We’re a US-based software company on a mission to make your pipe, hanger, plumbing, electrical, and other fabrication processes more efficient. Our software can control and enhance manual tools, linear positioners, automated saws, pipe profilers, robotic welders, and many others. We typically save our customers a minimum of 20% on labor and 5% on materials.

We don’t just control tools, we also offer plugins and integrations for your BIM or CAD software that makes it easy to get data from your models for fabrication. Finally, we have a Cloud infrastructure to get that data to your tools, monitor your fabrication progress, help your assemblers, and collaborate with others both inside and outside your firm.

Our philosophy is that modern productivity software shouldn’t just be for big companies with big budgets. Our products are affordable, powerful, and easy to use because we keep it simple by focusing on the most important functions people need and little else. We have over 200 satisfied customers and an excellent reputation for customer support.

In addition to running the machine, factory software typically lets you program a part or two and import a few CAD file formats. However, even if you’re using one of those file types it can be cumbersome, error-prone, and time-consuming to get your parts and spools into the machine, nest them, cut them accurately, label them, and track their status.

PypeServer’s solutions are designed to solve all these problems. Both Enterprise for pipe profilers and Lyte for straight cutting come with our free Connect plugins and free Cloud service that make it easy to select parts in your CAD and BIM models, send them to your machines for immediate fabrication, and track cutting progress in real time. We also fully integrate with Revit, GTP STRATUS, MSUITE FabPro, eVolve Mechanical, Trimble SysQue and Connect2Fab, BuildCentrix, Victaulic Tools for Revit, SDS2, Tekla, Codeware COMPRESS, AutoCAD, CADWorx, SolidWorks, SpoolCAD, Acorn/Spoolfab, and others. Our connections to STRATUS, MSUITE, Connect2Fab, and BuildCentrix are API-based and fully bidirectional. Of course, we also support the broadest range of flat file imports in the industry, including PCF/Isogen, PCD, PSVR, CSV, DSTV, STEP, and others.

In addition, both Lyte and Enterprise are intelligent. Enterprise will automatically create properly sized holes for o-lets as well as saddles and holes where pipes intersect, even accounting for non-90 mate angles, centerline offsets, and other challenging situations. When nesting, Enterprise automatically rotates saddles and miters to fit into each other and can nest pipe right up to the chuck or ground clamp to save lots of material with every stick of pipe. Both Enterprise and Lyte can use all your odd-length drops and Lyte can bundle stock so you can cut and label up to 10 hanger components or other thin items in a single operation.

Finally, both Enterprise and Lyte feature flexible and easy to use label printing for parts, drops, and joints. Create new label templates in minutes using our WYSIWYG drag-and-drop label editor, including text, QR codes, and images. Label data can include any of your CAD or BIM model parameters in addition to information generated in PypeServer’s own software.

With Lyte for your manual tools, TigerStop, RazorGage, Scotchman, or RMT band saw, you’ll typically save a minimum of 20% on labor and 5% on materials at each station.

With Enterprise, it depends on how busy your shop is but there are three main sources of savings:

1. elimination of pipe machine programming
2. elimination or reduction of weld prep time
3. more efficient use of pipe

If you use Enterprise to get spools directly from your CAD or BIM software, your can eliminate take-offs and your machine operator can save 3 to 5 minutes of programming time per part. Similarly, Enterprise’s improved cut quality can save your welders at least a minute per cut in fit-up time or 3 to 5 minutes per part. Assuming an average fully burdened labor rate of $30/hour and a total of 8 minutes saved per part, your shop will save $4 in labor per part. If you cut 250 parts per month, that amounts to about $1000 in labor savings per month. Busier shops and/or higher labor rates realize even greater savings.

Pipe material savings vary a lot depending on the size, type, and volume of pipe you cut. However, Enterprise’s highly optimized nesting algorithms and its ability to nest into your machine’s dead zone commonly result in material savings of 5% or more.

You can get a more accurate savings estimate with Enterprise by using our online ROI calculator:

https://www.pypeserver.com/roi

Enterprise is compatible with machines from Lincoln Electric (Vernon Tool), HGG, Machitech. pre-2020 Watts machines, and most recently Lone Star Cutting Solutions. If you’re purchasing a brand new Lincoln/Vernon, it will come standard with Enterprise. Enterprise is an added-cost option for other brands of machines.

If you’re interested in upgrading an existing machine with Enterprise, it’s relatively simple. Enterprise is compatible with most any machine from Machitech and Lone Star. It’s also compatible with both the current generation Lincoln/Vernon VMD machines (serial numbers 7000+) as well as the prior generation VP machines (serial numbers 6211-6999).

If you’re interested in upgrading a pre-2020 Watts machine with Enterprise, please contact PypeServer. Between our software and the mechanical and electronic upgrades available from our partners, we can bring your older Watts machine up to better-than-new performance for a fraction of the cost of a new machine.

Enterprise runs on a small, dedicated server computer that’s typically placed near your pipe profiling machine for use by your machine operator. Both the Enterprise computer and your pipe profiling machine are networked together. After selecting which parts are to be cut and nesting them, Enterprise will write a control file to the machine computer. The file is selected for processing, the torch is positioned, and the parts are then cut in a single operation.

By joining Enterprise to your company network, any authorized user in your design office or elsewhere on your network can run Enterprise remotely without having to go down to the shop floor. This is convenient if you want your designers to be responsible for pulling spools into Enterprise and/or nesting the parts before cutting.

No. For maximum reliability Enterprise runs locally on its own computer and doesn’t require internet connectivity, not even for its extensive built-in help catalog of videos and documents.

We do recommend that you connect Enterprise to the internet, if available, for troubleshooting, software updates, license renewals, and Cloud access.

The annual fees includes the following:

• licensing
• software updates
• additional training and support as necessary, and
• support for all PypeServer-supplied computer hardware.

PypeServer has dedicated customer support personal available Monday through Friday from 6:00 am to 3:00 pm Pacific time.  We also provide an online support service that can be accessed at https://portal.pypeserver.com.

Yes. PypeServer will provide as much time as needed, within reason, to ensure your machine operators and VDC staff are proficient with our products. If you need to train new employees or otherwise need additional support, just let us know and we’ll provide it at no extra charge.

No problem, you can change your options at any time. For example, it’s quite common for shops to bring in Enterprise and set it up to work with their CAD software prior to transitioning to a BIM system. Enterprise can be configured to operate with one or the other or both systems at the same time to support a more gradual transition. Licenses can be changed with just a phone call and any fee changes are pro-rated to your renewal date.