Parametric Revit MEP families for manufacturing.

CASE STUDY – Mechanical Engineering Design and Drafting Services

Parametric Revit MEP families for manufacturing and installation of MEP equipments in australia

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Case Study Highlights

The Client:

• Industry: Sustainable Energy & Environmental solutions
• Location: Europe

The Objective:

• Efficient Manufacturing and installation of MEP equipments in an education building.

The Solution:

• The team created different parametric Revit MEP families of plumbing fixtures, lighting, pipe accessories, electrical fixtures, Mechanical equipment etc to enable efficient manufacturing and installation of these MEP fixtures.

Technology/Software Used

• Autodesk Revit

A company offering sustainable energy and environmental solutions approached ASTCAD with the project for creating detailed Revit MEP families for manufacturing of MEP equipments. The client, a Europe based company, is one of the largest energy suppliers in the world and offers a unique  combination of expertise in Energy Efficiency and other sustainable solutions from design and installation of local and renewable energy solutions to integrated services.

Challenges

• From one single product dimension, an entire set of families had to be created successfully.
• Understanding the project was very critical, and a team member had to be deputed at clients site for around 3 months.

Engineering Solution

Client provided inputs in the form of PDF files with manufacturing details of MEP equipment.

• The designs were analysed and a lot of changes were done, and around 250 families were created using Revit 2014.
• Initially offshore support was extended however, as the project progressed, a team member had to be deputed at client’s site for around 3 months, to understand the project well.
• This person deputed executed the onsite task with close coordination with the client’s team and successfully completed the project.
• At the end of this project that lasted for around 6 months, a detailed Revit MEP Parametric Family was delivered.

Benefits

• The Revit family creation helped streamline the manufacturing process.
• Management of content for the manufacturing of MEP equipments became easy’.
• The MEP equipment and supporting devices were installed into the building shell more accurately.

About Australian Design And Drafting Services

ASTCAD Services is a specialist firm providing engineering solutions to organisations across the globe. We have extensive experience in providing concept to manufacturing and post-manufacturing solutions to clients with a team of expert design engineers, CAD professionals and simulation analysts. We are based in Australia, serving 24×6, with a world-class infrastructure, hardware and software capabilities to address complex engineering problems with least turn around time.