MOCA Systems, Inc. (MSI), provider of Touchplan®, the leading production planning system for complex construction, today announced the commercial availability of Touchplan Precision Time Planning (PTP), a breakthrough solution for construction time management that enhances planning accuracy by up to three orders of magnitude. A feat of sophisticated systems engineering, PTP embeds time awareness in the project data at the task/minute level, resulting in production plans that are both highly accurate and extremely flexible.

With traditional workday scheduling and planning, production managers in the field lack the process tools they need to sequence and track the complex flow of interdependent tasks filling every day, often resulting either in trade workers waiting at the gate or dangerously cramped into small workspaces, risking profit or risking safety. The challenge becomes even greater during time-critical execution activities, including shutdowns, turnarounds and outages (STO), commissioning, cutovers, utility tie-ins, and other critical work windows, where crews, equipment, and material deliveries must be precisely scheduled and even small delays can directly impact the project’s critical path.

Field managers must fall back on spreadsheets and other error-prone secondary technology to get the right skills to the right place at the right time. And even when working well, these methods create many small, unavoidable time management gaps, hidden time debt, silently compounding contract deadline risk.

For general and specialty contractors on large, complex, high-stakes data center, advanced manufacturing, energy infrastructure, and heavy civil projects, that compounding time debt can yield costly consequences, including liquidated damages, bonus forfeiture, litigation exposure, regulatory consequences, and job profit.

PTP continuously reduces hidden time debt as an integral part of production planning with Touchplan. It reduces dangerous trade stacking and costly idle time, helps workers respond faster to changing conditions, and endows managers with the power of strategic scheduling. It enables hour-by-hour planning for critical work windows while supporting the detailed coordination required for Level 4 and Level 5 field execution schedules. Unique among current construction planning solutions, Touchplan with PTP brings unmatched productivity to large, complex construction projects of all kinds.

“Now, more than ever, construction trade crews need to get in, get done, and get gone. They don’t want to wait to work or fight for space,” said Brett Adamczyk, President of MSI’s software division. “With Touchplan Precision Time Planning, they can avoid bottlenecks and eliminate time debt continuously throughout the workday. It’s like trading the sundial for the atomic clock.”

PTP is seeing its earliest adoption in heavy civil projects, where compounding delays bring significant operational, financial, safety, and regulatory risks, as with overnight highway, bridge, and rail line closures. Similar planning challenges exist during STO work, commissioning activities, cutovers, and other critical path work, where multiple teams must labor around the clock, often in tight, high-hazard spaces. Worker safety, public convenience, and financial success all depend on accurate, effective task sequencing and timing for high task volumes on tight schedules in dangerous locations.

The National Work Zone Safety Info Clearinghouse reported that construction work zones cause approximately 470M hours of vehicle delay and $8.6B in annual user-delay costs across the U.S. 850 people were killed and more than 42K injured in U.S. work-zone crashes in 2024 alone, according to the National Safety Council.

In the final year of PTP development, Touchplan engineers worked closely with Australian civil infrastructure contractor Fulton Hogan to match the power of the system with the needs of managers and end-users in the field. Fulton Hogan Planning Manager Hamoon Zare assessed the result: “During rail, road, and other civil infrastructure works, hourly planning is critical, as the whole team needs to have full visibility of, and agreement on the plan. PTP is a powerful tool that enables the team to manage key events efficiently and effectively.”

With today’s general release of Touchplan Precision Time Planning, this powerful new capability is now available at no extra charge to over 120 thousand Touchplan users working on nearly 10 thousand construction projects around the world.

Learn more at https://touchplan.io/precision-time-planning.

About MOCA Systems, Inc.

MOCA Systems, Inc. (MSI) is a leading services and software provider for the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industry. MSI delivers innovative solutions to Owners, Engineers, Architects, and Contractors working on some of the world’s largest, most complex construction projects. A profitable firm with offices across the United States and partners around the globe, MSI’s services and technology offerings ensure that projects are delivered on time and on budget and fulfill all Owner expectations. To learn more, visit mocasystems.com.

About Touchplan®

Touchplan, the premier software offering from MOCA Systems, Inc., is the leading production planning and analytics platform for construction. Used on more projects, by more users, to optimize more construction volume than any other solution in its category, Touchplan helps project teams deliver greater certainty on today’s most complex projects.

Purpose-built for construction, Touchplan replaces disconnected spreadsheets and planning boards with a collaborative, real-time, cloud-based platform. Teams use Touchplan to coordinate work, identify constraints early, track progress in real time, and improve project outcomes.

Touchplan is trusted by 21 of the ENR Top 25 General Contractors, along with leading MEP and specialty contractors, including Titan Electric, Apollo Mechanical, and Mark One Electric.

Learn more at touchplan.io.

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