--- title: "Faster Engineering Projects: It’s Time to Automate Project Turnover" description: Boost workforce efficiency with Adept's document management platform. Learn how to reduce opportunity loss and enhance productivity through centralized document access and control. --- [Synergis Software Blog ](https://www.synergissoftware.com/blog) # [Faster Engineering Projects: It’s Time to Automate Project Turnover](https://www.synergissoftware.com/blog/time-to-automate-project-turnover) Written by [Livia Wiley](https://www.synergissoftware.com/blog/author/livia-wiley) | Mar 26, 2025 6:08:27 PM Over the summer our local McDonald’s closed for two months to expand their drive-thru from one to two lanes. I wondered then, how could a business afford to be closed for so long and during peak outdoor hours? The average McDonald’s makes $6,500/day. At a cost of 60 days, that’s approximately $390K in lost revenue, and that’s not including the cost of the construction. Although this is a small-scale example, you could imagine the benefit to the business if the construction could be completed 10% faster—say 52 days instead of 60 days—that’s $39K in savings. On a larger scale, like a chemical manufacturing plant, a mere 1 or 2 days faster could mean millions of dollars.  McKinsey reports that as many as [90% of major capital projects](https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/operations/our-insights/megaprojects-the-good-the-bad-and-the-better) suffer from an average of approximately 28% over budget with delays of [six months to two years](https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/operations/our-insights/capital-investment-is-about-to-surge-are-your-operations-ready). In 73% of the cases, spend overrun was caused by [poor project execution](https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/capital-projects-and-infrastructure/our-insights/megaprojects-the-good-the-bad-and-the-better). Typically poor execution is blamed on poor document management. In one study, 75% of respondents said that project document issues caused the overruns with a further 25% saying that poor documentation had led to construction delays.   For chemical manufacturers, handover costs alone can easily account for [1 to 2% of total CAPEX](https://www.synergissoftware.com/hubfs/SSD_PDFs/SynergisSoftware-BringOrderChaos-ebook.pdf) costs and can take a year or more to complete. Up to 50% of projects experience issues due to inadequate knowledge transfer during handovers. This can force owner-operators to spend 2 to 4% of the project cost to correct and/or reproduce missing operations and maintenance information manually.   It's time to take control of your project content across all phases of design, construction, and handover. Adept gives owner/operators and EPCs a centralized digital platform that improves productivity, facilitates communication, [simplifies workflows and collaboration](https://www.synergissoftware.com/solutions/by-industry/engineering-and-construction), empowers decision-making, and accelerates handover. You can easily connect your project teams, documents, deliverables, and workflows to optimize existing plant transformations and/or new capital engineering projects. You can expect:   - **No more project delays: **Using a centralized platform for collaboration ensures the right people have access to the right information. No more overruns on cost or schedule.   - **Seamless CAD integration. **Having EDM available inside your CAD application enhances design workflow while maintaining file relationships.   - **Better ROI on capital projects. **EDM can enhance project planning, budgeting and outcomes to satisfy expectations from regulators, shareholders, and other stakeholders.   *We have a construction crew of hundreds plus hundreds of sites. We have three quarters of a million files of just our engineering technical documentation. Far and away, the reason that we went to Adept was the ability to gain trusted access to documents.*   —[Susan Stanley, Interstates](https://www.synergissoftware.com/video-customer-success-interstates)  By consistently finding the latest document version, site, and central engineers can more efficiently use capital, reduce errors and related rework, and ultimately accelerate project start up by 1 – 2 days. [See real customer value at right.](https://www.synergissoftware.com/15min-dow-chemical) You’ll complete projects on time and under budget, improve design quality, lower project costs, reduce project risk, and increase profitability.  *Dow personnel emphasize consistent work process execution across all sites around the world. We have a sizable investment in written best practices for process design, project execution and plant operation that provide a significant and sustainable competitive advantage for Dow. *—[Gregg Schuler, Former Product Manager for Data Integration & EDM, Dow](https://www.synergissoftware.com/15min-dow-chemical)  Some Adept customers have experienced [35% faster project handover](https://www.synergissoftware.com/solutions/by-industry/engineering-and-construction) to operations by avoiding costly and dangerous ambiguity, ensuring complete, consistent, and compliant data, and creating insights and efficiencies through continuous digital handover.  *Have you considered what your engineering documents are really worth to your manufacturing organization?*       [View full post](https://www.synergissoftware.com/blog/time-to-automate-project-turnover) ```json { "@context" : "http://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "author" : { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "Livia Wiley" }, "dateModified" : "2025-03-26T18:08:27.615Z", "datePublished" : "2025-03-26T18:08:27Z", "headline" : "Faster Engineering Projects: It’s Time to Automate Project Turnover", "image" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "height" : 837, "url" : "https://www.synergissoftware.com/hubfs/2025_03_BlogSeries_3_billboard.png", "width" : 1600 }, "mainEntityOfPage" : "https://www.synergissoftware.com/blog/time-to-automate-project-turnover", "publisher" : { "@type" : "Organization", "logo" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "height" : 60.0, "url" : "https://f.hubspotusercontent30.net/hubfs/7669934/assets/logos/synergis-software-logo@2x.png", "width" : 159.33334 }, "name" : "Blog" } } ```