ForgeCheck the material in.
When stock arrives, record the mill test report (MTR), heat number, grade and where it was melted. Every piece starts with a known source.
Quality · material · turnover
Compliance & traceability
Quality records made where the work happens.
ForgeEPM saves quality and material records as the work gets done. You can follow any piece from receiving through cutting, welding, QC, shipping and turnover. Nobody has to keep a second set of books.
Heat / MTR linked to the piece
QC checked before it moves
Turnover built from shop records
The paper trail
Record each check where it matters.
Each stage has its own job. ForgeEPM keeps the material, the work, the checks and the final package tied together where you can see them.
Keep the heat number with the steel.
Cut pieces and drops keep their heat number. Using a remnant later does not lose track of where it came from.
Inspect at the right point.
Each weld keeps the welder's stamp and joint. Inspections, NDE (nondestructive testing) and decisions on bad parts are saved to the piece they cover.
Hand over complete paperwork.
The turnover book pulls the job's mill certs, welds, inspections, NDE and loads from current shop records. It also lists what is still missing.
Records, not binders
Make each record where the work gets done.
AISC 207 is the standard behind AISC certification. ForgeEPM builds that binder from records made as the work is done. That covers the welder continuity board (proof each welder has kept their qualification current) and the weld approval list. It covers paint thickness (DFT) worksheets and the dew-point log at Coating, and the calibration list with due dates. It covers NCRs that can name the department that must act, corrective actions for repeat problems, and internal audits with printable forms. The AISC 207 guide explains the standard in plain words for your shop's certifications and levels. It also says where each record is made.
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A second person approves each weld.
A weld sent for approval from the phone waits for someone other than the sender. If the shop has named inspectors, it waits for one of them. ForgeEPM won't let senders approve their own welds.
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A failed NDE test opens its own NCR.
ForgeEPM writes the NCR itself, on the shop PC. The piece can't be loaded until someone decides what happens to it.
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The turnover book shows what is missing.
It gathers the job's mill certs, welds, inspections, NDE, NCRs, outside work and loads in the order a reviewer reads them. It also lists anything those records call for that the shop doesn't have yet.
What your records can answer
The questions auditors actually ask.
If the shop can't answer these from its records, it ends up answering from memory. ForgeEPM is built so that doesn't happen.
Where did this heat go?
Follow it from the mill cert through stock, drops, pieces, assemblies and loads. No rebuilding a spreadsheet.
Who welded this joint?
The welder, the WPS (weld procedure) on the joint, their continuity date for each process and their qualifications all stay attached to the weld.
Was it checked before it moved on?
A QC stop point is a checkpoint a piece can't pass until it's inspected. The piece can't move to the next station until a passing check is saved. The office PC blocks the move, not just the screen. Loading is not checked against stop points today.
What left the building?
The turnover package is built from what was recorded as the work happened. No piecing it together the night before shipping.
What an audit asks for
Pull records from the work, not from memory.
Heat tracking, the heat list, the mill cert index, welder records, inspection results, NCR decisions, outside work and shipping loads should all tie to the same job. ForgeEPM keeps those links in place while the work is done. File a PDF of a code book your shop owns under Compliance. You can then ask it questions and get answers from its own pages, with book, edition and page. The PDF stays with the shop's other documents and backups. It is never sent to ForgeEPM. Every clause ForgeEPM cites comes from one list checked against the published standards. Retired codes point to the ones that replaced them.
See the programHEAT / MTR
Source material stays with the pieceLINKED
Source material stays with the pieceLINKED
QC CONTROL
Work and inspections tied togetherHELD
Work and inspections tied togetherHELD
TURNOVER
Turnover book built from shop recordsCHECK
Turnover book built from shop recordsCHECK
Important boundary: ForgeEPM helps with the recordkeeping and quality checks a fabricator chooses to use. It does not grant AISC certification. It does not replace the shop’s own quality-management duties. It does not stand in for an auditor’s decision.
Try it on one real job.
Bring the traceability, inspection records or quality package that has been hardest to manage. We will work through it with you.
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