Empower
For welding & steel fabrication shops

Weld, fit, finish — every hour accounted for

Structural work, stainless, alloy, or general fab — steel shops win work on price and lose money on hours nobody tracked. Empower captures the real labour in every weldment so tenders are sharp and margins hold.

Steel Fabrication workshop
What we solve

Built for the steel fabrication floor

Structural work, stainless, alloy, or general fab — steel shops win work on price and lose money on hours nobody tracked. Empower captures the real labour in every weldment so tenders are sharp and margins hold.

Steel Fabrication workshop floor

Tendering against the clock

Steel tenders are won and lost on labour assumptions. Empower gives you actual hours from every comparable past job, so you bid from evidence.

Variations eating the margin

Site changes, extra gussets, redesigned brackets — untracked variations are free work. Empower logs and costs each one as it happens.

Multi-stage jobs, single view

Cut → weld → machine → blast → paint. Empower routes work through every station and shows exactly where each job is sitting.

Welders' time on the wrong jobs

Your best fabricator on a low-margin job is a quiet loss. Empower shows labour against margin live so you can deploy skill where it pays.

Steel Fabrication stories

How steel fabrication shops are winning with Empower

30% Reduction in Labour Times

Manta Marine swapped manual tracking for live visibility of every task — labour hours per job dropped 30% immediately, and they say costs would jump straight back if they turned the system off.

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Compass Trailers

30% Increase in Productivity

Compass replaced manual systems with live floor visibility — letting management identify bottlenecks and keep staff on the highest-priority task. Output rose 30% with no extra overhead.

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EDS Engineering

30% Reduction in Job Costs

After comparing options nationwide and overseas, EDS chose Empower. Real-time visibility on times and jobs cut labour cost per job by an average of 30%.

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20% Reduction in Labour Costs

Tricon use Empower for real-time transparency on job status, time on jobs, and labour cost — improving scheduling, sharpening future quotes, and stopping cost blowouts before they happen.

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30% Reduction in Labour Times

Manta Marine swapped manual tracking for live visibility of every task — labour hours per job dropped 30% immediately, and they say costs would jump straight back if they turned the system off.

Read the story
Compass Trailers

30% Increase in Productivity

Compass replaced manual systems with live floor visibility — letting management identify bottlenecks and keep staff on the highest-priority task. Output rose 30% with no extra overhead.

Read the story
EDS Engineering

30% Reduction in Job Costs

After comparing options nationwide and overseas, EDS chose Empower. Real-time visibility on times and jobs cut labour cost per job by an average of 30%.

Read the story

20% Reduction in Labour Costs

Tricon use Empower for real-time transparency on job status, time on jobs, and labour cost — improving scheduling, sharpening future quotes, and stopping cost blowouts before they happen.

Read the story

30% Reduction in Labour Times

Manta Marine swapped manual tracking for live visibility of every task — labour hours per job dropped 30% immediately, and they say costs would jump straight back if they turned the system off.

Read the story
Compass Trailers

30% Increase in Productivity

Compass replaced manual systems with live floor visibility — letting management identify bottlenecks and keep staff on the highest-priority task. Output rose 30% with no extra overhead.

Read the story
EDS Engineering

30% Reduction in Job Costs

After comparing options nationwide and overseas, EDS chose Empower. Real-time visibility on times and jobs cut labour cost per job by an average of 30%.

Read the story

20% Reduction in Labour Costs

Tricon use Empower for real-time transparency on job status, time on jobs, and labour cost — improving scheduling, sharpening future quotes, and stopping cost blowouts before they happen.

Read the story
What's possible

Real numbers from real steel fabrication shops

30%

Reduction in labour hours per job

From Manta Marine
30%
Increase in productivity
From Compass Trailers
20%
Reduction in labour costs
From Tricon Drilling Solutions
The Empower Guarantee

We guarantee your productivity gains.

20–40%in your first year, guaranteed. Don't see it? We provide unlimited support — free of charge — until you do.

Calculate Your Gains

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