H.J. Metaalbewerking

H.J. Metaalbewerking was founded in 2003 and has since grown to 15 employees. The workshop is now digitized with ConstruSteel software. Director Jeroen Brouwer talks enthusiastically about the choice for ConstruSteel and the advantages this innovation offers the construction company. “Our construction company continues to grow,” says Jeroen Brouwer. The company is also not standing still in the area of digitalization of processes. Meanwhile, both the office and the workshop have continued to expand with ConstruSteel’s software solutions. “We have no use for stagnation. With ConstruSteel we are moving forward!”

The digital workshop

Jeroen Brouwer came across a brief online video from ConstruSteel demonstrating their software for a digital workshop. After a quick demonstration, the director was convinced: “We need this.” The app was promptly introduced to the workshop staff, especially the most experienced worker on the shop floor. “Ultimately, they are the ones who have to use it. So, if my employees don’t embrace it due to a lack of tablet knowledge or other practical reasons, it won’t work,” says Jeroen Brouwer. However, his employees were immediately excited about the idea. Just three weeks after placing the order, the H.J. Metalworking workshop replaced stacks of paper with tablets.

Benefits of tablets in the workshop is huge

The use of The digital workshop app of ConstruSteel provides enormous benefits for the construction company. Jeroen Brouwer: “The benefits are immediately noticeable after the introduction of ConstruSteel. All current information is immediately available to the employees on the tablet. Searching for drawings or folders was immediately over, everything can be found through the app of ConstruSteel. Also, the drawings are much clearer to see on the tablet than on paper, you can easily zoom in for details. With paper drawings that’s just not possible. And I now have clear insight into production progress.”

Printing is a thing of the past

José Brouwer joins the conversation. Among other things, she is responsible for job preparation and organized the paperwork that had to be sorted out and sorted in the office first, then distributed further in the workshop. “On large projects we were sometimes busy for up to two weeks preparing, printing, sorting and dividing everything into folders, sorting out ambiguities, making any changes, you name it! Thanks to ConstruSteel, nowadays this takes me no more than an hour,” said José Brouwer. “Besides the enormous savings in hours, it also quickly saves us €2,000 annually in printing and paper costs. Therefore, by choosing ConstruSteel, we are also producing more sustainably; a conscious choice.”

The right choice

H.J. Metaalbewerkingremains satisfied with the choice of ConstruSteel every day. “Everyone works pleasantly with ConstruSteel. And it just works perfectly. Our employees have to walk to our office much less and figuring out paper work packages is a thing of the past. We are much more productive and by having insight into the progress we have more peace of mind to plan ahead. We are happy with our choice. ConstruSteel is a clear and fine system with many advantages,” Jeroen Brouwer concludes with satisfaction.

About H.J. Metaalbewerking

H.J. Metaalbewerking was founded in 2003 by Jeroen Brouwer and Hans van Soelen. In 2018, the construction company moved from Beesd to Vianen. The company now employs 15 people working mainly on constructions for housing, schools, industrial halls, agricultural projects and stairs and railings for industrial premises.