Case Studies

Real fabrication shops. Real results. Here's how shops like yours use FabFlow to quote faster, track work, and grow.

Midwest Metal Products

Sheet Metal Fabrication

25 employees · 15,000 sq ft · Illinois — A precision sheet metal shop serving OEMs in agriculture and construction equipment. They were quoting 60-80 jobs per week using Excel spreadsheets and a shared network drive.

The Problem

Quotes took 45-60 minutes each. Estimators dug through email threads for material pricing, guessed at labor times, and often lost track of which version of a quote the customer had approved. "We lost at least two jobs a month because we couldn't get the quote back fast enough," their owner told us. On the shop floor, a whiteboard tracked 40+ active jobs — and it was wrong half the time.

The Switch

Midwest Metal started their FabFlow trial on a Monday. By Wednesday, their lead estimator had quoted 14 jobs — more than she typically quoted in a full week. They imported 200+ customers from their existing spreadsheet and had their entire team running on the shop floor kiosk by day four.

45 → 2
Min per quote
$52K
Annual quoting savings
4
Days to full adoption
200+
Customers imported
"The AI quoting alone paid for our first year of FabFlow in the first week. We went from dreading quote requests to closing them before lunch. The shop floor kiosk eliminated our whiteboard — our guys just tap their job and start working."
— Shop Owner, Midwest Metal Products

Great Lakes Structural

Structural Steel & Welding

40 employees · 30,000 sq ft · Michigan — A structural steel fabricator producing building frames, mezzanines, and industrial platforms. They were evaluating three ERP systems before discovering FabFlow.

The Problem

Great Lakes ran on JobBOSS for 8 years but never fully adopted it. "Our guys hated using it. It took 45 minutes just to look up a work order status. We spent $30K on implementation and still used spreadsheets for quoting." They needed something their shop floor would actually use — not another system that collected dust.

The Switch

They imported 5 years of historical data and ran FabFlow alongside JobBOSS for two weeks. By week two, the shop floor had fully switched to the FabFlow kiosk. The plant floor tracker gave their production manager a live view of every job — something they'd never had before. They cancelled JobBOSS at the end of the month.

$30K
Saved vs. ERP
5yr
Historical data imported
14
Days to full switch
0
Training sessions needed
"We spent $30,000 on JobBOSS implementation and our guys never used it. FabFlow cost $99/month and our entire shop floor adopted it in two weeks with zero training. The plant floor tracker is what our production manager had been asking for since 2018 — he can see every job at a glance now."
— Operations Manager, Great Lakes Structural

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