How to Automate ProShop ERP

ProShop put the traveler on a screen at the machine

A contract machine shop making aerospace parts runs on paper it is not allowed to lose. The traveler, the inspection report, the material certificate, the calibration record for the gauge that took the measurement: if any of it cannot be produced during an audit, the part might as well not have been made.

ProShop is the system that replaced the binder. It is an all-in-one package for machine shops, fabricators, job shops and contract manufacturers in regulated industries, folding together what usually arrives as separate ERP, MES, quality and maintenance systems, and it is built to run without paper: every employee gets a login, and workstations and tablets sit out on the floor so the operator reads the job at the machine.

Estimating, quotes, purchase orders, parts, work orders, scheduling, equipment, tooling, time tracking and the whole quality manual live in one place, which is the entire point of it.

The job stalls on paperwork that lives outside the shop

The work a shop controls is the work that goes well. The delays come from everything it does not.

A job cannot ship because the certificate for that heat lot is still on the mill's portal. The parts are at the plating house and the only way to know if they are done is to ring somebody who is out on their floor. An RFQ has been sitting in a customer's supplier portal for nine days and the person who checks that portal was on holiday. A customer moved a delivery line in by two weeks and published it rather than sending it. A special tool has a lead time that changed after the quote went out.

Every one of those becomes somebody in the front office with fifteen browser tabs open, working out what is actually holding up a job the floor finished on Tuesday.

ProShop ERP

Certs filed against the heat lot Material certificates collected from the mill or service center portal as they post, matched to the lot and the work order that consumed it.

Outside processing with a date on it Heat treat, plating and inspection status read from each vendor's own page, so a promise date is a fact rather than a phone call.

Customer portals read every morning New RFQs, revised delivery schedules and drawing revisions found on the customer's site the day they appear, not the week after.

The Equipment module watches every gauge without being asked

ProShop does more of this internally than most shops expect, and none of it should be handed to something bolted on the side.

The Equipment module works as a maintenance system for company assets and for inspection equipment at once, tracking preventive maintenance and calibration together, with alerts and digital certificates for NIST-traceable calibrations. The Tooling module holds consumable tooling with quantities, locations, vendors, cost and lead time, and feeds those costs onto the job that consumed them. Work orders are created, released and tracked with visibility across departments, and scheduling moves with what the floor reports. The quality side is not an add-on either: document control, procedures, training records, non-conformance reports, corrective and preventive action and audit reports share a database with the work order, which is what turns documentation for ISO 9001, AS9100, ISO 13485, ITAR or CMMC into something you produce rather than assemble.

All of that describes the shop. None of it opens a browser and signs into the mill's portal, the plater's job board or a customer's supplier site, because those were never the shop's systems to begin with.

The cert arrives before the part is ready to ship

The front office stops being a switchboard the moment those logins get used by something other than a person.

Material certificates pulled off the mill or service center portal as soon as they post, matched to the heat lot and the work order that used it, so the paperwork is complete before the part reaches shipping. Outside processing status read from each vendor's own page, so heat treat, anodize and inspection show as dates rather than as calls. Customer supplier portals checked every morning for new RFQs, revised delivery schedules and drawing revisions, which is exactly where a two-week pull-in hides.

Then the things that quietly cost money. Raw stock prices and lead times from the suppliers you actually buy from, set against what the quote assumed. Special tooling and gauge orders followed until they have a delivery date. Supplier approvals and accreditations watched for expiry, because a processor whose approval lapsed turns every part they touched into a problem. Carrier tracking for the shipment a customer is already asking about.

The line to hold is easy to state. Reading portals and assembling a list can run unattended. Filing a document into the quality record, or answering a customer, carries a signature and stays with a person.

The supplier chasing stops being a person's morning

Fifteen browser tabs is a real job. It is just not one that anybody in a machine shop was hired to do.

WebRun is an AI agent that works a real Chrome browser, signed in the way your buyer is. It opens the supplier portal, the outside processor's site or the carrier's tracking page, reads what is there, and lines it up against the jobs ProShop already holds.

It runs on your schedule in your own private environment, a workflow can be locked to an explicit list of domains, and you can watch a run and stop it. Nothing reaches a customer without a person sending it. Each workflow below names the sites it opens.