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Metal fabrication software, mill cert to CE mark.

The heat number is biro'd onto the plate and the mill cert is in a lever-arch file. Bulk ties the heat to the weld, the welder's ticket and the NDT report as the work happens, so the EN 1090 pack is a click, not QA's afternoon.

  • Heat-number traceability
  • Weld traveller & WPS control
  • Welder qualification register
  • Weld inspection, NDT & NCR

This is your shop. These are the modules on it.

Bird view of a metal fabrication & welding floorMill Cert IntakeAutomationHeat-Number TraceabilityModuleFab Bay SchedulingAI agentCut, Fit & Weld TrackingModuleWeld Traveller & WPSModuleWeld Inspection & NCRModuleEN 1090 Audit PackModuleFab ThroughputReporting

Where Bulk fits best.

Fabricator checking a steel plate against a mill cert at the goods-in rack

Heat numbers you must prove

The 3.1 cert lands at goods-in and follows the plate to the weld.

Welder working a fillet joint on a steel fabrication in a weld bay

Welds that carry a CE mark

Each joint records its WPS and the welder as the arc strikes.

Quality engineer at a desk of mill certs and binders overlooking the fab shop

Paperwork beside a working ERP

Keep the quoting and accounts system; Bulk runs the fab floor beneath it.

Welded steel assembly clamped on a machining table for a finishing cut

Fab and machining on one bench

Cut, machine and weld a part on one trace, not two systems.

From plate to EN 1090 pack, one thread.

Book the steel in

Goods-in reads the 3.1 mill cert; the heat number lands on the plate and the job.

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Mill cert readGoods-in · Job 4417 · today 07:48

Heat 2B7741 · EN 10204 3.1 cert attached · 6 plates S355

Heat 2B7741 booked

Today's reality: built on paper.

Illustration of a fabricator's paperwork: mill certs in a lever-arch, a weld traveller, welder tickets and a sticky note

  • Heat numbers on a clipboard

    The cert sits in a lever-arch; the heat is biro'd on the plate.

  • The audit pack is a day's work

    Dispatch waits while QA hunts certs and tickets across four drives.

  • Rework found too late

    The wrong WPS shows at final inspection; the fix is grinding it out.

Cobalt 3D render of a welded steel bracket with a heat-number tag

The blocks that hold your CE mark.

  • Heat-number traceability

    From any finished weld back to the exact heat, in a click.

    Data thread

  • Weld traveller & WPS control

    Each joint pulls its approved WPS; the wrong one blocks the sign-off.

    Routing

  • Welder qualification register

    An out-of-cert welder cannot sign a joint. The gate is enforced.

    Training

  • Weld inspection, NDT & NCR

    A fail raises the NCR on the joint, traced to heat and welder.

    Quality

  • EN 1090 / ISO 3834 audit pack

    The CE-ready evidence pack, built from production records in one click.

    Documents

  • Fab bay scheduling

    See the backlog live and give a customer a real ship date.

    Scheduling

The audit pack is a click, not a day.

−85%Time to assemble an EN 1090 audit pack at Pennine Fabrication
100%Heat-number traceability, plate to finished weld
−54%Weld rework raised as NCRs
“Assembling an EN 1090 pack used to be a full day of chasing mill certs and welder tickets across folders. Now it's a click: every heat number, WPS and NDT report already hangs off the assembly, and the CE mark goes out with the steel.”
PF
Gary PembertonResponsible Welding Coordinator at Pennine Fabrication

Questions, answered.

01

Is Bulk a fabrication ERP or an MES?

Neither, and that's deliberate. An ERP wants to own your quoting and accounts and be re-platformed first; an MES is usually built for a machine cell and doesn't speak EN 1090. Bulk runs the fab floor and its evidence (travellers, weld quality, heat numbers, welder tickets and the audit pack) and sits over the systems you keep. Most shops our size replace spreadsheets and lever-arch files, not their whole stack.

02

How does Bulk handle EN 1090 and ISO 3834?

The evidence is captured at source. Every plate carries its EN 10204 3.1 cert and heat number from goods-in; every joint carries its WPS/PQR and the welder who ran it; inspection and NDT results land on the joint. When the constancy-of-performance or a client audit asks for the pack, the trail already exists. Nothing is reconstructed, and the factory production control records line up with the weld.

03

Can it trace a material heat number through to the finished weld?

Yes, that's the spine. The 3.1 cert is read at goods-in and the heat number stays tied to the plate or section through cutting, fitting and welding, so from any finished assembly you can pull back to the exact heat, and from any suspect heat you can list every weld it went into. Both directions, in a couple of clicks.

04

How do you handle welder qualifications and WPS/PQR?

Welder tickets are held with their process ranges, continuity and expiries, and enforced as a gate: an out-of-cert welder can't sign a joint. The WPS library is version-controlled and mapped onto travellers, so each joint pulls the approved procedure and its PQR. The wrong or lapsed procedure blocks the sign-off rather than surfacing at final inspection.

05

We run CNC machining alongside fabrication. Do you cover that too?

Yes. Machining lives on the same thread (heat-lot genealogy through a multi-op route to a shipped serial, plus AS9102 first-article packs) on our sibling page, CNC machine shop software (/cnc-machine-shop-software). It's the same record, so a part that's cut, machined and welded stays on one trace end to end; you don't run two systems.

06

What does it cost, and how long is rollout?

One per-site price with every module included, no per-module upsell, hosting and rollout in the figure. Rollout is one workflow end to end first: prove a single weld traveller from mill cert to EN 1090 pack on real work in weeks, then the rest of the shop follows the same pattern. Never a big-bang cutover. Early-access fabricators work directly with the build team.

Let's build one weld traveller through.

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