Companywide Utilizing DCM Inc. for their Drawing Conversion needs

    Situation: Client (consulting engineer firm) utilized DCM Inc. for their Drawing Conversion needs as a test in three of their 79 offices. In the first 5 months of our relationship, they spent $53,000.00 on redrawing with DCM. They did the math and billed this work out below their std rate which works out to $202,000.00.

    Savings of $149,000! In the first 5 months with only 3 of their 79 offices.

    By the end of the year, $122,000 was spent, resulting in a savings or increase in profit by $487,000.00 on their projects! Resulting in a letter of direction to their other offices from the CEO to use our service whenever possible.

Client Case Study #5

  • Location: Michigan, USA

    Project Scope: 35 E size Drawings Conversion

    Savings of $41,000

    Situation: A Chrysler plant in Michigan hired a Consulting Engineer to make some modifications and relocation of space and equipment in a mechanical area of the plant. There was reposition of equipment; a deadline and 35 “E” size old paper drawings to work from. The first task was to redraw these drawings into AutoCAD so the repositioning and design work could begin.

    On average it would take 3 days to redraw a “D” size drawing @ $35.00 per hour = $840.00, realistically for the density of these drawings it would have been 5 days @ 35per hour =$1400.00 They had 35 drawings….so $840 dollars x 35 drawings = $29,400.00 and it would take 21 weeks to complete. And again at 5 days = $49,000.00 and it would take 35 weeks or let’s say they put 2 people on the job, would still take 4 months.

    DCM Inc. picked up the drawings and in four days had the first drawing back to the project manager to begin his design work on a drawing that was in AutoCAD and in his layers and specs, and within 10 business days, all drawing were completed At an average cost of $225 per drawing = $7,875.00 Saving them months of work and anywhere from $22,000 in the three-day example or $41,000 in the five days.

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Baseline Master CAD Case Studies

Compressing years of history into one set of master plans with all discipline details to maintain your facility. Use what you already have—that was used to create your buildings.

Baseline Client Case Study #1

  • Lakeridge Health – Oshawa site only.
    When you search “Floor 2 Lighting plans” in echo you get 52 Project Drawings with a date range of 1944-2008. But with Baseline, Oshawa has 1 Baseline drawing for Floor 2 Lighting Plan.
    In this scenario, the end-user can reference 1 Baseline drawing vs 51 project drawings in echo.

    For example, Lakeridge Health – Oshawa site

    Through our Hands-on service, the Drawing Specialists sorted through 50,000+ project drawings narrowing down to 7,062 after DCM Stage 1 – Audit, Data Collect, File processing, and echo. After DCM Stage 2, Lakeridge Health Oshawa site has 140 Baseline Drawings. One for each level and Primary Discipline

Baseline Client Case Study #2

  • PVNCCD School Board’s original situation totalling thirty-four sites.

    Hands-on Service – we received 8,300 total drawing files for 34 sites. Updated 4,115 relevant drawings to their customized echo system. The total Baseline drawings for 34 sites are 510.

Baseline Client Case Study #3

  • Ottawa Hospital – Civic site only.
    24,000 total drawing files (digital only) handed over
    to DCM in 20116,000 relevant drawings were uploaded to echo Drawing Management System. 140 Baseline drawings for Civic site.

Baseline Client Case Study #4

  • TGH (UHN) original situation with one site.
    63,364 total drawing files handed over to DCM in 2009 which we processed through our Hands-on service. 12,044 relevant drawings were uploaded into echo; archiving 51,320 drawing files from daily operations. 200 potential Baseline to be processed.

Baseline Client Case Study #5

  • Chatham-kent health alliance situation with two sites.
    Back in 2006, they handed over 8,000 drawing files to the Drawing Specialists. Through our Hands-on process, we uploaded 1,700 relevant drawings into echo. 155 Baseline drawings have been created between two sites.

Baseline Client Case Study #6

  • This facility has six sites.
    98,000 total drawing files handed over to DCM in 2007 for Hands-on service. 24,000 relevant drawings uploaded to echo Drawing Management System. Since 2015 this client has been creating Baseline Master CAD plans in-house. It’s been a long slow process and a learning experience for staff and co-op students hired on. We believe they will have 500 potential Baselines. Now, five years in, they do not have one site with a complete set of Baseline drawings. However, this client has decided to process Baseline on their own DCM still manages and processes their new projects.

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“Using Echo to store reference drawings has been a very good experience. It makes the sorting and locating process much easier and saves us, in facilities management, hours of work. Moreover, DCM is great in terms of promptly providing technical support through friendly and highly-knowledgeable
staff – would definitely recommend it to other organizations.”

Facilities Management – Planning, Redevelopment & Operations. Toronto, Ontario.

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