Not far from the farmlands known as Australia’s salad bowl, rows of fruit and vegetables are being cultivated without sunlight or soil.
In their 5,400sqm facility at Arundel on the Gold Coast, Stacked Farm can produce perfect-looking leafy greens all year round. Started in 2017, Stacked Farm is a Queensland AgTech start-up for indoor vertical farming.
Vertical Farming refers to indoor farming in controlled environments, usually in the absence of soil and natural light, and involves well-established horticultural techniques. Stacked Farm, for instance, uses a form of hydroponics, growing its plants in rockwool, a material similar to an insulation batt, while a channel of water flows underneath.
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The technology is created and optimized to produce only the best quality healthy food that gets the tick of approval from consumers for taste, nutrition and price point, outperforming traditional farming in each one of these attributes.
Stacked Farm aims to optimize efficiency, minimize environmental impact, and ensure sustainable farming practices. In other words Stacked Farm is at the apex of Agri-food innovation.
With a dedicated team committed to researching, understanding, and improving all elements of indoor vertical farming, Stacked Farm needed Software to help facilitate communication, collaborations, and operational efficiency. That’s where Drawboard Projects comes in, designed to support better processes, greater innovation and business growth.
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Stacked Farm found itself moving ahead of its own industry - lets call it Industry 3.0. Industry 3.0 is the application of fully automated systems throughout business processes.
They were ready to move beyond this stage and into Industry 4.0, which is the digitization of all forms of data so that processes and teams can move quickly through feedback, more thoroughly analyze outputs, and increase efficiencies.
1. A highly technical team of technicians and engineers needed a single source of truth for all drawings and schematics, which also had to have decent access control for sharing, internally and externally.
2. A better way to receive feedback on drawings and markups from the Stacked Farm assembly team.
3. A way to go paperless without losing the advantages of using paper markups.
Staff and admins needed clear, useful information that’s readily on hand and easy to navigate – exactly what Drawboard Projects was engineered to deliver.\
Stacked Farm needed a system that addresses the challenges and problems that was also simple to use with a great UI. Without simplicity, it would require too much training and be a constant overhead.
Access control was also an important focus, particularly for external sharing.Drawboard Projects offered solutions to their problems and was delivered in a way that meets all of Stacked Farm’s requirements.
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UI that’s designed to make beginners experts is at the heart of how Drawboard Projects delivers software for use,without losing the advantages of using paper markups.
- Visually streamlined
- Tools are placed where they are needed for efficiency and intuitive use
- Optimized for trackpad and stylus
- Optimized for touchscreenIntuitive icons and hover labels
- Designed for use with low-familiarity
- Flow-of-use intuitively guides users on what to do next
- Everything is configurable – build a workspace that works for you
Drawboard Projects’ new organization management features are helping to bridge the gap between people and processes. Manage projects, portfolios, and resources with a holistic view for Admins across the entire organization, and easily and instantaneously change and revoke user access.
- Crystal clear birds-eye-view of all your organization's projects
- Easily assign the right project to the right person or teamEasy to use Account Admin portal for better governanceInvite internal and external stakeholders alike
See which annotations have been marked up by which contributor. At a glance, understand which markups belong to who in the project. Easily toggle a team member's annotations on or off. You can also manage and compare revisions seamlessly.
Revisions of the same drawing in Drawboard Projects are also automatically stacked to allow for optimal version control. Upload and compare your drawing revisions and understand changes at a glance. Easily move markups from older versions to your current revision, and get full clarity on revisions to reduce the need to rework and keep your project moving forward.
Auto versioning means that users never work on outdated versions. Newly published revisions are automatically pushed to all project members.
Store, mark up and review technical drawings and easily manage all of your drawings and projects from one centralized location. Manage unlimited projects in one place and keep all stakeholders on the same page to get reviews completed faster.
Open, resolve and assign issues to contributors. Pin issues to sections of your drawings, set deadlines and clearly mark when resolved. Seamlessly collaborate on multiple projects at once and get more oversight over your projects. Drawboard Projects instantly syncs all markups and communication on every revision, speeding up your process and giving you your coordination time back.
Upload and organize your drawings quickly and accurately with Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Easily scan the name, number and revision number of your drawings for quick labeling and create title block templates for streamlined and hassle-free uploads and revision management.
Draw with the feel of pen on paper and enjoy best-in-class pressure sensitive ink using your stylus. Insert images from your camera or computer, add text, and draw or insert lines and shapes with ease.Make your markups your own by easily customizing all your draw tools by color, thickness, opacity, size arrangement and order.
Work with advanced technical tools that allow precise measurement and calibration. See all your markups and actions as they happen with real-time sync, and share visibility of all or selective markups with internal and external stakeholders.
Drawboard Projects and Stacked Farm worked together to run induction sessions with the different departments, with a dedicated account representative available at any time to answer questions during implementation.
Our Drawboard Projects Solutions Expert also ran several conferences for further inductions and skill bridging sessions as needed. Because Drawboard Projects was designed to turn beginners into experts most of the platform learning happens innately while using the platform.
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"Engineers love it” says Newbold (CTO). “They like the upload process and saw it as a time saver by reducing the need to file manage. Marking up drawings in Drawboard Projects became the de facto method of marking up issues”.
“The only shortfall experience so far has been the lack of printing functionality or UX on that functionality”. At Drawboard Projects we’re dedicated to making sure we deliver end-to-end solutions, and even though our ethos is to move to a paperless world – delivering on all requirements is important to us. This is a big driver for the Drawboard Projects Product team to look to deliver a better UX for Printing.
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Drawboard Projects was designed to get everyone on the same page, move projects forward, and provide a canvas and workspace that is easy, powerful and intuitive to use.Newbold says that implementing Drawboard Projects “has increased productivity and simplified feedback loops between our different departments”.
Having adopted Drawboard Projects throughout various processes for their Engineers and Assembly Managers, Stacked Farm expressed that they would like to integrate Drawboard Projects deeper into some of their existing systems.
- Integrate the Issues feature on Drawboard Projects into their ERP system
- Syncing the Drawboard Issues feature with the Issues list Stacked Farm use on their ERP system
- Utilize Zapier with Drawboard Projects
When Drawboard Projects identifies needs that are common across our customers we look at how we can get those into our product roadmap. We are constantly moving the goalpost to make sure that we're delivering tools that give more and more value to our customers over time, to constantly improve workflows and streamline our development to customer needs.
Providing an API that will enable customers like Stacked Farm to integrate Drawboard Projects into their workflows is something that's definitely on our roadmap, and an exciting solution that we’ll look to offer Stacked Farm and other customers in the near future.
Not far from the farmlands known as Australia’s salad bowl, rows of fruit and vegetables are being cultivated without sunlight or soil.
In their 5,400sqm facility at Arundel on the Gold Coast, Stacked Farm can produce perfect-looking leafy greens all year round. Started in 2017, Stacked Farm is a Queensland AgTech start-up for indoor vertical farming.
Vertical Farming refers to indoor farming in controlled environments, usually in the absence of soil and natural light, and involves well-established horticultural techniques. Stacked Farm, for instance, uses a form of hydroponics, growing its plants in rockwool, a material similar to an insulation batt, while a channel of water flows underneath.
The technology is created and optimized to produce only the best quality healthy food that gets the tick of approval from consumers for taste, nutrition and price point, outperforming traditional farming in each one of these attributes.
Stacked Farm aims to optimize efficiency, minimize environmental impact, and ensure sustainable farming practices. In other words Stacked Farm is at the apex of Agri-food innovation.
With a dedicated team committed to researching, understanding, and improving all elements of indoor vertical farming, Stacked Farm needed Software to help facilitate communication, collaborations, and operational efficiency. That’s where Drawboard Projects comes in, designed to support better processes, greater innovation and business growth.
Stacked Farm found itself moving ahead of its own industry - lets call it Industry 3.0. Industry 3.0 is the application of fully automated systems throughout business processes.
They were ready to move beyond this stage and into Industry 4.0, which is the digitization of all forms of data so that processes and teams can move quickly through feedback, more thoroughly analyze outputs, and increase efficiencies.
1. A highly technical team of technicians and engineers needed a single source of truth for all drawings and schematics, which also had to have decent access control for sharing, internally and externally.
2. A better way to receive feedback on drawings and markups from the Stacked Farm assembly team.
3. A way to go paperless without losing the advantages of using paper markups.
Staff and admins needed clear, useful information that’s readily on hand and easy to navigate – exactly what Drawboard Projects was engineered to deliver.\
Stacked Farm needed a system that addresses the challenges and problems that was also simple to use with a great UI. Without simplicity, it would require too much training and be a constant overhead.
Access control was also an important focus, particularly for external sharing.Drawboard Projects offered solutions to their problems and was delivered in a way that meets all of Stacked Farm’s requirements.
UI that’s designed to make beginners experts is at the heart of how Drawboard Projects delivers software for use,without losing the advantages of using paper markups.
- Visually streamlined
- Tools are placed where they are needed for efficiency and intuitive use
- Optimized for trackpad and stylus
- Optimized for touchscreenIntuitive icons and hover labels
- Designed for use with low-familiarity
- Flow-of-use intuitively guides users on what to do next
- Everything is configurable – build a workspace that works for you
Drawboard Projects’ new organization management features are helping to bridge the gap between people and processes. Manage projects, portfolios, and resources with a holistic view for Admins across the entire organization, and easily and instantaneously change and revoke user access.
- Crystal clear birds-eye-view of all your organization's projects
- Easily assign the right project to the right person or teamEasy to use Account Admin portal for better governanceInvite internal and external stakeholders alike
See which annotations have been marked up by which contributor. At a glance, understand which markups belong to who in the project. Easily toggle a team member's annotations on or off. You can also manage and compare revisions seamlessly.
Revisions of the same drawing in Drawboard Projects are also automatically stacked to allow for optimal version control. Upload and compare your drawing revisions and understand changes at a glance. Easily move markups from older versions to your current revision, and get full clarity on revisions to reduce the need to rework and keep your project moving forward.
Auto versioning means that users never work on outdated versions. Newly published revisions are automatically pushed to all project members.
Store, mark up and review technical drawings and easily manage all of your drawings and projects from one centralized location. Manage unlimited projects in one place and keep all stakeholders on the same page to get reviews completed faster.
Open, resolve and assign issues to contributors. Pin issues to sections of your drawings, set deadlines and clearly mark when resolved. Seamlessly collaborate on multiple projects at once and get more oversight over your projects. Drawboard Projects instantly syncs all markups and communication on every revision, speeding up your process and giving you your coordination time back.
Upload and organize your drawings quickly and accurately with Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Easily scan the name, number and revision number of your drawings for quick labeling and create title block templates for streamlined and hassle-free uploads and revision management.
Draw with the feel of pen on paper and enjoy best-in-class pressure sensitive ink using your stylus. Insert images from your camera or computer, add text, and draw or insert lines and shapes with ease.Make your markups your own by easily customizing all your draw tools by color, thickness, opacity, size arrangement and order.
Work with advanced technical tools that allow precise measurement and calibration. See all your markups and actions as they happen with real-time sync, and share visibility of all or selective markups with internal and external stakeholders.
Drawboard Projects and Stacked Farm worked together to run induction sessions with the different departments, with a dedicated account representative available at any time to answer questions during implementation.
Our Drawboard Projects Solutions Expert also ran several conferences for further inductions and skill bridging sessions as needed. Because Drawboard Projects was designed to turn beginners into experts most of the platform learning happens innately while using the platform.
"Engineers love it” says Newbold (CTO). “They like the upload process and saw it as a time saver by reducing the need to file manage. Marking up drawings in Drawboard Projects became the de facto method of marking up issues”.
“The only shortfall experience so far has been the lack of printing functionality or UX on that functionality”. At Drawboard Projects we’re dedicated to making sure we deliver end-to-end solutions, and even though our ethos is to move to a paperless world – delivering on all requirements is important to us. This is a big driver for the Drawboard Projects Product team to look to deliver a better UX for Printing.
Drawboard Projects was designed to get everyone on the same page, move projects forward, and provide a canvas and workspace that is easy, powerful and intuitive to use.Newbold says that implementing Drawboard Projects “has increased productivity and simplified feedback loops between our different departments”.
Having adopted Drawboard Projects throughout various processes for their Engineers and Assembly Managers, Stacked Farm expressed that they would like to integrate Drawboard Projects deeper into some of their existing systems.
- Integrate the Issues feature on Drawboard Projects into their ERP system
- Syncing the Drawboard Issues feature with the Issues list Stacked Farm use on their ERP system
- Utilize Zapier with Drawboard Projects
When Drawboard Projects identifies needs that are common across our customers we look at how we can get those into our product roadmap. We are constantly moving the goalpost to make sure that we're delivering tools that give more and more value to our customers over time, to constantly improve workflows and streamline our development to customer needs.
Providing an API that will enable customers like Stacked Farm to integrate Drawboard Projects into their workflows is something that's definitely on our roadmap, and an exciting solution that we’ll look to offer Stacked Farm and other customers in the near future.
We are a PDF and collaboration company. We believe that creating more effective connections between people reduces waste.
Our best work has been overtaken by busywork. That’s why we’ve created ways to help people get back to working wonders without any paper in sight.
Drawboard PDF lets you mark up and share with ease, and Drawboard Projects brings collaborative design review to architecture and engineering teams.
At Drawboard, we work our magic so our customers can get back to working theirs.
We are a PDF and collaboration company. We believe that creating more effective connections between people reduces waste.
Our best work has been overtaken by busywork. That’s why we’ve created ways to help people get back to working wonders without any paper in sight.
Drawboard PDF lets you mark up and share with ease, and Drawboard Projects brings collaborative design review to architecture and engineering teams.
At Drawboard, we work our magic so our customers can get back to working theirs.
