Type 04 · AI Foreman · job assignment
Assign a crew, not a full drawing set.
The software routes each drawing to the right person automatically.
The foreman stops standing over the prints working out who places what. He assigns each team a number. The software hands that number its slice of the drawings and the exact rebar bundles — already banded and tagged for that zone — so the crew walks straight to its steel.
45–60
min of morning delegation removed per foreman, per day
1
sheet a crew has to read instead of the full structural set
0
bundles opened to find out what is inside them
live
zone status pushed back from the drone sweep
What the software does
Delegation becomes a lookup, not a conversation
Crew numbering
Every ironworker is on a numbered team; the number is the only thing the foreman has to hand out
Drawing slicing
The full structural set is cut into per-zone sheets so a crew sees only its own bars
Bundle matching
Each drawing slice is tied to the bundle tags that were banded for exactly that zone
Bar mark lookup
Bar mark, size, length and quantity travel with the slice — no counting off a schedule
Placing sequence
Bottom mat, top mat, chairs, splices — ordered so a crew never has to unpick its own work
Live zone status
Drone sweeps mark a zone tied, checked or open, and the board updates for everyone
Bundle location
Where the crew's steel is sitting on the deck right now, not where it was laid down
Reassignment
A zone finished early releases its crew number to the next open zone automatically
Step 01 · Cut the deck
The floor is divided into zones before anyone steps on it
The model is split along pour breaks, column lines and bay boundaries into zones sized for one crew's day. Each zone carries its own bar list, its own tonnage and its own sequence. The drone sweep confirms the zone boundaries against the deck as built, so the split reflects the real slab, not the drawing's idea of it.
- Zone sizingOne crew-day of tying
- Boundary sourcePour breaks + column lines
- VerificationDrone sweep on the deck
Step 02 · Slice the drawings
Crew 03 gets Crew 03's sheet — nothing else
The structural set is cut per zone. What lands on the crew's tablet is one plan of their bay with the bar marks called out, the schedule filtered to those marks, the lap lengths and cover notes that apply, and the placing order. No hunting through S1.11 to S1.34 to find out whether the bay takes a #5 or a #4.
- Sheet contentsZone plan + filtered schedule
- CalloutsBar mark, size, length, count
- Notes carriedLap length, cover, spacing
Step 03 · Match the steel
The bars are already bundled for the zone that needs them
Bundles are banded and tagged at the fabricator against the same zone split, so a tag is a crew number, not a shop reference. The drone reads the tags on the laydown and records where each bundle actually sits. When Crew 03 opens their sheet it says which bundles are theirs and where on the deck to find them — no crane call to shuffle steel that was dropped in the wrong bay.
- Tag reads asCrew + zone + bundle ID
- LocationDrone-logged on the laydown
- ContentsBar marks fixed at fabrication
Step 04 · Run the day
One board, one number per crew, updated from the air
| Crew | Zone | Bundles | Bars | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | A — East slab bay | A-201, A-202 | #5 @ 12" E.W. | tying |
| 02 | B — Core wall | B-301, B-302 | #6 verticals | tying |
| 03 | C — West slab bay | C-401, C-402 | #5 top mat | checked |
| 04 | D — Column line 4 | D-501 | #4 ties @ 6" | open |
| 05 | E — Stair landing | E-601 | #4 @ 12" | staged |
A zone flips to checked only after a drone sweep confirms spacing, cover and lap against the slice that crew was issued. The crew number then releases to the next open zone.
Why it pays
The expensive part of rebar is not tying it — it is deciding who ties what
Morning start
Crews walk on with a zone, a sheet and a bundle ID instead of waiting for the foreman to work through the set.
Fewer re-hangs
A crew placing from its own filtered schedule does not put a #4 where a #5 belongs, so nothing gets cut out after inspection.
Foreman capacity
The foreman stops being the bottleneck on delegation and spends the morning on the work that actually needs judgement.