The design-to-construction gap costs structural manufacturers days on every bespoke order. The engineering design phase between order confirmation and factory start is still largely manual. struct.digital builds the software that closes it.

Off-the-shelf DFM software is built for broad manufacturing markets, not for precast concrete producers, modular manufacturers, or specialist structural component suppliers. The manufacturing constraints that matter — mould inventory, transport envelopes, connection geometry — are firm-specific and rarely encoded in standard tools. Here is what bespoke DFM automation actually delivers for built environment manufacturers.