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Are you still relying on an older solution for complex tasks in your industry? Some of you might be thinking...what? But....Let's talk F1 world leading technology Williams one of the leading teams, is ditching 'a well tried' software as they overhaul their systems for designing and building their high-performance cars. With a massive Excel file containing 20,000 parts causing navigation and updates to become a logistical nightmare, the team recognised the need for a more efficient solution. Read the story at https://lnkd.in/g2mpxrMM How do you handle prioritising tasks and tracking components in your work? As Williams embrace changing solutions, it prompts us to rethink our reliance on traditional methods. Join the conversation on the evolution of tools and share your insights on how technology is reshaping work processes. #Excel #Innovation #WorkEfficiency #ModernTools #IndustryTrends #F1Technology #ProductivityEnhancement

"Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts." "When you start tracking now thousands of components through your organization moving around, an Excel spreadsheet is useless," Vowles told The Race. Because of the multiple states each part could be in—ordered, backordered, inspected, returned—humans are often left to work out the details. "And once you start putting that level of complexity in, which is where modern Formula 1 is, the Excel spreadsheet falls over, and humans fall over. And that's exactly where we are." We're all fighting the same battles. This is exactly what happens in #concrete construction: trying to manage (and interrelate) pours, deliveries, sensors, QC lifecycles, etc. #opportunities to improve productivity exist across all industries. We find this same thing all over #construction job sites. By the way, spreadsheets are one of the greatest software tools of all time; they are intuitive, you can access them anywhere, most people are comfortable with their use, and they are mighty. This is very hard to achieve. But there are limitations, and in operations management these limitations can be costly. binni https://lnkd.in/ebmYi5XR

Are you still relying on an older solution for complex tasks in your industry? Some of you might be thinking...what? But....Let's talk F1 world leading technology Williams one of the leading teams, is ditching 'a well tried' software as they overhaul their systems for designing and building their high-performance cars. With a massive Excel file containing 20,000 parts causing navigation and updates to become a logistical nightmare, the team recognised the need for a more efficient solution. Read the story at https://lnkd.in/emFsdsrK How do you handle prioritising tasks and tracking components in your work? As Williams embrace changing solutions, it prompts us to rethink our reliance on traditional methods. Join the conversation on the evolution of tools and share your insights on how technology is reshaping work processes. #Excel #Innovation #WorkEfficiency #ModernTools #IndustryTrends #F1Technology #ProductivityEnhancement

"Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts" 😂 Something we have seen in companies with a multiple of this amount of parts. While these systems might have worked historically, it is nearly impossible to track this many moving parts and their status. A modern, cloud-based parts planning solution would not only enable intelligent decision-making. Eventually, the Excel-based system will break, pushing employees and possibly the organization to the brink.

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Another post on my pet subject: #dataengineering lessons gleaned from the billion-dollar #technology organizations known as #f1 teams. This interview with Team Principal James Vowles and CTO Pat Fry delivers surprising detail into the digital transformation of one of the sport's most historic teams, Williams. I'll highlight the most relevant excerpts and offer a parallel to the DE world. ☑ Excerpt: "Alongside this Vowles wanted the development team to work more in tandem, pursuing a different approach between aerodynamic and mechanical items so that the philosophy of designing the car changed as well." 👉 Parallel: No revelations here, but problems can arise when groups work in silos - for instance, when engineering teams operate in isolation from the business side. ☑ Excerpt: "He [Vowles] also banned the contingencies he discovered existed in building the 2023 car – like using year-old parts that were modified to fit the new car, or metal parts instead of carbon, which it turns out was initially the case on last year’s FW45." 👉 Parallel: When business demands hit, people do what humans do best and channel their ingenuity into workarounds and quick fixes. However, over time, those can metastasize into tech debt. ☑ Excerpt: "It is not an exaggeration to say that up to and including at least the initial work on the 2024 Williams, its car builds were handled using Microsoft Excel, with a list of around 20,000 individual components and parts...Managing a car build is not just about listing all the components needed. There wasn't data on the cost of components, how long they took to build, how many were in the system to be built...In the scenario Vowles describes, an Excel spreadsheet is “useless”, with emails bouncing back and forth between people and departments chasing missing information." 👉 Parallel: As almost everyone has experienced, relying on Excel (still the most underappreciated software in history!) and email can only take you so far. When a business reaches a certain level of maturity, more capable systems that facilitate an integrated, comprehensive flow of information become necessary. After all, this essentially describes how ERP systems came into existence! ☑ Excerpt: "Performance comes from sensible planning and optimising the bits that…I'm never gonna give anyone an easy time, but it needs to be the performant bits that we leave last, because we're finding more lap time in the windtunnel. Or if there's a suspension development that we push late." 👉 Parallel: Investing time up front to plan beats immediately diving into development. Set aside time for identifiable foundational components that don't immediately come to mind (e.g., infrastructure as code, integration testing, and unit testing), build essential features first to gain feedback from stakeholders, and iterate through additional features and performance optimization. https://lnkd.in/gY2ZusQt

Spreadsheet hell doesn't just happen in finance. Formula 1 faced spreadsheet struggles with one team's reliance on Excel for managing 20,000 car parts, outlined in this article. https://okt.to/7CO0U1 #Excelhell #spreadsheet #Formula1

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