🔧 Industry · Sheet Metal Manufacturing
Your fabrication shop is running.
But where is each job between cutting and powder coat?
From drawing release to dispatch — live visibility across every sheet metal operation. Track vendor coating, welding queues, and assembly without chasing your floor.
Sheet metal businesses — eliminated manual job card chasing
As featured in PrintWeek India, April 2026
Your Production Flow
Every operation. Every vendor delay. Every quality issue.
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 & Engineering
4 stages
Order Received
Customer order confirmed with drawing, material spec, quantity, and deadline.
✓ Clicarity: Job ID created, drawing attached, production initiated
Drawing Review
Drawing reviewed for material, bending sequence, and weld requirements.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: drawing has dimensional errors found only after cutting
Material Planning
Sheet grade, thickness, and quantity calculated per component.
Nesting / Cutting Plan
Optimal sheet nesting created to minimise material wastage.
✓ Clicarity: Planned vs actual material usage tracked per job
02
Raw Material & Procurement
3 stages
Sheet Procurement
Sheets ordered or pulled from inventory — grade, thickness, size.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: wrong grade received — production holds until correct material arrives
Bought-out Items
Fasteners, hinges, handles, and other BOI items procured.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: one missing item stops final assembly
Incoming Inspection
Material thickness, grade, and surface quality verified.
✓ Clicarity: Incoming rejection logged — vendor record maintained
03
Fabrication Operations
6 stages
Laser / Plasma Cutting
Sheets cut to blank dimensions using laser or plasma cutter.
✓ Clicarity: Quantity in/out tracked — material utilisation vs. nesting plan
Punching / Notching
Holes, notches, and slots punched into blanks.
Bending / Press Brake
Blanks bent to required angles using press brake or folding machine.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: bending sequence error — part scrapped, recut required
Rolling / Forming
Cylindrical or curved profiles formed using rolling machine.
Welding / Assembly
Components MIG/TIG welded into final fabricated structure.
✓ Clicarity: Welding queue visible — jobs not sitting unattended between operations
Grinding / Deburring
Welds ground, edges deburred, surface prepared for coating.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: grinding backlog — jobs wait 2-3 days before surface finish
04
Vendor Operations — Surface Treatment
3 stages
Powder Coating / Painting
Job sent to powder coating or painting vendor.
✓ Clicarity: Vendor updates status on portal — you see it live without calling
Plating / Galvanising
Zinc plating, hot-dip galvanising, or chrome plating at vendor.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: vendor queue — job waits 5-7 days with no update
Return & Inspection
Job returned from vendor, inspected for finish quality and dimensions.
✓ Clicarity: Vendor TAT tracked over time — data to hold them accountable
05
Quality & Dispatch
3 stages
Final Assembly
Components assembled with bought-out items — screws, hinges, fittings.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: one BOI missing stops entire assembly batch
QC Inspection
Dimensions, finish, and fit checked against customer drawing.
✓ Clicarity: Rejection reason and rate tracked — rework root cause visible
Packing & Dispatch
Job packed, challan raised, and dispatched to customer.
✓ Clicarity: Dispatch timestamp, quantity, and vehicle details logged
Where Sheet Metal Businesses Lose Time & Margin
Real bottlenecks. Real costs. Real fixes.
These are the patterns Clicarity helps sheet metal businesses identify — and fix — within the first few weeks.
Powder Coating Vendor
Jobs sent to powder coat vendor — no update for 6 days
A sheet metal fabricator in Pune sent jobs to a powder coating vendor with an agreed 2-day turnaround. Clicarity showed average actual turnaround was 6.2 days. The vendor had no visibility into which customer was most time-critical. With Clicarity, urgent jobs are flagged. Average TAT dropped to 2.4 days.
Vendor TAT reduced from 6.2 to 2.4 days
Bending Operations
Bending sequence errors causing 8% scrap rate on complex parts
A fabrication shop tracked rejection reasons at each operation. Bending had an 8.3% scrap rate — parts bent in wrong sequence were unusable. Root cause: no defined sequence control — operators chose their own order. Process Order Control enforced the correct bending sequence. Scrap dropped to 1.2%.
Bending scrap reduced from 8.3% to 1.2%
Assembly Stage
Bought-out items missing at assembly — jobs ready but stuck for days
Completed fabrications were sitting at the assembly stage because one or two bought-out items had not arrived. Average delay at assembly from missing BOI: 3.1 days per job. With Clicarity tracking BOI procurement as a separate stage, shortfalls are flagged before the fabricated parts arrive — not after.
Assembly stage idle time reduced from 3.1 days to 0.4 days
Real Printing Business. Real Results.
""Powder coating was our blackhole — jobs went in and we had no idea when they would come back. Now the vendor updates their own jobs and I can see it live. We stopped planning around assumptions.""
What improves in sheet metal businesses using Clicarity
↓ 55%
Idle time between operations
↓ 70%
Vendor follow-up calls
↑ 32%
On-time delivery improvement
5 days
To go live — full setup included
One licence. Your entire fabrication shop.
No per-user fees. Full setup by the Clicarity team. Live in 5 days.
Single Licence
₹30,000
/ year
1 user · Annual licence
₹82 a day. Less than a daily meal for one person — for your entire team's visibility, all year.
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Multi Licence
₹55,000
/ year
Unlimited users · Annual licence
₹150 a day. Less than the cost of one missed delivery — for full visibility across your entire team.
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Annual billing · No hidden fees · Full setup included · Go live in 5 days
Questions from sheet metal 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 bottleneck alerts 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. Without leaving your office.
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