Introducing MetalFab for Odoo
For Australian metal fabricators, calculating quotes, managing material yields, and tracking shop floor jobs often means wrestling with fragile spreadsheets or trying to bend their SAAS accounting system to actually meet their actual needs.
Built on Odoo Enterprise’s open architecture, MetalFab acts as a tailored vertical solution that transforms Odoo into a dedicated operational framework for Australian metal fabricators including jobbing fabricators, sheet metal specialists, and local structural steel suppliers.
Until now ERP has been just too costly
Until now a fully fledged ERP implementation has been out of the reach of many metal fabrication businesses in Australia.
Historically, comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have been out of reach for local fabricators.
Until now, fully fledged enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms have felt out of reach for mid-market fabricators.
- too costly
- too much time & effort
- too inflexible
- too risky
Traditional ERP solutions require massive upfront investments, months of risky implementation, and rigid configurations that break during minor operational shifts.
Legacy systems like Epicor are often too costly, inflexible, and high-risk to implement successfully.
MetalFab changes that
paradigm.
General Metal Fabrication Industry Software Solution
Built on an the Odoo ERP open architecture, MetalFab is a tailored vertical solution that transforms Odoo into a dedicated operating system for Australian metal fabricators including jobbing fabricators, sheet metal specialists, and local structural steel suppliers.
| Legacy ERP | MetalFab for Odoo |
| High Upfront Capital Cost | |
| Months of Discovery | 80% Out-of-the-Box Baseline |
| Rigid Custom Code | Configurable Trade Modules |
Specialized Niche Architecture
The system uses a core metal fabrication engine paired with targeted vertical modules to solve specific trade math. [EXPAND]
The system uses a core calculation engine paired with targeted vertical modules to solve complex trade math:
- Structural Steel: Integrates AS/NZS section catalogs, automated member mass calculations, and surface treatment rates.
- Sheet Metal & Flashings: Calculates coil slitting yields, flat-sheet girth development, and press brake folder hit counts.
- Local Metal Supplier:
Built for the Shop Floor
Deployed via Odoo.sh, MetalFab combines custom metal fabrication trade logic with fully managed, cloud-hosted security.
Deployed via Odoo.sh, MetalFab pairs trade logic with fully managed, cloud-hosted security.
Machine operators replace paper job travelers with touchscreen shop-floor tablets to track actual labor, record scrap rates, and view engineering drawings on the fly, giving real-time visibility into actual versus estimated job costs.
MetalFab slashes traditional ERP implementation costs, empowering Australian metal fabricators to work smarter and scale efficiently.