Shop queue view
Scan Queue, Ready, In Production, Inspection, and Complete.
Fabrication shop work lists
Welding Job Tracking Software for Small Shops
Turnboards gives welders, metal fabricators, and small shops a production queue for seeing what is ready, in production, blocked, waiting for inspection, or complete.
Create boards for jobs, customers, or shop areas. Capture operations in one line, then add the job reference, work center, quantity, assignee, and blocker only when they help the handoff.
Actual Fabrication web workspaceShop view · Queue · Ready · In Production · Inspection · Complete
Built for the shop floor
A production queue that speaks in operations, parts, and work centers
Fabrication workspaces emphasize the references and quantities a shop needs for a useful morning huddle without pretending to replace an ERP or quality system.
Production context
Show job or part number, work center, quantity, unit, and blocker.
Fast handoffs
Assign operations and carry notes from cutting through inspection.
The mobile app in action
See Fabrication work on iPhone
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Organize Welding Projects by Job, Customer, or Shop Area
Welding and fabrication work gets hard to manage when every cut list, fixture note, repair, and delivery reminder lives in a text thread. Turnboards lets each job or shop area have its own board so the right work stays together.
- Create a board for a customer job, trailer repair, railing project, structural package, mobile welding call, or fabrication bay.
- Keep estimates, shop work, punch list items, and pickup details separated by project.
- Open a board in the shop and see only the work items that matter for that job.
Create Work Items Fast for Every Step in the Shop
Turnboards works like a lightweight work item tracker for welders and fabricators. Add the steps that keep a project moving, then update each item as the team cuts, fits, welds, grinds, paints, inspects, and ships.
- Add work items for material ordering, cutting, bending, fitting, tacking, welding, cleanup, coating, and delivery.
- Capture small tasks before they disappear during a busy shop day.
- Break larger fabrication projects into clear steps that employees can actually complete.
- Use simple names so anyone on the crew can understand the next action.
Group Work Items for Your Fabrication Shop
A fabrication shop usually has work moving through several hands at once. Turnboards helps you group related work items so shop tasks, field tasks, customer requests, and follow-up items do not blur together.
- Group tasks by project phase, work area, crew, customer, or priority.
- Keep shop prep separate from field installation, repair work, and final punch list items.
- Give employees a clean task list instead of a long, mixed pile of shop notes.
Share Tasks With Employees and Crews
When work is passed from layout to cutting to welding to finishing, ownership matters. Turnboards makes it easy to share tasks with employees so each person can see the work they are responsible for.
- Assign a board to the crew handling a job or shop area.
- Assign individual work items to welders, fabricators, installers, helpers, or supervisors.
- Let employees filter to their assigned tasks before they start work.
- Use Turnboards during a morning huddle to agree on what is active today.
Track Queue, Production, Inspection, and Completion
Shop priorities change when material arrives late, a customer adds a change, a machine goes down, or field work moves forward. The Fabrication workflow starts with Queue, Ready, In Production, Inspection, and Complete, with blockers visible on the affected operation.
Administrators can tailor those stages to the real shop while workers keep the same one-line capture and direct stage movement. General boards remain available when Backlog, Active, and Complete are enough.
Keep Notes With Each Welding Task
Some fabrication work needs context: a measurement, material size, weld process, finish requirement, customer preference, field dimension, or reminder about what changed. Notes in Turnboards keep that information attached to the work item.
- Add notes for measurements, materials, due dates, fit-up details, coating requirements, and customer approvals.
- Record questions that need an answer before a welder or fabricator starts.
- Keep job details with the task instead of scattered across paper, texts, and memory.
Choose full welding shop management software when the record matters more than the list
Turnboards does not manage estimates, quotes, drawings, revision control, material inventory, weld procedures, quality records, labor time, or shipping paperwork. Use a dedicated welding or fabrication platform when those records are the problem you need to solve.
Put the next shop job on one clear board
Create the job board, add three next actions, and invite the person who needs the list.
One plan for the visit and the work
Give the crew more than a date on the calendar.
See who is going to each job, give them a work list, and follow its progress through the handoff.
Schedule people across jobs
Book named crews or individuals in a weekly planner. Review warnings when someone is booked on overlapping visits.
Explore crew scheduling →Hand out saved work
Choose a reusable template and assign independent work lists to different jobs and crews. Each list has its own people and progress.
See reusable work templates →Include people without accounts
Add everyone to the roster by name. Email a personal work-list link when someone needs to complete assigned work without signing up.
See email work links →Start planning your crewCreate your workspace and start with one job.