About Us
About Us
3R solutions is your partner for pipe-shop automation
Operating from Hamm, Germany, 3R solutions started out as a software company specialized in custom automation solutions for pipe-shops. Among our customers were many German shipyards. Since then we have spent many successful decades extending our business to also offering turnkey pipe-shop solutions, with numerous customers located in countries around the globe, and have perfected the method of combining shops with equipment geared towards automation with intelligent software for maximized efficiency and control of the entire pipe spool fabrication process.
Customers & Partners
Our customers are located all around the globe. Many of them use a 3R pipe-shop for their pipe spool fabrication, while others have integrated our extensive software suite into their existing workflow. With over 40 successful projects worldwide and new ones being added each year, 3R solutions continues to improve the quality and efficiency of pipe spool production.
2022
- Completion of pipe-shop solution in Thailand
- Optimization of automation solution for coke oven in Germany
2021
- Contract for major turnkey pipe-shop project (machines & software) in Saudi Arabia
- Completion of turnkey pipe-shop project (machines & software) in UAE
- Completion of pipe-shop solution in Oman
- Software solution for pipe-shop in Brazil
- Support of multi-axis freeform bending machine
2020
- Software solution for pipe-shop in Germany
- Next phase of major project in China
- Next phase of major project in Singapore
- Contract for software project in Lithuania
2019
- Beginning of major project in China
- Beginning of major project in Singapore
- Consulting in Russia and the Netherlands
- Extensive software project for a large German shipyard
- Finalization of pipe shop project in Lithuania
- Finalization of phase 1 of a pipe shop project in Singapore, confirmation of phase 2 and 3
2018
- Consulting for shipyards in Singapore, Middle-East and China
- Installation and consulting in South Korea
- Completion of software project in Kuwait
2017
- Cooperation agreement for Korean market
- Software projects in USA, South East Asia and Middle-East
- Pipe-shop concepts for customers in Russia, Singapore, Australia,Saudi Arabia and Iran
- Installation of two pipe-shops in UAE
- Software solution for major German chemical enterprise
2016
- Largest pipe-shop project (as of 2016) in UAE
- Software projects in Kuwait, Malaysia, Brazil and Philippines
- Development of web-based software solution for management of welding joints
- Installation and commissioning of a workshop for components for seawater desalination plants in Singapore
- Cooperation with a bending machine manufacturer in the USA
- Software concept for a major American steel company
- Software for truck manufacturers
2015
- Second installation stage of stainless steel pipe-shop project in Singapore
- Consulting for major pipe-shop project in Dubai
- Projects in Oman, Kuwait, south of Malaysia and Netherlands
- Development of a spool positioner
2014
- First installation stage of stainless steel pipe-shop project in Singapore
- Software projects in Germany, South East Asia and Middle-East
- Delivery of TIG/MAG automated welding machine to Singapore
2013
- Largest pipe-shop project (as of 2013) in Romania
- Software projects in Germany, Turkey, Singapore and Japan
- Expansion of pipe-shop in Singapore: automatic slip-on flange welding machine added to existing 3R layout
- Implementation of bending solutions already used in Germany for Daimler (Istanbul)
- Conversion of the entire software framework for pipe prefabrication to 3R at P+S shipyards (Stralsund)
2012
- Expansion of pipe-shop in Singapore: second pipe dispenser added to existing 3R layout
- Software projects in Netherlands and Brazil
- Development of flange welding machine in cooperation with leading German machine manufacturer
- Successful extension of Freeform Manager with an innovative self-learning bend correction method to drastically minimize test bends and scrap (see case study for the Ithra project in KSA)
2011
- Commissioning of fully automated pipe-shop in Singapore
- Development of Freeform Manager: software for calculation and simulation of variable radius bends
- Software project in Singapore
2010
- Pipe-shop project in Singapore
- Development of software module for creation of special bending tools based on pipe geometry
2009
- Consulting for pipe-shop project in Singapore
- Re-design of RoniCAD and re-branding as IsoBuilder
- Creation of a solution for tube bending processes for Evobus / Daimler
- Development of coke oven monitoring software for German customer
2008
- Consulting for pipe-shop project in Singapore
- Development of data networking software in cooperation with bending machine manufacturer
- Kolli is available in six additional languages
2007
- Development of process tracking tool RonPro
- Release of new version of our bending simulation software Kolli
2006
- New sales partners in Sweden
2005
- Release of P&ID solution RoniR2D
- Simulation of double-headed bending machines with multiple tools
2004
- Realtime 3D manufacturing control
- Development of software for managing material and jobs
- Simulation of induction bending machines
2003
- Commissioning of paperless control system for German pipe-shop
- Order for an additional paperless control system
- Relocation of our office to local technology center
2002
- Development of three customized workshop control units
2001
- Export of 3D models to different formats
- Statistical analysis of material consumption, calculation of workshop-usage in RAMP
- Automatic separation of complex pipe systems into simple bendable elements
- Bending simulation for double-headed bending machines and machines with rotating head or axes
2000
- Bending simulation for multi radius bending machines operational
- Import of external 3D structures from third-party systems
1999
- Availability of RAMP for Windows
1998
- Starting the new Windows version of RONICAD in a German shipyard
- Usage of STORE in plant manufacturing
1997
- Release of our bending simulation Kolli for Windows
1995
- Re-development of our RONI software for WindowsNT
1992
- RONICAD implemented for MS-DOS
1990
- RONI Kolli as an independent system for MS-DOS
1985
- Development of a bending collision validation software
1982
- First RONI system starts in a shipyard on a workstation
