Customized and implemented  Rapid Product Configurator (RPC) software developed by EDA to configure their steel structure products and to automate their Bill of Materials, Shipping, Material list, and other reports

EDA has been working with the M.D. Henry Co. of Birmingham, Alabama to customize their Rapid Product Configurator (RPC) software into a specialized program that:

1. Automates the creation of the Bill of Material (BOM) Lists and Shipping Lists based on product configuration.
2. Automates the creation of other reports, such as Cut lists, Revision reports, Shop material order reports, etc.
3. Increases the speed and accuracy of AutoCAD drawing production.
4. Calculates the weights of all required pieces based on their material ID and the length specified during product configuration.

This customized RPC software generates reports based on job number, automatically making all calculations necessary for the reports. It also places the BOM and Shipping list into the working AutoCAD drawing, ensuring consistency and eliminating the need to manually re-type data.  After just a few weeks of using the customized RPC software, M.D. Henry reported that their drafting staff had reduced their manual drafting hours by 50% or more.  

One of the biggest time savings came from the weight computations that are now being automatically calculated by the program.  The customized RPC program is capable of calculating the  weights of each piece of the steel structure based on a material ID number and the length of the pieces.  It then summarizes the total weight by shipping structure, making their shipping arrangements more efficient.