Made for fabricators. Four kinds, done properly.
Generic ERPs are built for someone else's factory. Factory Hub is built for structural steel, pipe, general and production fabrication: drawings, quotes with revisions, outsourced finishing, BOMs and production batches, and heat-number traceability.
Structural steel
Beams, columns, connections, welding, installation and CC2/CC3 compliance.
Pipe fabrication
Spools, pipework, fittings, welding, NDT, pressure testing and installation.
General fabrication
Custom metalwork, one-off jobs, repairs and site work.
Production / repeat
Standard products, BOMs, batches, stock, assembly and unit costing.
It replaces
- Quoting spreadsheets
- The production whiteboard
- Paper cut lists and stock books
- Folders of mill certificates
It works with
- CompliHub: ISO, NCs, ITPs
- Weld Hub: CC2/CC3
- Your PDF drawings
- Xero
From the drawing set to a checked material list.
Upload the drawings and Factory Hub reads the members, plate and fittings off each page, with weights, lengths and paint areas. Your estimator checks only what it isn't sure of.
- Work page by page: each drawing shows its own take-off
- A confidence score on every line, and a "check these" list for the rest
- Missing details become an RFI to the builder
- Approve it, and it feeds the quote with no re-keying
Sample drawing shown. Not a client project.
Quotes that know your real costs.
Labour by operation, finishing from surface area, outsourced work and live supplier pricing, all in one quote. You see the margin before you hit send.
- Calculated finishing: galvanising, paint and powder coat
- Supplier RFQs sent from the quote, prices flow back in
- Rate freshness warnings before you quote off stale prices
- Sent quotes lock; changes become a tracked revision
Won the quote? It's a job in one click.
Materials, hours, finishing and the customer's documents all carry into the job. Cut lists are generated and every job sits on one Work board by stage.
- One-click handover with no lost scope
- Cut lists generated from the job's materials
- Work board with stages your team recognises
- Quoted vs actual hours and cost on every job
See next week's crunch before it hits.
Drag jobs onto bays and crews, see capacity by day, and spot late jobs while there's still time to act. When steel is late, the schedule shows it.
Bays and capacity
Plan by bay, crew or machine using real available hours.
Late-job warnings
Due dates checked against the plan and material arrival.
Shop-floor view
The floor sees what's next on a kiosk or phone, without asking.
Every heat number, every job, every certificate.
Raise POs from the job, receive against them, attach mill certificates and track exactly which heat went into which part.
- POs from job materials and supplier RFQs
- Receiving captures grade and heat number
- Stock allocated to jobs, offcuts tracked
- Full trace: heat → part → job → customer
Quality is part of the job, not a separate system.
Factory Hub shares one database with CompliHub and Weld Hub. Inspections, weld records and non-conformances attach to the job, so the data report at dispatch builds itself.
ITPs on the job
Inspection and test plans, with hold points signed off on the floor.
Weld traceability
Welder, procedure and consumables recorded for CC2/CC3 work.
NCs from the floor
Raise a non-conformance on the job; corrective actions follow it.
Data report at dispatch
Certificates, ITPs and weld records bundled for the customer.
Why not a spreadsheet, or a big ERP?
| Spreadsheets + whiteboard | Generic ERP | Factory Hub | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built for fabrication, one-off and repeat | Sort of | Rarely | Yes |
| Takeoff → quote → job, no re-keying | No | Partly, with add-ons | Yes |
| Finishing calculated from surface area | Manual | Custom build | Built in |
| Heat-number traceability | Paper | Often extra | Built in |
| ISO, ITPs and weld records on the job | No | No | Yes, with CompliHub |
| Time to go live | n/a | 6–18 months | 8 implementation calls |
| Users | n/a | Per-seat licences | Unlimited |
Live in 8 calls, with a coach who knows fabrication.
We load your items, rates and suppliers, train your estimators and supervisors, and run your first real jobs through with you. Fixed fee, at your pace.
Setup
Business setup, items catalogue, material grades, labour rates, suppliers.
Quoting
Takeoff, finishing and RFQs. Your estimator quotes a live job in the system.
Jobs & scheduling
Quote-to-job, cut lists, Work board and scheduler set up with your bays.
Floor & go-live
Purchasing, receiving, traceability, shop-floor rollout and your first dispatch.
Be first in line for Factory Hub.
Factory Hub is nearly ready. Register your interest and we'll let you know the moment it opens, with early access to demos.
- First to know when Factory Hub launches
- Early demo slots on your own kind of work
Already a CompliHub client? You can also register from inside the app, under Factory Hub.
Factory Hub questions.
Do I need ISO or CompliHub to use Factory Hub?
No. Factory Hub works on its own. CompliHub adds ITPs, NCs and your ISO system on the same jobs when you want them.
Can you load our existing items, rates and suppliers?
Yes. Importing your catalogue and rates is part of setup in the first calls.
How is it priced?
A monthly subscription with unlimited users, plus a fixed implementation fee. See Pricing.
Will the floor actually use it?
The floor sees only what it needs: today's jobs, cut lists and checks, on a kiosk or phone.