What is Fabricata Inspect?

Fabricata Inspect is web-based inspection and quality control software for structural steel fabrication. It holds projects, inspections, findings and non-conformances, photographic evidence, and the document-controlled PDF reports that come out of them.

Who is Fabricata Inspect for?

Fabricata Inspect is built for QA/QC inspectors, fabrication workshops releasing work for galvanizing, painting, assembly or dispatch, third-party inspection companies, and the project and quality managers who approve those releases.

Can I start an inspection on a phone and finish it at a desk?

Yes. An inspection is saved as a draft and picked up again on any device signed in to the same workspace, so photographs taken on the workshop floor are already there when the written report is completed on a laptop.

How are workshop photographs handled?

Photographs are resized and compressed in the browser before anything is uploaded, which is what makes them send on workshop signal. Metadata including GPS is stripped on upload, and each photograph carries its own description into the report at 4, 6 or 9 per page.

What is in the report?

A document-control header repeated on every page, the report block, checkbox matrices for documentation, inspection, testing and corrosion protection, the equipment schedule, the written narrative, the findings register, released items, up to five signing parties, and the photographic record.

Can a third-party inspector see my other work?

No. Records belong to one workspace and are readable only by accounts in it, checked on every database read. An invited third-party inspector sees the project header shared with them and the requests addressed to them, not your inspections, findings or photographs.

Inspection and quality control for steel fabricators

Walk the floor with a phone. Issue the report from your desk.

Photographs, measurements, findings and release decisions become a document-controlled PDF your client can sign.

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Photographic record ACME-IR-NSC-B2-014

Photograph 1Fillet weld at column base

Photograph 2Rafter-to-column, 8 mm gap

Photograph 3Column centres from datum

Photograph 4Haunch height against GA-101

Photograph 5Hard stamping on base plate

Photograph 6Dimensional check, main beam

6 per pageDescriptions printedRev 0 · Page 5 of 7

Compressed before it leaves the phone: A workshop photograph uploads on workshop signal, at full resolution.
Drafts resume on any device: Start on the floor, finish at the desk, nothing re-keyed in between.
Your document format, your logo: Reports print in your house layout with your own document control.

One inspection, three places you work.

The platform follows the order an inspection actually happens in, not the order a form was designed in.

On the floor

Select the project, start an inspection, photograph what you see. Descriptions and findings as you go. Save as a draft and keep moving.

At the desk

Pick the draft up on a laptop. Complete the checklists and the written report, tie photographs to findings, set the release decision.

Out the door

Generate a PDF with your document-control header, checkbox matrices, released items, photographic record and up to five signatories.

What it keeps track of.

Project data entered once, inspections that inherit it, findings that stay open until someone closes them, and the evidence behind all three.

PRJ

Projects

Client, end client, order, job and contract numbers, QCP, drawings, fabricator, equipment class, plus any rows you define yourself. Entered once, inherited by every inspection.

INS

Inspections

Incoming material through to site installation. Drafts that resume on any device, house-format references, duplication for repeat work.

NCR

Findings & NCRs

Acceptance criteria against actual condition, corrective action, responsible party and target date, open through to verified.

PIC

Photographic evidence

Camera capture straight to the project, browser-side compression, descriptions, section grouping and 4, 6 or 9 per page in the report.

Photographs that survive the trip to the client.

A workshop photograph off a modern phone is eight to twelve megabytes. Uploading that over workshop signal fails, and a hundred of them make a report nobody can email.

Fabricata Inspect resizes and compresses in the browser before anything leaves the device, conservatively, and by reducing JPEG quality rather than resolution, because resolution is what makes a defect visible. Weld toes, undercut, porosity and tape graduations stay legible.

Straight off the phone 8.2 MB

After the browser compresses it 550 KB

Quality drops, resolution does not — so undercut, porosity and tape graduations stay just as legible at 550 KB.

EXIF rotation applied, so portrait shots are never sideways
Uploads run one at a time, so one dropout never loses a batch
A 24-photograph report comes out around 3 MB

Report structure

Section	Contents
Header	Document control, repeated with page n of m
Report block	Client, order, project, equipment class, result
Matrices	Documentation, inspection, testing, corrosion protection
Equipment	Description, QCP, drawings, tag and serial
Narrative	Purpose, drawings, attendance, findings, methodology
Register	Findings with criteria, condition and corrective action
Released	Mark, description and quantity
Approval	Up to five signing parties
Photographs	4, 6 or 9 per page, each with its description

Steel teams who have to prove what they inspected.

QA/QC inspectors: Working across a workshop floor, a yard and a laptop in the same day.
Fabrication workshops: Releasing work for galvanizing, painting, assembly or dispatch.
Third-party inspectors: Reporting to a client and an end client on the same job.
Project & quality managers: Reviewing findings and approving releases before they go out.

Your client's evidence, handled like evidence.

The questions a QA manager has to answer internally before putting a job in somebody else's system.

Your workspace is yours

Records belong to one workspace and are readable only by accounts in it. That is checked on every database read, not hidden in the interface.

Photographs stay behind the login

Images are streamed through the application every time, so the permission check happens on every view. No link that works forever, for anyone.

Nothing tags along

No analytics, no advertising, no third-party scripts. Typefaces are served from our own servers. Photograph metadata, GPS included, is stripped on upload.

A third party sees one job

An invited inspector gets the project header you shared and the requests addressed to them. Not your inspections, findings or photographs.

The detail is on the privacy page, and we answer email.

Part of Fabricata

One family of workshop software

Inspect sits alongside the Fabricata tools South African fabricators use to optimise their cutting, run their job cards and track their projects. Each one stands on its own, so a workshop can start with the one it needs.

Fabricata Cut

Steel cutting optimisation

Cutting lists, stock lengths, offcuts and traceability. Use warehouse stock and offcuts first, and hand the saw an operator-ready list.
Visit Fabricata Cut
Fabricata Flow

Job cards and workshop tracking

Every job, every stage, from order to dispatch. Printed job cards with a live view of who is on what and what is holding it up.
Visit Fabricata Flow
Fabricata Track

Project and production progress

Assemblies and parts ticked through each workshop stage, progress in earned tonnes, and a schedule measured against its baseline.
Visit Fabricata Track
Fabricata Inspect

Inspection and quality control

Photographic evidence, findings and release decisions, issued as document-controlled reports your client can sign.

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