FABOPS

The shop brain for metal fabrication — on iron you control.

Jobs from quote to ship. Plasma nests with sheet-yield memory. Tube-bend records that never get lost. A consumable meter your table drives itself. And a grounded AI shop hand that cites its sources and flat refuses to invent a cut-chart number.

Built around a fab shop's real day

One operations layer for the whole floor — cut, bend, weld, finish — sized for owner-operators and small crews, not ERP departments.

Jobs — the spine

Quote → cut → bend → weld → finish → QC → ship. Every job carries its process chain, material, and due date; the daily digest tells you what's due and what's blocking.

Plasma nests & cut ops

Nests tracked with sheet size, parts count, pierce count, and sheet-yield — so material economics stop living in your head and remnants stop walking off.

Metered consumables & PM

The table reports pierce counts and arc-on time; the meter raises the work-order before a bad edge tells you first. Calendar PM is guessing — this is metered.

Tube-bend records

Springback, ovality, and wall-thinning per tube size and die — the bender's notebook that never gets lost, and the reason your second part matches your first.

Photo-QC on your GPU

Point a phone at a cut edge — dross, bevel, HAZ read by vision AI running on local hardware. Decision support; you disposition. Photos never leave the building.

Cut-quality advisor

Defect → probable cause → which lever to move, direction only. It routes you to your machine's cut chart and a test cut — it never overrides the chart.

Cited safety layer

OSHA general-industry answers cited to the standard — hot work & fire watch, cylinders, guarding, fume — in plain shop language, with a stop-work-first posture.

Capture-by-talking

Describe your machines and jobs out loud; records structure themselves; you verify. Onboarding is an afternoon, not a data-entry project.

Grounded AI shop hand

An assistant grounded on YOUR shop's knowledge — plasma, bending, welding, materials — that proposes actions your people confirm, and abstains instead of bluffing.

The honesty rules we build by

Every fabricator has watched a chatbot confidently invent an amperage. Ours is engineered not to.

  • Cited or silent. Machine-setting and safety answers cite your chart, the WPS, or the standard — or say "verify." Never a free-handed number, not even a "typical range."
  • Your people decide. QC dispositions and anything customer-facing are never gated by the AI. It proposes; you confirm.
  • Your data is yours. Full export any day, open formats, delete on request. It never trains anyone else's model. You are not the product.
  • No invented benchmarks. We don't claim percentages we haven't measured — a pilot on your real jobs creates the numbers.

Own the data. Then own the iron.

FabOps runs on local GPU inference from day one — flat pricing, unlimited logins, no per-seat AI meter. When you're ready, the whole brain moves into your building.

START

Live in an afternoon

Your shop onboarded by talking. AI answers from a managed GPU; your data already exportable any day.

GROW

Collector at the machine

A small edge box feeds the consumable meter from your table's own job files and captures cut-edge photos automatically — no controller modifications.

OWN

The box in your shop

A GPU box on your bench runs the AI and the vision QC entirely in-building. Your quoting history, your cut-edge photo trail, your process memory — physically yours.