Case Study – Re-task 35 Man Hours Every 15 Ton of Fabricated Steel!

RE-TASK 35 MAN-HOURS EVERY 15 TON OF FABRICATED STEEL!

Every business is looking for a competitive advantage to grow their business in the following areas: security of supply, cost controls, reduced risk, quality improvements, value-added solutions, and efficient process delivery or through innovation.

Fabricators investing in steel processing machinery require a competitive advantage from each of the above-mentioned procurement metrics. This is achievable when working in partnership with the correct machine tool builder. By reading this document you will learn how to specify a beamline that will re-task 35 man-hours per 15 tonnes of fabricated steel.

Fabricators often will load 15-20 tonne of fabricated steel per truck each day for site delivery and erection. Depending on how many projects the fabricator has at the one time, a common objective is to fabricate 15-20 tonne for each site every day. When a fabricator invests in a beamline for in house processing, the machine’s capacity must be 1.5 tonnes/hour. This is the average capacity of steel that can be fabricated from each fitter/welder per day. If there are 10 fitter/welders the beamline will process 15 tonnes per day to continue to deliver steel on-site within 3 weeks.

Each fitter can fabricate an add-on part in 10 minutes. When the beam has layout marking included, the fitter can save 3 minutes allowing them to fabricate 30% more and improve the schedule and cost by 30%. When 10 fitters have the capacity to fabricate 500 add-on parts or 15 tonnes of steel, the savings are 1500 minutes (or 25 man-hours re-tasked per shift).

Another 10 hours can be re-tasked when processing 1.5 tonnes per hour through a beamline that is working a 100% lights-out operation. The 10 hours re-tasked per 15 tonnes is available only when the beamline does not lose the capacity to V-score all four sides of the beams, so the 25 man-hours can be re-tasked from the fabrication workshop.