Best Fabrication Shop Software Reviewed

JobBOSS² is the current product from ECI Software Solutions, and it is the successor to both the original JobBOSS and the E2 Shop System. ECI acquired Shoptech, the maker of E2, in late 2020 and launched JobBOSS² in May 2021 as one cloud product that replaced both older lines. That history matters for buyers, because older reviews and price lists for E2 or JobBOSS describe products that are no longer sold to new shops in that form.

• Silver, Gold and Platinum cover quoting, inventory, purchasing, scheduling, job costing, quality control and shipping, with Gold adding built-in accou
• Licensing is per user with a minimum of one seat.

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ProShop ERP is built for precision machine shops and fabricators in regulated industries, including aerospace, defense, medical and space. It combines ERP, MES and QMS functions in one web-based system, so quality records, work instructions and job tracking sit in the same place as scheduling and inventory. That matters when a customer audit asks for proof that a part was made to the approved process, because the evidence is collected as the work happens rather than assembled after the fact.

• It also offers a government version, ProShop SAFE, hosted in AWS GovCloud for ITAR, DFARS and CMMC work, and pricing is customized per shop by user co
• Choose ProShop if compliance documentation is as important as the part itself.

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Global Shop Solutions is a family-owned ERP vendor based in The Woodlands, Texas, serving manufacturers since 1976. Its system covers scheduling, shop floor data collection, quality, inventory, shipping, purchasing, job costing, accounting, payroll, human resources and CRM, with more than 35 applications from quote to cash. Licensing is by concurrent user, which means the count is the number of people in the system at the same moment, not everyone who holds a login.

• The pricing page describes an upfront cost plus an ongoing quarterly cost per concurrent user, with software updates and support included in the ongoi
• No dollar figure is published, and no free trial is advertised.
• Implementation typically takes three to six months, with some customers live within a month on the vendor Fast Track option.
• Choose Global Shop Solutions if you want one vendor for the whole business.

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MIE Trak Pro is built around a simple idea: the quote is the first version of the cost model, and the job should be measured against it. The system carries material, labor, routing, outside services and cost assumptions from the quote into the job, so actual costs can be compared with the estimate and the next quote can be based on real results. The feature set covers quoting, production, inventory, scheduling, job costing, financials, MRP, barcoding, CAD conversion, nesting, preventive maintenance, multi-facility work and EDI.

• Scheduling is flexible, with APS plus four other scheduling modes, which helps when rush orders arrive, materials run late or machines go down.
• The vendor offers both cloud and on-premise deployment, and both perpetual and subscription licensing.
• No price is published on the official site, and no free trial is advertised.
• Choose MIE Trak Pro if quoting accuracy and job margin are your main problems.

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MRPeasy is a cloud-based manufacturing ERP for small and mid-size manufacturers and distributors with up to 200 employees. Its pricing page lists four plans: Starter at $49 per user per month, Professional at $69, Enterprise at $99 and Unlimited at $149. Annual billing gives one month free.

• The trial runs 15 days plus another 15 days, for 30 days in total, with no credit card required.
• The plan limits are clear.
• Professional adds a B2B customer portal.
• Enterprise adds barcode printing and scanning, backward production scheduling, maintenance management, master production scheduling, multiple producti

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Katana is a cloud inventory and manufacturing system for small product businesses, and its pricing changed in a way buyers should know before they compare it with older reviews. The vendor now sells one plan, Advantage, as a custom annual contract. Katana scopes the workflows and integrations, then quotes one price for the agreed work, with unlimited users, inventory, manufacturing, purchasing, traceability, warehouse management, the shop floor app, integrations and implementation included.

• No published price remains on the pricing page.
• The free plan is the useful part for a small shop.
• It includes all Katana features within a 30 SKU limit, plus unlimited users, integrations and inventory locations and API access.
• For the first 15 days you can work with unlimited SKUs, then you must bring the catalog down to 30 SKUs or talk to the team about upgrading.

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EZIIL is a cloud production management system built for custom steel and metal fabrication shops with 10 to 150 people. Its pricing is the clearest in this list for a fabrication buyer. Starter costs $140 per month for 1 to 15 users, $210 per month for 16 to 50 users and $338 per month for 51 to 150 users, plus a one-off onboarding fee of $350.

• Every tier includes the same features, so the price changes only with team size.
• Annual billing saves 20 percent, and monthly billing can be cancelled at any time.
• Add-ons such as advanced BOM and EN 1090-2 compliance are added one at a time, with module pricing shared on a demo, and a 12-person shop totals $2,03

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Tekla PowerFab is a steel fabrication management suite from Trimble that connects estimating, project management, purchasing, production and logistics in one system. It is the strongest fit in this list for structural steel shops that already detail in Tekla Structures, because the model flows into estimating and production instead of being re-entered by hand. Project managers can track estimates versus actual costs at any time, and production managers can balance workshop capacity, run a paperless workshop and use mobile tools to view work orders and cut lists and update production status.

• Purchasers get material tracking and quality assurance documentation from the same system.
• No price is published on the official product page, and no free plan is advertised.
• Choose Tekla PowerFab if your shop lives in Tekla Structures and you fabricate structural steel.

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