Collecta for Metal fabrication
Collecta is an operations platform for metal fabrication shops. Build no-code modules for work orders, cutting and nesting, welding inspection and material certificates, connect your laser and CNC machines, and run a Claude-powered AI agent across the shop. It unifies the quoting, routing and quality paperwork that fab shops normally spread across spreadsheets and ERP add-ons.
What slows these plants down
The disconnected tools and paper trails Collecta is built to replace.
Work orders move between cutting, forming, welding and finishing on paper travelers that are easy to lose or mis-stamp.
Mill test reports and material certs are filed manually, so proving traceability for an audit takes hours.
Weld inspection results and NCRs live in separate logs, disconnected from the job they belong to.
Machine utilization and remnant material are not visible, so quoting and scheduling rely on gut feel.
Modules you'd build
Starting points, not a fixed template — add your own fields, statuses and relations.
Automations that earn their keep
Trigger → condition → action, all permission-aware and audited.
When a work order completes a station, advance its status and notify the next station's queue automatically.
When a weld inspection fails, raise an NCR, link it to the work order, and route it for engineering disposition.
When inbound material is received, require a linked mill test report before the lot can be released to production.
On a daily schedule, summarize open work orders by due date and flag any at risk of missing ship.
Metal fabrication, answered.
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metal fabrication data.
Book a demo and we'll build a module, connect a system, and show the Claude AI agent running on your own operation.