Tekla PowerFab Automatic Shop Drawing Alerts
Every hour, WebRun opens Tekla PowerFab, checks the drawing register for revisions issued since the last run, cross checks which affected piece marks have already been released to production, posts an alert to your shop floor Teams channel for anything already cut or released, and logs every revision to a Google Sheet.
How do I get alerted when a shop drawing revision affects material already released to the floor?
WebRun checks Tekla PowerFab's drawing register every hour, finds any drawing revised since the last check, and checks the piece marks against current production status. The moment a released or already-cut piece mark is affected, it alerts your Teams shop floor channel with the job, the piece marks, and the new revision, so nobody fabricates off an outdated drawing.
- Released piece marks never get cut to an outdated revision
- The shop floor gets a Teams alert within the hour a drawing changes
- Every revision is logged with the piece marks it touched for a full audit trail
Built for structural steel fabricators · steel detailers · fabrication shop PMs · shop floor supervisors
What does WebRun do on every run?
The exact actions WebRun takes, in order - in plain language, so you can adjust anything.
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WebRun signs in and gets to work
Opens
www.tekla.com/products/tekla-powerfabin a real browser with your saved login - no setup, no API keys. -
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Tekla PowerFab - watch the drawing register for new revisions
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WebRun opens Tekla PowerFab to watch the drawing register for new revisions. - Open Tekla PowerFab and check the drawing register for any revision issued since the last run
- For each revised drawing, capture the job number, the piece marks it covers, the old revision, and the new revision
- Cross check those piece marks against production status to see which are already released or already cut
Done when Every drawing revision since the last run is listed with the piece marks it touches and their release status.
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Microsoft Teams - alert the shop floor to swap drawings
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WebRun opens Microsoft Teams to alert the shop floor to swap drawings. - Post an alert to the shop floor channel for any piece mark that was released or cut under the old revision
- Name the job, the piece marks, the old revision, and the new revision so the crew can pull the current drawing
- Tag the shop floor lead and the project manager whenever material was already cut
Done when The shop floor has been alerted to every revision that touches released or cut material.
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Google Sheets - log every revision and the piece marks it touches
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WebRun opens Google Sheets to log every revision and the piece marks it touches. - Add a row for every revision with the job number, piece marks, old revision, new revision, and the time it was caught
- Mark which rows involved material already released, so the log doubles as a rework audit trail
Done when The revision log has one row for every drawing change caught this run.
How is each run configured?
Secure by default
Connect once, stays signed in
WebRun signs in once and keeps each session in a persistent environment, so every run picks up right where it left off.
Every action is checked against this policy before it runs.
Questions, answered
Will it stop the shop floor from cutting on its own?
No. WebRun only posts an alert. It never pauses a machine or a work order, a human on the shop floor still decides what to do with the flagged pieces.
How does it know a piece mark was already released?
It reads the live production status in Tekla PowerFab each run, so any piece mark already released to the floor or already cut is flagged instead of silently updated.
What if a revision does not affect released material?
It still logs the revision to the Google Sheet for the record, but it only pings the shop floor channel when a piece already in production is affected.
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