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FIM - A practical implementation of BIM for the Steelwork Supply Chain
Fabrication Information Modeling (FIM) for structural BIM delivery.
How can the structural steelwork supply chain be organized to the benefit of all involved, enabling the necessary individual competitive advantages throughout contracting, whilst delivering complete project management facilities to the engineering team?
The answer lies in Fabrication Information Modeling (FIM) - a very real and direct implementation of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) methodology. With BIM now becoming established as the theory to interoperate between discipline modeling and systems - FIM enables practical and measurable cost savings and improved collaboration through fabrication to construction. FIM encapsulates best working practices, workflows and knowledge based fabrication to the benefit of engineering and construction teams.
What is FIM?
FIM is a business strategy methodology that harnesses the structural supply chain and workflows between Engineering, Fabricators and Construction companies through open, best practice solutions and standards based integration, including CIS-2 and IFC’s. FIM is widely acknowledged by international structural steel associations.
FIM is a registered trade mark of AceCad Software
Why FIM?
Traditional structural workflows between Architects, Engineering, Detailers, Fabricators and Construction are invariably fragmented, with models and data being re-entered/re-modeled, between design, analysis, detailing and fabrication management systems - often many times through project execution phases. As a result, error and a loss of accuracy reflect in estimation inaccuracies, production and construction planning - causing avoidable and costly rework.
Through FIM and adoption of mutually beneficial contracting strategies in the structural supply chain, significant cost savings in production and construction can be realized much earlier in the design phase, in conjunction with other engineering disciplines.
It is clear that the immediate future lies in specialized industry de facto databases that integrate as far as possible and inter communicate across the entire supply chain. With this in mind and as a result of unique positioning and significant knowledge of the structural steel Engineering, Detailing and Fabrication industries, AceCad has developed complete structural supply chain solutions from engineering design through detailing, fabrication and ultimately erection. These solutions are available through StruAEC for the building and construction industry.
"AceCad's commitment to delivering productivity advantages throughout these sectors has resulted in unique competitive advantages for our users and combined with years of best practice research and dialogue with the steelwork structural supply chain has enabled this integrated and unique single source approach".
