BIM

Professional Outsourced On-Demand Manufacturing BIM Services

On-demand manufacturing BIM services can ensure that your production is running in its most efficient form. Through well-made BIM files, you can improve the yield, turnaround time, and cost of your production process, regardless of what you’re making.

This is the best way to run an on-demand manufacturing operation. Our professional BIM services are built around your on-demand manufacturing business. We will optimize the file to ensure you get the most data out of it, giving you the best return on your investment.

With any on-demand manufacturing operation, every second and dollar counts. A BIM file can help optimize your floor plan, turnaround times, yield rates, overall safety, and compliance with different industries. As a result, our files can help maximize your operation. It sounds too good to be true, but the truth is that BIM models are incredibly useful — it’s just hard to find the right company to help you out.

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What Are On-Demand Manufacturing BIM Services?

On-demand manufacturing is a process of creating items as customers purchase them. The idea with this form of manufacturing is that you don’t need to keep an inventory of product that can waste space and money — instead, you can leverage your supply chain and existing logistics relationships to create product as customers need it.

With on-demand manufacturing BIM services, we’ll make sure that your BIM files will help you keep up with your customers’ demands. Our BIM files have additional data that will help you track your workflow, trace product, predict maintenance, and avoid costly downtime.

In addition, a well-made BIM can keep all of your supply chain information in one place. This allows you to quickly order new raw material, find out the source of an issue, and avoid confusion in the future.

Why On-Demand Manufacturing BIM Services Matters

Not all BIM files are the same. It’s easy to put together a rough BIM that excludes all the important data and information you need, and this is what a majority of BIM outsourced companies will try to deliver. At CAD/CAM Services, we go the extra mile with our BIM files.

Our BIMs will have mission-critical data like equipment information, maintenance schedules, exact locations of utilities and process lines, and much more. With our help, you can get more out of every BIM file.

We can even produce 5D BIM files for your on-demand manufacturing operation. The additional dimensions add cost and time information to the BIM file, showing you all of the bottlenecks and high-cost aspects of your operation.

With the wrong BIM service company, you’ll waste time and money on an inferior model. With us, you’ll get much more functionality from each BIM. We are here to maximize your on-demand manufacturing operation.

Benefits of On-Demand Manufacturing BIM Services from CAD/CAM Services

Many people choose our on-demand manufacturing BIM services. When you work with CAD/CAM Services, you’ll notice the differences:

Faster turnarounds. Thanks to our team of over 100 drafters who work around the clock, we can commit to more aggressive timelines and deliver final BIM files even faster.
Simply put, our BIMs do more. We go above and beyond to put as much information and data as possible into each BIM file. This allows you to do more with our BIMs.
Maximize your on-demand manufacturing operation. A well-made BIM from CAD/CAM Services can help you maximize most aspects of your operation, helping in ways that you didn’t even know were possible.
Call us for your smallest or most complicated projects. Thanks to our flexibility, we can assign any amount of engineers to tackle your smallest projects or your largest and most complicated ones.
Save time and money in perpetuity. Our BIM files are designed to save you time and money as your operation keeps running — the savings are too big to count.

What Goes into On-Demand Manufacturing BIM Services from CAD/CAM Services?

Our on-demand manufacturing BIM services depend on what you’re looking for. Our team can create 2D, 3D, 4D, or 5D BIMs from scratch, we can improve your existing BIM files, or we can work alongside your engineers to help in any way possible.

Each project starts with a quick consultation. During this conversation, you can let us know what you’re looking for and we’ll explain how we can help. If we don’t have the right resources to help, we’ll let you know — we’re not here to trick you into a contract you don’t want.

Our engineers will get to work and start creating your BIM model. We can attend your in-house meetings to give progress updates and talk with stakeholders to confirm the path forward. Consider us an extension of your in-house engineers.

When everything is done, we’ll put our BIM through an internal quality check. This involves a peer review and sign-off from the project manager to make sure everything is perfect. Once it’s perfect, it will get sent to you through a DoD-trusted filesharing app.

Look at the BIM and let us know if you’d like any changes. Our drafters can make corrections and send back the file in as little as 24 hours.

Our On-Demand Manufacturing BIM Services Include:

BIM 3D Virtual Presentations
2D, 3D, 4D, and 5D BIM Generation
2D to 5D BIM Conversion
New Construction BIM Modeling
Revisions, Updates, and As-Built BIM Creation
And Much More (Including Custom Services)

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Optimizing your on-demand manufacturing operation is a lot easier with a high-quality BIM file at your disposal. With our help, you can get professional-grade BIM models that help you make more money and spend less time on every step of your operation. Exceed your customers’ needs and get more profit with on-demand manufacturing BIM services from CAD/CAM Services.

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BIM FAQ

What is BIM?

BIM stands for Building Information Model, Maintenance, or Management. We typically say “Model”, since BIM is a technical model of your new or existing building. A BIM file is much more involved and detailed than a 3D CAD file, and the purpose of a BIM file is completely different. BIM files are created to help your projects in multiple aspects. BIM helps with the cost, performance, appearance, logistics, efficiency, and environmental impact of your new construction or existing facility.

What are the benefits of BIM?

A well-made BIM file can be a lifesaver for any type of company:

BIM files include valuable information that can help the day-to-day efficiency of your production facility.
Your maintenance team can use BIM to predict equipment breakdowns and avoid devastating downtime.
BIM files can keep your building up to code and help establish a paper trail for safety audits, such as audits by fire authorities.
A BIM file is a central file for all different trades to put in information. Your HVAC, electrical, mechanical, and installation crews can all work from the same file.
BIM is great for stakeholders. You can create digital walk-throughs or fly-throughs to look at virtual mock-ups of new or existing buildings.
BIM can help you spot collisions before installation. Maybe a water line is going through an area that’s supposed to be reserved for a structural beam. Spotting issues sooner means avoiding costly mistakes later.
A BIM file can also confirm that everyone is on the same page when it comes to the scope and the design of a facility. After reviews are done, you can lock in the BIM file and use it as a reference, making sure everyone has the same target.

What types of companies use BIM files?

We’ve been offering BIM services for 35+ years at CAD/CAM Services, and you’d be surprised by how many companies we’ve helped from different applications and industries. The simple answer is that there’s no cookie-cutter user for a BIM file. We’ve helped tiny machine shops, massive defense companies, plastics manufacturers, and commercial construction companies all the same.

We have a joke around our office that explains who can benefit from BIM: If your existing building or new construction project has walls, you can benefit from BIM.

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Isn’t BIM just a SolidWorks drawing?

Actually, BIM is completely different from SolidWorks. In 3D CAD files, the file revolves around dimensions and material properties, and that’s it. With 3D, 4D, or 5D BIM, the file revolves around information.

Having a 3D building layout is just the first step of BIM — next, we’ll input information like equipment specs, maintenance tasks, location of critical parts, structural information, cost data, timeline impacts, and much more.

What are some common uses of BIM?

We’ve developed BIM files for companies across industries. There is not one specific use for BIM, but instead there are a ton of common uses:

Visualization
Scope Clarification
Partial Trade Coordination
Collision Detection/Avoidance
Design Validation
Construction Sequencing Planning/Phasing Plans/Logistics
Marketing Presentations
Options Analysis
Walk-throughs and Fly-throughs
Virtual Mock-Ups
Sight Line Studies

Why should I outsource my BIM projects?

BIM work takes a lot of time and previous experience to do correctly. Unless you have a dedicated BIM specialist or BIM department in-house, it will take too long to learn the idiosyncrasies of BIM. In other words, you’ll be wasting a ton of time and money on each part of your BIM file — not to mention, there’s a good chance the final BIM model will be missing a ton of information. By outsourcing to CAD/CAM Services, you will save time, save money, get more data from each file, and be able to handle bigger and more complicated BIM projects.

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What is 5D in BIM?

In BIM, it’s common for us to talk about 2D, 3D, 4D, and 5D files:

2D BIM is no different than a flat building layout. Example: A floor plan of a single room.
3D BIM is a building layout with wall height, and the ability to add multiple floors in a single file. Example: a multi-level hospital building.
4D BIM takes a 3D model and adds in a time component. Sometimes it’s a schedule for project managers, other times it’s a maintenance schedule for your mechanics. Example: a 4D BIM for new construction involves step-by-step project timelines plus a deadline.
‍5D BIM starts with a 4D BIM model and adds in cost. This is the most comprehensive type of BIM file. With 5D BIM, all the information you need for your new construction project can be found in one place. 5D BIM includes the costs for manhours, raw equipment, and different installation steps. Example: New construction of apartment buildings in which the cost and timeline are very important to investors.

Is BIM just for huge multi-million-dollar projects?

Another common misconception is that BIM is just for massive skyscrapers and huge manufacturing facilities. We made a BIM file for a small company’s garage warehouse, so there is certainly no limit to how big your company has to be.

BIM is for any company that operates a facility. The BIM file will include information that helps you every week by minimizing downtime, improving yield, and maximizing your efficiency. Whether you’re making hand-knitted sweaters or skyscrapers in Manhattan, BIM will help your operation.

What is a BEP?

A BIM Execution Plan (BEP) is something you’ll put together before starting a project. It outlines how information is managed and shared throughout the lifecycle of your pre-construction and post-construction operation.

A BEP can specifically outline objectives, milestones, responsibilities, contacts across your supply chain, and how you’ll share information. It’s a quick way to make sure all parties are on the same page before construction starts or before you open your doors for business.