Troubleshoot Tekla PowerFab

You can view and assess the impact of changes caused by importing new or revised drawings or bills of materials intoTekla PowerFab. Before the actual import, you can view a summary of changes and decide to accept the changes, reject them, or save them for later. When the changes are saved for later, they are put on hold so that another person can review them and decide on the appropriate action. When a drawing is on hold, it cannot be worked on until the change has been reviewed and processed.

Now you can add inventory such as paint, bolts and other fastenings to a load and immediately take it from stock, automating the management and traceability of this process.

The dashboards in Tekla PowerFab give you insights into your production and shipping performance. Now your dashboards and the visual shipping calendar are easily available in the Tekla PowerFab 2023 desktop software.

Introducing a new workflow to review and understand the impact of changes being applied when importing a new bill of materials into a production control job. This enables you to pause the changes until the correct action can be determined.

Capturing the mill of origin and the data associated with those mill, gives you the ability to track material to your regional sustainability requirements. We now give you this ability to set the mill of origin.

The dashboards give you insights into your production and shipping performance. By understanding your past performance you can predict your operations for the future. Now the dashboards and the visual shipping calendar are easily available in the Tekla PowerFab desktop software.

Steel fabricators do not just ship fabricated steel work, they also ship raw inventory materials. This could be steel items such as angles and flat bar, consumable items such as paint, and perhaps most commonly, bolts and other fastenings that have been purchased for the job. Now you can add inventory to a load and immediately take it from stock, automating the management and traceability of this process.

Be assured that you are able to identify and correct changes when they happen with the improved change management functionality. In Tekla PowerFab 2023 are introducing a new workflow to review and understand the impact of changes being applied when importing a new bill of materials into a production control job. With this, we support a review workflow where the changes can be paused until the correct action can be determined. While the changes are pending, the associated drawings are placed on hold to prevent any further work being carried out.