Design reviews are vital in projects but often inefficient — scattered notes, missed updates, and miscommunication delay progress. UDiTH centralizes the process, allowing teams to review models, capture findings, and track resolutions in a collaborative digital twin environment.
The challenge
Design reviews are unavoidable in projects, turnarounds, and conceptual design phases. Yet they often suffer from:
- Comments scattered across emails, PDFs, or meeting notes.
- Missing or outdated information in models and documents.
- No clear responsibility for tracking issues or decisions.
- Time lost in meetings, preparing slides, or reconciling data manually.
The result: slower decisions, repeated discussions, and expensive rework.
The UDiTH solution
UDiTH transforms design reviews into a streamlined, collaborative process:
- Central environment: Access 2D, 3D, documents, and laser scans in one hub.
- Collaborative reviews: Capture issues, assign actions, and track progress directly in the model.
- Transparency: Every comment and decision is linked to the right object, keeping context intact. Easy tracking of open points.
- Flexibility: Run reviews in real time or asynchronously — across disciplines, companies, or geographies.
- Reduced effort: No need for additional software installations or manual slide preparation.
Relevant UDiTH capabilities for design reviews
- CoTrack: Manage design review comments, tasks, and approvals in structured workflows.
- Sketching: Propose alternative layouts or conceptual layouts directly in 3D and P&IDs.
- Markups: Add quick annotations on 3D models or documents to highlight issues without altering the originals.
- Reports: Generate design review reports in UDiTH, with easy Excel export for follow-up and documentation.
- Picture overlays: Add real-world photos to reviews for context or field verification.
- Custom apps & connectors: Extend reviews with specialized dashboards or connect to external design management systems.
Benefits & KPIs – measurable impact
- Faster reviews: Collaborative reviews reduce meeting preparation and reconciliation effort.
Design review cycles shortened by 20–30%. - Fewer errors: All comments and decisions remain linked to the model context.
Rework reduced by 15–25%. - Improved collaboration: Teams review models and documents in one shared environment.
Cross-discipline alignment improved by 30–40%. - Higher transparency: Every issue is logged, assigned, and tracked until closure.
Follow-up compliance increased to >95%. - Lower costs: Less rework and shorter reviews reduce overall project costs.
Design review costs reduced by 10–15%.
