Platform updates, industry context, and customer stories. Written for the people running mechanical, pipe, and HVAC shops.
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BuildCentrix is proud to be the only MEP technology company that has a proprietary and new database of MEP products that is not linked to any old, installed software. Our content (piping, plumbing, sheet metal, and…
By / Jessica Kirby © Can Stock Photo / Pingebat The MEP construction industry is built from databases. These are primarily estimating databases, ERP databases of purchased content, and fabrication databases, and a great…
BuildCentrix Phases Tool Helps Companies Hit a PB on Data Collection By / Jessica Kirby © Can Stock Photo / eric1513 Serious runners have it dialled in when it comes to data. They measure time, pace, distance,…
BCX is the only production management tool that provides a calendar view of budgeted labor hours by job, order, trade type, and activity. The initial calendars were launched in 2015. They’ve recently been revamped and…
Creating a stand alone engine to calculate sheet metal fabrication time, weight, manufacturing specs, cost, and price is no easy task. On the flip side, piping and plumbing are commodity products purchased through a…
Why use legacy bar codes? Although bar code scanners are attached to window stations and are still used to track material, this is a Stone Age solution. It is an ingrained idea that scanning is equivalent to good…
Dynamic holes are something every CAM operator or VDC draftsperson should understand. Dynamic holes are set on specific fitting patterns to determine how large and where a hole will be placed on the fitting/product.…
When connecting mechanical parts (sheet metal or pipe), there are different joining methods available. With the rendering of joints in 3D, we can visually convey and display the type of connections for the foreman…
By / Jessica Kirby If you are a mechanical contractor and you fabricate, you have CAM software. It is what drives your equipment, controls your manufacturing, and turns specifications into objects. CAM talks to the…
Create 3D assemblies of piping products. BCX is currently working on the ability to upload your database of piping/plumbing parts through the API or using a simple .csv file. The content is ‘as built’ and completely…
The QR codes embedded in the new BCX reports are HTML enabled, which means they can be scanned in the application or from paper copies of the reports. BCX has added individual statuses for each item/product on orders.…
BCX has added new API endpoints to programmatically manage jobsite delivery information, as well as a new user interface to manage the job site delivery information within BCX. These upgrades mean the job site delivery…
