Implementing Technology:
Why Automate?
- It minimizes paper (including storage and eventual shredding costs)
- It reduces the amount of data entry in the office
- It reduces the risk of data being compromised
- It provides the ability for supervisors to review work right after the data is collected
- It improves data quality by using real-time edit checks
- It reduces mailing costs by electronically generating copies
Current Holdings?
- L.B. Foster currently has approximately 60 iPads in the field collecting data in our Precast, Friction Management, and Concrete Ties divisions
- Projects due to be rolled out in 2014 will result in an additional 40 iPads in the field
- Automating data collection has eliminated the use and printing of approximately ___________ pages of paper forms