Evaluating the Decision to Use a Provider of Outsourced CAD Drafting Services

It was January of 2010, times are tough economically seemingly across the board here in the United States, and AEC industry is not immune to it. I started to provide services outside of AutoCAD in 2007, the AEC industry firms, and through my business I have personally felt the economic krize.Ten market is much different than it is now, when I first started out. I used to be able to accidentally land projects, but is not the case. Today I contacted a list of several hundred companies, and for the past few months as I reached for them, I heard over and over how many of them were running on vapors. Also, many times I told old timer who has been in business for thirty years, he has never seen the market as bad as this.

If you're in the AEC industry, and feeling the same pinch that I am, and your company is in need of CAD drafting services, then using a provider outside of AutoCAD drafting services, instead of keeping a full-time employees of CAD can be a way to reduce costs in this difficult time. Here are thinking about this alternative.

In addition to basic salaries for full-time employees CAD, May there also be a cost: social security, disability, health care, time off, 401K and bonuses. Now those same charges May or May not be included in the rate of CAD drafting services, but even if they would only be paid if necessary, rather than 40 hours per week for 52 weeks each year. Being able to use CAD drafting services only when necessary, where the savings could come in. Making this determination would, of course, have to be done on a case by case basis, but generally speaking, if the sending CAD out-of-house company AEC industry can get your CAD work completed, on schedule, in accordance with your CAD standards, and cost less than maintaining in-house throughout the year, CAD staff, then it might be prudent.

There is an arrangement which may be a CAD service, which gives the feeling of a middle ground between the employees and outside services. This arrangement would put the CAD drafting services on a retainer to "x" number of times a week (or month, etc.). CAD drafting services often work as many companies do not, so waiting until the projects when they come in. Through the retainer agreement, the company AEC industry that is in need of CAD drafting services can make sure that they are regularly given a red, even during times when service CAD drafting is busy. In my running CAD drafting service, I did it with a client of mine at the time they wanted to make sure that I will be available to them regardless što.Način to have worked is that the prepaid two days a week of my time, and I reserve those days my schedule for them. There was no return on the reserved time, so I knew I was getting paid for time that they submitted to CAD drafting tasks or not, and they knew their services would be available to them for two days a week regardless of whether I become busy or no.

In conclusion, if the company can save money in this tough economy through outsourcing CAD drafting work of services that can get the job done, when and how the company wants, then it might be prudent.