Case Study: Our Own Shop Floor

FabFlow is built inside a working fabrication shop — a CWB-certified shop in Ontario, Canada — and it runs our shop every day. These are the real numbers from our production system.

The Shop That Built FabFlow

Structural Steel & Sheet Metal

CWB-certified (CSA W47.1) · ISO 9001 · Ontario, Canada — A working metal fabrication shop that quotes and builds structural steel, sheet metal, and custom weldments for real customers. FabFlow started here because nothing on the market fit a shop this size: legacy MRP meant months of implementation and Fortune-500 pricing, spreadsheets meant lost quotes and hand-chased MTRs.

Why we built our own system

Quoting was the bottleneck — every RFQ meant digging through email threads for material pricing, guessing at labour times, and hoping the version you quoted was the one the customer approved. On the floor, a whiteboard tracked active jobs and was wrong half the time. We set out to build the middle path: set up in minutes, the shop floor uses it on day one, and the owner sees real margin on every job.

What runs on FabFlow today

AI quoting on structural and sheet metal jobs — describe a part or upload a DXF, get a routed, priced quote in seconds. Work order routing from quote to shipment, purchasing with vendor POs, inventory with MTR traceability, and the shop floor kiosk where our welders and press brake operators punch in with a PIN and clock their operations. It's not a pilot program — it's how the shop runs.

4,093
Quotes in the system
$63M+
Quoted work on the platform
14,865
Work orders tracked
2,802
MTRs in the library

Our largest structural package quoted on FabFlow came in at $3.08 million — one of several multi-million-dollar structural jobs priced through the platform.

"We built FabFlow because nothing on the market fit a mid-size fab shop — weeks of implementation, consultants, and price tags that made no sense. Now we run our whole shop on it, every day, and other shops can do the same."
— Product Lead, FabFlow

Every number above is pulled live from the production database. We don't make up adoption stats — the shop behind this product is real, and so is the data.

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