Quoting
Quotes that can't lose money.
Machine time, materials and outside work priced line by line — margin, profit and sell price totalled as you type. No more quoting on gut feel.
Custom business system
A production system that runs the workshop floor.
We replaced Advanced Fabrications' whiteboards, paper job sheets and scattered spreadsheets with one custom system — a single live dashboard the whole team runs from.
See the system, screen by screen
- Client
- Advanced Fabrications
- Sector
- Plastic fabrication
- Team
- ~12 people
- Scope
- Custom production system
The challenge
The client was tracking live production across the workshop on whiteboards, paper job sheets and scattered spreadsheets. Jobs slipped between stages, status was whatever someone remembered, and the office had no real-time view of what was where.
What we built
A database-backed system designed around how the workshop actually runs — not how software thinks it should.
Production dashboard
Every job, every stage, at a glance — the whole floor on one screen.
Job stages & status tracking
Jobs move through clear stages; nothing falls through the cracks.
Staff workflows
The floor sees what's theirs; the office sees everything.
File & document uploads
Drawings and specs live with the job, not in someone’s inbox.
Customer & order records
Orders linked directly to production, end to end.
Reporting dashboard
Output, bottlenecks and status in real time.
Admin controls
Roles and permissions for office versus floor.
The system, screen by screen
Not mockups — the real thing.
Every screen below is the live system running — one point at a time, so you can see exactly what it does and why it matters.
Scheduling
Plan the week by dragging.
Drop a job onto a machine and a day. The board updates for everyone at once — the plan on screen is the plan on the floor.
The numbers
The whole shop, at a glance.
In production, working now, machines running, completed today — the office finally sees the floor in real time, without walking it.
On the floor
Built for the machine, not the desk.
Operators tap to start a timer and tap again when a job's done — with the board and the day's numbers in the same pocket. Nothing to learn.
How we worked
Five steps, starting on the workshop floor and ending with a system the team actually uses.
01
Discovery on the floor
We started in the workshop, not a meeting room — watching how jobs actually move through the building.
02
Mapped the real workflow
Every stage a job passes through, from order in to out the door, captured as it really happens.
03
Built & prototyped
A working prototype early, so the team could react to something real rather than a document.
04
Tested with the team
Refined with the people who would use it every day, until it fitted how they work.
05
Hands-on rollout
Implemented on site with hands-on support until the new system stuck.
The result
Manual production tracking is gone. Jobs move through clear stages on one live dashboard, and the office has real-time visibility of the workshop floor for the first time — whiteboards and spreadsheets replaced by a single source of truth the whole team works from.
← Back to all workThey replaced our spreadsheet, our paper tickets and a lot of guesswork with one system that runs the whole shop. Every person only touches their own small part, so there was next to nothing to learn — and now we see the profit on every single job.
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