We have invested heavily in to our company through the years and continue to do so even to this day.

We are adding a new angle line (Controlled Automation ABL-86T) into our shop this year to ensure our competitiveness in the years to come. In our many tours given each year and as recently as Steel Day in September, we are always asked as to how we make all of the parts that go into any assembly. There are countless angles, plates, flat bars and W-Tee's that inevitably make up each assembly that we manufacture. In order to keep our costs down we need to be as streamlined with one piece of three inch angle as we are with a sixty foot beam weighing 300 pounds per foot.

The first thing that we do is we use 5-3D modeling stations in our Detailing department which gives us the ability to export DSTV files for all of our machines to utilize. We have 4 stations of SDS2 and 1 station of Tekla Structures which allows us to share with the shop in a few key strokes every part on any given project as a DSTV file.

It is only as accurate as the information entered so that is why we have all of our models checked to conform to the design drawings, OSHA standards and the AISC standards. The DSTV file created out of our modeling system is then stored on a network server which all of our shop machines have access to. We implemented a file system that lets all of our operators know where to look to find the exact file they need. The DSTV file is then opened on either our new angle line, our plate burner, our punch beam line or our drill beam line and is then nested with like material and is then run through the machine. After it is run through it is checked to conform to the detail drawing that is also stored on our server and then it is sent to the fitter who needs it to finish the assembly that it is needed on. This happens thousands of times per month and has been very beneficial to Able Steel Fabricators over the 35 years we have been in business.