The question formulation in the essay brought up whether Clas Ohlson works today with their graphical productionflow and if that way of working leads to a desirable result in press. After a dialogue with Clas Ohlson it emerged thatthey had certain problems with the material that came out of the printing presses. Certain colours were not reproducedaccording to the stated values that had been developed. In March -08 an analysis of the graphical production flowspresent situation were done at Clas Ohlsons in order to find out how they worked with their production of print materials.In the analysis, their way to work with color spaces, displays, ICC-profiles, PDF-exports, pictures and printerswere examined. Occasional interviews were also implemented with responsible personnel about how they worked withdifferent aspects.Deficiencies were found on almost all examined parts in their graphical production flow. Wrong colorspaces andCMYK-profiles was used in big extent, the displays where uncalibrated or incorrectly calibrated, wrong PDF-presetswas used frequently and it also showed that six different suppliers for their printing materials were used. The solutionsthat were relevant for the problems and defects were later on presented as proposals on measures.

En stor del av nyproduktion och ombyggnation av byggnader modelleras idag med BIM-verktyg (Building information modeling). Då ingående element i BIM-modellen innehåller mängder med information kan denna modell exporteras för systemanalys i ett externt analysprogram. Målet med denna rapport är att hitta ett mer effektivt tillvägagångssätt för att automatisera återföringen av de dimensionerade elementen från analysprogrammet tillbaka till BIM-modellen. Rapporten demonstrerar en metod som möjliggör en smidig export mellan de två programmen och medför mindre tid och kostnader. Denna tidsbesparing har analyserats och resulterar i en kostnadsjämförelse som jämfördes med den framtagna- och nuvarande arbetsgången. Den framtagna metoden visar sig i rapporten vara väldigt tidseffektivt och kan spara mycket resurser. / The overwhelming majority of new construction projects today are modeled using Building Information modeling. As the input-model in BIM contains a great deal of information, this model can be exported to an external design program in order to analyze the structural strength. The purpose of this report is to demonstrate a method of returning the designed elements back to BIM after being modeled in the external calculation program. The report shows a simple and more effective method than what is being used now. The amount of time that is saved if the new method would be implemented has been calculated and the costs of the old methods have been compared to the demonstrated one. The suggested method in this report has been shown to be very time-efficient and has the ability to save time and reduce project costs.