Customer story · Precast

The QA pack that stopped costing overtime

Hudson Civil Products is Tasmania’s leading manufacturer of precast and civil infrastructure products – twenty years grown from a small precast facility. Compiling a customer’s QA pack used to take hours of paper-shuffling after hours. Now it assembles itself as the work is done.

“I’d spend so much time compiling Quality Assurance documents, which meant I had to work a lot of overtime. Instead, I’ve been able to spend that time with my family and sometimes on the golf course.”

Michael Ross, Engineering Officer, Hudson Civil Products
Hudson Civil precast products in the yard

The job

QA gives Hudson confidence each product meets design intent – reinforcing requirements, Australian standards – and cuts risk across the board. On paper, that confidence was expensive: documents got lost or damaged, and assembling a complete information package for a customer took hours.

“Providing a customer with a complete package of information would take hours and hours to compile. It would be really difficult to have all of the information organised and clear in real-time, especially as some clients mightn’t be able to make an inspection, or they’d want to come to see progress before and during the project.”

Michael Ross

What changed

Everything uploads in real time, photographs are time-stamped, and nothing can be lost. The hours that went into compiling now go into training the team – and the Tasmanian boom makes that capacity worth more than ever.

“It’s fantastic. It’s very user friendly and it certainly saves time and is great in terms of transparency. Some of the team aren’t computer savvy and they picked it up with no-issues.”

Michael Ross

See it on work like yours.

CONQA builds the customer’s QA pack as the work happens – organised, time-stamped, ready when they ask.