Track Progress Volumes

A preconfigured set of daily calculations and three views enable you to easily see the volumes of cut and fill materials moved on your job site on a day-over-day basis. These progress volume features allow you to analyze earthmoving progress during any time period you specify and in any project area you choose.

The data for progress volume views comes from both machine TAG (.tag) files and surface surveys (.ttm). When importing a .ttm file for progress volume calculations, always specify that it is surveyed surface and select the data and time to which it applies; doing this timestamps and dates the survey data to align it with any machine data that is automatically imported in the same time frame.

If you have applied material density (shrinkage and/or bulkage) factors for materials, the reported volumes reflect this.

Note: Progress volumes functionality is not connected to the other dashboard and map screens, i.e., the Dashboard does not account for progress volumes; this means the dashboard calculations (other than Today or Yesterday) will not match progress volumes as the filter setup and calculations are different on the dashboard.

Dashboard Configured for Progress Volumes

Click the Dashboard icon on your left-hand navigation bar to access the Dashboard, which is configured for progress volumes. The dashboard automatically includes these five dynamic Work Completed date range widgets that support progress volume calculations:

  • Work Completed - Today

  • Work Completed - Yesterday

  • Work Completed - Current Week

  • Work Completed - Previous Week

  • Work Completed - Project Extents

Default project dashboard

These represent total cut and fill quantities for the specified time periods. With just a surveyed surface, e.g., Original Ground, as soon as your machines start working, the daily or weekly difference from time frame to time frame can be calculated.

You can also add a Work Remaining widget, which is always relative to a specific design that you imported. This design gives you a surface to compare to.

The widgets are built from existing filters.

Views for Progress Volumes

There are three types of views of for progress volume data:

  • Graph view - A bar chart of cut and fill volumes broken down by day or week helps you see the trend of material volume movement in your project area, Each bar is separated into cut and fill colors representing the volumes moved. Hover over or click any bar chart for details on the exact cut and fill volumes for that day or week, as well as the cumulative volume for the project up to that time. The chart also includes a line graph of the cumulative volume over time for the date range you have selected. Scroll in/out in the view to see fewer or more days in the view.

  • Grid view - An even more detailed table of values sorted by date allows you to see the exact cut, fill, total, and cumulative values for every working day. You can also export this grid to an CSV file for greater data analysis and visualization in MicrosoftⓇ Excel.

  • Map view - A birdseye/plan view of your project geographically that shows all the areas in which material has been cut or filled over the entire project time period. To see a smaller set of progress volume data, you can reduce the date range or spatial boundaries shown in the map view.

Accessing the Progress Volume Views

  1. Click the Progress Volumes icon on your left-hand navigation bar in WorksOS to access.

2. Click one of the 3 icons (Graph View, Grid View, Map View) at the top of the pane.

Graph view

  1. The Graph View shows every day, start to finish. You can see here linear progression (bar charts) over the weeks. This can help you track the consistency of material volume movement as you normally would in the field (How much material was moved?) In addition, the black line with dots shows the cumulative material volume. Click any bar to see the daily cut, fill, and cumulative volumes.

Progress volumes daily graph

Graph View functions

The chart is configurable with a limited number of filters:

  • Date range

  • Spatial such as boundary, alignment, or custom area

The chart is dual axis and includes three scales:

  1. Daily values are shown on the left.

  2. Cumulative values are shown on the right.

  3. Dates are shown on the bottom.

You can click a legend label to toggle Cut, Fill, and Cumulative bars on/off in the view. If, for example, you are only being paid for cut volumes, simply remove fill from the chart and track the daily cut quantities. If you are doing a landfill job, you can toggle cut off so you see only fill volumes.

The total volume is always listed at the top of the chart under the name.

You can also filter by Daily or Weekly. Weekly combines the daily charts into weeks and sums them.

Progress volumes weekly graph

You can also filter the view in the standard way, but filters for progress volumes are independent from other Dashboard filters.

Progress volume daily graph with filter panel

Progress volumes weekly graph

Scroll in/out to see a shorter or longer time period in the chart.

To specify an alternate time span, click the Global Filters icon on the Actions bar at the upper right. Se Date Range Filters > Custom.

Note: The maximum project extents (date range) is 1000 days.

Tip: Save your custom data range as a Favorite to quickly apply it at any time.

To configure the cut and fill colors, as well as material density factors (shrinkage and bulkage), click the More icon (ellipsis) and select Project Settings > Volume. The factors you set are reflected in the material volumes.

Grid View

Select the Grid View for a table of values with the exact cut, fill, total, and cumulative values for every working day. You can also export this grid to an CSV file for greater data analysis and visualization in MicrosoftⓇ Excel.

Grid View Functions

You can drag-and-drop columns and sort by column headers.

To toggle columns on/off in the Table Settings pane, click the Settings icon.

Progress volumes grid view with Table settings

To export the grid values to CSV for more sophisticated data analysis, manipulation, and visualization in Microsoft Excel, click the Export icon.

Map View

This view lets you see the areas your machines cut and filled geographically on the project site.

Map view

Progress volumes Map view

Map View Functions

To toggle certain types of data on/off in the Map Settings pane, click the Settings icon.

Click the Volume Information arrow on the left side to see totals, including daily and week ly averages.

Note: Total Volume, Daily Average, and Weekly Average include both cut or fill, as applicable.

Note: Any non-working (0 volume) days/weeks are excluded from the Daily/Weekly Average.

Tip: Filter by new date ranges to see working areas and averages for specific time periods. This can help you, for instance, identify seasonal productivity patterns.

Note: If you cut and fill the same volume during the same day, the change is net 0.0. If you cut one day and fill the next day, there is a day-over-day change. Before WorksOS, this was done based on load counts. In this case, progress is measured by looking at the day-over-day change. There is usually an objective goal for how much to move (cut or fill) each day.