Fabrication coordination

Coordination starts at the moment a drawing stops being a drawing and becomes an instruction to cut steel. Everything before that point is revisable at the cost of an hour. Everything after it is revisable at the cost of material, a machine setup and a slot in a production schedule somebody else is also waiting for.

What a release actually is

A release is not an email with drawings attached. It is a named set — assembly and single-part drawings at a stated revision, the CNC data generated from the same model, the bolt list, the bill of material and the inspection and test plan — issued as one lot on one date, against which everything afterwards is measured. Lots are cut either by erection sequence or by material type, and the choice is not cosmetic: sequence lots suit a site erecting as it receives, material lots suit a shop buying and nesting. A job released as one lot is a job with no way of saying what is late.

The inspection and test plan travels with the release

An inspection and test plan that arrives after the steel does is a plan for work that has already happened. It goes out with the release: which welds are inspected visually and which by a method the specification names, at what frequency, by whom, and which of them are hold points — the points fabrication stops at until the inspection has been recorded. Hold points are the only part of a quality plan that changes what a shop does on the day. The rest is a record made afterwards, and a record made afterwards cannot be a gate.

Status, and where the numbers come from

Production status is reported by the shop. No instrumentation inside a fabricating shop is readable from here, so a status record is compiled from that shop's own returns and reconciled against what was released — fit-up, welding, inspection, coating, despatch, lot by lot. Reconciling is the part that does the work: a shop reporting eighty per cent complete against a release that has since been revised is reporting against a job that no longer exists. Where the two disagree, the record carries both figures and the date each was given, rather than an average of them.

What is not performed here

Seimora owns no fabrication facility. Nothing on this page is fabrication, coating, galvanizing, inspection or freight — those are carried out by the shop and the specialists engaged for the job, and the certifications that work is carried out under are held by a fabricating shop against its own systems. What this page covers is the programme: what was released, to whom, at which revision, what came back and what is still open.

There is nothing to log in to

Production status here is a written record, issued and read. A client portal showing piece-level status across the shops fabricating a job is a roadmap item on this site and is labelled as one wherever it appears.