A comparison of 12 job costing tools for metal fabricators and job shops, grouped by where each one gets its labor hours, with October 2026 prices and the best pick for each type of shop.
Most custom fab shops cost jobs from hours that are wrong in three specific ways. See where timesheets, production logs and job numbers hide your losses, and how to fix it.
NEW IN EZIIL! EZIIL now opens up on a new production dashboard. One screen that shows a custom steel or metal fabrication shop how every job is doing, the moment you log in.
Steel inventory management is the practice of knowing what material you own, which job each piece is committed to, and what it costs you when it is consumed. This article is written for small and mid-size custom fabricators, doing one-off or low-volume project work.
This article is for owners and production managers of small to mid size custom metal fabrication shops who are tired of chasing status. It explains what mobile shop floor reporting is, how it works end to end (from the person holding the grinder to the person answering the customer), and how to tell whether it fits a shop like yours.
In this article, we’ll look at how the purchase order process works in EZIIL’s purchasing software, what a purchase request
This article compares the 7 best shop floor management systems for a custom steel fabricator in 2026. Looking at what each one is good at, where it’s capabilities are lacking when it comes to one-off fabrication, pricing, and more.
Engineer to order manufacturing means every product is designed after the order. See how ETO works, ETO vs MTO vs MTS, examples, and how to manage it.
In this article, we’re looking at the four most common BOM mistakes we hear custom steel fabricators talk about most often, why each one happens, and how to solve them.
From Word documents and mega-spreadsheets to real-time visibility across every department, how a 70-employee UK steel fabricator eliminated data silos, removed material bottlenecks, and built an efficiency flywheel that compounds month after month.
