Production planning for construction
DSETI Line of Balance — our new web platform for construction production planning, now in beta.
A modern platform for planning construction production
Built on decades of hands-on experience in production planning and Line of Balance consulting for construction, DSETI Line of Balance is our newest platform — a web-based system that brings budgeting, scheduling and field control together, with AI assistance built in.
Planning, programming and control of production — in one place
PPCP — Planning, Programming and Control of Production — is how a construction company keeps command of its work. DSETI Line of Balance covers every stage of that cycle:
Long-term planning
The master schedule drawn as a Line of Balance: production lines flowing through every location of the job, against the contractual baseline.
Medium-term planning
Tactical look-ahead: detail the upcoming stages, clear constraints and line up what must be ready before work starts.
Monthly programming
The engineer's monthly cycle: check what can really be done, compare it with the budget, program the crews and set the month's budget-execution target — forecast included.
Control & indicators
Physical and financial progress indicators, quality records, rework tracking, audit trail and execution photos — evidence of what actually happened.
Program against the plan, not in the dark
While you program what the crews will do this month, the plan for that month is in front of you — physical and financial targets side by side.
Adjust live, see the impact live
Add or remove the materials you'll actually use, build crews from the plan — or change it: one mason becomes two. Every edit shows instantly what you'll spend above or below plan — and lands on the incurred-cost report, where you watch where your financial result is heading.
The tactical agenda
For the months ahead, site management prepares: procurement, labor, materials, safety and other administrative actions that must happen before the work itself. The agenda is built from the Line of Balance — and AI suggests the activities your team should schedule to get ready.
From budget to daily control, in one tool
Everything a planner needs to build, adjust and follow a construction schedule — without switching between spreadsheets and software.
Integrated budgeting
Automatic connection between budget and schedule: quantities, services and costs feed the plan directly — and can generate the budget itself.
Draw with the mouse
Create, move and link activities directly on the chart — drag bars, set dates and build the schedule visually.
Production lines & service diagrams
Organize work into production lines and service diagrams that mirror how crews actually move through the building.
Labor histograms
Crew sizing and labor histograms generated automatically from quantities and productivity.
Financial projection
Financial histogram updated automatically as the schedule evolves — see the cash flow of the plan at any moment.
Baseline & execution
Freeze a contractual baseline, run a live execution version and track planned vs. actual — physical and financial.
The product, working
Real screens from the platform — the same data flowing from plan to program to control.
AI assistance in every step
AI is part of the workflow — not a side feature. It helps from the very first screen and keeps suggesting as you work: the assistant proposes, the planner decides.
AI project wizard
A guided wizard takes a new project from a blank page to budget and schedule — AI drafts, you review and adjust.
Budget generation & price tables
AI helps build and complete budgets — services, compositions and price suggestions backed by continuously updated price references.
Plan building
Help structuring the schedule — production lines, dependencies and durations from the project context.
Team formation
Suggestions for crew sizes and team composition based on quantities, rhythm and deadlines.
Suggestions where you work
AI is embedded in the screens — proposing services, prices, sequences and analyses right where decisions are made.
Planned vs. actual analysis
Analysis of physical and financial progress against the plan — deviations surfaced early.
A tool is only half of it — implementation is the other half
The hard part isn't having a Swiss-army knife of features — it's making the method work inside a real construction company. We don't sell a system and walk away.
DSETI Line of Balance
A complete platform: budgeting, visual scheduling, production lines, crew and financial histograms, indicators and AI assistance.
Implementation as a service
Our team deploys the practice inside your operation — method, training and follow-through — until your project is planned, programmed and under control. The goal is the result, not the license.
New — and already in the field
DSETI Line of Balance is in beta testing and being deployed with its first adopters — built by a team with decades of experience in production planning and Line of Balance consulting for construction.