Plasma CNC Drill Line Runs Rings Around Standard Equipment

The steel structure of the economy with more route to a piece of raw steel from the warehouse to load on trucks heading to the job site. Time piece is a "catch" all the delays and increased costs in the final aircraft completed or corner.
A beam with ten or so bolt
holes and cut to length has really very few "touches" . But many fabricated sections are considerably more complicated than that.

For example, complete fabrication recently performed on an 96" W16x31 structural beam involved three dozen unique operations:


* Front Trim Miter Cut 1/4"
* 2 Copes on the front of the beam
* 3 Bolt Holes on that same end of the beam
* 6 bolt hole angled cluster on web
* 4 layout marks on web* 2 bolt holes on top flange
* 2 bolt holes on bottom flange
* 3 slots on web at rear of beam
* Piece Mark - 2 Lines - 9 characters total
* Flange notch cut flush with web (each end of the beam)
* Cope on rear of beam* Notch cut on flange


Analysis by fabricating three-part "Path" was very different in terms of disclosure requirements as a result of this.