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ShopData 360
Solution · Mixed machines, custom jobs

Nesting and Programming

Win custom work at a price that still makes money. Nesting, quoting and job costing that hold together when every job is different and the machines are not all the same brand.

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The problem

What this is costing you right now.

Four places the margin leaks today, and what each one looks like once it is fixed.

Quotes are guesswork

Without real routing and material data, every quote is a margin bet. You find out whether it was a good one months after the job ships.

With ShopData 360

Quotes generated quickly from routings and materials

Scrap eats the sheet

Bounding-box nesting and manual layouts leave yield on the floor on every job, and the cost of it never shows up on a report you read.

With ShopData 360

One system for plasma, laser, waterjet and oxy-fuel

Too many systems

Each machine brand brings its own software, so the same part gets programmed twice and only one person knows how to drive all of them.

With ShopData 360

Advanced shape nesting with interlocking and part pairing

Crashes cost heads

A mis-sequenced cut drives the cutting head into a tipped part or a clamp, and the repair bill lands the same week you lose the job.

With ShopData 360

Job costing built into nesting and the ERP

The workflow

How the job runs instead.

Four steps on one record. Each is owned by someone on your team and handled by a ShopData 360 product you can look at in detail.

Follow one record Job #2417
1
RFQ arrives
The estimator

Visual EstiTrack generates the quote quickly from routings and materials, not a multiplier.

Quote
$18,420
Handled by Visual EstiTrack™ →
2
Job released
The scheduler

Shop order created from the quote, scheduled by due date and workcenter.

Scheduled
Tue, Bay 2
Handled by Visual EstiTrack™ →
3
Parts nested and cut
The programmer

Advanced shape nesting, then cut on plasma, laser, waterjet or oxy-fuel machines.

Yield
87% on 3 sheets
Handled by QuickCAM PRO →
4
Job closed
The owner

Job costs reported and posted to integrated accounting, ready for the next quote.

Margin
21% quoted
Handled by Visual Books™ →
↻ Job #2417 closed. Quoted $18,420, actual $16,950. The next quote starts from these numbers.
Getting there

Go live in four phases.

No rip and replace. The shop keeps running while this happens.

Rollout Four phases, start to live
Together
Phase one
Scoping

We document your requirements across people, process and technology, then agree the milestones for scope, budget and quality.

Scope agreed
Together
Phase two
Setup

Setup follows your own requirements, because no two integrations are ever the same, and we build it around how your shop runs.

Built to your process
Together
Phase three
Training

Training for the people who will use QuickCAM PRO every day, at your own shop or at our facility, working on your real parts and your own live jobs.

Your team trained
Your shop
Phase four
Production

Live on real work, with ongoing technical support from our own team whenever a job needs help, for as long as you keep running the software.

Support stays on
Every shop is different. More machines or more history to migrate takes longer, and we say so up front.
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Ready to run a tighter shop?

See the full quote-to-cut-to-close workflow on your own jobs, and find the margin you've been leaving on the table. A fabrication specialist walks you through it one-on-one. No slides, no obligation.

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