Turner Software / AI Integration / For manufacturers
Not a generic AI pitch with a stock photo of a robot arm. Quoting, job costing, material certs, time tracking — the actual jobs that eat a fabrication shop's week.
Nobody loses a day to machining. They lose it to the paperwork wrapped around the machining — quoting the same bracket for the ninth time, hunting a mill cert, retyping a PO, working out on Friday whether a job made any money.
The software we build already carries $63.4M in quotes, 14,936 work orders, 9,773 purchase orders and 2,802 material test reports through daily production. Everything below came out of fixing our own bottlenecks first.
Feed in the part description and let the engine price it from your rates and your past jobs — not a generic cost model. Your estimator reviews and approves; the retyping is gone. Ours reads a live rate configuration so a rate change applies everywhere at once.
Revenue, material, labour and margin on every job, with a filter straight to the ones losing money. Most shops technically have this data and functionally cannot see it. Knowing which work to stop chasing is usually worth more than any efficiency gain.
A hand sketch or a customer PDF becomes a machine-ready DXF profile. Cuts the gap between "customer sent a picture" and "we can cut it".
Certs get parsed on arrival and indexed by heat number, so an audit request takes seconds instead of a walk to the filing cabinet. We have 2,802 of them searchable right now.
Clock in by face or badge on a shop-floor tablet, tied to the work order and operation, so job costing gets real labour numbers instead of guesses.
AI is not going to schedule your shop better than an experienced foreman with a whiteboard, and it is not going to fix a process nobody follows. If the real problem is that two people own the same job, or that nothing gets logged until Friday, a model just automates the mess faster. The audit says so.
Instant online quoting for laser, brake, welding and machining — AI pricing on live shop rates, fulfilled by certified Ontario partners.
Full shop management: quotes, work orders, purchasing, MRP, job costing, quality. 14,936 work orders and counting.
Face-recognition time clock with GPS geofencing, built for shops that were still passing paper timesheets around.
That is exactly the size where it pays. Small shops have no estimator to spare and no IT department, so the hours lost to quoting and paperwork hurt more. Our own products were built for shops in the 10 to 50 person range.
No. Parsing drawings, sketches and scanned certs is one of the things that works best. We already turn hand sketches into machine-ready DXF profiles and index material test reports by heat number.
It can get close on repeat work and get you 80% of the way on new work, using your own rates and history rather than generic industry numbers. Your estimator approves the number — the AI does the retyping.
Usually. If there is a database, an API or even a nightly export, we can work with it. We have already built the bridge between a 20-year-old Access database and a modern web MRP.
Job costing and quoting, almost every time. Most shops cannot tell you which jobs made money last quarter without a day of spreadsheet work — and that is the number that decides what work to chase.
We work on-site with businesses in Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Guelph, and cover the surrounding towns and townships. Everything else is done remotely.
A half day on your floor, two weeks of analysis, and a ranked list of what is worth automating — $1,500, credited back if you build.