Caliper Zone · Shop Management

From approved print to completed job.

Once the workspace hands off a reviewed drawing, the job enters estimating, quote lifecycle, production execution, and inventory tracking — all inside the same system.

Jobs & Quotes Estimate Builder Job Calculator Production Board Inventory
ISONQ™ Shop ManagementFloor → Admin → Queue
Shop floor — VMC and Weld Station running
Admin dashboard — quotes, inventory, workspace feed
Jobs & Quotes queue — ranked with margin and status

Jobs and quotes in one queue.

Handoff from the workspace creates a draft. Each job moves through a controlled lifecycle without switching to a separate tracking system.

Ranked jobs with $/hr, margin, deadline pressure, inventory readiness, and lifecycle status. Only awarded jobs become selectable on the production dashboard.

Jobs & Quotes queue

Machine time, tooling consumption, coolant, cost vs quote, timeline projection, and margin are computed from the actual job build. The system warns when the quoted price results in a loss.

Job Calculator with margin and loss warning

Tooling, outside services, quality and inspection are defined alongside material, setup, and labor. Shop rates and catalog references feed the same screen.

Estimate builder — tooling, services, inspection, totals
Draft
Needs Pricing
Quoted
Awarded
In Production
Completed
Invoiced

Run accepted work on the floor.

When the customer accepts a quote, the job becomes assignable to a machine. Each machine card tracks execution state, remaining time, tooling consumption, material alerts, and the next job in queue.

Shop floor — machine cards with setup, tooling, material, next job
Idle
Setup
Running
Down

Inventory driven by real job demand.

Material and tooling stock levels are tracked against queued and active jobs. Shortages and minimum-stock violations are surfaced so the shop sees supply risk before a machine sits idle.

Material stock with demand from queued jobs, on-hand quantities, minimum thresholds, and order signals. CSV import and export for bulk updates.

Inventory — materials with demand and order signals

Tooling inventory with type, diameter, on-hand, minimum quantity, location, and demand from active jobs.

Inventory — tooling with below-min alerts

Everything feeds the same system.

Catalogs, rates, and shop configuration live inside the same environment that drives the quote and the floor. Data is maintained by the shop through direct entry and CSV updates.

Steel, stainless, aluminum grades with form, cost per unit, supplier, on-hand, minimum, and lead time. Drives material selection in the estimate builder.

Material Catalog — grades, forms, pricing, suppliers

Inserts, boring bars, reamers, countersinks, chamfer mills, and more. ISO codes, suppliers, pricing, on-hand, and minimum quantities.

Tooling Catalog — inserts, boring bars, reamers

Machine maintenance, shop supplies, waste and disposal, utilities, work schedule, and tool life by material. These feed the overhead calculation and timeline estimates.

Settings — overhead, consumables, work schedule, tool life
One continuous workflow.

From workspace handoff through estimating, quoting, production execution, and job completion — the system keeps every stage connected without a second tracking layer.