One reference point for the whole job
Wexl Datum runs a fabrication business end to end — enquiry, quote, job, workshop, site, delivery — off the one thing every other system gets wrong: the steel itself.
Built with a working fabricator, not from a feature list.
It knows what steel weighs
Pick a section and the weight, the surface area, the galvanising and the paint all come off the same geometry. The quote, the load, the lift plan and the galvaniser's invoice are one number — because nobody typed a weight, nobody typed the wrong one.
The audit is a by-product
Structural steel placed on the UK market is governed by BS EN 1090, and most small fabricators run that on paper. Datum captures the chain as the normal work happens — the mill certificate at goods-in, the welder when the task is assigned — and the Declaration of Performance comes out of records that already exist.
The floor knows what is next
Capacity by department against the jobs you have actually won, cutting lists against your own stock lengths, and a phone app for the shop floor that asks two things: what am I on, and clock me on. Hours land against the job instead of in an inbox.
Take-off from the drawing
Upload the drawing set and Datum reads the steel list off it — sections, lengths, quantities — for you to approve, correct or reject line by line. The steel list the job starts from is the one on the drawing, not the one somebody retyped.
The way work actually goes
- An enquiry comes in and gets its own number, so a lost one never burns a job number
- Quote it off real section weights — or off the drawing — and revise it without losing the version the customer is holding
- Win it — the next job number in your series is issued and the steel list is already there
- Make it, send it out for galvanising, deliver it, and sign for it on a phone at the gate
Nothing is re-typed between those steps. Winning a quote issues the job number and copies the steel across, so the workshop starts from what was actually sold.
Records an audit asks for, as a by-product
Structural steelwork placed on the UK market is governed by BS EN 1090, and most small fabricators run that on paper. Datum captures the chain as the normal work happens — the mill certificate when steel is booked in, the batch when a member is cut, the welder when a task is assigned — so nobody fills in a compliance form.
- Material traceability from goods-in to the mark it became
- Welder qualifications, with expiry that blocks an assignment before it happens
- Declarations of Performance generated from records the workflow already created
Datum maintains the records a Factory Production Control system requires and produces the declaration. It does not certify anyone — that is your notified body’s job.