Engineered stuctural products at scale
Client Overview
Steico is the world market leader for the production and distribution of bio-based wood fibre insulation materials and a leading provider of innovative construction products made of wood.
Business Challenge
Where Steico provides structural material, there is a requirement to assist with specification and design. To do this, specialist software is required by the specifiers and the supply chain to facilitate their work. As a Structural Materials manufacturer the challenge is ensuring specifiers can specify your products in a fast and easy-to-use solution that enables large-scale ordering, whilst containing the correct level of engineering complexity and domain know-how.
Objectives
Full EC5 design automation, optimisation and user configuration
Integration of full (dynamic) Steico product library
Great user experience and high quality 3D visualisation
Seamless ordering and automated reporting capability
Solution Provided
Cadlogic's architectural CAD technology provided the basis for a 100% bespoke system with full architectural design features using Steico products. The tool enables full engineering optimisation against European regulatory codes. "The resulting solution has provided a best-in-industry software for the engineering, design and layout of timber framing products. It is credited for it’s easy to use interface and usability when behind the scenes there is complex engineering for the member design."
Impact
"Best-in-industry software" delivered
"Hundreds of specifiers using the software across 2 countries"
"An excess of 60 million metres of product has passed through developed software"
Future Outlook
"With STEICO now been part of Kingspan we see that more requirements for software solutions will be required. There will also be the need to integrate and work with Kingspan software partners."
"Cadlogic provided exactly what was needed – a solution to easily design STEICO products. They allowed us to invest in our proprietary technology to fuel our growth, which couldn't have come in a more economical software solution. We would absolutely recommend working with Cadlogic, so long as they still have room for us!"
— Stuart Cuttriss - Technical Sales and Design Director