CSG Engineering ensures the success
by leading the implementation
AUTOMATION OF ALL WORK PROCESSES
• Estimation & Proposals• Engineering - Design & Drafting• Production Mgmt & Planning• Cost Control• Design to Production Automation
BIM LegoCad-P2000
LegoCad-P2000 Goals• to organize the activities of the Company with an integrated system allowing the movement of information across all the business divisions: sales, design, production, project management, and accounting.
• to measure the company’s productivity in the different departments, to know the critical areas and to have a company structured, not only on the experience of their employees, but on an expert system on which to base a successful organization.
• to have quick and accurate responses to Client’s requests, both for new estimates and for custom quotes.
• to have the full control of costing and timing of the jobs.
Flow managed by LegoCad-P2000
Sales Dept.Design &
EngineeringProduction
Transport & Erection
• EstimationDesign, Cost
• Offer
• Offer Mgmt.
• Order
• Design, Cost
• Approval
• Shop Drawings
• Planning
• Resources
• CAD/CAM
• Control
• Site Mgmt.
• Erection
On-line Control of Quantities and Cost
Estimation Client approved Project plan Production Balance
Estimate &
Proposals
Quick ‘Estimation Design’ with generation of Offer Drawings, 3D Rendering and BOM/BOQ.
Automatic generation of the Estimated Costs (for Production, Transport and Erection), taking care of the Complexity of the Projects. No more risk to overestimate Simple Projects and underestimate Complex Projects.
Estimation available in the Operations Planning, to know the hypothetical Delivery date.
Great precision in the Estimated Costs: Minimal difference vs. Real Final Costs.
Offer Management with output in Microsoft Word file format.
Easier to Manage Variants: modifying the Design, everything is Automatically updated.
Design,
Drafting &
Engineering
The most advanced BIM Design Tool for Precast:
the Building is Designed simulating the erection on-site
The System automatically prepares all Drawings
for Offer, Production, Erection, BOQ/BOM, BBS
Structural Calculation is included.
CAD/CAM files to operate the factory equipments.
The Designer is responsible to execute the project.
All Drawings and BOM/BOQ BBSare delegated to the System.
BIM Model for the Client
Prod. Mgmt. &
Cost Control
Prod. Planning based on the Erection schema and Job priorities, automatically loaded from the Design data. Possibility to do changes at any time.
Warehouse raw material stock based on the planning (including inserts, connections, lifting hooks, itemsneeded on site during the erection, etc.).
Barcode unique identifier of each element. Barcode racking function.
On-line status for every element.
Shipment function including raw materials and inserts.
On-line feedback from the real Quantities and Costs.
On-line comparison btw. Estimated Cost, Design Cost, Production Cost, Balance Cost.
Index• Layouts …………………..…. p. 6
• Struct. Calculation ……. p. 10
• Connections ……………… p. 12
• Piece Drawings & BBS … p. 15
• BOM …………………………. p. 24
• Estimate & Proposals … p. 30
• Operations Planning ..… p. 36
• Production Mgmt. ....... p. 43
• Cost Control …………….. p. 50
• Production Planning .... p. 55
(Design to Production Automation, CAD/CAM)
• Why BIM LegoCad
works fine? ………………. p. 72
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LegoCad P2000(go to page)
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LegoCadLegoCad
Layouts
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Structural CalculationLegoCad
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ConnectionsLegoCad
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The connections are subject to vertical and horizontal actions, as for example their own weight, wind and seismic actions, and for this reason they must be designed and checked to transmit all the stress actions, to prevent sinkings or settlements not expected in the design phase.
Once the architectural design phase is ended, LegoCad allows to analyze and to position the connections that fix the structural precast elements to each other.
Connections loaded in LegoCad can be commercial connections or user defined connections.Only in specific situations (non standard connections) the inserts will be positioned one by one.
LegoCad includes an archive of standard connections (commonly used in the market and used by concrete manufacturer) for the following connections:
Footing – Column Panel – BeamColumn – Beam Panel – SlabBeam – Beam Panel – PanelBeam – Slab Slab - DomePanel – Column Panel - Panel
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Once the user has defined the type of connection, LegoCad goes on by placing the respective inserts (boxes, profiles, …) on the different elements considering the manufacturer rules, also checking distances from elements, the capacity for suspension elements, any interference among different inserts. When restrictions are not respected LegoCad reports the error to the user.
EXAMPLE OF PANEL-COLUMN CONNECTIONOnce the architectural design is ended, the user chooses, from the KNOTS menu, the connection typology be used, for example panel–column (PAN-COL).Automatically all typologies on market and stored in the archive, are proposed.
After choosing the connection, the user, driven step by step by the program, defines the elements where to apply the inserts. The program automatically positions the inserts, building the connection, on the panel and on the column.
SHOP DRAWINGSAny change in the connection position on the architectural design will automatically updates the inserts position in the shop drawings.
USER DEFINED CONNECTIONSIn specific situations, where it is not possible to use commercial connections, it is possible to use generic connections defined by the user.
BOQLegoCad automatically generates both the connections list (BOQ) and the kit with the items needed on site for the erection.
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Piece Drawings and BBSLegoCad
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BOMLegoCad
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Estimate & ProposalsP2000
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Unit Cost per pieceincluding material and manpower
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Transportation Cost
Operations Planning
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P2000
Operations PlanningTo control all the Business operationsby defining the Production Priorities at Job/Pieces level.
Tasks and Priorities for Design Dept., Production, Transportation and Erection, are monitored
No manual data entry is required !
The System knows automatically:• in which bed (or group of beds) the items will be manufactured.• the daily capacity of each bed, the non working days.
Pieces manufactured externally are included
▪ Designed Orders▪ Orders Partially Designed▪ Orders not yet Designed▪ Estimations
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Operations PlanningBy defining the Priority, and the Begin date, the System calculates automatically the End Production date
Dates in red for the jobs with planned end date higher than the expected delivery date
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Gantt chart by bed, with great flexiblity in moving the piecesfor the production optimization, zoom in, zoom out etc.
Operations Planning
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Gantt chart by job
Operations Planning
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Beds setup and capacity
Daily capacity for every bed
Operations Planning
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Daily bedcapacity
Statistical values Forecast
Operations Planning
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Production Mgmt.
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P2000
Production Tags1° Print all relevant information about the items for Production,
Storage and Transportation. The information is visible for the operators or available through the reading of the bar code printed on the card.
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2° Reinforcing: barcode label during the reinforcement setup
By reading bar code:
- Production recording.
- Cost (material and
manpower).
- Bar Warehouse Stock.
Reinforcing
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3° Production Record: by reading the bar code the manufactured
element, the daily production will be automatically recorded.
Production Mgmt.
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4° Storage: Link manufactured element with storage area using barcode.
Storage
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5° Delivery: printout of the delivery docs. recording the transportation
and updating the warehouse status.
Transport
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PRODUCTION MGMT.
Other functions
• Quality control Management
• Move pieces to a different Job
• Possibility of cutting pieces
• Installation
• Extras to contract
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Cost ControlOn-line comparison btw.
Estimated, Design, Production, Balance Costs
P2000
P2000 Cost Control - Goals
- Calculate production costs quickly and accurately (per piece, job, production line)
- Compare Production Cost with Estimate Cost
- Make Estimates quickly, with precise cost estimates (per materials, manpower, transport, installation) based on production costs
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Cost for every pieceincluding material and manpower
Cost managed and compared by P2000 per every piece
EstimatedCost
The Costcounted
in the Estimation
phase(including the
budget indirectcost)
Cost basedon Design (Budget)
The EstimatedCost based on the CompletedDesign, done
after the acquisition of
the Job(including the
budget indirectcost)
DirectProduction
Cost
The actualproduction cost
(including the budget indirect
cost)
Actual Total Cost
The actualproduction cost
(including the actual indirect cost)
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All data is available per qty and cost
Estimate
After Design
Production
REPORTING
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Production PlanningDesign to Prod. Automation – CAD/CAM
LegoCad
Production PlanningOn the LegoCad project the erection schema is setup, to optimize the Production, Storage and Erection phases.
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On the LegoCad project the erection schema is setup, to optimize the Production, Storage and Erection phases.
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F10 – Piece number, HL – Bed group code, ( 2) – Production Priority
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Production PlanningOn the LegoCad project the erection schema is setup, to optimize the Production, Storage and Erection phases.
Starting from the Operations Planning, the people that organizethe production scheduling for the following days may select the LegoCad items and place them on the beds.
To better optimize the beds, the elements are selected from different jobs, with the support of the report “PRODUCTION OPTIMIZATION" from LegoCad.
On the LegoCad project, the items positioned on the beds are highlighted with dashed blue lines, the production priority and the planned production date are shown.
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Beds filling per Production date - beds
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Beds filling per Production date - project
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Beds filling per Production date
On the LegoCad project, the items positioned on the beds are highlighted with dashed blue lines, the production priority and the planned production date are shown.
F8 – Piece number
HL – Bed group code
2 – Production Priority
191213 – Planned Production date
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Eg. Hollowcore Production layout for the day
Per each day, per each bed, a folder is automatically created, including all the info needed to run the Production (bed’s layout, shop drawings, BBS, CAD/CAM files to run the Production Equipments) and the reporting about the materials and the embeds needed.
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BIM LegoCad
LegoCadProjects Data
Piece shapes, size, materials,
insulation, finishing, embeds,
reinforcing
LegoCadBeds/Carousels
Bed layout, summary reports
for materials, creation of
UNITECHNIK file (or other) to run
factory equipment
FactoryEquipment
Automaticallyshapes of the
elements (cutting, plotter),
placement of embeds, cutting and bending of the reinforcings
etc.
Eg. Hollowcore Production layout for the day
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Eg. Hollowcore Production layout for the day
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Eg. Hollowcore Production layout for the day
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Production PlanningAfter production (production is recorded with the barcode reader): the items manufactured are highlighted with a different dashed line, the production priority is set to 0, the ‘planned production date’ is replaced with the ‘production date’.
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Eg. Items planned and items manufactured
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Eg. Items planned and items manufactured
161213 = Production date191213 = Planned date
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Production PlanningAfter production (production is recorded with the barcode reader): the items manufactured are highlighted with a different dashed line, the production priority is set to 0, the ‘planned production date’ is replaced with the ‘production date’.
Sets of items (pallets) can be managed too, setup according to the assembly sequence and shipped all together.
Data transfer to the production equipment is possible via CAD-CAM: shape of the elements (cutting, plotter), placement of inserts, cutting and shaping of the reinforcement etc.
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Why BIM LegoCad works fine?
BIM for Precast
Why BIM LegoCad works fine?
for 2 reasons:
1. The different ‘type of supply’ provided by CSG Engineering, compared to the other BIM Providers.
2. The Company Products, Costs, ‘Design Criteria Guidelines’ are necessary for the setup of the BIM Library. CSG Engineering provides its expertise to define these rules together with the Customer.
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Type of Supply
CSG Engineering ensures the end resultby leading the Implementation
CSG Engineering - a Complete Solution is provided
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Type of Supply
BIM Sw. only, and days of paid consultancywith no guarantee of results
Other BIM Providers
BIM
BIM
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BIM systems are proposed as a solution to the precast building design.Hypothetically, with BIM systems it is possible to develop the BIM model of the
building, with all information for production and erection.
Your BIM Library of Products, Rules, Costs
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PROBLEMThe development of the Library done by the User has always been a failure
- The staff needs a wide range of skills (not only affecting the graphic design as we are accustomed to think) and a well defined working methodology.
- It is unthinkable to create the library during the development of projects: the time is short and the functions (macros) to be set needs a general logic; at that time maybe it is not clear yet.
SOLUTION IS TO BUILD OWN BIM LIBRARYIt is necessary to create both a Library and some customized macros with own types
of Product (pieces, inserts/connections, reinforcements, cost rules).Helps the Designer in the Design choices, Allows a drastic reduction of errors,
Speed up the Project development and variants, Provides all the information forProduction, Erection and Cost Control.
PROBLEMBIM Sw. includes basic functions and generic macros, Designers can model with them,
but the result is a lack of productivity and savings
BIM systems are proposed as a solution to the precast building design.Hypothetically, with BIM systems it is possible to develop the BIM model of the
building, with all information for production and erection.
Your BIM Library of Products, Rules, Costs
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SOLUTION IS …..
BIM supplier must also provide the customized BIM library
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1. How do I with the BIM, as my Projects are all different?Precast is a complex industry where all projects are different; therefore, it is necessary to define Guidelines with Design Criteria that take into account both of all the production issues, and of the equipments available (beds, bridge crane, transport, erection equipments); these criteria will be of great help for a quick and cost-saving implementation of the projects, even if they are all different.
2. We don’t have these guidelinesIt is the good time to prepare the guidelines, CSG offers its expertise to define these Guidelines together with the Customer, also through the Design Outsourcing service.
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3. What is the difference btw. LegoCad and the other BIMs?Looking at the high abandonment rate of all other BIM systems in Precast Industry, we believe that the difference is just in the approach that we propose to the Customer: take one step at a time with the certainty of being able to accompany him to close the cycle of the Automated Business Management.
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