AMP

Why Five Flute?For the AMP team, collaboration is a critical component of the design process. Because each customer operates a unique facility, the team must adapt a suite of standard modules to work within the layout of the customer facility. AMP’s team of facilities design engineers own this process. To deliver a great product, facilities design engineers like Bobby McKenna need to make sure that everyone involved in the project understands the implications of the design on the operation of the customer recycling facility. Before Five Flute, the team built extensive slide decks with a series of annotated screenshots, and would use them to guide meetings and capture stakeholder feedback. The effort involved in communicating the details of the design to everyone impacted was significant, and it was cumbersome to share context and design issues with staff outside of the core engineering team.

How does AMP use Five Flute?AMP uses Five Flute as a drop-in replacement for the team’s old slide deck-based review process. The facilities design team can share the top-level CAD model with internal and external stakeholders and capture feedback asynchronously, enabling their entire development team to stand up full facility design reviews in under one week. By week three, Five Flute was already a part of the design process that unlocked a new level of participation and development velocity.

How does Five Flute help?Four months into its adoption of Five Flute, the speed of AMP’s design review process has increased dramatically. The team has uploaded and reviewed more than 30 assemblies, averaging less than two days between design reviews. This is what rapid iteration looks like! On top of that, Five Flute notably reduced the review preparation and meeting time.Here’s what senior facilities design engineer Bobby McKenna has to say about Five Flute.