Introducing the Black Box Hours to Moments Created by Kyle Burton March 22, 2016
Introducing the Black BoxHours to MomentsCreated by Kyle Burton
March 22, 2016
What is the Black Box?
• Combines automating PCSWMM data evaluation and reporting, as well as a rethink/redesign of the traditional design calculations to create a real competitive advantage.
• The Black Box offers cost savings of hundreds of dollars (or more) per project.
What does the Black Box offer?
• Efficiency• Quality• Consistency and Transparency
• Responsiveness• Ease of Use
• Dramatically reduce the time it takes to create tables for reports.
• Improved quality reduces time spent on peer reviews.
• Reduces comments from the city and helps prevent having to do revisions.
• Makes doing multiple revisions much faster and easier.
Efficiency
• Black Box applies robust calculation algorithms to raw PCSWMM data, eliminating human error.
• Black Box has limited error checking, to make sure the model matches your design calculations.
Quality
• All future SWMRs will use consistent methodology in calculations regardless of designer.
• All formulas are viewable and editable in Excel.
Consistency and Transparency
• The ease and speed of revising existing tables allows us to respond quickly and accurately to design changes.
Responsiveness
• You don’t need to understand how the Black Box works to use it. (But you can if you want to.) That is why it is called the Black Box.
• The Black Box does not replace your brain.
Ease of Use
• The Red Box can be used to check for changes in existing models compared to old reports.
• The Red Box allows for quick, accurate revisions to existing tables with copy-pasting.
The Red Box
• Legacy 17 went 50% over-budget, due primarily to the number of revisions made.
• Every time a design change was made it would take multiple hours to revise the tables.
• With the Black Box, Legacy 17’s tables can be completely revised in about two minutes.
Demonstration
• Using a database and PCSWMMs report functions to make the Black Box even easier and faster to use.
• Configuring word document templates to work with the Black Box.
• Get a Black Box for your own projects!
Looking Forwards
Questions or Comments?