India is reputedly the second bold staggering growing country in the world. Slowly but steadily Fabrication and Erection industry is blooming its wings. All most in every infrastructure like rail, ports, metro, networks, complex project and airport hangers.
These days the main construction material is Steel and its major components. Steel compares to other constructing material are quicker, high recycle value, conform to green norms and easier to construct.
This industry has evolved over years. As per facts, this industry holds the value of Rs. 4,000 crores. It’s constantly growing at a rate of 5% from the past few years.
Accounting artifactual facts in the year 2019 January, about Hesteel group, has acquired around 70% of from Tata Steel to expand its international empire.
A mark is benched for this sector. It will generate a revenue of 503.8 billion USD by 2026 globally. The structural steel market will grow by around 7.7% globally.
CAGR India
India alone manages to generate a revenue of 24 billion by 2024. As per reports of CAGR India will grow at a rate of 5.5%. A hike in GDP will generate more revenue.
Major Problems faced by this Industry and its Solutions
Every day this industry is booming, but the problems of this industry remain the same. Both handling technical and non-tech issues is a major cause that large industries are prime movers.
Here are the five tech and non-tech issues that every company faces with its solutions
1. Designed Drawings: Erectors and fabricators often sustain to do revision. During construction without any revision, they fail to understand lighted, flagged or marked space and this causes fit issues or improper structure.
Solution: Structural designer – must indicate standard symbols; erectors & fabricators – must follow the practice of the drawing before implementing; Flagging – Minimize errors, engineering drawing should be provided, eliminating cosmetic processes (https://www.cadcrowd.com/blog/9-design-and-engineering-tips-for-reducing-manufacturing-costs-on-new-product-designs-and-prototypes/).
2. Weld Joints (Prequalified and Non-prequalified): These two joint methods are used in the structure. Structural designer designs a connection by using non-prequalified welds or the erectors decides to do the same for cost reduction. This causes a finger print contest that requires correction.
Solution: By Welding – Prequalification joints must be hindered by the experienced personals who certainly know the metal properties; Implementing Prequalified Joints – for steel correction must follow the required procedure using prequalified weld joints; Testing joints – Prequalified are not used by choice or requirement. It must satisfy the requirement for qualifying and testing non-prequalified weld joints.
3. Spanning Uneven Surface of Steel Floor Deck: While installing a steel floor deck, a contractor can’t make adjacent supports or deck bear.
Solution: A possible solution to this is to saw-cut the deck at support abutting to it but not on bearing. This will lead the deck to change from cantilever to simple span.
4. Non-Self-Supporting-Steel Frames: These frames require interaction, after full assembly and connections with other non-steel elements that give strength and stability to resist load for which frame was designed.
Solution: Design or drawings: It requires industry practices to cope up with. If the design will be available the industry can easily cope up with the problems generated from such frames. Erectors must be attentive enough to understand any suspicious-looking frames.
Example: Flooring that requires the metal deck to transfer horizontal load and that metal deck is not in the proper place.
Tilt walls that are attached to these frames and that walls don’t have any lateral support.
After the steel is erect the concrete shear the wall that is attached to the non-moment steel frame.
5. Anchor bolts: Bolts problems are quite generic in this field. While fixing the bolts many situations might arise. When the bolts are placed so low that the anchor bolt cannot be engaged. And if the bolt is placed high above the base plate but not enough to engage the full thread of the nut.
Solution: Different types of bolts must be engaged while dealing with different structural holes. Labor must be aware of the proper use of bolts.
Some other non-technical problems also cause the fabrication and erection industry that causes hindrance.
- Non-skilled labor: Skilled labor is the prior demand in 2020. Where this industry faces a lot of problems regarding skilled labor. A silly mistake can cause a lot of material in the dumping ground.
- Slow demand: In between 1990 and 2000 these industries failed to attain a high demand rate. The demand growth rate was zero which in combination somehow generated a demand of 50% of gain in productivity.
- Supply Chain: To save money many companies outsource metal fabrication. This causes the product to generate faster. As to maintain that flow business should evolve harder to keep that flow.
- Hike in customer demands: Customers don’t want their product to stay long in warehouses. They want their products as soon as possible at affordable prices.
- Competitive Intelligence: How can you stand out from the market? Without knowing your customers desire, you will continue to keen on the struggle.Solutions to the above problems
- Management of the supply chain with an inventory; must automate scope floor transactions; ensuring the importance of competitive analysis that will keep you ahead of all rivals, and customer demand should be acknowledged.
