FabTrol Systems demonstrated recently its re-engineered steel fabrication management software at this year’s North American Steel Construction Conference (NASCC) conference in Pittsburgh, US.
The company’s new software includes hundreds of new features; a modern, easy-to-use interface; powerful processing capability; and simultaneous multi-job flexibility. To understand and address steel fabricators’ needs, FabTrol Systems’ staff members visited over 50 fabrication shops, interviewed hundreds of fabricators in the US, South America, the Middle East, the UK and Australia, and analysed enhancement requests from thousands of users of its flagship product, FabTrol MRP.
'This research, combined with the most current development platform, tools, technologies and processes means that FabTrol Systems is poised to provide new features and benefits to the industry never before seen in a fabrication management solution,' a company spokesman said. FabTrol Systems’ commitment to its re-engineering effort, along with investment in a large, highly-trained development team, has had the added benefit of spawning new technologies and tools available to fabricators outside the environment of the company’s re-engineered software,' he added.
Tracking programme
Examples of this added benefit include FabTrol Field, a remote load and assembly tracking programme that allows assembly and load look-up from any smart phone or web-enabled device and ModelView, a free FabTrol plugin that displays drawing, assembly and shipping status in the model with a low-cost Tekla Structures viewer.
FabTrol Systems, a member of the Dowco Group, has been the leading supplier of steel fabrication management software for 25 years. In one modular integrated solution, FabTrol MRP provides management tools for estimating, drawings, materials, production, and shipping. Founded by steel fabricators, and still built around a core team of former steel fabricators, the company continues its commitment to the industry by actively seeking feedback from its customer companies—over 1,000 globally—and by working with other industry leaders to address existing and future needs.
In the Middle East, BIM Engineering Solutions (BIMES) has a partnership with FabTrol to supply its software with training, maintenance, upgrades and support. BIMES has main offices in Dubai, Cairo and Alexandria.
