Work order management software for metal fabrication shops
This is for custom metal fab and job shops - shops that cut, bend, weld, and assemble parts to order. It is not building-maintenance or facilities software. If your work orders are jobs on a shop floor - steel in the door, a finished part out - keep reading.
The job's status lives in someone's head - usually yours
Walk your floor right now and ask where a job's at. You'll get a shrug, or a guy will go look, or someone will say "ask the boss." That's a shop running work orders on paper.
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None of this is a discipline problem. You can't manage what you can't see, and a paper traveler shows one person, one place, one moment. The job moves faster than the paper.
When paper travelers stop working
You don't switch off paper because someone told you to. You hit walls. If a few of these landed last month, you're past the point paper can hold.
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The greasy traveler becomes a digital job ticket
Every work order - every job - live on the floor with a real-time status anyone can see. It updates as the work happens: cut, fit-up, weld, grind, QA, done. Stop asking your guys where the job's at. Look.
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Because the work order is tied to the rest of the loop, it carries the bill of materials from the quote and the hours roll straight into job costing - so you find out a job's margin while you can still do something about it, not after it ships.
Not a toy, not a slab of an enterprise ERP
Plenty of work order tracking software is either a toy that does one thing or a slab of an enterprise ERP you'll never grow into. Factory is right-sized - capable enough to run the floor, simple enough that the crew actually uses it.
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Weighing the heavy options? Read why a fab shop doesn't need an ERP and job shop software without an ERP. Work order management is one piece of the whole-shop loop.
A work order that manages itself
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The job ships on time, the hours roll into the cost, and you knew where it stood at every step. No traveler lost, no status guessed, no lap of the shop.
From people who ran a fab shop, not a software demo
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Questions shops ask about work order software
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Get every work order off the clipboard and onto a live floor.
See Factory run your jobs - real-time status, start to finish - on the kind of work you build every day.