Metalworking & Machining

Metalworking shops live with mixed batch sizes, frequent changeovers and orders that change after they are released. Sheet, bar and profile stock is bought in one unit and consumed in another, machine capacity is uneven, and the true cost of a job is usually known only after it has shipped.

factory.online gives cutting, machining and fabrication shops one system for quoting, planning and cost control.

Quote from real routings, not guesswork

Each part carries its material, operations and setup times, so a quotation is built from the work that will actually be done. Repeat orders are re-quoted in minutes, and margin is visible before the price is sent.

Schedule the machines you really have

Operations are scheduled per work centre — cutting, CNC, welding, finishing — against real calendars, shifts and maintenance windows. Bottlenecks and overloads are visible days ahead, so promised dates hold instead of slipping.

Keep material honest across units

Stock is kept in your own units: pieces, metres, kilograms. Issues, off-cuts and remnants are recorded at the machine, so the nesting plan, the warehouse and the cost calculation agree.

See cost per job while it runs

Material, labour, subcontracting and machine time accumulate against the order as work progresses. Planned versus actual is compared per job, so loss-making work is spotted during production, not at month end.

Typical results

Shops that move planning into factory.online shorten quotation time, reduce work in progress, cut scrap from wrong cuts and gain a realistic answer to the question customers ask most often — when will it be ready.