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Information Technology in Structural Steel Industry

Information Technology in Structural Steel Industry. Building structural steel a 12.5 billion dollar industry. - $5.5B in fabrication business (buildings only, not bridges or process plants) - $7.2 in erection and assembly business

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Information Technology in Structural Steel Industry

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  1. Information Technology in Structural Steel Industry

  2. Building structural steel a 12.5 billion dollar industry. • - $5.5B in fabrication business (buildings only, not bridges or process plants) • - $7.2 in erection and assembly business • The average value added, from material input to billings, is an increase of about 51%, (47% for fabrication, 55% for erection). • The structural industry has a national association, called the American Institute of Steel Construction. It has led several IT iniatives for the industry.

  3. Will improvements be to just compete against others in the same market or grow the whole market? The in-place concrete market is about the same size or larger; significant gains on concrete could grow the whole market (difficulty of determining exact amount of concrete sales that is structural in-place concrete)

  4. High Level Structural Steel Production Process

  5. Process in a Steel Fabrication Plant

  6. Curved Parts Castellated parts

  7. In the 1990s, most steel fabrication shops adopted the standard DP tools, for accounting, scheduling, purchase ordering. They became familiar with the technology, its operation, its requirements for training and upgrade. Some added IT staff.

  8. Steel industry has a variety of 3D design layout applications: 3D+

  9. Steel industry has a variety of 3D design layout applications: Structural Triforma,

  10. Has automation of production technologies ready to apply, to reduce labor costs, improve quality automated welding, drilling, cutting machinery

  11. Has 3D knowledge-rich shop drawing applications: SDS/2, Xsteel, Strucad

  12. Joint Detailing is Being Largely Automated

  13. CIMsteel 2: • Adopted by AISC in 1998: • Provides a product data model for integrating all steel shop drawing & fabrication applications: • Tested and incorporated revisions in Europe (CIS) • GA Tech Architecture is Technical Advisor (contract w/ AISC) • First demonstration applications have taken place

  14. CIS/2 is the First Production Building Model in the U.S. Design applications Triforma-Structural 3D+ Frameworks+ Structural Workbench Shop Drawing Applications SDS/2 Xsteel Structural applications GT-STRUDL SAP ETABS RAM BOM & costing Applications Fabtrol 9 firms have developed interfaces w/ CIS/2

  15. Half a dozen building have been built using CIS/2

  16. Half a dozen building have been built using CIS/2

  17. Steel case study:

  18. No more design or shop drawings!

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