Most plating shops do not have one system. They have hand-offs.
The quote starts in email. Drawings sit in folders. Bath logs live on paper. Work orders move through the plant by memory. Certificates are built after the fact. Owners only find the margin leak when the job is already shipped.
A surface treating business needs software that understands process, chemistry, quality, compliance, and billing together.
Quoting depends on hidden technical knowledge
Surface area, thickness, masking, substrate, complexity, batch size, and customer specs are hard to price consistently without a guided configurator.
Production evidence gets disconnected
Bath chemistry, tank assignment, rack details, dwell time, operator timers, and release readiness need to follow the work order.
Quality paperwork slows shipping
Certificates, thickness readings, NCRs, CAPAs, calibration records, and customer specs should be built during the job, not chased afterwards.
Compliance lives outside operations
Discharge, waste, SDS, training, exposure monitoring, incidents, and spills need to be visible beside the work that creates the obligation.
The solution: Fusion Plating on Odoo.
A custom ERP stack built for electroless nickel plating, metal finishing, coating, and surface treating workflows.
One operating record from RFQ to certificate.
Fusion Plating connects the job lifecycle across sales, receiving, process planning, baths, shop floor, quality, logistics, invoicing, and management reporting.
What gets configured
The system is built from real Fusion Plating modules, not a generic manufacturing template with renamed fields.
Plating core and Electroless Nickel Process Pack
Facilities, work centres, tanks, baths, chemistry logs, racks, recipes, bath parameters, and electroless nickel process data.
Quote configurator and portal
RFQs, drawings, customer part catalogue, coating configs, substrate, surface area, masking, complexity, pricing, and sale orders.
Receiving and production
Parts receiving, inspection, damage logging, manufacturing gates, MRP work orders, release readiness, and shop-floor stations.
Quality and certificates
NCR, CAPA, calibration, FAIR, audits, document control, quality holds, CoCs, thickness reports, SPC, and batch traceability.
Compliance and safety
Permits, discharge limits, samples, waste manifests, pollutant inventory, spills, SDS, WHMIS, training, JHSC, incidents, and PPE.
Logistics, billing, and KPIs
Pickup, delivery, routes, proof of delivery, chain of custody, invoice strategies, account holds, dashboards, and auto-email notifications.
The workflow we build around
Every job should show what it is, where it is, what it needs, what it cost, and what evidence is ready for the customer.
RFQ and quote
Capture drawings, material, surface area, thickness, coating spec, quantity, target date, and pricing logic.
Receiving
Verify quantities, inspect condition, log damage, attach photos, and warn before production starts.
Recipe and planning
Generate work orders from process recipes with bath, tank, rack, oven, dwell, and sign-off requirements.
Shop floor
Assign operators, show tablet queues, track timers, enforce release readiness, and keep priority visible.
Quality and certificate
Record inspections, thickness readings, NCR/CAPA if needed, and prepare CoC or customer-specific reports.
Ship and invoice
Plan delivery, capture proof, send documents, apply billing strategy, and report margin and throughput.
This is a strong fit if you:
- Run electroless nickel plating, coating, metal finishing, or surface treating work.
- Quote from drawings, surface area, thickness, substrate, customer specs, and batch assumptions.
- Need traceability across bath chemistry, tanks, racks, operators, inspections, certificates, and shipments.
- Have quality, compliance, safety, customer portal, logistics, or invoicing requirements that generic software misses.
This is not the right fit if you:
- Only need a simple website, basic CRM, or standard accounting setup.
- Do not want to standardize quoting, production, quality, and compliance workflows.
- Want generic manufacturing ERP with no plating-specific baths, recipes, chemistry, or CoC logic.
- Are not ready to move the plant from paper, spreadsheets, and isolated systems into one workflow.
Common buying questions
Clear answers before you book a call.
Can this replace Steelhead, spreadsheets, and paper travelers?
Yes. Fusion Plating was designed as a custom Odoo ERP for plating shops that need quoting, production, chemistry, quality, certificates, logistics, billing, and dashboards in one system.
Does it support electroless nickel chemistry?
Yes. The EN pack includes low, mid, and high phosphorus EN, PTFE composite, boron nickel, nickel strike, bath parameters, hazard notes, and process data that extends the plating core.
Can customers submit quote requests online?
Yes. The customer portal lets customers submit RFQs with drawings, notes, target dates, and job context. Portal jobs can also expose status, certificates, packing lists, tracking, and invoice references.
How does implementation start?
We map your current quoting, receiving, production, quality, certificate, compliance, delivery, and billing workflows, then configure Odoo and Fusion Plating modules around how the plant actually runs.
Stop forcing a plating shop into generic software.
Book a plating ERP assessment. We will review how RFQs, bath chemistry, work orders, quality records, certificates, compliance, logistics, and invoices move through your business today, then show what a real Odoo operating system would look like.