⚙️ Industry · Engineering & Fabrication
Which jobs are with a vendor right now — and since when?
Which revision each team is actually building to. How long work really takes at your vendors. How many jobs were scheduled before the material was confirmed.
One fabrication shop found jobs sitting eleven days at a vendor. Their own system showed those jobs as "in progress".
Engineering businesses — eliminated manual job card chasing
As featured in PrintWeek India, April 2026 ↗
Three shops. Each one lost the job the moment it left the building.
01 The drawing revision
Revision 4 goes out. Two teams keep working to Revision 3 — one because the mail went to a person who had left, one because the site had no signal that morning.
The parts are made correctly. They are just made to the wrong drawing, and nobody finds out until assembly.
Rework in one quarter — root cause
Superseded drawing9 jobs
Machining error3 jobs
Material substitution2 jobs
Damage in transit1 job
The current drawing now sits on the work item, visible only to the roles assigned to that stage, with every acknowledgement logged.
9 jobs → 1rework from old drawings
Show me howFifteen minutes. We put drawings on the job.
02 The job that went outside
Half the job leaves your premises — heat treatment, plating, special machining. It goes to a vendor and it disappears.
You call to ask. He says two days. You call again on day four. The job was never tracked while it was out, so the only status you ever had was whatever he said on the phone.
Where a delayed job actually spent its time
In your shop4 days
At the vendor11 days
Waiting to be collected3 days
The vendor now updates his own step on his own screen. He sees only what is with him.
11 days → 5average vendor turnaround
Show me howFifteen minutes. We add one vendor.
03 Material that was never ordered
The job is scheduled. The machine is free. The operator opens the drawing and the material is not there.
Somebody assumed somebody else had raised it. Procurement was never a stage on the job, so it was nobody's step to complete.
Jobs held at start, one quarter
Material not ordered12 jobs
Material ordered late7 jobs
Wrong grade supplied3 jobs
Material became a stage with an owner. The job cannot be scheduled until it is marked confirmed.
22 jobs → 6held at start
Show me howFifteen minutes. We add the material stage.
The machining was rarely the problem. It was everything happening around it that nobody was recording.
Your Production Flow
Every operation. Every delay. Every rework avoided.
This is how a print job moves through your business. Clicarity gives you live visibility at every phase — and flags delays before they become client calls.
01
Order & Drawing
4 stages
Order / Enquiry Received
Customer order or enquiry received with specs, drawings, and deadline.
✓ Clicarity: Job ID created, drawings attached, production starts
Drawing Review
Engineering drawing reviewed for feasibility, tolerances, and material.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: drawing unclear — back-and-forth adds days before production starts
Design Revision Tracking
Any changes to drawing tracked with revision number and reason.
✓ Clicarity: Every revision logged — workshop always works on latest drawing
Material Planning
Raw material, consumables, and bought-out items identified per job.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: material not available when operation is ready to start
02
Procurement & Preparation
3 stages
Raw Material Procurement
Steel, aluminium, castings, or other material ordered or pulled from stock.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: vendor late — machine sits idle waiting for material
Incoming Inspection
Material checked for dimensions, grade, and quality before production.
✓ Clicarity: Rejection at incoming logged — vendor record maintained
Job Setup & Tooling
Machine fixtures, tooling, and programs prepared for the job.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: tooling not available — machine occupied with setup but not producing
03
Machining & Fabrication
7 stages
Turning / CNC Turning
Cylindrical or contoured profiles machined on lathe or CNC turning centre.
✓ Clicarity: Job tracked from queue to completion at each machine
Milling / CNC Milling
Flat, contoured, or complex surfaces machined on VMC or HMC.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: CNC queue — jobs wait 1-2 days without visibility
Drilling / Tapping
Holes drilled and threads tapped to drawing specification.
Cutting / Shearing
Sheet or plate cut to required blank dimensions.
✓ Clicarity: Quantity and material tracked, wastage recorded
Bending / Forming
Sheet metal bent or formed to required angles and profiles.
Welding / Fabrication
Components welded, assembled, or fabricated to drawing.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: welder availability — job waits between operations
Grinding / Finishing
Surface ground, deburred, or finished to required surface quality.
✓ Clicarity: Operation sequence enforced — no stage skipped accidentally
04
Vendor Operations
3 stages
Heat Treatment
Job sent to heat treatment vendor — hardening, tempering, or annealing.
✓ Clicarity: Vendor updates job status on portal — you see it live
Surface Treatment / Plating
Job sent for powder coating, plating, anodising, or painting.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: vendor returns job late — nobody chasing because nobody tracking
Vendor Inspection
Job inspected on return from vendor before continuing production.
✓ Clicarity: Vendor TAT tracked over time — data to hold them accountable
05
Quality & Dispatch
4 stages
Dimensional Inspection
Final dimensions checked against drawing tolerances using instruments.
✓ Clicarity: Rejection rate tracked, rework reason logged by operation
Assembly
Components assembled into final product or sub-assembly.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: one component missing or rejected — entire assembly held
Packing
Product packed, labelled, and prepared for dispatch.
✓ Clicarity: Packed quantity confirmed against order quantity
Dispatch
Job dispatched to customer with delivery challan.
✓ Clicarity: Dispatch timestamp, quantity, and vehicle logged. Job closed.
Real Printing Business. Real Results.
""We had jobs sitting on the floor for 3 days between operations and nobody knew. Now our supervisor sees everything on a tablet. We found two machines that were consistently creating bottlenecks — something we had guessed but never proven.""
What improves in engineering businesses using Clicarity
↓ 45%
Idle time between operations
↑ 28%
Machine utilisation improvement
↓ 65%
Rework from missed operations
5 days
To go live — full setup included
Questions from engineering businesses
How does Clicarity work for a printing business specifically?
Clicarity is configured around your specific print workflow — pre-press, printing, finishing, dispatch — in your terminology. Every job gets a unique ID and moves through your defined stages. You see live status, timestamps, and alerts when a job sits too long at every stage. The Clicarity team builds everything for you. You go live in 5 days.
Does it work for both offset and digital printing?
Yes. Clicarity works for any print process — offset, digital, wide format, screen printing, or a combination. The stages are configured around your actual workflow. If offset jobs go through plate making and digital jobs skip that stage, both can be tracked correctly under the same system.
Can it track material wastage at each stage?
Yes — with the Multi Licence. At every stage, your team logs quantity in and quantity out. Clicarity calculates the loss automatically. You see wastage by stage, by job, live — not at month-end when nothing can be done about it.
Will my press operators actually use it?
Yes. The update screen has two fields — Job ID and status. Under a minute. No training needed. GP Offset's entire team was using it from day one, including floor workers who had never used a software system before.
See every job. Every operation. Right now.
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