Design Data: Design Data produces innovative software for the steel industry's fabrication, detailing and engineering sectors. Their core product, SDS/2, provides connection design, automatic detailing, and engineering fabrication information thus reducing the time required to design, detail, fabricate and erect steel. Part of SDS/2 users' workflow is to provide information to project engineers and on-site erectors. One way this is done is by giving engineers and erectors access to a job model database via the World Wide Web. Through this interface, a user at a remote site can lookup important information with very little software installed at their end.

The current system uses outdated technology and there are limitations to its functionality, scalability and user friendliness.

Project Solution:The primary goal of the Design Studio team is to create a new product, Web Review Station. This product will provide users of Design Data's SDS/2 software with an efficient, easy-to-use means of accessing job model databases via the World Wide Web. Project work will focus on updating the web-based 3D model viewer component of SDS/2. The system will improve upon the current solution by offering:

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Better efficency and scalability
A superior user-friendly interface
Additional interoperability

These improvements will enhance performance of the design-build process, cut the time associated with making a request for information, and prevent miscommunication between engineers and detailers that could lead to structural failures.