According to Jetbuilt, utilizing technical data fields provides a clear view of information that will help ensure a project has a proper design. It also ensures accounting of components, such as rack space, power, heat ventilation and weight capacity. Thus, the data fields enable a smooth installation process.

“The introduction of technical data fields will save time, money and aggravation as the project moves to the installation stage,” remarks Tom Peters, director of business development at Jetbuilt. He gives one example where understanding a rack space for a particular installation, especially for a small space like a credenza, can ensure ordering of the proper size credenza.

Peters continues, “Additionally, you can warn the HVAC contractor that there will be 1000 BTU in a closet to ventilate, and easily view the total weight of a speaker system or videowall included in the project, to check against the building structure. Basically, the technical data in the Jetbuilt builder will provide a clear view of what is needed to accommodate the system being installed.”

Expanding Valuable Functionality

Technical data fields is the latest feature to support the platform’s engineering efforts. It will also pair well with Jetbuilt’s engineering scrub feature. Launched early in 2022, the feature allows companies to enforce a technical review as part of the workflow.

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Scrub also ensures approval of every item from an engineering perspective before the project moves to the next stage. By having key technical data at the ready and auto-calculated, users can streamline this process as well.

Jetbuilt will showcase the technical data fields at CEDIA 2022. It will also highlight engineering scrub and JEL, the Jetbuilt Engineering Lab.

Also launched in 2022, JEL provides the ability to commission CAD drawings, REVIT drawings, 3D renderings and presale engineering as needed. All of this is possible within the integrated workflow of Jetbuilt.

Paul Dexter, Jetbuilt founder and chief executive officer, remarks, “While Jetbuilt is known as a sales and project management tool, in 2022, we committed to better serve consultants and the engineering side of our design teams using Jetbuilt. To that end we are proud to have launched engineering scrub, JEL, and now technical data fields, with more valuable functionality to come.”

Jetbuilt will exhibit at CEDIA in booth #9017, September 29 – October 1 in Dallas, Texas.

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This synergy between platforms will streamline workflows and simplify the search process by maintaining familiar categories that many in the industry are already accustomed to working. Thus, according to Jetbuilt, whether in AV-iQ or Jetbuilt, a search for Speaker will produce the congruent categories of Horns, Large Format Stand Speakers, Line Arrays and more.

For more than 20 years, AV-iQ has given industry professional end-users a destination to find detailed product information in a common-format industry database. Therefore, as Jetbuilt worked to further enhance their platform’s user-friendly search tool, they looked to AV-iQ with the goal of streamlining the industry with fewer sets of categories among leading companies.

“AV-iQ has built a great reputation as an industry standard database,” says Paul Dexter, founder, chief executive officer, Jetbuilt.

“As the most used quoting platform, it makes no sense for Jetbuilt to create a new set of categories, thereby diluting the industry. Recognizing AV-iQ categories as a standard and aligning our platform with theirs is simply better for the industry.”

Jetbuilt boasts that not only will this standardization benefit those searching for products in Jetbuilt and AV-iQ, but manufacturers will be able to feed the same categories into both platforms for a simpler and more streamlined experience.

“We’re excited to be working with Jetbuilt to offer another way for our industry to standardize product information so that end-users, integrators, and manufacturers can all have an easier time finding the information they need,” remarks Mark Loftus, business development lead, AV-iQ.

“As a continuation of AV-iQ’s mission to be the central database of product information for the industry, aligning Jetbuilt into our category structure we’ve built over the past 20+ years makes perfect sense.”

Jetbuilt’s extensive database of over 2 million low-voltage items reaches beyond audiovisual. AV-iQ is similarly extending it’s reach into structured cabling and residential markets. The two companies will continue to work with one another to stay aligned for all corresponding products on behalf of the industry.

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