UK metal fab + welding — structural, bespoke, balustrade — material costing, weld certs, ISO 9001 awareness.
UK metal fab and welding — structural, bespoke, balustrade — material costing, weld certifications, ISO 9001-aware build. Owner-readable margin per job, audit-ready paperwork.
Steel and consumable costs tracked at the bar, not the spreadsheet. Per-job margin live, supplier price changes flagged before the quote ages.
WPS / PQR records linked to the welder, the joint, and the heat number. Traceability in seconds, not a panicked Friday afternoon when the inspector calls.
Quality manual, work instructions, non-conformance reports, calibration records — owned, indexed, audit-ready. ISO surveillance audits stop being a fortnight of paperwork.
Each project sequenced across cutting, fab, weld, finish, delivery. Drawing revisions pushed to the right bay, dependencies visible, slip flagged early.
Drawing approvals, RFIs, site visits, snags — pulled into one project thread. The site engineer, the office, and the foreman looking at the same record.
Past WPS / PQR, joint libraries, finishing specs, mill certs, structural calcs — indexed and searchable from the bench or the office. The shop's metal-knowledge, captured.
A twelve-welder structural fab shop ran ISO 9001 on paper — WPS in a ring binder, NCRs on Post-its on the foreman's wall, calibration records in a drawer. Three-week build: WPS / PQR library linked to per-joint welder and heat-number, NCR / CAPA workflow on the foreman's tablet, calibration log auto-prompted. Six months in: material waste down twenty-two percent, ISO surveillance audit time down forty percent, two near-miss inspector findings closed before the audit started.
How we measure: Material waste tracked as kg of off-cut and reject vs kg of bar in over rolling 90-day windows; audit time measured as auditor on-site hours plus pre-audit prep hours, before vs after; near-miss findings reconciled against the auditor's prior-year report.
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Bring a recent project, a WPS, and the last NCR. We diagnose from the numbers.