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Steel Shop Drawings- How It Makes Fabrication Easy!
The constructions of steel structures are growing with speed and volume now days. Due to increase in demand and acceptance of steel in infrastructure projects, high quality fabrication is most popular among developers and builders. In such competitive market, it is necessary for fabricators to achieve superior quality fabrication to stand strong. Considering many ingredient and need, structural steel shop drawings is key ingredient for fabricators to produce highest quality fabrication.
There are many challenges a fabricator face in any project from beginning to final delivery. Let’s list out some of the major challenges here,
- Material purchase
- Material handling and management
- Fabrication priorities
- Backend activities like 3D & 2D CAD work
- Manage complete fabrication production
- Transportation to site
- Erection work
- Completion
Each task mentioned above affects highly to any fabricators, so that let’s discus how structural steel shop drawings/steel shop drawings can play major role to facilitate fabricators.
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Challenges of a fabricator
- Material purchase
- Material handling and management
- Fabrication priorities
- Backend activities like 3D & 2D CAD work
- Manage complete fabrication production
- Transportation to site
- Erection work
- Completion
How steel shop drawings helps
- 3D model produce advance bill of materials(ABM) at early stage
- ABM gives an idea about steel shapes and sizes to mange in shop/yard
- Allow ease to work as priority decided
- Can be outsourced, which saves time, cost and manpower
- Helps to manage fabrication tasks in work shop
- Give perfect idea of necessity and cost of transportation
- Erection drawings/General drawings makes it easy and swift
- Helps to get approval/completion consent from government authorities
- Material purchase: A very first thing any fabricators start with is to purchase material for its steel structural fabrication project. While you can’t presume or guess volume of material at beginning, it is steel shop drawings services provider's duty to produce advance bill of material. Structural steel shop drawings services provider prepare a 3D model using latest technology software, which can produce accurate and reliable advance bill of material.This advance bill of material gives you near to exact volume of material you will need throughout the fabrication.
- Material handling and management: While you already have advance bill of materials, you know well about steel shapes you will have in your workshop or in yard. This helps in arrangement and utilization of them effectively & make fabricators life easy with fabrication production.
- Fabrication priorities: Shop drawings can be produced as per the priorities decided by builders or developer on project. This will lead fabrication production and confirm on time delivery of fabricated items on site. Structural steel shop drawings play major role in phase wise production of fabrication need in any structural steel projects.
- Back-end activities like 3D & 2D CAD work: Production of steel shop drawings can be described as back-end activities as it is not core area to work for any fabricators. Back-end activities like 3D CAD, 2D CAD, Drafting of drawings can be outsourced to specialist thus fabricator can concentrate on core activities such as monitoring fabrication progress. This helps to reduce cost and time on structural steel fabrication projects.
- Manage complete fabrication production: Fabrication shop drawings empowers project team such as welders, machine operators, fitters and erectors by representing all info. A fabricator can easily distribute tasks in shop to make production faster and quicker. This improve fabrication quality and speed up day to day output.
- Transportation to site: When you already have data of your fabricated items, it guides fabricator about necessity and cost of fabricated items to be transported on site. Several reports created from fabrication drawings guide on amount of weight and asset requirements of transportation. This directly affect to pocket and time as it prevent from unnecessary or extra transportation.
- Erection work: Erection on site must not delay as it impact overall completion time of any project. Structural steel shop drawings includes erection layouts/General plans/Marking plans which helps to manage erection process accurate and fast. Several reports exported form 3D model helps to speed up the erection on site.
- Completion: When a fabricator finishes fabrication and erection on site, it is required to submit as built drawings and complete set of shop drawings to respective government authorities for bill approval & to get completion certificate, which helps to get fabricator paid for its hard work.
As we discussed how structural steel shop drawings make fabricators life easy, the quality of steel shop drawings is equally important to know.
What features the high quality shop drawings should have:-
- Detailed and clean drawings
- Detailed BOM & BOQ
- Clearly visible labels and dimensions
- Necessary section & enlarge views
- Weld and bolts/holes detail
- ISO(3D) view for complex assembly
- Properly filled title block
- Use of client’s template
- Easy to read & understand
- Consistency in quality
- 99.95% error free
- While all above features represent best quality steel shop drawings, let's discuss where you can find cost effective shop drawings service provider?
This can be answered by outsourcing need of steel shop drawings, structural steel shop drawings, 3D CAD, 2D CAD, CAD drafting, and preparation of drawings to country like India, where you can get specialist and professional man power with very small cost. India is becoming hub of global manufacturing and servicing in different areas. All the county standards and followings are well known by Indian skilled personal, so you can rely on them for precise output
In this time of globalization, no country is such far, number of facilities such as WhatsApp, Skype, Live chat, email or direct call are easily available for faster communication.
- How easy to outsource projects to an Indian firm?
- Answer - Very easy! Just drop all project info and get best quality shop drawings back.
At 7Continents Engineering Solutions, we cater superior quality Steel shop drawings services/structural steel shop drawings services which are completely fabricator centric, our services never let you down.
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