Vulcan Technologies makes Brontes.

Brontes is one connected system for structural steel fabricators, from bid to billing: the office, the shop floor and the crew on site, working from the same job.

What it is

A steel job passes through a lot of hands: estimating, project management, purchasing, the shop floor, shipping and the crew on site. In Brontes they all work from the same job, so the office, the shop and the field are looking at the same marks, the same revisions and the same numbers, and nothing gets typed twice.

How a job moves through it

01BidThe invitation comes in, goes on the bid board and gets a due date.
02EstimateImport the takeoff, then price material, connections, shop and field labor, paint and freight.
03ProposalThe proposal goes out in Word or PDF, with your own clauses.
04ProjectWon bids become projects: drawings, submittals, RFIs, change orders and the model.
05ShopPieces are released to the shop and routed through your stations, scan by scan.
06Cut listMaterial is combined and nested, then cut at the Cut Station, and the drops go back into inventory.
07ShipLoads are built from finished pieces, and every mark is on a shipping ticket.
08FieldThe crew marks pieces erected and files daily reports and time from the site.
09BillBilling and job cost come from the same job, so the numbers match what happened.

What makes it different

One system: One job record from bid to billing. The estimate, the pieces, the purchase orders, the loads and the field reports all belong to it.
Built for structural steel: Marks, heats, releases, routes, cut lists, nests, loads and erection, in the words the shop already uses.
Depth without the implementer: Detailed estimating, piece tracking and nesting, set up with your rates, stations and cost codes by our own team, without a separate implementer bill.

Who uses it

Estimators: Bring in the takeoff, price material, connections and labor, and send the proposal.
Project managers: Drawings, submittals, transmittals, RFIs and change orders on the job they belong to.
Purchasing: Buy what the job needs, receive it, and know where it is in the yard.
The shop: Cut lists, nests and routes through your stations, piece by piece.
Shipping and the field: What went out on which truck, what's erected, daily reports and time.
The office: Cost codes, billing and the numbers on every job.

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