Our Goal is to raise your expectations for wall panelization at the production framing level. We can help eliminate the need for the framer in the field to have to interpret prints and be a master wall framer. As inside every other production environment in any industry, we want to help you eliminate discretionary decision-making at the operations level.

Every time I would a search on wall panelization topics I would come up with a dry search. Realizing there is a dearth of available information for this fast growing segment of the component industry, I decided to create Wall Panel Design.com.

Having supervised several design departments, I've come to realize that panel design is many times more difficult to produce error-free than truss design. Any component plant can analyze their framing back-charges and see the ratio of panel related issues verses roof or floor framing problems. The bulk of these issues are design related. It is this very statistic that causes many truss fabricators to avoid adding a panel fabrication department to their business.

Over the past few years plate manufacturers have created layout and design software with which any Cad operator with no framing experience can design roof and floor components! Some truss plate manufacturers are adding panel design software to their suites out of necessity for customer demands. But the glaring truth about panel design is you MUST know something about framing to make the decisions you need as a software operator when designing panels.

The last bastion of the pickup truck framer is also the last part of the component equation to succumb to the inevitability of design and prefabrication. Seemingly the easiest part of the framing process to install and/or butcher and repair, the wall panel has many more variables to reckon with than span, pitch, and heel height! Stud grades, size, and spacing depth, wall height and depth, plate grades and thickness, rough opening sizes, plate laps, corner and tee/partition configurations, sheathing types and grades, Stud arrangement, e.g.staggered, straight, single and double stud configurations, quantity of top or bottom plates, 2nd top plate ship loose or field apply? and the list goes on...

That's why you need our network of experienced panel designers.