In the complex, high-stakes world of shipbuilding and large-scale industrial construction, managing electrical installations is a monumental task. Thousands of cables, hundreds of pieces of equipment, and multiple teams working across different zones create a constant storm of data. For project managers, the greatest challenge isn’t the work itself, but the lack of clear, real-time visibility into that work. Are we on schedule? Where are the bottlenecks? Is our labor being used effectively? Answering these questions often involves chasing down paper reports, deciphering conflicting spreadsheets, and making decisions based on outdated, incomplete information. This ambiguity is not just frustrating; it’s a direct threat to budgets and timelines.

Cable Pilot transforms this chaos into clarity. By creating a single source of truth for every aspect of your electrical project, our platform unlocks a level of insight that was previously impossible. It moves you from a reactive state of fighting fires to a proactive state of strategic oversight. The core of this transformation lies in our comprehensive suite of Insights Dashboards—a powerful command center designed to provide managers with actionable intelligence at a glance. This isn’t just about data collection; it’s about data-driven decision-making. It’s about turning raw numbers into a clear narrative of your project’s health, enabling you to identify risks before they become problems and steer your project to a successful conclusion with confidence.

The Foundation of Insight: A Single Source of Truth

Before you can analyze anything, you need reliable data. Traditional construction progress tracking is fragmented. Information lives in separate systems, personal spreadsheets, and paper trails, making a holistic view impossible. Cable Pilot solves this fundamental problem by centralizing every data point—from the initial cable list to the final connection test—into one cohesive digital twin of your project.

Every action taken by a fitter, electrician, or engineer using the mobile app is instantly synced to the central database. Every status update, every length of pulled cable, every installed piece of equipment, and every completed connection feeds a living, breathing model of your worksite. This unified data ecosystem is the engine that powers our unparalleled cable installation analytics. It ensures that when you look at a dashboard, you’re not seeing a week-old snapshot; you’re seeing the reality on the ground, right now.

Your Command Center: The Insights Dashboards

Cable Pilot’s analytics suite is a collection of specialized dashboards, each designed to answer critical questions about a specific facet of your project. This modular approach allows you to move seamlessly from a high-level project overview to a granular analysis of a single workstream, team, or location. Let’s explore the key components of your new command center.

The Big Picture: APP Dashboard – Cable Points

The first stop for any manager is understanding the overall workload and progress. The Cable Points Dashboard provides this 30,000-foot view, using our proprietary metric, Cable Points (CP), as a universal measure of labor effort.

This dashboard is your project’s pulse, offering an immediate understanding of total workload versus completed work.

• Workload at a Glance: The dashboard presents a clear, concise summary of the project’s labor effort. Key metrics like “Total Workload in Cable Points” and “Done” are displayed prominently. This is complemented by a series of donut charts that visually break down the total estimated workload by work type: Pull, Mount, Connect, and Transits. Immediately, you can see if the bulk of your remaining work is in pulling new cables or in the final connection phase.
• Performance and Forecasting: It’s not just about what’s been done; it’s about predicting what’s to come. A key feature is the “Average weekly done” bar chart. This graph shows your team’s average weekly productivity for each type of work. Overlaid on this is a critical calculated value: “Weeks calculated to do.” This metric uses your current average performance to forecast the number of weeks required to complete the remaining work, providing a realistic, data-backed timeline.
• Drill-Down Capabilities: High-level numbers are useful, but true control comes from detail. The Cable Points dashboard is structured into logical sections that allow you to analyze progress by Area (zone), Deck, and Contractor. Each section provides a list with key performance indicators, showing the percentage of completion for each zone or team. With a single click, you can drill down into a specific area to see a more detailed breakdown, helping you identify high-performing teams or zones that are falling behind.

From Effort to Execution: Pull Dashboard

While Cable Points measure labor effort, the Pull Dashboard focuses on the tangible progress of getting cable from the drum to its destination. This view is essential for understanding the physical advancement of the project and managing cable logistics. It answers the questions: How much cable have we pulled? How many cables are complete? Where are we in terms of length versus plan?

• Multi-Faceted Progress Views: The Overview section presents progress through three critical lenses: Length, Count, and Workload (CP). For each, pie or donut charts visualize the distribution of cables by their current stage: Pulled, Pulling, or To Pull. This allows you to instantly see, for example, that while 60% of individual cables have been pulled, this might only represent 40% of the total length, indicating that the most complex, longer pulls are still ahead.
• Plan vs. Actual: To keep the project on track, you need to compare real-world progress against your schedule. The Pull Dashboard includes powerful bar and line graphs comparing the actual volume of pulled cables (in meters and CP) against the planned volume for a given period. This visual comparison makes it easy to spot deviations from the plan and take corrective action.
• Weekly Dynamics: Monitor the rhythm of your project with linear graphs showing weekly progress for both length and labor effort. This helps you understand your team’s capacity, identify trends in productivity, and see the impact of any changes in process or workforce.

Placing the Pieces: Install Dashboard

Cables are useless without the equipment they connect. The Install Dashboard provides dedicated analytics for the equipment installation process. This view is crucial for coordinating logistics, ensuring that locations are ready, and tracking the progress of mounting everything from small junction boxes to large control panels.

• Equipment Status Distribution: The dashboard immediately shows you the state of all equipment on the project. Donut charts visualize the percentage of equipment in each status: mounted, in progress, to mount, and not in scope. This analysis is provided for both the count of equipment and the associated labor effort in Cable Points, giving you a complete picture of where installation work stands.
• Forecasting Installation Work: Similar to the other dashboards, the Install view includes key predictive metrics. “Average weekly workload” shows your team’s mounting performance, which feeds into the “Weeks calculated” metric to forecast the time to completion.
• Granular Analysis by Key Attributes: The real power of this dashboard lies in its detailed tables, which break down installation progress by Area, Deck, Contractor, and System. For each area or system, you can see the total number of equipment pieces, the percentage installed by count, and the progress of installation labor (mounted CP vs. total CP). This allows you to pinpoint, for instance, that the fire alarm system installation is lagging or that a specific contractor is exceeding expectations.

Making the Connection:  Connect Dashboard

The connection phase is one of the most detailed and critical stages of any electrical installation project. The Connect Dashboard offers deep analytics into this final, intricate step, covering everything from connecting wires to testing circuits.

• Connection and Testing Overview: The dashboard provides a snapshot of connection progress with donut charts showing the status (Connected, Connecting, To Connect) for cable connections, equipment connections, and the associated labor effort. Crucially, it also includes a dedicated chart for the cable testing status (no test, tested, testing, failed, to test), giving you immediate visibility into the quality assurance process.
• Comprehensive Progress Metrics: Go beyond simple counts with detailed tables that analyze connection progress by Area, Deck, Contractor, and System. These tables are rich with comparative metrics, allowing you to see not just the “connected/total” percentage, but also crucial ratios like “connected/pulled” and “connected/equipment installed.” This helps identify dependencies and bottlenecks, such as a high number of pulled cables waiting for equipment to be installed before they can be connected.
• Performance Monitoring: Track weekly connection dynamics and labor effort with dedicated graphs. This helps you monitor team performance and ensure that the final, most labor-intensive phase of the project is proceeding at the required pace.

Securing the Path:  Transits Dashboard

In shipbuilding 4.0, ensuring the integrity of cable transits (penetrations through walls and decks) is a critical safety and regulatory requirement. The Transits Dashboard is a specialized tool that provides detailed analytics on the status of every cable penetration, from open to sealed.

• Transit Status Visualization: The Overview section uses clear visuals to show the distribution of transits by their status—open, filling, filled, sealed—both by count and by labor effort. This gives you an instant understanding of how much work remains to ensure all penetrations are properly sealed.
• Weekly Sealing Dynamics: Track the progress of this crucial work with graphs showing the number of transits sealed per week and the associated labor effort. This allows you to monitor progress against deadlines for area completion and inspection.
• Detailed Status by Location and Team: Like other dashboards, the Transits view allows you to drill down into detailed tables sorted by Area, Deck, and Contractor. For each zone, you can see the percentage of transits in each status (% filling/total, % filled/total, % sealed/total), as well as the progress of the sealing workload in Cable Points. This granular view is essential for managing inspections and handover processes.

From Insight to Impact: Your Strategic Advantage

The Cable Pilot Insights Dashboards are more than just a collection of charts and numbers. They are an integrated system for strategic project management. By providing a multi-dimensional, real-time view of your entire electrical installation, they empower you to:

• Identify Bottlenecks Proactively: See instantly if the connection phase is lagging behind the pulling phase, or if a specific contractor is falling behind on equipment installation.
• Optimize Resource Allocation: Understand where your labor effort is being spent and reallocate teams to address emerging problem areas before they impact the critical path.
• Improve Forecasting and Planning: Replace guesswork with data. Use real performance metrics to generate accurate forecasts for completion, giving you and your stakeholders confidence in the project timeline.
• Enhance Accountability: With clear data on progress by Area, Deck, and Contractor, you can have more productive, fact-based conversations with team leads and subcontractors.
• Mitigate Risks: Early visibility into issues—like a high failure rate in cable testing or delays in sealing transits—allows you to address quality and safety concerns before they escalate.

Stop managing in the dark. It’s time to harness the power of real-time data and lead your projects with the clarity and confidence that only Cable Pilot can provide.

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