Why automate?
Scale your output,
not your team.
Senior engineering hours, burned on manual workflows. Engineers should not be trapped rebuilding geometry, running repetitive checks, and retyping calculation reports. You pay for high level engineering judgement, yet project after project, those hours vanish into pure mechanical software operation.
Engineering hours, one structure
By hand
150to200+
Hours
Automated
<5
Hours
Measured in production, on a conveyor gallery
Conventional workflow · Manual process
01
Build the model.
Nodes, members, sections, supports, entered click by click.
02
Check the model.
Hunt for the input error before it becomes a design error.
03
Optimise sections.
Resize, rerun, compare. Repeat until the steel stops being wasteful.
04
Write the report.
Assemble the calculation document, result by result, by hand.
05
Produce the drawings.
Redraw the same geometry a third time, now for the drawing office.
Replace 5 steps with 1 click
Automate the workflow
All five steps follow rules that are already written down, in the code and in your own standards.
None of them needs engineering judgement, yet all of them are done by an engineer you hired for it.
Your own numbers
That's just one project. Multiply it across your full year.
Engineering hours back / year
3,400
Hours
- 170 hours saved on every structure
- Roughly 2.1 engineer years of capacity gained without hiring, at 1,600 hours a year
Set the automated hours below the hours you spend today.
01
Faster to a bid. Win more of them.
A tender answered in one day instead of two weeks. Quote fast and quote precisely, on real calculated numbers instead of a guess. Bid for more tenders, and win more of the ones you bid for.
02
Changes stop being a disaster.
The client moves a span or adds a door. First week or last day, it makes no difference. Model, checks, report and drawings all come back in minutes instead of a week of rework.
03
No expensive mistakes.
Nothing is retyped by hand between tools. The number in the model is the number in the report and on the drawing. One source of data, so a typing mistake cannot reach the workshop or the site.
04
The same rules, every single time.
Full EN 1993 verification on every member and every combination, applied identically on the first structure and on the hundredth, with an auditable calculation report behind every result.
05
Lighter steel, not only faster steel.
The tool searches for an efficient set of sections instead of stopping at the first one that passes. Less material for the same capacity. Steel is priced by the tonne, so a lighter structure is a cheaper one, on every project and every year.
06
The knowledge stays in the company.
Your methodology is built into the tool instead of living in one person's head. Less dependence on any individual. New engineers brought up to speed far sooner.
Next step
Curious how your process compares?
Tell us which structure your office repeats most, and roughly what it costs you in hours today. You get a straight answer on whether it is worth automating, from the engineer who would build it.