Forge
Office software tour
80 sec
Full program walkthrough
Bring in the piece list. Follow a heat to every piece. Watch tons and hours against the budget. Hold a piece at a QC stop point.
Interactive demo
Watch the model change color as the shop works.
This is how ForgeEPM shows a job at a glance. It uses the model your detailer issued. Each member changes color as its piece moves through the shop. Click a member below to move it from staged to in fabrication to shipped.
Staged
In fabrication
Shipped
9staged
0in fab
0shipped
0%complete
Click a member — or focus it and press Enter — to advance it · advance all · reset
Watch it work
A job through the shop, in thirty seconds.
Someone scans a tag at a station. That one scan updates the model and the quality records. Job Cost checks the same job against its budget in tons and hours. That is why you record work where it happens.
SHOP APP · SCAN
B-101-014 · W24×76Heat H8842-A · A992
MARK WELD COMPLETE
✓ Logged
9staged0in fab0shipped0%done
JOB COST · J-2417
Budget · 7-line takeoff7.72 t · 246 h
Piece list so far7.42 t · 3.9% under
Loaded · 3 of 7 pieces40% by weight
On the clock · 262.5 h107% used
TURNOVER BOOK
- Each piece, its heat and its mill certificate
- Welds and welder qualification
- Weld map joints and NDE results
- Loads, manifests and delivery
PRINTS FROM THE RECORD
01Scan a tag on the floor
How it works
One scan on the floor. Nothing gets typed twice.
Here are the same four steps, in order. Nobody keeps a second set of books. That is why the paperwork is still complete at the end of the job.
1
Scan a tag on the floor
A fabricator scans the tag on a piece and marks the station done. Their name and the time are saved with it. No signal? The ForgeGo app keeps the scan on the phone and sends it the next time the app is open and in reach of the shop PC.
SHOP APP
B-101-014 · W24×76
Heat H8842-A · A992
LOG A WELD ON THIS PIECE
MARK WELD COMPLETE
2
Status updates everywhere
The office screen and the 3D model update the moment the scan comes in. No status meeting. No end-of-day data entry. No board that is a day behind the floor.
Production board
Cut 2
Fit 2
Weld 2
QC 0
Coating 2
Loaded 3
3 of 11 pieces loaded
3
Hours land in Job Cost
Clocked hours go into Job Cost as they are recorded. They sit next to the piece list's tons and what the takeoff allowed. While the job is open, Job Cost shows how much of the budgeted hours are used. Over or under on hours shows once every piece is loaded.
Job Cost · J-2417
Budget · 7-line takeoff7.72 t · 246 h
Piece list so far7.42 t · 3.9% under
Loaded · 3 of 7 pieces40% by weight
On the clock · 262.5 h107% of budget used
4
The turnover book is already built
Every heat, weld and inspection was recorded as it happened. So the turnover book prints from current shop records instead of being rebuilt by hand. Its first page lists anything the records call for that is still missing.
Turnover book
✓ Each piece, its heat and its mill certificate
✓ Welds and welder qualification
✓ Weld map joints and NDE results
✓ Loads, manifests and delivery
✓ Welds and welder qualification
✓ Weld map joints and NDE results
✓ Loads, manifests and delivery
Print the book
Try it yourself
Move a piece along and see ForgeEPM stop it at QC.
The pictures above show what ForgeEPM records. This shows the rule that makes those records worth something. A QC stop point is a checkpoint a piece can't pass until it's inspected. Try to push it past QC without a passing check and it will not go. That is exactly how it works on your floor.
Piece
B-101-014 · W24×76
Heat H8842-A · A992 · Lot L-2417-07
Chain of custody
0 links
Received — waiting to be cut
What the record holds
Nothing recorded yet. Every link below is written by the action that caused it.
Action
The piece is on the table, heat H8842-A verified against its mill test report. Cut it when the saw is ready.
NOTHING MISSING
Nothing on this page is saved. Refresh and it starts again.
Product videos
Watch the office software and the shop-floor phone app.
The main ForgeEPM program on a PC, and the ForgeGo app on a phone.
Shop-floor app
19 sec
ForgeGo on the shop floor
Scan QR tags, see the heat and mill cert, and scan a station done. No signal at the far end of the yard? The ForgeGo app keeps scans, clock-ins, QC checks and photos on the phone and sends them the next time the app is open and in reach of the shop PC.
See it stop a piece that skipped QC
See it on your own steel.
The drawings above are simplified pictures of the product. Beta shops run the real thing on real jobs. Make a station a QC stop point. Try to move a piece past it with no check saved. ForgeEPM blocks it, just as it would on your floor.