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Accurate Housing Systems
Accurate Housing Systems in East Troy, Wisconsin switched from eFrame™ to MiTek’s SAPPHIRE™ Structure and modernized its truss design and manufacturing capabilities in the process.
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1,300 single-family and multi-family projects in a given year
“With [MiTek software] MVP®, I can tell how long it took to build a particular job. I can tell if we are making money or not making money on a job,” says General Manager Sean Kelly. Justin Nagel has found “the 3D capabilities really eliminate a lot of errors.” “SAPPHIRE is a really great program,” sums up Sean Kelly. “We’d recommend it to anyone…anyone who doesn’t compete with us, that is.”
The Story
Mitek Engineering
virtually eliminates quantity errors
Using MiTek® Engineering along with SAPPHIRE® virtually eliminates quantity errors, helping Accurate Housing Systems live up to its name.
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There’s lots more capability in SAPPHIRE over eFrame.”
BACKGROUND
Accurate Housing Systems operates from a 65,000 square foot facility in East Troy, providing components for some 1,300 single-family and multi-family projects in a given year. 75% of the business is providing roof trusses.
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Challenge
With a move to SAPPHIRE Structure, Accurate Housing Systems hoped to diminish errors and create efficiencies and accuracies, as well as eliminate the need for another CAD program with standardized formatting.
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THE SOLUTION
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SAPPHIRE Structure
The benefits of SAPPHIRE® include automated hip framing features to improve designer efficiency and accuracy, 3D capability that eliminates many errors up front, and layout templates that provide a standard format all of which help Accurate diminish errors and avoid the need for a second CAD program.
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