black box presentation
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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?