16/06/09
On Site Services swap StruCAD for Graitec Advance Steel (Click here to download PDF case study)
On Site Services (Gravesend) Ltd have been trading since 1983 in the field of steel fabrication and erection. Typical projects include complete steel frame buildings, underpinning, temporary steelwork to support external façade works, mezzanine floors, stairs, balustrades and ornamental metalwork.

Due to expansion of the business an additional need developed for direct CAM links with Drill Line equipment to work along side On Site Services plasma cutter which meant further investment in their StruCAD system. This prompted On Site Services to review their CAD CAM systems and processes and Graitec were invited to demonstrate our flagship steel modelling and detailing solution Advance Steel.

It quickly became apparent to On Site Services that Advance Steel could equally manage all of the larger steel projects including links with both plasma and drill line machines through the use of DSTV provided at no extra cost with Advance Steel. Furthermore Advance Steel offered more functionality than StruCAD in addressing some of the lighter and often complex steel projects such as stair and railing which tipped the scales towards Advance Steel.

They found Advance Steel to be competitive and cost effective alternative "The overall performance of Advance Steel (which includes everything we need out-of-the-box) exceeds what we had with StruCAD increasing our overall performance. Advance Steel's ongoing maintenance and support costs also offered significant savings reducing our overall cost of ownership compared with StruCAD", comments Andrew Titley, Director, On Site Services.

Andrew continues, "We were impressed with the inclusion of Open grid flooring and Durbar flooring products, the capability of showing non-metallic elements such as glass and concrete, the creation of specialised components and the possibility of further standard manufacturer's items being added to the standard library".

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