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Australia's Own All-in-One Manufacturing Software

Run a Smarter Shop Floor

Connects your estimating, production scheduling, shop floor control and workforce support into one powerhouse system, built for fabricators and made-to-order manufacturers.

Trusted by Australian manufacturers since 2014

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CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS

Grow Stronger Customer Relationships

Win their trust with accurate pricing and delivery dates you actually hit. A self-serve portal gives customers real-time order progress and direct access to your team, so they can plan their own business with confidence.

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DIGITAL FACTORY

Connect Your People and Information

Replace paper trails and spreadsheets with automated workflows. Accessible, reliable data keeps your factory operating at peak efficiency, backed by algorithms that continuously learn and improve your output.

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SMART TOOLS

Reclaim Productive Hours Across Every Department

Automated estimating, costing, and scheduling handle complex tasks to save skilled labour hours. On the shop floor, operators shed admin overhead to focus entirely on revenue-generating work.

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DATA INSIGHTS

Drive Profitability and Protect Your Margins

See the true cost of every job, tracking material and labour spend as it happens, so you catch overruns before they cut into your margin. Proactively plan around production hurdles, take on more volume, and uncover growth opportunities you'd never spot on your own.

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How It Works

Everything your team needs to plan, execute and deliver.

One platform built for both front office and operations. Specialised AI agents assist your team with the high-skill tasks of estimating and scheduling. Each handoff delivers exactly what information the next person needs, automatically.

  1. Sales

    1

    Estimating and Quoting

    Handles multiple pricing requirements, both standard listed items and drawing-based designs. Hand sketches or PDFs are instantly converted into a priced quote and bill of materials.

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  2. 2

    Production Handover

    Confirmed quotes move straight into your ERP and trigger a work order, no manual data entry.

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  3. Planning

    3

    Finite Scheduling

    Your production schedule builds itself around live shop floor conditions, material availability and order priority, adapting to problems or bottlenecks.

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  4. Production

    4

    Work Assignment and Progress Logging

    Tasks are assigned to available operators and shown on the shop floor display. Operators log work and downtime reasons through the app, building a true picture of job costs, bottlenecks, and plant capacity.

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  5. 5

    Quality Inspections and Digital Forms

    Preset rules trigger the right checks at the right step, complete with photos, so nothing gets missed.

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  6. 6

    Customer Order Tracking

    Customers track real-time job status and expected delivery date through a secure web portal that also records quality inspections and purchase history.

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  7. Dispatch

    7

    Dispatch Coordination

    A shared staging queue helps your team coordinate packing and shipping, manage partial shipments and generate dispatch documentation, keeping finished goods moving to customers.

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Return on Investment

Bottom Line Results

80% less time

estimating

45 – 60 min

saved per job

30% more

throughput

Eliminate

overtime

Features

One Connected Platform. Powerful Features.

Material Availability Planning

Material checks run on all quoted and planned jobs before they hit the schedule, so you get early warnings on shortages. Operators use an auto-generated pick list to track material usage, keeping your inventory and costing more accurate.

Material Availability Planning
Flexibility

The Best Way Is Your Way

Every job shop runs differently. Smart Shop Floor adapts to yours, because generic software only makes your job harder.

1

Built on Your Data

We use your real job data to drive better decisions and performance — delivering results that pay for themselves.

2

Your Processes, Formalised

We take your existing processes and make them consistent, repeatable, and scalable.

3

Purpose-Built AI

Purpose-built AI that automates the hard, specialised work and keeps every department and system in sync.

Integration Hub

Work Standalone, or Integrate the Tools You Already Use

Bring together your tech stack with Smart Shop Floor’s API, connecting accounting, ERP, design and communication tools into your workflow.

Learn more about integrations

Accounting

  • Xero
  • MYOB
  • QuickBooks

ERP

  • NetSuite
  • MYOB Advanced
  • SYSPRO
  • Epicor

CAD / CAM

  • SolidWorks
  • AutoCAD
  • Inventor
  • Tekla · Advance Steel

Nesting

  • SigmaNEST
  • RADAN
  • ProNest
Never Meant for Mass Production

Purpose-Built for Custom Manufacturers

Structural Steel Fabrication
Machining Job Shops
Piping & Fabrication
Sheet Metal & Custom

What Our Clients Say

Results That Speak for Themselves

"We were chasing our tail, trying to deliver a standard set of wheels in as early as 8 weeks. In some cases subject-to-stock was getting pushed out for a couple of months. Now that we can see and follow the job through production, we've been able to cut our lead times right back to a minimum of 2 weeks, with the standard becoming more like 5 to 7 working days."
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Peter Bloomfield
STW — Specialised Tyre and Wheel
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Sales and Production Have Never Talked to Each Other, Until Now.

One continuous digital thread guiding your manufacturing.