Software for Gujranwala's Iron and Steel Foundries
A Gujranwala foundry turns scrap and orders into castings every day. We build the melt, job and accounts software that shows where the metal and money went.
The trade, and what it needs from software
Foundries in Gujranwala melt scrap and pig iron, pour the metal into moulds and deliver castings to engineering shops, machinery makers and local industry. The work is hot, physical and driven by custom orders, since each customer's pattern and specification is different. Material arrives from scrap yards and suppliers, and every heat has a chemistry and yield that affects what comes out.
Behind the furnace, the paperwork is usually thin. Scrap weights, melt records, casting counts and customer deliveries are scribbled and reconciled late, so the owner struggles to know the true cost of a job or why yield dropped on a particular day. DevKey Technologies builds foundry software remotely that captures these facts at the shop floor and turns them into clear job and cost records.
How the work flows in Gujranwala
Scrap buying and charge preparation
Scrap and alloys are bought by weight, sorted and prepared into furnace charges. What goes in determines the quality of the melt, so purchases need to be traced to the heats they feed.
Moulding, pouring and finishing
Patterns are used to make moulds, metal is poured, and castings are cooled, cleaned and ground. Rejected pieces are remelted, which complicates any count of good output.
Custom jobs for industrial customers
Customers send drawings or patterns and expect castings by an agreed date. Each job has its own specification, quantity and delivery arrangement.
Where things go wrong today
Yield and rejection that nobody measures
Without weighing metal in against good castings out, a foundry cannot say whether a poor week came from bad scrap, poor moulding or pouring problems.
Job costs guessed at quoting
Quotes rest on experience rather than on recorded fuel, labour and metal use from similar earlier jobs, so some orders lose money without anyone noticing.
Patterns and tooling that go missing
Customer patterns are valuable and bulky. Knowing where each one is, and whose it is, is difficult in a yard crowded with moulds.
Customer accounts and delivery proof
Disputes over quantities delivered and payments received are common when records are handwritten.
Software that fixes it
Heat and job records at the furnace
Production planning software logs each charge, heat and casting job, with weights in and good output out, so yield is measured every day and not just estimated.
Production Planning Software DevelopmentScrap and finished-goods inventory
Inventory software keeps scrap, alloys, consumables and finished castings in a single record, with purchases traceable to the melts they were used in.
Inventory Management Software DevelopmentMaintenance for furnaces and machines
Maintenance management software schedules lining checks, motor servicing and breakdown records so unplanned stoppages become rarer and are better understood.
Maintenance Management Software DevelopmentCustomer billing with delivery proof
Billing software ties each invoice to the job, the delivered quantity and a signed delivery note, which settles disputes before they harden.
Billing and Invoicing Software DevelopmentCommon questions, answered
Foundry floors are dusty and rough. Will software really work there?
Yes, if it is designed for it. We use large touch targets, short entry screens and rugged tablets or a supervisor's station near the furnace. Most data entry happens at a few fixed points, not by every worker.
Can it work out the real cost of a casting job?
It can. By recording metal, fuel, labour and rejection for each job, the system builds a true cost. Over time that gives you a factual basis for quoting similar work, instead of relying only on experience.
We take jobs on patterns supplied by customers. Can we track those?
Yes. Each pattern is registered with its owner, location and condition, and linked to the jobs that used it. That makes it far easier to find the right tooling and to answer questions when a customer returns.
Will the data be safe if the office computer fails?
We host the system on managed cloud infrastructure with regular backups, so a failed computer does not take your records with it. You can reach it from a replacement machine in a short time.