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Fab, machine & weld shops · 5 to 50 people

The job ships. The paperwork has to ship too.

Every job on your floor drags a paper trail behind it — the traveler, the first article, the cert, the sign-off. When a customer, an auditor, or an insurer asks for it two years later, you either have it or you don't.

We write that paperwork. Editable, plain-English, and built on a floor that runs 20 people.

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  1. Saw
  2. Mill
  3. Weld
  4. Inspect
  5. Ship
OP 10Does this look like your floor?

Nobody buys forms. They buy the end of a bad afternoon.

If more than two of these have happened in the last year, the problem isn't your people — it's that nothing was written down in a place the next person could find.

Tuesday, 3:40 pm

A customer wants the material cert for a job you shipped in March. It's in somebody's email, or it's in the truck, or it's gone.

The new guy

Started Monday. There's no packet, no sign-off sheet, and no record that anybody showed him the press.

Scrapped run

The mic was out of cal. Nobody knew, because the cal due dates live on a sticky note on the toolbox.

The quote

You won it, ran it, and still can't say whether you made money on it.

The audit letter

A customer just told you they need ISO 9001 by Q3, and the quote from the consultant has five digits in it.

The near miss

Something happened at the brake. It got handled, but it never got written up — so it can happen again.

All six are the same problem. The work is fine. The evidence that the work happened is missing.

There's a seventh, and it's the one that costs a job: a customer asks for your quality system with the bid and you aren't certified. You don't need a registrar to answer that — you need a document. Here's what goes in the envelope →

Read a real form first Prices — $9 to $69

OP 20Four kinds of paperwork, four kinds of deadline

Start with whichever one is on fire.

Each lane exists because something forces it — an audit date, an inspection, a bid, a start date. Pick the one with the nearest deadline. The rest keep.

Lane AAudit date

Quality & audit

ISO 9001 and AS9100 evidence, written the way a small shop actually runs — not copied out of the standard.

  • What certification actually costs — calculator Free
  • Gap assessment worksheet Free
  • Job traveler $9
  • Receiving inspection $9
  • Calibration & PM schedule $10
  • Management review kit $10
  • Customer complaint / 8D $12
  • First article (AS9102) $15
  • Quality plan / ITP $15
  • Quality system starter kit $17

Eleven templates written and on sale today. This is the lane that exists.

Read the audit field guide →
Lane BInspection

Safety & OSHA

The records an inspector, an insurer, or your carrier's loss-control rep asks for — and the ones you want after a near miss.

  • Job hazard analysis $12
  • Lockout / tagout $12
  • Incident & near miss $12
  • Toolbox talk log $9
  • PPE issue record $9

All five are written, checked against the current OSHA text, and on sale — or take the whole pack for $29.

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Lane CThe bid

Quoting & job cost

The paperwork that decides whether the job made money. Quote it the same way twice and you can finally compare.

  • RFQ intake sheet $10
  • Quote worksheet $14
  • Shop rate calculator $14
  • Job cost recap $14
  • Change order $10

All five exist — the Excel ones compute (real formulas, worked examples). The bundle is $34.

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Lane DStart date

Hiring & training

Who's qualified to run what, and the proof. The same matrix satisfies an auditor and tells you who can cover second shift.

  • Training matrix & sign-off log $9
  • Work instruction guide + 5 forms $14
  • New hire packet $12
  • 90-day review $9

All four exist today. The new-hire packet and 90-day review pair up for $15.

Get the New Hire Pack — $15 → Matrix & work instructions — in the $69 system →
OP 30What you actually download

Read the whole form before you pay for it.

These are photographs of page one of the actual files, not mockups. Click any one to read it full size. All sales are final — so look first.

Page one of the Production Job Traveler template: job header fields, operation sign-off rows, and inspection columns.
Job traveler1 page

Production job traveler

Routes the job, holds the op sign-offs, ends up as the record that the job ran the way you said it would.

.DOCX · $9
 Page one of the First Article Inspection report: part information block and dimensional results table.
AS91021 page

First article inspection

Dimensional results against the print, with room for the actual measurements and who took them.

.DOCX · $15
 Page one of the Equipment Calibration and Preventive Maintenance schedule: gage list with intervals and due dates.
Clause 7.1.52 pages

Calibration & PM schedule

Every gage, its interval, its due date and the certificate reference — so the next-due item is the one on top.

.DOCX · $10
 Page one of the Employee Training Matrix and sign-off log: employees mapped against required procedures.
Clause 7.22 pages

Training matrix

Who is signed off on which procedure, at what level, and when it was last confirmed.

.DOCX · $9

Editable .docx — not a locked PDF. Put your shop's name in once and print it. No login, no subscription, no watermark.

OP 40Who wrote these

“Every template we sell is one we needed first. If it didn't survive contact with our own floor, it isn't in the catalog.”

ShopFloorDocs comes out of a working fabrication shop in O'Fallon, Missouri — 20 people, real customers, real audits, real Monday mornings.

That's the whole difference. A consultancy writes forms by reading the standard. We wrote these because a customer asked for a cert we couldn't find, because a new hire started with no packet, because a job came back and we couldn't prove what we'd measured.

So the language is the language you already use on the floor. There is no clause-by-clause recital, because nobody on a floor talks like that — and an operator who can't read the form won't fill it out.

OP 50Start free

Find out what's missing before somebody else does.

A one-page worksheet covering six ISO 9001 clauses. It asks which records you could put your hand on today and which ones you couldn't. Takes about twenty minutes, and you don't have to give me your email to get it.

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OP 60What it costs

Buy one sheet. Or take the whole binder.

One payment, one shop, forever. Download the files and they're yours to rename, edit and print. Everything below is written and on sale today — nothing here is a pre-order.

ISO 9001:2026 lands ~September. Updates are free on the same pack — buy once, stay current through the revision.

Single form

$9to $17 per document

The one sheet you needed today — the traveler, the FAI, the cal log.

  • One editable .docx
  • Commercial licence for your shop
  • Instant download
See all 11 in the $69 system

Job shop essentials

$253 templates

First article, job traveler, receiving inspection — material in to part out.

  • FAI report (AS9102)
  • Production job traveler
  • Receiving inspection
All three are in the $69 system
Best value per form

Complete system

$69all 11 templates

The full binder. Every quality template written so far, one download.

  • All 11 templates
  • Free gap-assessment worksheet
  • New templates added free
Get the complete bundle

Got an audit date? The Audit-Ready System — $149 is the tier above: 21 files — the 11 core templates plus a Quality Manual template, a 90-day evidence calendar, and 8 registers and trackers that sequence the records a Stage 2 auditor asks for.

OP 70Straight answers

Questions shops actually ask.

Do I need to be chasing ISO for these to be worth anything?
No. Most of the catalog — travelers, calibration logs, skills matrices, incident reports, quote worksheets — is paperwork a shop needs whether or not it ever gets certified. ISO just puts a date on it. If a certificate is in your future, the same records are the evidence an auditor asks for, so nothing gets thrown away later.
Are these editable, or is it a locked PDF?
Editable. Everything ships as .docx or .xlsx. Put your shop name and logo in once, change any wording you like, and print it. There's no watermark, no login and no subscription.
We're 12 people. Is this too much process for us?
These were written for a 20-person shop, which is the whole point — they're short. A traveler that takes an operator four minutes gets filled out; a twelve-page procedure does not. Start with one lane and one form, and add only when something forces it.
Will a real auditor accept them?
An auditor accepts evidence, not templates. These give you the right places to record the evidence and the language to describe it — you still have to actually run the calibration, do the training, and sign the traveler. What they remove is the blank-page problem.
What if I need something that isn't in the catalog?
Ask. The catalog grows out of what shops write in and request, and a form that a second shop needs usually ends up in the pack for free.