This is a YouTube case-study video (created/uploaded by William Doyle MRICS on May 9, 2021) about J. Murphy & Sons’ slope stabilization works at Chorley Flying Arches (Victorian structure, first constructed 1841). The film presents on-site testimonials describing how Rail Diary streamlines reporting: capturing photos and BOQs, using dropdowns for personnel/materials, and producing Power BI visuals that show actual vs planned metrics in real time—improving progress tracking, resource allocation, and H&S file capture.
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May 9, 2021
We're on site today of our client Murphy's at Chorley Flying Arches, which was first constructed by the Victorians in 1841. They're conducting essential slope stabilization works on behalf of Network Rail. This includes de vegetation and soil nailing. So by using Rail Diary to streamline their reporting, it allows them to provide essential updates on both progress and resource back to the teams in the office all in real time. So we're going to go chat with Nate and Anthony to get their thoughts on Rail Diary.
Rail Diary is very good in reporting because you can actually put evidences like photos and you can track the progress of your project. The good thing with Rail Diary is you can actually input the names of the guys or the materials you're going to use and then on the next input you can use the drop down menu, which is easier for a guy who's very busy on site.
Firing rail dial here. Very easy to use, user friendly. The visuals on the Power bi, very good. The information coming back from site is good. Real live time. My favorite feature on Rail Diary will be the Power BI and the different graphs that I can get up in an instant and check the different actual versus planned hours, outputs, plant on site, etc. So before rail Diary, our previous reporting tools was Excel. Our Word Document Shift reports Rail Diary rolls all into one and the photographs. So it picks up the allocation, the plant, the shift and the photographs all in one document which is then captured on the cloud for the health and safety file. The tracking of progress on site has improved with Rail Dialogue. When we sent over the BOQs to rail diary and they uploaded them into their software and then once our site manager reports on the day's plan versus actual, it comes up instantly and we can see if there's any shortfalls and where we can track where. If we need to put more men on site to catch up, I would recommend Rail Diary to a colleague or a friend just due to how user friendly it is the information provided in an instant when they go onto the website.
So that's a flavour of how Rail Diary is providing real time visibility of progress on site, allowing both client and contractor to deliver works in a more efficient manner. We ensure that data is consistently captured in high quality and is aligned with standard methods of measurement such as RMM to provide fully transparent progress reporting. Rail Diary removes the frustration of traditional paper or Excel based processes, allowing you to master the capture and analysis of data, doing in seconds and minutes what currently takes hours, days and sometimes even weeks. So if you'd like to find out more, go to our website at raildiary. Com.
