metal finishing job shop software
Software for running a contract metal finishing shop — a business that plates, anodizes, polishes, coats, or heat-treats parts on behalf of other manufacturers rather than its own. It handles the work that a general shop-management or accounting package does not: routing each batch of parts through the correct sequence of tanks or processes, tracking lot sizes and turnaround times, pricing jobs by surface area or weight, and recording the chemistry and quality results needed for customer specs and environmental compliance. It replaces the spreadsheets, paper traveler sheets, and whiteboard schedules that a shop owner or production manager in electroplating or coating traditionally used to keep track of hundreds of customer jobs moving through the floor at once.
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