Prestress Services
Case Study
How Prestress Services saved on rejected loads with COMMANDbatch CP
Primarily delivering on DOT projects in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, Prestress Services Industries is a precast / prestressed concrete fabricator. The company manages five facilities.
The Challenge
Operating under tight control levels to ensure top quality, Prestress Services Industries sought a solution to better monitor and regulate moisture, strength, temperature, and product waste.
The Solution
The COMMANDbatch CP system provides concrete products producers the heightened accuracy and control their services require. The system’s advanced moisture probes allowed Prestress Services to enhance its water dosing while ultimately reducing wasted time and materials.
The Results
- COMMANDbatch CP enabled material-sequencing flexibility that securely fit the company’s operation.
- Prestress Services was able to eliminate about half of its scrap concrete a year after implementing COMMANDbatch CP.
- Reducing wasted concrete in turn provided the company with significant cost savings.
- With precise visual dashboards, the system leveled up the team’s data analysis while also enabling new data exporting capabilities.
- Since adopting COMMANDbatch CP, the team has seen no honeycombs, eliminating a major contributing factor to rejected product.
- The Prestress Services team can more confidently make decisions around weight deviations, alarm logs, equipment efficiency, and yardage production rates.
“Our production times have excelled. We wouldn’t be able to reach this consistency without using COMMANDbatch CP. With very tight control of our moistures, our concrete consistency and strengths are fantastic.”
– Jeff Distler | Director of Quality at Prestress Services Industries