Steel and metals ERP built around the realities of mill operations, service centers, and metal-processing plants — heat numbers, chemistry tracking, mechanical properties, MTR generation, coil and plate inventory, yield management, and the ASTM/EN/JIS standards that govern shipped material.
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Steel and metals operations live or die by traceability and material properties. Every shipped piece needs its heat number, chemistry, mechanicals, and applicable specification — and customers reject material that does not come with a complete MTR. Mill operators, re-rollers, service centers, fabricators, and metal-distribution companies all face the same core problems: linking material identity through cutting, slitting, heat-treating, and coating; managing coils, plates, bars, and remnants in inventory; recovering yield; and producing audit-ready MTRs on demand. FlowSense Steel ERP is shaped around these workflows: heat-number-first inventory, chemistry-aware searches, NDT and special-process routing, yield and remnant tracking, and MTR generation that pulls from the live data behind every step.
Critical pain points in steel & metals that our AI solutions address head-on.
Every piece of steel — coil, plate, bar, fabricated part — must trace back to its mill heat, chemistry, and mechanicals. Lose that linkage anywhere in cutting, slitting, or heat-treat, and you cannot generate a defensible MTR for the customer.
Customers expect a Material Test Report with every shipment. Without integrated chemistry, mechanicals, and conformance data, MTR production becomes a manual reconstruction job that drags out shipping and creates errors.
Cutting, shearing, and slitting produce remnants and scrap. Tracking remnants back to their parent material — and reusing them where customer specs allow — is where margin lives in service-center and metal-processing operations.
Heat treatment, plating, NDT, and cold-working operations have to follow specific procedures and qualified suppliers. Routing material to a process or supplier that is out of qualification creates non-conformance and customer rejections.
A single rack might hold material from many heats, grades, and specs. Picking the right piece for a customer order requires matching grade, size, condition, and spec — and getting it wrong costs both inventory accuracy and customer trust.
Comprehensive capabilities designed specifically for the steel & metals industry.
Inventory is structured around heat numbers from receipt through fabrication. Chemistry, mechanicals, supplier MTR, and applicable spec stay attached as material is cut, slit, heat-treated, or processed.
Find material by chemistry range, mechanical properties, grade, spec, or condition — across all on-hand inventory and remnants — to match customer orders without manual rack inspection.
Material Test Reports assembled from live data at the moment of dispatch, with chemistry, mechanicals, NDT, heat-treat records, and applicable spec all pulled from the systems that produced them. No separate MTR-maintenance system.
Cutting and slitting operations produce remnants linked back to parent material — fully traceable, available for reuse on orders where the spec permits, and visible in inventory as their own pieces.
Heat-treat, NDT, and other special-process operations route to qualified suppliers automatically; lapsed qualifications block dispatch, and process records become part of the heat’s genealogy.
Customer specs (ASTM, EN, JIS, or proprietary) drive conformance checks at receipt, in-process, and dispatch. Out-of-spec material is flagged before shipping, not after a customer rejection.
Our steel & metals solutions deliver real, quantifiable results for your business.
Every piece carries its heat, chemistry, mechanicals, and process history through every operation, ready for customer audit at any time.
MTRs assembled from live data at dispatch — chemistry, mechanicals, NDT, heat-treat — without parallel document maintenance.
Remnants linked back to parent material remain usable inventory, recoverable on the right customer orders rather than written off as scrap.
Conformance checks against ASTM/EN/JIS or customer specs at receipt and dispatch, catching mismatches before they reach the customer.
See how we have helped steel & metals businesses transform with AI.
A customer reports a field issue with a fabricated part. Reconstruct the heat that produced it, the chemistry and mechanicals at that heat, the cuts and processes the material went through, and every other piece from the same heat still in inventory or already shipped.
Production line produces a release of finished plate. System assembles the MTR from heat data, mechanical-test results, NDT results, heat-treat records, and applicable spec — and packages it with the shipment paperwork at dispatch.
A new customer order calls for a grade and size that matches an existing remnant in inventory. System surfaces the remnant, confirms spec conformance, and allocates it to the order — with full linkage to the parent heat retained.
Common questions about our AI-powered steel & metals solutions.