STEELbuilder Shed Edition - Australia's leading shed quotation and detailing system

STEELbuilder Shed Edition is a powerful production tool that puts shed suppliers ahead of the competition by reducing paperwork, increasing design and construction speeds, eliminating errors and improving profit margins. The Shed Suppliers’ Problems - Successful shed suppliers need to issue quick accurate quotes, cut costs, reduce errors and efficiently manage suppliers.

Shed manufacturers want to:
• Automate production
• Detail drawings for manufacturing
• Improve design and engineering checks.

Not meeting these challenges costs you market share and profit. Generic technology that does not custom-fit your business can cause time delays, extra expense, constant accuracy concerns and the risk of costly reworks.

STEELbuilder Shed Edition simplifies and speeds up the shed design, manufacturing and supply process. STEELbuilder Shed Edition is built by ESS, Australia’s market-leading provider of customised software for steel supply companies over the past decade. From the initial inquiry to installation, STEELbuilder Shed Edition produces:

• Accurately detailed quotes
• Precise production and installation drawings
• Automatically performed engineering checks, and
• Manufacture to order.

With STEELbuilder Shed Edition, what you see is what you get. Its fully integrated 3D visual design provides highly accurate models that ensure easy access to all material and work calculations. STEELbuilder Shed Edition’s built-in industry intelligence automatically takes care of every detail to eliminate errors — for even the most novice user.

• STEELbuilder Shed Edition speeds up quotes, increases accuracy and dramatically cuts design time — all in a desktop product operated entirely by your sales team. STEELbuilder Shed Edition is unique in the Australian market. It can be totally configured to fit your existing or future business and design systems. STEELbuilder Shed Edition automates the design process and can provide full control through to production and installation.

• STEELbuilder Shed Edition enhances your product sales, improves quality and slashes thousands of dollars in design and production costs.

• For business owners who want to optimise designs while ensuring the structure complies with local building standards, STEELbuilder Shed Edition includes a fully integrated 3D engineering analysis option. STEELbuilder Shed Edition’s 3D SMARTengineering module warns you of potential problems. STEELbuilder Shed Edition guides you through solving those problems to ensure certification. As a business owner, you can feel confident your sheds will stand the test of time.

• For shed manufacturers, STEELbuilder Shed Edition works with almost any controller-driven roll-forming machine on the market by allowing you to define your own production data rules.

• STEELbuilder Shed Edition is much more then an estimating system, STEELbuilder Shed Edition provides a fully integrated product to more effectively manage your business from quotation to final progress payment.

If you answer YES to all of the following questions, then you should consider STEELbuilder Shed Edition for your business and contact ESS to obtain a STEELbuilder Shed Edition information on this new technology which is set to revolutionise your industry.

Do you supply or manufacture structures in the areas of sheds, garages, warehouses, carports, pergola, verandas, gazebos or patios?

Do you use a cold form steel section in the construction of your structures?

Are your structures normally assembled with brackets and connector plates?

Are you looking for cost saving solutions for your business?

Do you have a need to simplify processes to reduce costly errors and rework?

• Produce More Flexible Designs - STEELbuilder Shed Edition covers all shed designs, from standard sheds and skillions to Aussie Barns and Quakers. The flexibility does not stop with sheds. Highly functional tools provide for home improvement including pergolas, verandas, gazebos and carports.

• Gain Total Control- STEELbuilder Shed Edition puts you in total control of the design process and products used. This lets you create unique designs to set yourself apart from the competition.

• Optimise Your Design- STEELbuilder Shed Edition’s 3D SMARTengineering option slashes costs by allowing your team to optimise design standards and identify design limits, reducing material and labour use throughout your product line.

• Guarantee Your Profit- STEELbuilder Shed Edition lets you know the exact cost for each structure with accurate materials and resource lists. This gives you total control of every cost, ensuring full cost recovery to guarantee your bottom line.

• Access SMART Expertise- STEELbuilder Shed Edition uses intelligent modules to create designs quickly and take care of very detail. You business will no longer be restricted by the availability of technical staff. STEELbuilder Shed Edition is intuitive and easy to use. Even a novice will be productive after just a few hours training.

• Speed Up Your Business- STEELbuilder Shed Edition puts you at the forefront of today’s market. Once the software is fitted to your business, STEELbuilder Shed Edition can start adding to your bottom line.

• Say Goodbye to Costly Errors- STEELbuilder Shed Edition’s excellent viewing environment reveals every detail. Problems are resolved before production starts. This dramatically reduces errors and reworks.

• Reduce Business Risk- STEELbuilder Shed Edition’s 3D SMARTengineering option warns of potential problems that may prevent certification. This gives you confidence that your exposure to risk is systematically attended to.

• Eliminate Bottlenecks- STEELbuilder Shed Edition lets you know what’s happening on projects and prompts your staff with an event-driven To Do list. STEELbuilder Shed Edition’s Resource Scheduler tracks every resource to streamline production and installation.

• Create Paperwork That Works- All drawings, engineering reports, quotes and work orders can be produced at the click of a button. All reports are accurate and project specific, eliminating the confusion caused by generic documentation.

• Pay No Royalties- Your STEELbuilder Shed Edition solution contributes directly to your profit margin rather than taxing your turnover as many products or franchisee agreements do.

• Easily Move Designs to Manufacturing- If you roll and punch your own sections and cladding, STEELbuilder Shed Edition can move a project design to manufacture at the click of a button. Instantly, all of your machine data is accurately created for your roll formers. No more manual data entry errors or missing components.

• ESS partners with clients to make the impossible happen. As well as solving business problems for the steel industry, ESS engineers software that improves quality, reduces risk and cuts costs for clients in a wide range of industries. For more, visit www.ess.com.au.