Labour & Plant Productivity
Man-days by trade, output against your own rate-analysis labour norms, plant utilisation and idle cost, and machines that keep breaking down — with practical suggestions.
Where time and money are being lost on one project: gangs producing less than your norms, machines standing idle, plant that keeps breaking down.
📷 Screenshot spot — a Labour & Plant Productivity result: Man-days by trade, the Output vs rate-analysis norms table with a "below norm" row, and the Plant utilisation table with Breakdown days (28d)
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What it reads
The report is exactly as deep as your access:
| Part | Reads | Needs |
|---|---|---|
| Man-days by trade | The muster for the last N full days (to yesterday) | Labour access |
| Wage cost | The muster register | Labour rates |
| Output against norms | The contract BOQ's executed quantities, each line's rate-analysis labour coefficients, and attendance to date | Labour rates, BOQ rates and rate analysis |
| Plant utilisation | Equipment logs — used, idle and breakdown hours (28 days back for breakdowns) | Equipment access |
| Idle cost | Each machine's hire rate | Project cost access |
A part you cannot see is left out with a sentence saying why — "Not derivable: …" — never estimated. A Site Engineer, for example, gets man-days and plant, without money or the norm comparison.
What you get
- Key figures: Man-days for the period, Machines with repeated breakdowns, Plant utilisation, Output vs norm (to date), Plant idle cost.
- Man-days by trade, with wage cost where you can see it.
- Output vs rate-analysis norms, to date — Trade, Earned man-days, Actual man-days, Output vs norm, Status.
- Norm output per man-day, by BOQ item.
- Plant utilisation — Machine, Used h, Idle h, Breakdown h, Utilisation, Breakdown days (28d), and Idle cost where you can see it.
- Suggestions — nothing is changed.
The rules
| Figure | Rule |
|---|---|
| Earned man-days | Executed quantity × the analysis's labour coefficient (man-days per unit, hours ÷ 8, wastage included) |
| Output vs norm | Earned ÷ actual man-days × 100. Below 80% is below norm (high under 60%, else medium); 80–120% at norm; above 120% above norm — check the coefficients are not generous |
| Trade | A labour line counts for a trade only when it names exactly one — mason or mistri, bar bender, carpenter, helper or mazdoor, electrician, plumber, painter, welder, driver, supervisor or foreman. "Mason and helper" counts only in the overall row. |
| Utilisation | Used ÷ (used + idle). Breakdown hours are kept apart — a broken machine is not an idle one |
| Low utilisation | Under 60% — low alert, "release it or move it to a busier front" |
| Repeated breakdown | Broke down on 2 separate days in 28 — medium; 3 or more — high |
| Idle cost | Idle hours × hourly rate (a daily rate ÷ 8, a monthly rate ÷ 208) |
Run it
- In the sidebar, open Workspaces › Workforce and click Labour & Plant Productivity under AI agents.
- Choose the Project.
- Set Days to look back (7 by default, up to 31).
- Click Run agent.
Run it every week
It can run itself every Monday at 07:00 — off until your Company Admin switches it on in its Schedule & delivery panel. Each Company Admin and Project Manager then gets a run covering their active projects. The admin can change Days and Low utilisation pct there.
Safeguards
- Suggestions only. It creates nothing and changes nothing.
- It never shows a rupee figure you could not read on the equipment or labour screens.
Executed quantity moves when work is measured on an RA bill, so the norm comparison runs to date, not for the week — and work done but not yet measured shows as low output. A trade with measured work but no attendance usually means that gang is on a subcontractor's muster.
Tips
- Name trades in your rate-analysis labour lines ("Mason", "Bar bender") so output can be split by trade.
- Log idle and breakdown hours separately in the plant log.
- Compare a below-norm trade with the work fronts available before blaming the gang.
Related
- Labour — the muster roll and wage register.
- Equipment — plant logs, hire rates and breakdowns.
- Rate analysis — the labour norms it measures against.
- DPR Summariser — crew strength and idle plant from the DPRs.