Price by pierce and cut length, then track the sheet through every nest.
Manage drawings, quotations, sheet and plate stock, nests, laser queues, consumables, sorting, secondary work and deliveries for a laser cutting shop. Each order keeps its cut length, pierce count, material lot, nest and parts delivered, with customer-owned plate held apart from your own. Planners, programmers and operators read the same board, and a rush job can be moved without losing the rest of the day.
- Laser machines, gas types and cutting rates entered as you quote
- Open orders, stock sheets and drawings migrated
- Edits to cutting rates and consumable lists handled by GullySystem staff on request
Laser Cutting Shop Management Software, configured by GullySystem, handles quotations, sheet stock, nests and delivery. Each order carries cut length, pierce count, material lot, nest report and parts delivered. Customer-owned plate stays separate from your stock, and gas, nozzles and lenses are logged per laser. Delivery notes and invoices follow from parts counted.
What goes wrong before the software.
How the work flows through it, step by step.
- 1
Drawing received
A drawing file, usually DXF, arrives by email. The estimator notes material, thickness, quantity and whether the sheet is yours or the customer’s.
- 2
Quotation
The price comes from cut length, pierces, gas and nesting yield. The buyer accepts, revises or declines, and each version is kept.
- 3
Nesting
Parts from several orders are nested on a sheet. The nest is attached to the orders it carries, with sheet size and expected cut time.
- 4
Cutting
The nest is queued on a laser. The operator loads the sheet, logs start and finish, and notes any nozzle or lens change.
- 5
Sorting and secondary work
Parts are unloaded and tagged by order. Deburring, tapping or bending steps are routed if the order asks for them.
- 6
Delivery
Parts are counted into crates against a delivery note. The invoice charges cutting time, material and extras per the order.
What is inside.
Every module can be switched on, left out or changed to match how your team already works.
The business modules it is built from.
Each one is also available on its own, or inside a system built for you.
- Quote & Proposal Management
A quote is costed from cut length, pierce count, gas and expected nesting yield, and every revision stays with the drawing.
- Stock Tracking and Alerts
Sheets are held by grade, thickness and size with heat or coil numbers, and customer-owned plate is flagged apart from house stock.
- Production Planning
Nests are queued on each laser by sheet size and thickness, and a rush job can be moved up while the board shows who slips.
- Work Order Management
Each nest is tied to the orders it carries, with sheets used, parts expected and parts produced recorded against them.
- Batch and Serial Tracking
Leftover sheet is booked back with its heat number, grade and size, so a later job can start from a traceable offcut.
- Fixed Asset Register
Each laser is listed with hours run, lens changes and nozzle changes, so cost per cutting hour comes from recorded use.
- Job Work Management
Cut parts are routed to deburring, tapping or bending, in house or outside, and their return is tracked against the order.
- Invoice Management
Delivery notes come from parts counted, and invoices charge cutting, material and extras in the customer’s currency.
How we would put it in.
Setup, data migration, integrations and anything built on top.
One system, each person sees their part.
For owners
See cutting hours sold against hours available, nests queued, stock by grade and what each customer owes.
For estimators
Quote with pierces and yield in view, and compare the earlier figure to the actual hours when an order repeats.
For programmers and planners
Build nests, attach them to orders, and reorder the queue when a rush job lands.
For laser operators
Open the nest, log starts and finishes, and record nozzle or lens changes in a tap.
For unloading and dispatch
Sort parts by tag, count them into crates and print the dispatch note.
The numbers the owner asks for.
- Cutting hours by laser, material and customer
- Quoted against actual cut time per order
- Sheet used, scrapped and returned as remnant
- Gas, nozzle and lens use per laser
- Customer-owned plate on hand, by owner
- Orders delayed by a rush job
- Deliveries and invoices by customer
Who this is built for.
- Shops that cut blanks and brackets for other fabricators
- Laser services that process stainless, aluminium and mild steel plate
- Shops that accept customer-supplied sheet along with their own stock
- Fabricators with an in-house laser that also sells spare hours
- Cutting services that add deburring or bending as secondary work
When it is not the right choice.
- A hobby cutter running a few sheets a month can keep jobs in a notebook.
- Press brake shops, punching shops and plasma or waterjet cutters will find the sheet metal or other cutting products closer.
Adapted to your business before it goes live.
You are not handed a login and left to it. The product is set up around your records, your people and the tools you already use.
Works alongside
- SMS
- WhatsApp or other messaging
- Barcode scanner
- Accounting export
- Spreadsheet import
Questions owners ask before a demo.
How does it price a part?
From the rates you enter: cutting per metre, price per pierce, gas and expected yield. The estimator can overwrite any line, and the original calculation is kept.
Can one nest carry parts for several customers?
Yes. Each part in the nest is tied to its order, and sorting tags print by order and customer, so the crate counts can be checked.
What happens when customers send their own sheet?
The plate is booked in as customer-owned. Material is not charged on the invoice, and any remnant stays flagged for that owner.
Can we move a rush job to the front?
Yes. The planner drags the nest up the queue, and the board shows which other orders move and by how much.
Does it record gas and nozzles?
Yes. Operators log gas cylinders drawn and each nozzle or lens change against the laser. Hourly cost uses those entries.
Does it read the laser controller?
Not by default. Operators log start and finish on a terminal. Reading run hours from your machine’s controller is scoped separately.
Can it manage secondary work such as deburring?
Yes. A cut part can be routed to deburring, tapping, bending or tumbling as additional steps and billed with the order.
Can sheet stock and open orders be loaded?
Yes. Sheet counts, grades, owners and open orders come from your files and are checked by your planner before go-live.
What does it cost and how can we see it?
No price is published, because the figure moves with how many lasers you run, who logs in, which systems connect, and how much sheet stock and order history must come across. Your own drawings are nested and costed on screen first. A written quotation comes after the machines, materials and scope are settled.
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