258,808
dimensions and marks read on one project, in 20 minutes
Structural steel detailing for fabricators · AI-first · est. 2024
Steel detailing
that checks itself.
Shop and erection drawings for steel fabricators. Software reads every dimension back against the SDS/2 model. A detailer signs it. You watch it happen, live.
Sheet
22H89
Checked by
Dimension Check
Status
1 to look at
> reading sheet 22H89 … 41 dimensions found
> 39 agree with the model
> 1 to confirm: 2'-8" end gauge reads 2'-7 15/16"
> 1 to look at: 12'-5 1/2" does not match grid B–C. Sent to the detailer.
1,673MEMBERS
placed in the model from drawings in 205 seconds
5,500SHEETS
under drawing control, every revision tracked
152RFIs
raised, answered and closed with a time stamp on each
Six steps.
Same order, every job.
Red steps are done by software. Green steps are done by a person who has detailed steel for years. The sheet is never issued unchecked.
1
Brief
Drawings, specs and your standards in one place.
Machine collects
2
Model
Framing read from the drawings, placed in SDS/2.
Machine places
3
Connect
Connections to your shop practice.
Person judges
4
Check
Every dimension read back against the model.
Machine checks
5
Judge
A checker looks only at amber and red.
Person judges
6
Issue
Under drawing control. Your approver signs.
Machine records
Built in our
own office
Seven tools, written by our detailers and developers for the jobs we run. Three of them, live:
RFI Manager
Every question to the engineer, numbered, dated, assigned and answered in one register. The fabricator sees the same list we do.
152 RFIs on one project
Drawing to Model
Reads the framing plan and places the members in SDS/2 itself. A person confirms, then detailing starts from a model, not a blank screen.
1,673 members in 205 s
Dimension Check
Reads every dimension on the sheet back against the model before a person sees it. Agreements go green, doubts amber, mismatches red.
258,808 items in 20 min
Not a detailer
with a chatbot
AI-first means the software does the reading, the counting and the filing. It never means a model signs a sheet. Four rules we keep.
- 01Nothing is issued unchecked.Every dimension on every sheet is read back against the model before a person signs it.
- 02A person signs every sheet.Software raises doubts. A checker with years on steel decides. Their name is on it.
- 03You see what we see.Progress, RFIs and approvals are live. You never wait for a Friday report.
- 04Your standards, not ours.Shop practice, connection preferences and sheet layout are set per fabricator and kept.
Steel we have
detailed
The Ferric Group is new. The detailers are not. Through OM Steel Solutions they have detailed structural steel for American fabricators since 1999, in every sector that builds with it. The numbers are counted from our own project records and SDS/2 models.
316
structural steel projects on record, 1998 to 2024
540,000+
steel pieces modelled in SDS/2 since 2012
208,000 T
tons of structural and miscellaneous steel since 2012
27
years of detailing, since 1999
65%
of the team had been with us over ten years, at the 2020 count
2024 TO 2026 · ON OUR SDS/2 SERVERS60+ jobs, the biggest namedabout 135,000 members modelled30,000+ detail drawings39,800 members on the largest, a rocket assembly complex of three buildings
Samsung semiconductor plant, Taylor TXBlue Origin · three baysSDI aluminium mill, Columbus MS · 17,700 t181 Mercer Street, NYU · 12,100 tCerro Verde copper, Peru · 8,800 tNovelis, Guthrie KY · 8,200 tRazorback Stadium · 72,000 seatsLaGuardia Central HallMemorial Sloan KetteringUPS Fulton County hubBMW Spartanburg press shopHyundai MontgomeryHonda AlabamaNestlé Purina, King William VASteel Dynamics, Sinton TXThyssenKrupp CalvertDuke Energy GoldsboroEnterprise Mont BelvieuValero Port ArthurDataBank ATL5 data centreAmazon IrondaleNASA MarshallNorthrop Grumman MelbourneLambeau FieldWashington DC Convention CenterMiami International AirportNew York Times BuildingCalgon Carbon Line G
Stadiums · airports · towers · hospitalsPublic buildings
181 Mercer Street for NYU (12,100 t), Razorback Stadium north end zone (72,000 seats, 3,400 t), LaGuardia Central Hall and its passenger bridge (4,300 t), Memorial Sloan Kettering (3,800 t), Northside Hospital Atlanta, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (2024), Lambeau Field, Washington DC Convention Center, Miami International, the New York Times Building.
Power · gas · mining · chemicalsEnergy and process
Cerro Verde copper concentrator, Peru (8,800 t), Enterprise Mont Belvieu PDH unit (3,200 t), Duke Energy Goldsboro and Cape Fear, Dominion Chesterfield, Elba LNG, Valero Port Arthur pipe racks, Calgon Carbon Line G (1,900 t), Solvay soda ash, Safford copper leach, Pueblo Viejo mine.
Semiconductor · automotive · steel · aluminiumFactories and mills
Samsung semiconductor plant, Taylor, Texas (8,400 t plus pipe racks), SDI aluminium mill, Columbus, Mississippi (17,700 t, plus 7,500 t of exit structure platforms), Steel Dynamics Sinton, HYBAR rebar mill (2024), Novelis Guthrie (8,200 t), ThyssenKrupp Calvert, BMW Spartanburg (press shop, Halls 32 and 50), Hyundai Montgomery (3,500 t), Honda Alabama, GM Wentzville, Nestlé Purina (2,200 t).
Aerospace · data centres · logistics · officesEverything else
Blue Origin high, mid and low bays (39,800 members, 2025 to 2026), NASA Marshall building 4220, Northrop Grumman Melbourne (500,000 sq ft), Aerojet Rocketdyne, DataBank ATL5 data centre (2024), UPS Fulton County (3,600 t) and Nashville hubs, UPS Vanderlande Mebane, Amazon Irondale, Redstone Gateway, Murphy Oil headquarters, Fort Wayne airport hangar.
A company of OM Steel Solutions
The same detailers.
A shorter line to you.
OM Steel Solutions Private Limited is the parent company. The Ferric Group was set up in 2024 to sit closer to the fabricators it serves: real-time updates, answers the same day, and detailing that uses AI from the first sheet.
Software SDS/2 · Knowledge Keeper (our own)
Where India · US Midwest (Kansas City)
Hours Your morning is our evening. Questions answered the same day.
Where India · US Midwest (Kansas City)
Hours Your morning is our evening. Questions answered the same day.
Straight
answers
The questions fabricators ask before the first package.
What does AI-first steel detailing mean?
Software does the reading, counting, checking and filing on every job. It reads every dimension on every shop drawing back against the SDS/2 model and flags what does not agree. A detailer with years on steel judges the flags and signs every sheet. No sheet is issued unchecked, and no sheet is signed by software.
Which software do you detail in?
SDS/2 for modelling and drawings. Knowledge Keeper, our own platform, for dimension checking, drawing control, RFIs, approvals and live progress.
Where are you based?
Detailing teams in India and a presence in the US Midwest, Kansas City. Established 2024, a company of OM Steel Solutions Private Limited.
How do I start?
Send one package: contract drawings and specs, your shop standards, the sequence or phase, and the date you need it. You get it back checked, with the check visible, and a live screen showing every step.
Send us one package.
One set of drawings, one phase, one sequence. You get it back checked, with the check visible, and a live screen showing every step.
Start a packagewhat to send
— contract drawings and specs
— your shop standards
— the sequence or phase
— the date you need it
— contract drawings and specs
— your shop standards
— the sequence or phase
— the date you need it