SOPs in a Box delivers your shop’s quality system in one package: procedures, welding registers, machine checklists and an Odoo setup that keeps the records for you. We tailor it to your floor and audit it before your certifier does.
Structural jobs increasingly specify AS/NZS 5131, and 5131 calls for welding quality to AS/NZS ISO 3834. That means written welding procedures, qualified welders, traced heat numbers and calibrated equipment, all on record and ready to show.
Most fab shops do the work well. Trouble starts when someone asks to see the proof. Writing that system from a blank page takes months most shops don’t have.
So we packed it into a box.
Everything your auditor will ask to see, already written, tailored to your shop and packed in the order you’ll use it. Here’s what comes with each level.
| In the box | Basic | Better | Best |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quality manual and proceduresQuote to dispatch, rewritten around your shop | |||
| Welding registersWelding procedures, welder qualifications and consumables | |||
| Inspection and test plansFor the jobs you run most | |||
| Quality checks on a tabletSigned at each operation in Odoo | |||
| Heat-number traceabilityFrom mill certificate to dispatched part | |||
| Machine packsProcedures, checklists and calibration for each machine | |||
| Mock auditAgainst the standard, before your certifier arrives |
Now picture the moment the auditor asks for job 2417.
Same shop, same job and the same question. The only difference is where the answer lives.
Without SOPs in a Box
With SOPs in a Box
So how much of the right-hand column do you want us to build?
Every level starts with a day on your shop floor. What changes is how much of the work we take off your hands, and how sure you are before the auditor walks in.
Basic Written for your shop
We fix any document an auditor raises at no cost.
Better Running in Odoo
We fix any finding against our work, or refund that part.
Best Machine-ready and audit-checked
We keep working until you pass our readiness check.
If your certification auditor raises a nonconformance against any procedure, form or Odoo setup we provided, we fix it at no cost before your follow-up audit. If we can’t resolve it, we refund the fee for that part of the box.
It covers your machines too, starting with the newest one.
The fine print, in plain words
Every new machine brings the same questions from your auditor. Who’s trained on it? When was it last calibrated? We’ve already written the operating procedure, checklists, calibration routine and operator sign-off for each supported model.
It starts with one real job, followed from quote to dispatch. By step three, you’ve already sat a mock audit.
We spend a day in your shop and follow one real job from quote to dispatch. By the end of it we know where drawings, heat certificates and welder records go missing, and which standards your customers will hold you to.
We fit the procedures, registers and machine packs to your people, equipment and forms, then load them into Odoo. Your team learns the system at their own machines, one role at a time.
Before your certifier arrives, we audit your shop the way they will, against AS/NZS ISO 3834 and AS/NZS 5131. You get a short gap list and the time to close it.
Dashboards flag open nonconformances, calibrations falling due and welder qualifications about to expire. You see each problem weeks before an auditor would.
Straight answers before you pick up the phone.
Good welds are only part of ISO 3834. The rest is proving it: the procedure each weld followed, the qualified welder who made it, the traced material and the calibrated equipment. The box gives you that proof without slowing the work down.
The Australian Welding Institute warns that ISO 3834 can’t be met with a manual copied between companies. We start from a complete framework, then rewrite it around your shop after the site day, so every procedure matches how your team actually works.
Basic gives you the written system as documents you can use straight away. Better and Best run it in Odoo, which is where the records start building themselves. We can set Odoo up for you or work with an existing database.
Certification comes from an independent body such as Weld Australia or Steelwork Compliance Australia. We get you ready for that audit, and our guarantee covers any finding against the work we provided.
It depends on how many processes and machines your shop runs. After the site day we give you a fixed scope and timeline before any work starts, so you can plan around your audit date.
