New software system for precast element design and production planning

Factory building with prestressed precast floor slabs

Prestressed precast floor slab

Layout plan of a shopping center with a prestressed precast floor slab extending over 9,500m²

Visualization of reinforcement

Element-based layout plan; TIM visualizes identical elements and applies the same color code to them

More than 1,500 elements are to be produced for the four stories of the building

Filling of lanes with elements selected from the overview

Filling of lanes with elements selected from the table

Previously ...

... and today: semi-automated approach using Excel vs fully automated process using TIM. Highlighted areas designate „multiple“ inputs

The quality control plan, a document generated in a fully automated process. Quality check for production

Introducing a new IT system obviously involves a lot of effort. Klebl, a precast business based in the Upper Palatinate region in the German State of Bavaria, decided to implement this technical change in a step-by-step process. Having worked with the Nemetschek systems Allplan Precast and TIM for about a year, Dipl.-Ing. Bernhard Heilmeier (Klebl) reports on initial insights and experience.

There is much to be read about 3D, 4D or even 5D CAD applications, BIM or the benefits of such systems. One gets the impression that each IT supplier applies its own in-house interpretations and definitions of these terms, which are often „high up in the clouds“, as it were. However, this approach does not solve all the existing problems, many of which are related to tiny details, which is why we have to define the specific requirements ourselves. As a matter of course, we do want to utilize the potentials for improvement offered by these new systems whilst also considering the specific site...