Shop Drawing Backlog Won, ready, and stuck on the drawings.

• Packages are waiting on drawings rather than on materials or machine time.
• The queue grew faster than it cleared in each of the last few months.
• Revisions on old packages keep displacing new ones.
• Dates are being agreed that the drawing office has not been asked about.
• Everyone knows which projects are slipping, and it is always the same reason.

Rarely because anyone is slow. Usually because of three things happening at once.

Revisions are unplanned and unpriced.

A first issue sits in a schedule. Three rounds of comments do not, and they arrive in the middle of the next project.

Capacity is fixed and demand is not.

Millwork work arrives in waves. A drawing office sized for the average is under water at the peak and idle at the trough.

The queue hides its own cause.

Once a backlog exists, everything becomes urgent, so nothing gets scoped properly, which makes the next package slower.

Talk to Us About Capacity →

Tell us what is in the queue. An honest answer on what can be taken.

Not an instant fix.

A first package takes longer than a subsequent one, because conventions have to be captured. Anyone promising immediate throughput is describing something else.

Not a replacement for your drawing office.

The usual arrangement moves the work that does not need your specific knowledge, and keeps the work that does.

Not a commitment to volume.

Scope is agreed per engagement, which suits work that arrives in waves.