ForgeSteel nobody has checked.
The mill cert is still with the truck's paperwork, and the bar goes to the saw anyway.
ForgeEPM · one place for your shop records
The platform
One place for your shop records. Not one more system to keep updated.
ForgeEPM ties together the job coming in, the work as it's done, and the paperwork you hand over at the end. The office gets the full program. On the floor, people scan a tag and record what their job allows.
Piece list read from the detailer's files
Floor work signed by name
Turnover book built as the work gets done
Where shops lose track
Shops lose track at the same four points.
ForgeEPM is built around the four places a shop loses its paperwork trail: steel before the cut, the piece on the floor, the inspection, and the package at load-out.
Pieces with no known heat.
The mill cert is in a drawer. The piece is already welded. Someone rebuilds the heat history later, if at all.
Inspections logged after the fact.
Inspections, NDE (nondestructive testing) and welder stamps end up in a folder, not on the joint that needed them.
A turnover book thrown together at the end.
The package gets pieced together at the end instead of building up as the work gets done.
How a job moves through
Load the job. Build it. Hand over the proof.
ForgeEPM is set up around those four problem spots, not extra screens people have to keep updated.
One set of records
Tools for every part of the job, all working from the same records.
Every module saves to the same job history. There is no second set of books for quality or shipping. Job cost in tons and hours comes from that same history.
Start from the detailer's files.
Build the piece list from your detailer's files, no retyping. It reads NC1/DSTV part files, KISS files, and any table exported from your detailing software or saved from a spreadsheet as CSV. DXF and DWG drawings open in the viewer, filed with their piece. A drawing reissued after its piece was cut shows up on Approvals. The change order raised from it lists the pieces and where each one stood.
Track pieces from a phone.
Your crew records work on a phone, where it happens. Link the phone to your business once, sign in with a username and PIN, and scan a piece or material tag. Read the material card and record only what your role allows, even offline. Every record is stamped with who made it.
Heat tracking from mill cert to shipment.
Trace any piece back to its heat and mill cert. The mill test report, heat, stock, cut piece, offcut, assembly and load stay linked as work moves. Purchase orders are checked against what arrived, and short deliveries show up on Receiving. The Reorder tab shows what is below its minimum and how many days of stock are left.
QC records made where the work is.
QC paperwork gets done at the work, not in a folder later: the welder continuity board, a weld list the inspector signs off, DFT and dew-point readings at Coating, the calibration register, NCRs that can name the department that must fix it, corrective actions for repeat problems, and internal audits with their forms.
Check your takeoffs against the real job.
See how your estimates held up. A takeoff comes in from a file, a paste or line by line, and is kept as the job's budget. Later it is compared to what the job actually weighed and the hours it took. The bid register tracks each RFQ, how it turned out, and your win rate.
The saw, the board and the plan.
Know what to cut and whether loads will ship on time. The saw list names the bar or offcut each piece comes from, using offcuts first. The station board runs Cut, Fit, Weld, QC, Coating and Loaded, with QC stop points (checkpoints a piece can't pass until it's inspected) where you choose. The schedule sits next to what the floor actually did. From your shop's own pace, the look-ahead shows if each dated load will make its date.
A file for every worker.
Each worker's paperwork in one place. Welder qualifications, certifications, training and documents are on file, with what needs attention at the top. A course is a video and a quiz, sent to a named person and logged to their file. Hours clocked on the phone go out as a payroll sheet.
Shipping and field work.
Keep tracking steel after it leaves the shop. Build a load from the pieces that are ready, track steel out at the galvanizer, and record what is erected, bolted, inspected and field welded. A subcontractor gets its own login and sees only the field work it was given. For the erector’s side of the job, see Forge Build.
Tons and hours against the budget.
See whether a job is on budget. Each job with a budget shows the tons and hours from its takeoff next to the tons on its piece list and the hours on the clock. Approved change orders add to the sell price.
Your detailer's 3D model, colored by shop progress.
See job progress on the 3D model. Upload the IFC (the 3D model file) and open it in the browser. It has the model tree, properties, filter and color-by, section box, measure, clash check, revision compare, saved views, and issues with BCF round-trip. Each piece is colored by the station it is at. You can play the model back over time, from cut to field sign-off. ForgeEPM never edits the IFC.
A turnover book that builds as you go.
No end-of-job scramble. It pulls each job's mill certs, welds and welder qualifications, NDE, inspections, coating, NCRs and loads from your records. Its first page lists what is still missing.
Reports straight from your records.
Print standard shop reports from the same records: heat register, MTR index, welder roster and continuity, weld map and NDE log, cut list, tag sheets, bill of lading and shipping log, NCR log, the quality turnover book, and KPIs for any date range, with a CSV for Power BI.
Photograph a document. Get a searchable PDF.
Photograph any document and it becomes a searchable PDF on the record. Photograph a mill certificate and its heat numbers are read for the office to check.
Audit calendar and management review.
Plan audits on an audit calendar, give each finding an owner, and run the management review from its own page.
Export to QuickBooks.
ForgeEPM exports files that QuickBooks imports, so billing doesn’t have to be typed in twice.
Optional AI on your own PC.
Forge AI is optional. If your shop PC has it, it runs on that PC and works from records you already control.
Works alongside what you already use
Bring in the detailer’s files. Run fabrication in ForgeEPM.
ForgeEPM reads your detailer's part files, tables and IFC, and tracks production, material, quality and shipping from there. It is built for the shop records that come after the model is issued. Modelling steel is a separate program, FORGE 3D.
Watch the demoFROM YOUR DETAILER
The issued IFC, colored by shop progressLINKED
The issued IFC, colored by shop progressLINKED
IN THE SHOP
Material, piece, QC and shipping historyON YOUR PC
Material, piece, QC and shipping historyON YOUR PC
WHAT YOU HAND OVER
Reports, CSV and turnover paperworkYOURS
Reports, CSV and turnover paperworkYOURS
1 PCForgeEPM runs on one PC in your shop
UnlimitedUnlimited people can use it
No internetNo internet required, and no cloud account
Beta program
See ForgeEPM run on one of your own jobs.
One PC. One live job. Start with the paperwork or handoff that gives your team the most trouble today.