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Power Pad

With the Power Pad, businesses can easily perform takeoffs anywhere.

Committed to providing contractors with the fastest, most efficient bidding process, Maxwell Systems offers the portable Power Pad takeoff device, which provides a fast method of stripping blueprint measurements. The Power Pad offers you more possibilities than ever before, including the power to perform fast, accurate takeoffs virtually anywhere you go. Its 9½” x 13” size fits into a travel bag and easily connects to a GTCO rigid or roll-up digitizer for busy estimators in the field.

Power Pad’s compatibility with a digitizer and Maxwell Systems’ estimating solution makes it an essential building block for software upgrading. If you currently use a digitizer, you can replace the stationary touch pad with Power Pad. Place Power Pad anywhere around the digitizer for more comfortable work area.

Fast Accurate, Heads-Down Approach
The Power Pad combines with an electronic digitizer to create a unique heads-down approach to takeoff to best accommodate contractors’ need to concentrate on plans, not your computer monitor. All the information you need for takeoff is right in front of you on the compact Power Pad. That means you can pay attention to your job plans while you record all of your blueprint information. The Power Pad puts all the commands needed for rapid, computerized takeoff on a user-friendly tablet. It comes complete with all of the standard Microsoft Windows functions – no typing or coding necessary – to help improve your bidding process. In addition, Power Pad integrates fully with Maxwell Systems construction estimating solutions.

Comprehensive Material Menus
Power Pad’s easy-to-use menus contain all of the standard materials and measurements in easily accessible, pressure-sensitive cells. It contains the most extensive menus available in automated takeoff, plus a variety of built-in assemblies that can be taken off with a single touch. In addition to including these industry-standard materials, Power Pad allows you to create, save, and use custom cells for more options and flexibility than ever before. Most importantly, combining Power Pad with Maxwell Systems software allows you to bid jobs your way faster.


 
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Dorvin D. Leis Co, Inc.

Dorvin D. Leis is a mechanical contractor using Maxwell Systems Estimation software to improve their takeoff, estimating, and procurement processes. Not only has the solution sped up their bidding efforts, but also allows them to easily find material pricing, evaluate labor for optimal productivity, track materials purchased, and have instant access to purchasing history. Ultimately, DDL has achieved greater efficiency and cost savings and improved control by replacing their previous time-consuming manual methods. 

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Our Story of Complete Construction Software

Maxwell Systems provides construction software solutions that help contractors to streamline workflow, increase productivity, and improve profitability. Furthermore, we understand that today's contractors must optimize processes across all business areas to gain or maintain an increasingly important competitive edge and ensure a successful business. Critical, to that end, is timely and efficient communication and information access among estimating, job cost accounting, and project management teams.

By using a Maxwell Systems complete construction software solution, you'll be able to better operate your business with increased efficiency and streamlined operations, and confidently increase profitability on every project. You will have the tools you need to accomplish more in less time; taking the guesswork out of reaching true profit potential; and improving financial stability for long-term benefit.

Why Maxwell Systems?

Maxwell Systems is truly unique with its ability to offer contractors a complete, seamless software solution that allows:

  • A new level of continuity and productivity among estimating, job cost accounting, and project management
  • Better insight, analysis, and financial oversight for owners to make informed and timely decisions
  • Improved operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and increased profits

Contractors value having an end-to-end solution from one company:

  • All applications work together seamlessly
  • Efficient access to comprehensive support and services
  • A stable technology partner committed to customer success

How Your Business Benefits

A complete construction software solution from Maxwell Systems provides end-to-end control of your business so you can see a day's profit potential at a glance, identify and prevent potential financial losses, spot discrepancies and errors, and manage projects with accurate information in real-time.

With tailored features designed to fit each member on your team, construction company management software ultimately allows your business to:

  • Attain end-to-end control and increased visibility
  • Achieve easy and accurate reporting with real-time data
  • Optimize project execution for maximum profitability
  • Streamline operations with seamless workflow

The Bid-to-Cash Cycle Explained

Managing each of the key process areas of a construction business – Estimating, Construction Accounting, and Project Management – requires vastly different talents and areas of expertise. The reality is that each of these functional groups is related and dependent on one another.

For your organization to run in an optimal fashion, the groups much work together in an optimal fashion. Together, these functional areas compromise what we describe as the Bid-to-Cash Cycle. And our goal at Maxwell Systems is to provide software for construction so you can bridge the needs of the functional groups, better manage this cycle, and so maximize profitability.

When construction estimating software, construction accounting software, and construction project management software are working together in a seamless system as a complete construction business management software solution, then a contractor is truly poised for optimal profit and productivity.

How does a complete solution fit your part of the cycle? Here are a few examples:

  • Owner: It's all about reducing waste, uncovering lost opportunity, exposing shortcomings, and maximizing resources – all which impact profit and the bottom line. With end-to-end visibility of every project, executives can hone business strategy, improve control of cash flow, and keep financials in the black with accurate ROI.
  • Estimator: Beyond estimating projects, the estimator can access more accurate information in regards to how the project actually performs. This will allow the estimator to improve accuracy on future estimates with actual labor and production rates, updated material prices, and other resource related items.
  • Accounting: Not only a company's construction accounting system, a complete solution helps to streamline the procurement processes for optimal efficiencies and produces more accurate purchasing processes. Additionally, billing processes, inventory issuances, and many other processes are streamlined. Less data entry, better accuracy, and reliable audit trail allow convenience and peace of mind.
  • Project Manager: The seamless workflow from Estimating to Project Tracking allows for a streamlined method of creating the job and then tracking performance against the estimate. Within the complete solution, the construction project management programs also provide the detail required for the Project Manager to understand what the Estimator was thinking when the bid was put together. Plus, by accessing real-time information whether in the office or in the field, the project manager can track progress, be more agile, and better handle all aspects of jobs from beginning to end.

Bottom Line

To succeed in today's competitive marketplace, construction business owners must improve productivity and have end-to-end visibility to see how jobs perform (and turn profit) from start to finish. Maxwell Systems knows construction company software and can be your partner by offering truly unique products (as well as support and services) that address the entire construction project lifecycle – from digital takeoff through final cash payment. Our seamless system provides your company with all the capabilities you need for estimating, job cost accounting, and project management, and ultimately for superior insight and analysis of your business.

Imagine the flexibility and insight by having one solution for estimating projects, for construction accounting programs, and for construction project software! All that and more in one system will help your business be more competitive and profitable.

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