Workflow Overview

1. Using your machine control system’s GPS/GNSS data, WorksOS accurately maps the locations and elevations of every place your machines work within your project’s boundaries.

   

2. From that data, you can ‘create’ an as-built surface, which is the last pass of a machine creating the final surface of the day. This is done by refining the raw machine surface in WorksOS to create a more finished (i.e., filtered) version. The ability to refine an existing as-built surface is the power of WorksOS; they convert raw data into something you can use to plan. Filters provide you surfaces for specific dates (filter), machines (filter), and design/area/alignment (filter), etc.

   

3. Now you can compare that last as-built surface to a previous as-built surface.

   

4. Based on the change/difference between the two surfaces, you can calculate volumes.

   

5. Anywhere the elevation of the design surface is below the current surface is ‘in cut’; anywhere the design is above the existing is ‘in fill’, so you can also create cut/fill maps.

   

6. In addition, you can compare the as-built surface to the original ground surface from a survey. This volume comparison tells you how much work has been done since the original survey.

   

7. You can also import design surfaces from Trimble Business Center (TBC) to help determine how much work remains to achieve the design.

   

8. If you also pull in linework and geofences from TBC, and compare them to the finish grade design, this will tell you how much work is remaining to complete.

9. To see all of your cut/fill, compaction, and other data in one place, visit your configurable Dashboard where you can set up various widgets for a quick look at the movement of material, work completed since the initial survey, and work remaining to get to the finish grade.