The third email from Bouwbedrijf Kok says twelve stair frames instead of ten. Estimate v7 has to be redone.
Kramer in Eindhoven is an example company, but every workshop knows a rush order landing next to a drawing change.
The schedule is on the board. Nobody knows whether there is certified steel in stock for two extra frames.
The estimate, quote, cutting file and WPS all have to be redone.
The quote has to be revised, but who does it and when is not written down anywhere.
Without that job sheet there is no job costing and no invoice, and the customer sign-off is blank.
The estimate is in Excel, the quote in Word, and the cutting files and WPS are separate. If the customer changes something, it is all redone by hand.
One order from enquiry to invoice, where the estimate, production order and job sheet follow on from each other automatically.
The schedule is on a board in the workshop. A rush order or a welder off sick, and the office is running back and forth.
A workshop schedule that follows from the orders, showing who is on which machine.
Drawing v3 FINAL is in an email thread, the 3.1 certificate in a folder and the WPS on the welding coordinator's PC.
For each order, the right version of the drawing, the certificates and the WPS, in the workshop too.
Job costing only happens once the job sheet is back, and by then the hours come from memory.
For each order, the estimate next to the actual hours and materials, while the work is still in progress.
The CAD and machine software keeps supplying drawings and cutting files, as it does now. If you use Ridder iQ, MKG or Bemet, we start by looking at what already works and only build what is missing.
That is why we only build the steps that cause you problems. A workshop of eight gets a different system from one of eighty.
Then it is one tap per order, on a terminal or a phone in the workshop. Without those hours there is no job costing, so it has to be quicker than a note on paper.
True, but every order still comes down to materials, operations and hours. We record those, and the rest stays flexible.
Yes. Structural steelwork under EN 1090 comes with welding coordination, WPSs and traceable material. For sheet metal from DXF or STEP files, estimating quickly and accurately is half the job. For subcontract machining, lead times, machine hours and repeat orders are what count.
One fixed price, agreed after the design. It depends on what we build first, whether that is just the order from enquiry to invoice, or the workshop hours and the job costing as well. We only start building once you agree.
We spend a morning with you and watch how an enquiry comes in, how it is priced up and where it gets stuck. Afterwards we set out what we would build.
Fixed price, agreed once you approve the design. The code and data are in your name.
How those weeks go