The pilot programme
A measured trial on real jobs, with the baseline captured before anything changes — so what comes out the other end is evidence rather than a feeling.
What a pilot is
A defined slice of your real workflow run through KonstanTrack, with a baseline captured beforehand and the same measurements repeated afterwards. The point is a number you can defend internally, not a demo that goes well.
No results published yet
KonstanTrack has no published case studies at the time of writing. Any screenshots or worked examples on this site use demonstration data and are labelled as such. When a pilot produces verified figures, they will be published with the customer named or anonymised at their choice, with the measurement method shown.
What a pilot measures
These are the operational costs a panel shop can actually feel. Each one comes with a way of capturing the “before” number without instrumenting the whole shop.
| Measure | Why it matters | How to capture the baseline |
|---|---|---|
| Administration time per job | The hours spent recording, chasing and re-typing rather than building. | One week of honest time-logging by whoever maintains the tracker, plus the production manager's own diary. |
| Status chasing | Time spent finding out where a job is — walks, calls, emails, the Monday round. | Count the interruptions and walk-rounds in a normal week. Most shops are surprised by the total. |
| Missing approvals at stage close | Stages that closed without a recorded sign-off are the ones that cost you later. | Sample ten recently completed jobs and count how many have a retrievable sign-off for each stage. |
| BOM-readiness checks | Builds started without full material, and the labour lost when they stall. | Count the jobs in the last quarter that started and then waited on parts. |
| Drawing revision errors | Panels built to a superseded revision — the most expensive avoidable rework there is. | Count incidents in the last twelve months. Even one is a number worth quoting. |
| NCR closure time | How long a raised non-conformance stays open, and how many close with no record at all. | Pull the last twenty NCRs and measure raise-to-close. Note how many cannot be found. |
| FAT preparation time | The hours spent assembling test evidence in the week the panel is due. | Ask whoever prepares FAT packs how long the last three took. |
| Handover pack preparation time | The O&M and certification pack is the classic cause of a panel shipping late on paperwork, not engineering. | Time the assembly of the last handover pack, including the hunting. |
| Record completeness at handover | The proportion of required records that exist, are findable, and are attributable to a person and a date. | Audit one completed job against your own handover checklist and score it honestly. |
How a pilot runs
- A baseline is captured before anything changes. Without it there is no result, only an opinion.
- A defined slice of the workflow, on real jobs — not a sandbox with invented data.
- A named person on your side who can settle process questions.
- Measurements repeated at the end using the same method as the baseline.
- Nothing is published about your shop without your written approval, and you see the draft first.
What we will not do
- Publish a figure without a captured baseline and a stated method.
- Name your company, or quote you, without written approval.
- Present demonstration data as a customer result.
- Report only the measures that improved.
Common questions
Do you have published case studies?
Not yet, and we will not publish one until a real pilot has produced verified numbers with the customer's written approval. A fabricated or unattributed result would tell you nothing about your own shop.
What does a pilot cost?
Pilot commercials are agreed case by case in the quote conversation. What is fixed is the method: a captured baseline, a defined slice of real work, and the same measurement repeated at the end.
How long does a pilot run?
Long enough for jobs to complete. In a shop building bespoke switchgear that is longer than in a distribution-board shop, which is why we scope it against your actual job length rather than promising a number of weeks.
Will you name our company?
Only if you agree in writing, and you see any draft before it is published. An anonymised write-up — 'a 20-person switchgear shop in the North West' — is always an option.
What if the pilot shows no improvement?
Then that is the result, and you have a captured baseline and an honest answer for the cost of a trial. We would rather learn that in a pilot than after a rollout.
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Interested in running a pilot?
Tell us how a job moves through your shop and which of the measures below you would want to prove. We will scope a pilot against your real work.
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