Fabrication Glossary
Industry terms and concepts explained for fab shop operators.
8 terms
- Employee Time Card Software
- Employee time card software records when workers start and stop work. For fab shops, job attribution at clock-in is the feature that separates useful from useless.
- Job Costing: What It Is and How Fabrication Shops Track It
- Job costing is the process of tracking all costs — labor, material, and overhead — associated with a specific customer job. Here's how fab shops do it accurately.
- Labor Burden: What It Is and How Fab Shops Should Track It
- Labor burden is the total cost of an employee beyond their base wage — including payroll taxes, insurance, and benefits. Learn how fab shops calculate and track it.
- Manufacturing Labor Cost
- Manufacturing labor cost covers wages, taxes, benefits, and burden — not just the hourly rate. Learn what's included and how fab shops calculate it per job.
- Overtime Tracking
- Overtime tracking records hours beyond standard thresholds so payroll can apply the right rates. Learn how fabrication shops get this right.
- Shop Floor Time Tracking: How It Works in Fabrication Environments
- Shop floor time tracking captures when workers start and stop work on each job, at shared terminals on the production floor — not on individual devices or paper cards.
- Shop Time Card Software: What Fabrication Shops Actually Need
- Shop time card software captures hours per worker per job for payroll and job costing. Here's how it differs from generic time tracking and what to look for.
- Time Clock for Machine Shops: What to Look for and What to Avoid
- A time clock for a machine shop needs to do more than record start and stop times — it needs to capture which job each worker is working on. Here's what matters.