27 problems sheet metal fabricators bring us, each with the cause, what it costs and what we build to fix it.
Sheet metal fabricators spend hours measuring DXFs to price laser cutting and folding. We build quoting that reads the files and drafts prices from your rates.
Sheet metal remnants from the laser pile up in a rack nobody checks, while full sheets are cut for small parts. We build remnant tracking linked to nesting.
Sheet metal press brakes lose time to tool changes because jobs arrive in cut order. We build a brake queue that groups parts by tooling and thickness.
Sheet metal parts wait at the coater, come back in the wrong RAL or short, and hold up assembly. We build finishing tracking by colour, batch and return date.
Sheet metal fabricators win orders on quotes priced before steel went up. We build quoting that tracks sheet prices, flags exposed quotes and reprices them.
Fabricators track welder qualifications in a folder, and jobs get welded by whoever is free. We build a register that links welders, procedures and jobs.
Sheet metal assemblies stall when one part is missing, lost in a nest or still at the coater. We build kitting that tracks every part of every assembly.
Sheet metal nests mix parts from many jobs, and sorting them off the laser bed causes mix ups and lost parts. We build part sorting with labels and screens.
Sheet metal shops run out of a common thickness while other sheets gather dust. We build sheet stock tracking linked to nests and upcoming jobs.
Sheet metal laser jobs are priced on estimates and never costed after cutting. We build job costing from nest reports, gas use and machine logs.
Sheet metal deliveries leave on the van with a paper note and come back as disputes. We build delivery records with load photos, counts and signed POD.
Architectural metalwork fabricators lose site measures in notebooks and phone photos, and parts arrive not fitting. We build a site survey to drawing workflow.
Sheet metal fabricators wait weeks for customers to approve shop drawings, then get blamed for the delay. We build drawing approval tracking with chasers.
Sheet metal customers reorder the same bracket as last time, and finding the DXF, bend program and price takes an hour. We build a searchable parts library.
Sheet metal fabricators mix stainless, aluminium and mild steel scrap and accept whatever the merchant pays. We build scrap tracking by grade and collection.
Sheet metal traceability breaks when one sheet is nested into parts for many jobs and the heat number stays on the skeleton. We build traceability by nest.
Sheet metal fabricators say yes to rush jobs, then find every other job has slipped. We build a what if view that shows the knock on effect before you commit.
Sheet metal flat patterns come out wrong when bend allowances live in one person's head. We build a shared bend data library from your own test bends.
Sheet metal fabricators book welding and assembly time to jobs from memory on a Friday. We build booking at each bay by scan, so job costs are real.
Sheet metal customers send POs with old prices, wrong revisions or a different finish. We build order checking that compares each PO line to your quote.
Sheet metal fabricators run out of welding gas and wire and pay rental on cylinders nobody can find. We build tracking for cylinders and consumables.
Sheet metal fabricators invoice weeks late because part deliveries, returned notes and PO lines never line up. We build invoicing driven by each delivery.
Sheet metal shops cut parts from old DXFs because copies live in job folders, email and the nesting library. We build DXF control from drawing to nest.
Sheet metal parts leave the shop perfect and arrive scratched, and the rejection is yours to pay for. We build packing records and returns handling.
When your laser breaks down or is full, buying in laser cut parts means files, quotes and chasing. We build an overflow process for sheet metal subcontracting.
Metal fabricators on staircase, balustrade and structural projects lose money on unrecorded site variations and late stage claims. We build project tracking.
Sheet metal enquiries arrive as napkin sketches and phone photos, and drawing them up to quote is unpaid work. We build sketch intake that drafts the quote.