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Sell cutting time by the sheet and show what each nest used.

Laser cutting shops sell machine time and finished blanks, and the margin sits in how well sheets are nested and how few minutes a head spends on a part. The software for laser cutting shops holds the quote by cut length and pierce count, the nested sheet, the material lot and the parts delivered. Gas, lens and nozzle use are recorded against the machine.

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At a glance

A fibre or CO2 laser turns sheet and plate into flat blanks, brackets and shapes for other fabricators. Customers send drawings by email and expect parts in days. The queue changes every morning.

Records for a laser cutting shop therefore centre on the sheet. Which grade was cut, how much was used, what remained and what the machine did with it all need an answer. Start your requirements with one nest, followed from the quote through the cut to the packed parts on the dispatch bench.

How the work runs today

A fabricator sends drawings as DXF files for a set of covers, plates and brackets in mild steel, stainless and aluminium. You price from cut length, pierce count, sheet thickness, gas type and the share of a sheet each part will occupy after nesting. Material is either yours or supplied by the customer. That changes how it is billed.

The programmer nests the parts and sends the job to the machine. The operator loads the sheet, checks the nozzle and focus, and watches the first part for dross and kerf. Parts are unloaded, sorted, deburred if asked, tagged by order and packed. Remnants go back to stock. Gas and consumables are recorded against the machine.

Where it breaks

What goes wrong for laser cutting shops without a proper system.

Quotes ignore pierce count and nesting yield

A price per part looks fine on a single sheet, but the real cost depends on the pierces, the gas used and how many parts fit. Orders priced by feel lose money on thin, intricate parts.

Customer-supplied sheet is not separated

Some customers send their own plate and some buy from you. Offcuts from the two get mixed. The bill for material goes out wrong.

Consumables disappear with no record

Nozzles, lenses and protective windows are changed when the cut quality drops, not on a schedule. The cost per hour of the machine is a guess.

Parts from different orders are mixed at unloading

A single nest carries parts for several customers, and the operator sorts them by eye. One bracket ends up in another customer’s crate. The shortage surfaces at the receiving dock days later.

Rush jobs reshuffle the queue unseen

A phone call moves a job to the front. The planner’s board is wrong by lunch. Other customers hear about the delay only when they ask.

What the software does

What we would build for laser cutting shops.

Named the way your team already talks about the work. We start with whichever part the audit shows is costing you most.

Quotation by cut length and pierces

Price from cut length, pierce count, thickness, gas and expected nesting yield, with material billed either from your stock or from the customer’s sheet.

Sheet and plate stock

Hold sheets by grade, thickness and size, with heat or coil numbers. Customer-owned plate is kept apart from your own and from remnants.

Nest and machine queue

Attach each nest to its orders, queue it on a laser by sheet size and thickness, and move a rush job without losing the rest of the board.

Machine log

Record cutting hours, gas drawn, lens changes and nozzle changes per laser, so hourly cost is read from use and not from a guess.

Part sorting and tagging

Label unloaded parts by order and customer. Counts are checked against the order before they go in a crate.

Remnant and offcut stock

Book leftover sheet back with grade and dimensions after each nest, so small jobs start from an offcut.

Delivery notes and invoicing

Print delivery notes from parts counted and issue invoices for cutting, material and any secondary work.

Before you talk to a supplier

A requirements checklist for laser cutting shops.

What to cover, which reports to ask for and what to put to every vendor, ready to print or save as a PDF.

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Ready product

A product already built for laser cutting shops.

It is adapted to how your business works before it goes live, and anything your trade needs that it lacks is added then.

Laser Cutting Shop Management Software

Quotes by pierce and cut length, sheet and remnant stock, nest queues, consumables, part sorting and delivery notes for laser cutting shops.

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Solutions inside

The business modules laser cutting shops use most.

Each one is also available on its own, or inside a system built for you.

Services

The services behind it.

Business Process Automation

Approvals, reminders, follow-ups and reports that run on their own instead of on someone remembering.

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IoT and Edge Computing

Machines, meters and sensors feeding the same system your office uses, even when the network drops.

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Data Migration and Moving Off Spreadsheets

Data migration and spreadsheet replacement covers auditing existing files, cleaning and deduplicating records, loading them into a new system and reconciling the loaded result against known totals. Both systems then run side by side before cutover. Originals stay untouched.

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How it works

How the work runs from Bengaluru for your city.

  1. 1

    The audit, by call

    A screen-share and a look at the sheets, accounting reports and WhatsApp groups your team uses. No travel needed.

  2. 2

    A written proposal

    Scope, what we build first and the cost, agreed in writing before anything starts.

  3. 3

    Build in short rounds

    Working screens shared every few weeks. Your team tests them from your own office.

  4. 4

    Go-live, in person when it helps

    For data migration and training we can come to your city. Travel is agreed in advance.

  5. 5

    Support online

    Fixes, changes and hosting handled remotely by the same team that built it.

Our work

Software we have built and run.

We only name clients whose work is published. These are systems our team designed, built and supports.

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Common questions

Questions laser cutting shops ask before they call.

Can we bill customer-owned sheet differently from our own?

Yes. Each sheet in stock is marked as yours or the customer’s, and the invoice charges material only for the first. Cutting time is billed in both cases.

Does it import DXF files and nests?

It attaches them to the job. Reading cut length straight from a DXF depends on your nesting package and is scoped during implementation.

Can it show the real hourly cost of a laser?

Yes. Cutting hours, gas, nozzles and lenses are logged per machine, and the cost per hour is derived from what was actually consumed in the period.

We run one laser. Is this overkill?

A single machine on easy repeat work can run from a spreadsheet. Once customers bring their own sheet or orders mix on one nest, the extra records start to pay their way.

What happens after I share my requirements?

An engineer reads what you send and replies within one business day. We then look at the software, spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups your business runs on today and write down what works, what slows your team down and what is missing. A demo login, a screen-share or a few screenshots are enough. You get a short written summary ordered by priority, with no obligation to hire us afterwards.

How much will the software cost?

We don’t publish a price, because it depends on what the system has to do. That first review settles the scope, and the cost goes into a written proposal before any work starts.

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