Metal fabrication, job by job. Cut lists, heat numbers and costs together.
Fabricators turn sheet, bar and tube into parts through cutting, bending, welding and finishing. Dika Ops links quotes, cut lists, material stock and work orders, so each job carries its material records and its real cost.
What slows metal fabrication down.
Sheets are nested and cut for many jobs. Offcuts and remnants are rarely recorded, so they are bought again.
Customers ask which heat number and mill certificate went into a part. The answer is buried in paper.
Material, machine time, bending, welding and finishing are estimated by feel. Actual cost is learned too late.
Galvanising, powder coating or heat treatment happens outside. Parts leave and nobody sees when they are due back.
Quotes from drawings and cut lists
Build a quote from the cut list, material grade and thickness, and the operations needed, then keep every revision.
- Quote lines by part and operation
- Revision history per quote
- Accepted quote becomes the work order
Material stock with certificates
Receive sheet, bar and tube by heat number and keep the mill certificate with the stock record.
- Heat number on receipts
- Documents attached to the lot
- Remnants kept as stock
Work orders by operation
Split each job into cutting, bending, welding and finishing, and follow progress through the shop.
- Operations in sequence
- Materials issued against the job
- Status for every order
Purchasing and subcontract
Order material from suppliers and send parts out for coating or treatment with an expected return date.
- Purchase orders for material
- Subcontract purchase orders with due dates
- Supplier history and profile
One flow, start to finish.
- 01Quote
The quote is priced from material, operations and any outside processing.
- 02Order and material
The accepted quote creates the job, reserves stock or raises a purchase order for sheet and bar.
- 03Cut and form
Work orders issue material by heat number and record each operation.
- 04Finish
Parts go to outside processing if needed and return against a due date.
- 05Ship and invoice
The job is delivered with its documents, and the invoice is raised from the order.
The modules you will use.
Metal fabrication, answered.
Can we keep heat numbers and mill certificates?
Yes. Material can be received by heat number, and documents can be attached to the record so they are found with the job.
Can we track offcuts and remnants?
Yes. A remnant can be booked back into stock as its own item, so it can be used on the next job.
Can we see the real cost of a job?
Work orders record materials and operations against the job, so you can compare actual cost with the quote.
Does it support outside processing?
Yes. Parts sent out for coating or treatment can be handled as subcontract purchase orders with an expected return date.
Is Dika Ops available now?
Dika Ops is in closed beta. Join the waitlist and we will contact you as places open.
Run the whole company from one place.
Dika Ops is in closed beta. We onboard a few companies at a time and set everything up with you.