Over 45 years ago beam punch lines were developed to eliminate the requirement to manually layout the hole locations which greatly reduced the amount of manual layout that was required. Unfortunately since this development, almost a half of a century ago, nothing else has really changed to reduce the most expensive manual operation a fabricator faces currently. Once the sections are cut to length and the holes are drilled the process of manual layout was next.

Ficep has introduced the first major enhancement in this process in the past half of a country by developing a software interface where a fabricator can go directly from the X Steel or Tekla 3D model to our CNC beam and plate fabrication lines.

The information that is created with our proprietary software not only generates the part size and hole location data but it also creates automatically the CNC machine program to scribe all the required layout information on the main member (four sides) and on the detail parts.

Once the beam hits the fitting skids your fitter matches the part number reference on the main member with the same part number on the detail part. The scribing lines indicate the placement location and there is even orientation scribe marks on the plate and the main member so your fitters knows how to orient the part!

Single Spindle Drills

Stand-Alone Multiple Spindle Drill Lines

Tandem Drill and Saw Systems

Tandem Drill and Robotic Coper