From a Tekla list to a live schedule.
Five steps, most of them once per project. After that the only thing anybody does is record what the workshop finished.
Create the project
Number, name, customer, contractor, site and the dates you have committed to. The customer's own job number sits alongside yours.
Import assemblies and parts
Upload the Tekla Assembly Part List (or an assembly list, a plate list, an Excel or a CSV). Columns are detected and mapped, every row is checked, and you see exactly what will be imported, with totals, before you confirm.
Assign workflows
Each part type gets a suggested route: laser plates are procured and cut, beams are also notched, marked and drilled, assemblies are fitted, welded, fettled and released. Change any of them before you start.
Plan and baseline
Set start and finish dates for each stage of each work package, add the manual tasks (drawing approval, NDT, painting), then baseline. The baseline is frozen from that moment.
Record production
Mark parts and assemblies complete at each stage, in any quantity. Progress, forecasts, the Gantt, the dashboard and the PDF all update from those entries. Nothing is typed twice.
How progress is calculated
Progress is earned tonnes divided by project tonnes. Each item's weight is shared across the stages that apply to it, so completing every stage earns the item's weight once, and a finished project is exactly 100%.
Example
A 50 t project: 10 t of loose single parts on a five-stage route, and 40 t of assemblies not yet started. Procurement and cutting are complete on all the single parts.
- Single parts earned: 10 t × 2 of 5 stages = 4 t
- Project progress: 4 t ÷ 50 t = 8%
- Single-parts line: 4 t ÷ 10 t = 40%
- Procurement and Cut to Size stages: 100%
Why not add the stages up?
Adding 10 t procured to 10 t cut gives 20 t, but it is the same 10 t of steel counted twice. Keep counting like that and a finished project reaches 500%. Fabricata Track shows the 20 t as throughput (tonnes processed this week), which is useful, and never as progress.
Assemblies and their parts
An assembly's weight already includes its parts. So part preparation earns a share of the assembly's weight (40% by default) through the parts' own stages, and the assembly's stages earn the rest. The steel is counted once, wherever the work happens.