Tuwaiq Metal Works
A custom steel fixture manufacturer running two product lines out of one facility.
Manufacturing · 65 employees · 1 facility, 2 product lines
18% reduction in material waste
The challenge
Tuwaiq Metal Works produced custom steel fixtures across two product lines but had no formal bill-of-materials system — production staff estimated material needs from memory and prior job sheets, leading to frequent over-ordering and unexplained scrap.
The previous workflow
- Work orders written on paper travelers that followed the job through the shop floor
- Bills of materials existed only as informal notes from the shop supervisor
- Production costs (materials + labor) reconciled manually at month-end against purchase invoices
- Waste and scrap not tracked directly — only inferred later from inventory shrinkage
How the Dobbx rollout went
Discovery
Documented formal bills of materials for the top 15 product variants across both lines.
Module setup
Built a custom BOM and work-order app in Studio for production costing.
Data migration
Loaded standard BOMs, current inventory levels, and open work orders.
Go-live
First digital work order issued on the shop floor in week 4.
What runs the business day to day
What moved from manual to automatic
Paper travelers had no link to actual inventory consumption.
Digital work orders in Studio auto-deduct BOM components from stock on issue.
Production cost reconciled manually at month-end, often a rough estimate.
Actual material and labor cost rolls up automatically per work order as it closes.
Scrap only discovered weeks later, inferred from inventory shrinkage.
Waste is logged against each work order in real time, visible the same shift.
The difference, side by side
What changed, in numbers
18%
Reduction in material waste
SAR 95K
Annual material savings
60%
Faster production cost close
4 weeks
To go live on the shop floor
Why Tuwaiq Metal Works chose Dobbx
“We finally have a real bill of materials instead of tribal knowledge. When a job comes off the line, we know exactly what it cost us in material and labor — and where the scrap came from.”
Mohammed Al-Otaibi
Plant Manager, Tuwaiq Metal Works
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