MineFab AI automates the most time-consuming aspects of estimating and documentation workflows on steel fabrication projects — Clearly identifying the Scope of Work (SOW), generating pipe, structural steel and platework Material Take-Offs (MTO), and generating RFQs for the raw materials needed to complete the project — so your team spends time on the work that wins projects, not the paperwork that follows.
Purpose-built for the shop floor — not a generic AI tool
The Platform
From raw drawings to client-ready PDFs. MineFab AI handles the heavy lifting so your estimators focus on what wins work — not data entry.
Spool-organized material takeoffs from scanned or digital ISO drawings. Dual surface area calculations, auto-bolting, gaskets, and 18 mandatory flag conditions built in.
Full takeoffs covering W-shapes, HSS, channels, angles, plates, handrail, grating, and fasteners. Grade notes, weight summaries, and galvanizing per ASTM A123.
Material takeoffs for sumps, launders, boxes, ducting, chutes, hoppers, shop tanks and vessels. Plate-by-plate extraction with surface area, liner type and grade identification.
Labour, material and subcontract estimating driven directly from MTO outputs — pipe, structural and platework. Overhead, margin inputs and bid summary sheet included.
Optimizes raw material cutting schedules to minimize offcuts and waste. Nests structural lengths and plate cuts to reduce material costs before RFQ submission.
Converts MTO output into structured, supplier-ready request-for-quote documents with material specs, quantities, applicable standards and scope notes — ready for immediate submission.
Automatically diffs drawing revisions and flags dimensional changes, material substitutions and scope additions between rev sets — eliminating the manual line-by-line review.
AI-assisted review of shop drawing submittals against contract documents — flagging dimensional discrepancies, missing details and specification conflicts before they reach the field.
Generates fabrication schedules from MTO data — sequencing shop and field work packages by discipline, trade and priority to support project planning and resource allocation.
Workflow
No manual data entry. No spreadsheet wrangling. Upload your drawings, review the AI output, and export a client-ready PDF.
Drop in pipe ISOs, GA drawings, BOMs, or plain-text RFQ descriptions. MineFab AI automatically detects the input type and routes it to the correct agent.
The agent identifies components, quantities, specifications, material grades, bolting requirements, and scope items — cross-referencing your pipe classes and project standards automatically.
Walk through a structured SOW confirmation table before output is generated. Edit line items, resolve flagged conditions, and approve the scope with confidence.
MineFab-branded PDF reports with approval blocks, surface area tables, weld summaries, grade notes, and flag registers — plus a fully structured Excel MTO workbook ready for estimating and procurement.
Feature Spotlight
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Pipe MTO Feature Sheet Structural MTO Feature Sheet