STEELbuilder’s SMARTinventory is much more than a list of supply items with associated costs or prices. It provides the smarts to STEELbuilder’s 3D design and engineering modules which provide a true representation of your structural members so what you see is what you get.

Flexibility - This means that a change from a 70mm to 90mm stud can be seen instantly in the design.  So making changes to your building standard is easy, instant and it does not depend on costly and time consuming software updates or redevelopment.

Assemblies – STEELbuilder assembly capability takes your inventory management to a new level of control.  For example, brackets can be kitted to include fasteners and when the cost of a fastener increases, every kit with that contains the fastener will instantly reflect the new cost and price.  Save hours in data entry especially when price adjust occur or when you need to transfer a coil product (kg) to a linear product (m).

Engineering Parameters – STEELbuilder (Full edition) provides the unique ability for each of your structural members to include the relevant engineering and material properties for use by the engineering module.  STEELbuilder uses this information in conjunction with connection design data to determine the capacity of the structural members to withstand the applied load on the structure.  Consequently this removes the engineering guest work and risk to your business.

Bills of Materials - There is almost no limit to the extent of items that you can automatically or manually apply to your designs including doors, windows, gutters, cladding, plaster board, decking and fasteners to name only a few. STEELbuilder’s SMARTypes provides you with the unique capability to logically associate other building product to the steel structure including plasterboard, tiles, bricks etc. This means that STEELbuilder can provide you with a complete and accurate building take down to the last screw.

Manufacture - When you are ready to send your design to your manufacturing plant, STEELbuilder’s SMARTinventory will allocate the processing to the right machine or simply take from stock based on your manufacturing rules. This means that you don’t need to spend hours manually sorting or modify machine NC files to get the right result.

Prototyping - Prototyping can be a costly and time consuming process but no longer with STEELbuilder. You simple create a new structural section with its dimensional and engineering parameters and then apply.  View the results and fine tune as required.  It’s that simple and it can save hours of R&D time as well as costly prototyping machine changes that can hold up your core business. This means that you can make sound decisions knowing that the outcomes will be successful before committing money to machine or process changes.