Precast Concrete Software Consortium (PCSC)

The PCSC is an association of twenty-three major precast concrete producers from Canada, the United States and Mexico. The consortium comprises a significant proportion of the precast concrete production capabilities in North America. The industry uses a wide variety of software for all aspects of the business. Typically, precast concrete manufacturers use a mixture of “off the shelf” software packages combined with varying degrees of customization to perform various functions. Typical functions include estimating, design, manufacturing, inventory control, shipping, accounting functions, etc. Traditionally, most of the software to perform and track these functions has been disjointed, i.e. there is little or no communication between the functions.

The PCSC member companies have identified the need for an industry-wide integrated software platform for the design, analysis, detail engineering and shop layout for a precast concrete building assembly and all of an assembly’s component pieces. It is expected that the system will be based on networked workstations, and will support direct two-directional data exchange with many other project and enterprise IT systems. The envisaged system is detailed in a Software Specification, developed by the members of the consortium and the Georgia Tech technical support team, and published as part of a Request for Proposal issued to invited software development companies.
The consortium is currently undertaking the initial phase of what is expected to be a multi-stage development project. The work includes:

• Developing a technical specification for commercial computer applications addressing the precast concrete industry 
• Coordinating with software companies that respond to the specification 

The main focus of the next stage of the work will be the development of a Product Model integrating precast concrete applications with both external AEC applications and enterprise management applications.

PCSC Website    

This website has three zones, color-coded according to content and accessibility.

(1) Public Zone (Open to all)

• Overview: provides the overview of the Precast Concrete Software Consortium and its website.

• News: announces PCSC events, the progress of the PCSC, and important updates including revision of this website.

• Links: provides links to helpful or relevant sites and articles.

(2) RFP Zone (Restricted to participating Software Developers and PCSC Members) 

This section includes the Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Phase 1 software development and detailed information on the RFP.

• RFP Introduction: briefly describes the Request for Proposal for the PCI software development.RFP 

• Download: provides an electronic version of the RFP and other information resources.RFP Q & A: answers to detailed questions on the RFP and the PCSC. 
  

(3) Members' Zone (Restricted to PCSC Members)

This section provides technical and administrative support for PCSC (Precast Concrete Software Consortium) registered members, including all members of the technical and Executive committees. Technical support covers process modeling and the PCSC Data Dictionary. 

• Schedule: describes detailed tasks of the PCSC. 

• Documentation: includes tutorials on process modeling, which provides guidance for undertaking process model studies of an organization.

• PCSC Q & A: answers to frequently asked or important questions.

• Examples: provides examples of process models including the High Level Process Model and the Stencil files and downloadable files . 

• Upload / Download: provides the latest version of Macros and Stencil and other helpful tools. You can submit your process model through this section. 

• Data Dictionary: provides a draft data dictionary. 
  

PCSC Member List

(1) The Member Precast Concrete Producers

	Blakeslee Prestress
	Cheyenne Concrete Co
	Concrete Impression of Florida, Inc.
	Concrete Technology
	Con-Force Structures Limited
	Coreslab International Inc.
	Finfrock
	High Concrete Structures
	ITISA
	JW Peters and Sons, Inc./IPC, Inc.
	Lafarge Canada Inc.
	Meridian Precast & Granite
	Metromont Prestress Company
	New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co, Inc.
	Oldcaste Precast Inc.
	Pre-Con Inc.
	Rinker Precast
	Rocky Mountain Prestress
	Strescon Limited
	The Shockey Precast Group
	The Spancrete Group, Inc.
	Unistress Corp.
	Wells Concrete Products Company

(2) The Associate Members

	Canadian Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute
	Kassian Dyck & Associates
	LEAP Software, Inc
	Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute
	PTAC Consulting Engineers
	The Consulting Engineers Group Inc.

(3) The Technical Support Team @ Georgia Tech

	Prof. Chuck Eastman, Team Leader
	Dr. Rafael Sacks
	Ghang Lee

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