Despite the fact that the iPad hit the market several years ago, as did the rest of the tablets available on the market, it seems that the adoption by some companies is being slower than one would expect. This is mainly due to the lack of information that companies have on the real possibilities that this type of device can offer them.
The clearest example is found in the construction company Roger-O'Brian, a company that, according to the head of the technology department, the use of the iPad has allowed the company save annually 1.8 million dollars in addition to 55.000 hours of work. Todd Wynne says that iPad is the ideal solution the construction business needed.
According to Todd, with the use of paper plans, they always had different versions of the plans of the work circulating, which allowed start a work following the indications of a plan that was obsolete to date, forcing them to tear down what they had built and start over from scratch, with the consequent loss of time and money invested.
Since we use iPad, all construction plans are available in the cloud and everyone always works with the latest version available, so that if an engineer or an architect makes a change in the work, that change will be instantly available through the iPad for all users who are making use of the plans, whatever that allows a cost reduction of 7%.
Since using the iPad, all the paperwork necessary to carry out a work is reduced to zeroTherefore, you also save not only on the cost of printing the plans, but you also avoid wasting time waiting for new versions of the plans. When the company decided to bet on the iPad, Apple did not offer a program for companies like the one it currently offers together with IBM, but according to the company they have not needed special applications to be able to make the transition from paper plans to digital .