Digital Product Libraries
With BIM becoming more popular on building, infrastructure and utilities projects many benefits exist for manufacturers and suppliers in providing more structured and integrated information about their products.
GeModal can provide services in development of Digital models of your products in Revit, CAD and IFC formats for use by your customers. This approach combines 3D Geometry, performance, procurement and asset data in a single integrated format that can be used by designers and subcontractors in their design software. Digital models provide a number of benefits to your customers project workflow and the customer Lifecycle generally. Some of these benefits are discussed further below.
What are the benefits of a digital product library?
1. Easier Specification of your products
enables your customers to more efficiently and effectively use your products in their designs to confirm design intent, code compliance and constructability.
4. Easier product evaluation
Having your product data in an integrated Revit Family format enables better understanding, contextualization and decision making by your customers.
2. More streamlined purchasing
Subcontractors can automate production of quantity schedules and order in bulk, earlier in the product lifecycle and with greater confidence.
5. Better customer experience
Your customers receive significant benefits. Some of these include early issue identification and resolution, automated quantification, design analysis and fulfillment of asset data handover requirements.
3. Reduce customer queries
Clearly structured and integrated information about your products Reduces confusion and improves understanding thereby reducing unnecessary queries about your products.
6. More advocacy
The benefits that your digital product library provide to your customers will be factored into their decision making when considering material specification and procurement on future projects.