SOME OF THE IMPORTANT FEATURES
History of Fabrication
Our owner has 24 years of experience owning a fabricating business but has not owned a shop since 1996. While fabricating, the business lead the industry in developing their own automation and robotics. The death of a partner ended the fabrication part of the business. To this day our owners and managers are very aware of the preassures that our fabrication customers experience each day. Our drawings are created and checked to meet the needs of the shop foremen and shop workers and erectors. Since starting his fabrication business until today doing project management and detailing, the owner has over 42 years of experience in the structural steel industry.
History of Detailing
Since 1996 the emphasis has been on detailing alone. This year will be our 25th year of detailing alone with an additional 20 years of doing our own detailing as part of the fabrication business. At first the detailing was done with drafting table, paper and pencil, then autocad with the first computer being a small PC with a floppy drive and then an XT. (We still have those old computers on display in our office). Autocad drafting was used on those first computers and then the move to structural 3D software. We have been using TEKLA 3D software for structural detailing for 16 years now.
History of Programming
After the death of our partner the remaining owner went back to college and studied software development. Now we develop software for our own uses. Just as robotics and automation was useful in the fabrication business, software development and programming gives us the advantage in the industry that allows us to compete against any detailer in the world.
Detailing Experience
Over the years we have completed well over 1000 projects both large and small. We have successfully completed office towers and large oilfield and commercial projects. Most of our projects are not large and we work on stair and handrail projects and many commerical projects under 300 ton as well as the large projects. The secret to our success is the checking provided by RFI Checking Systems. The double model checking system assures that all of our projects are accurate and that the drawings are complete.
Affordable Service
Our customers/fabricators have to quote on each project and they win project awards by offering the best quality, service and price. We do the same for our customers. The systems/methods that we use provide better quality at an affordable and competive price. That is essential to our business.
Networking
IN 2008 some of our long term detailers had to move to new locations. We were able to retain their experience and skills by enabling the detailers to work over a remote network. This has worked very well and now these detailers have contacts in their local areas and bring business to us in addition to us supplying detailing to them. All of our detailers live in the mainland USA or Canada.
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Email info at 3dsteeldetailing.com Phone 253-Five Seven Nine-3839