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Software for Engineering and Fabrication Companies

Engineering work is project-shaped: every order has its own drawing, its own bill of material and its own set of bought-out items. The recurring failure is not production — it is a revision that reached the shop floor late, and a job cost nobody can reconstruct.

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What makes this industry its own problem

  • Made-to-order work where every job has its own specification
  • Drawings and revisions that must be controlled, not circulated
  • Bought-out items on the critical path of nearly every project
  • Multi-stage machining, fabrication, assembly and testing
  • Job-wise costing against an estimate that was quoted months earlier
  • Inspection and documentation demanded by the customer

The chain

  1. Enquiry
  2. Estimate
  3. Order
  4. Drawing / BOM
  5. Procurement
  6. Fabrication
  7. Inspection
  8. Despatch

The problem

Where engineering operations lose control

Written in the vocabulary your plant actually uses. If none of these sound like you, this is probably not the right page — and we would rather you knew that now.
  • 01

    Work done to a superseded revision

    A drawing is revised and shared by email or print. Someone on the floor is still working to the previous one, and it is found at inspection — after the material and the hours have been spent.

  • 02

    Estimate and actual never meet

    The job was quoted on an estimated bill of material and hours. Actual consumption and time are not captured per job, so nobody can say whether the work was profitable or why.

  • 03

    Bought-out items discovered late

    Long-lead items are identified when the job reaches the stage that needs them, which converts a procurement lead time into a project delay.

  • 04

    Project status is a set of phone calls

    Progress across design, procurement, fabrication and inspection lives with four different people. The customer asks one question and the answer takes a day.

  • 05

    Inspection documentation assembled at the end

    Test certificates, material certificates and inspection reports are collected at dispatch, and the missing one holds the consignment.

What we build

Systems for engineering operations

  • Drawing and revision control

    The current revision is the one the system issues. Superseded revisions are visibly superseded, and work recorded against a revision is traceable to it.

  • BOM and bought-out planning

    Bill of material per job with long-lead items identified at order release, so procurement starts from the plan rather than from the shortage.

  • Job-wise cost capture

    Material, bought-out, machine time and labour recorded against the job, compared against the estimate as the job runs rather than after it closes.

  • Stage-wise progress

    Cutting, machining, fabrication, assembly, testing and painting as recorded stages with responsibility and dates, so project status is read rather than gathered.

  • Inspection and documentation

    Inspection stages with recorded results, and required certificates tracked per job so the missing document is known well before dispatch.

  • Project and customer reporting

    One project view covering design, procurement, production and inspection — the view you can share with a customer without preparing it.

Automation

What runs by itself in a engineering operation

Each rule replaces a moment where somebody currently has to notice something and tell somebody else.

  • A drawing revision is released

    Affected jobs and open work orders are flagged

  • An order is released

    Long-lead bought-out items are raised to procurement

  • Material or hours are booked to a job

    Actual cost updates against the estimate

  • A stage completes

    The next stage owner is notified with the drawing in force

  • A required certificate is missing

    Dispatch is blocked and the gap is reported

  • A project milestone slips

    The revised completion date is recalculated

None of these need a person to remember them. That is the whole point.

Management visibility

What you will be able to see

If a system does not make at least one of these visible for the first time, it has not earned its cost.
  • Project status by stage, across design, procurement and production
  • Actual cost against estimate, per job, while the job is still running
  • Bought-out items outstanding, with lead time and risk
  • Drawing revisions in force, and where superseded work exists
  • Inspection results and outstanding documentation per job
  • Machine and manpower load against committed dates

How it works

From operational chaos to a connected business system

Five steps, in this order, every time. The first two produce no software at all — and they are the ones that decide whether the software will be used.
  1. 01

    Understand

    We sit with each department and learn the process as it is actually run — including the workarounds, the informal exceptions and the things people do because the official way does not work. This is where most of the value of the project is decided.

    You getA written map of your current processes, departments and bottlenecks

    1–2 weeks

  2. 02

    Map

    We trace how information moves between people, departments and systems: where it is created, where it is re-entered, where it is lost, and where a decision waits on something nobody can see. The re-entry points are almost always the expensive ones.

    You getAn information flow map, with every handoff and duplication marked

    1–2 weeks

  3. 03

    Design

    We design the target workflow — owners, rules, gates, automations and the screens each role needs — and agree it with the people who will live in it. We also agree what we are deliberately not building yet, and say so plainly.

    You getA workflow design, screen list and phased build plan with scope you have signed off

    2–3 weeks

  4. 04

    Build

    We build in phases, so one department is genuinely using something early rather than waiting for a full system. Each phase is delivered, tested with real data and put into use before the next begins — which is also how the awkward details get found while they are still cheap.

    You getWorking software in real use, phase by phase, with integrations and reports

    Phased, typically 4–12 weeks per phase

  5. 05

    Optimize

    After go-live we look at what is actually being used, which alerts are being acted on and which are being ignored, where people are still keeping a parallel sheet, and what the data now reveals that nobody could see before. Then we improve it.

    You getUsage review, workflow refinements, new reports and ongoing support

    Ongoing

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Questions

Engineering — questions we are asked

The questions that come up when we first sit down with a company in this industry.

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Can it handle made-to-order work where every job is different?

Yes — that is the normal case in engineering, and it is precisely where repetitive-manufacturing software struggles. Each job carries its own bill of material, drawing revision, stages and inspection requirements rather than inheriting a fixed route.

Do you integrate with CAD or PLM systems?

We integrate at the level of the controlled document and the bill of material: the revision in force, its file, and the BOM it produces. Full PLM integration is possible where your CAD system supports it, and we are candid about which parts of that are straightforward and which are not.

Can we compare quoted cost with actual cost?

Yes, and doing it while the job is still running is the point. Material, bought-out items, machine time and labour are booked to the job, so the variance is visible in time to act rather than at the post-mortem.

How does it handle site work and installation?

As stages of the same job, with their own material issues, manpower and completion records. Where site work is a substantial part of your business, the construction and infrastructure approach applies alongside this one.

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Where to go next

The solutions most often built for companies in this industry.

Other industries

We work across operational businesses

Different products, the same underlying structure — departments, handoffs and data that has to survive both.

Next step

Your business has a process. Let's turn it into a system.

From manual workflows and disconnected departments to connected operations, automated processes and real-time visibility.

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