Product Updates

If you submit FAIRs through Net-Inspect, you no longer need a separate tool to get them there. Fulcrum Control now exports your completed FAIR package in the format Net-Inspect expects, ready for sharing.

CMM reports already have the measurements your inspection plan needs. Now you can bring them into Fulcrum Control instead of re-entering them by hand.

There are a lot of times on drawings where the feature control frames or measurement information is oriented vertically because it flows better with the drawing.

However, our AI was not doing a great job at parsing out this information from the image because it was expecting the text to be readable from left to right.

We now take vertically oriented images and rotate them before parsing out measurement info so that we can get much more accurate results from image snippets taken vertically.

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With this release, you'll now be able to edit drawing annotations (along with their associated IPT checkpoints) from the pdf bubble editor on the job detail page, even once a job has been approved/scheduled/started.

Note: if operations are complete or cancelled, or the IPT checkpoint already has responses, then it cannot be edited. Additional operations can still be added to or removed from those annotations.

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Added to the default tolerances panel are two new defaults - First Article, and Sampling Rate.  These are per document, and apply the defaults to new bubble annotations as they’re entered.

It’s not uncommon to split the quantity of parts needed for a job across different nests.  This release allows better handling for split quantities and split operations. If you add a job operation to a nest, you can decide to assign only a portion of the parts to a given WO nest.  The remaining portion will be available as a new job operation to add to a future nest.It’s not uncommon to split the quantity of parts needed for a job across different nests.  This release allows better handling for split quantities and split operations. If you add a job operation to a nest, you can decide to assign only a portion of the parts to a given WO nest.  The remaining portion will be available as a new job operation to add to a future nest.

We’ve added 3,000 new sheet and plate materials to the Global Materials Database. These additions focus on stainless steel, carbon steel, and aluminum, expanding the range of materials available for estimating and inventory.

This release also introduces our first major batch of metric materials, which opens the door for supporting shops that work with metric standards. With the introduction of metric sheet and plate materials, the system now supports multiple new variant dimensions (including metric) for all materials.

To help streamline item creation, we’ve added a new configuration setting: System Data → Items & Inventory → Default Unit for Material Item Sizes. This setting allows you to define your default sizing unit, which will automatically populate the Item Sizing UoM dropdown when activating materials.

With this feature enabled, if your line items include a weight, then the total weight will display on your packlist. This helps more easily share that information with your logistics provider, as well as avoiding tedious math to add up the weight of all the individual line items.

The AI model behind auto-bubbling has been improved to detect significantly more characteristics across engineering drawings, including GD&T callouts, dimensional tolerances, and surface finish requirements that previous versions missed. We also redesigned the UI: detected characteristics are now highlighted on the drawing but not bubbled until you explicitly click on them.

In the future, AI will learn from your selection patterns to mirror your bubble preferences, making creating inspection plans not only fast but specific to your shop.

The team recently performed a project to update the receiving page.  For the most part, the functionality of the page is staying the same - the primary function is still to receive inventory, but better!

The primary motivation for the update is to use some newer technology under the hood that makes the page faster and more reliable - quicker loads and no crashing.

At the same time, we took the opportunity to add a few new things as well:

New Line Item Grid Data

• Purchase Order Line Number
• Item Thumbnails
• Vendor Item Names
• Fully Receive

Improved Visibility

• OP Line Item Custom Fields will now be visible while receiving
• Hyperlink from Line Item to Item Record (considers permissions)

New Functionality (VIDEO)

• Editable Issue Names
• Bulk Label Printing
• Mark All Fully Received

Currently invite only. Rolling out over the next 6 weeks.

This feature adds the ability to bubble surface finish specifications on drawings.  If a specification is selected, Fulcrum’s AI tool will now attempts to capture surface finish information if detected.  The annotation form is updated as well here to allow the specification of a surface finish as a new type of control category (now Geometric/GDT, dimensional, thread, note, and surface finish).

In the operations list on a job’s page, you’ll now be able to see the scheduled start date of the operation. This provides improved visibility into a job’s schedule and estimated completion without having to jump between tabs.

An in process tracking measurement might only be necessary on one part, but you may be required to take multiple measurements to confirm the value is within tolerance.

First Article measurements now always trigger on part 1 and continue at the defined sampling frequency, ensuring required inspections occur on the first part and at every specified interval thereafter.

For those of you on ITAR-compliant environments, you can now use our AI-powered PDF parsing for Nesting Setup Sheets. We know many of you have been waiting for this, and we're excited to finally bring it to you.

What We Did:

This feature required additional work to ensure the AI models we use meet ITAR compliance requirements. That's now in place.

What You're Getting:

The same PDF parsing capabilities our other customers have been using, upload your Nesting Setup Sheet PDFs and let our AI extract the data directly into nests in the app. The system recognizes all major nesting software formats (ProNest, SigmaNest, Dr. Abe, Boost, CADMAN, Lantek, and others) and parses accordingly.

Get Started:

The feature is live now in your environment. If you run into any issues or have feedback on the parsing accuracy, let us know, your input helps us continue improving.

We’ve released a new walkthrough video highlighting Control, our quality management product built to streamline inspection planning, execution, and reporting inside Fulcrum.

Control is designed to improve production outcomes while strengthening compliance. Rather than treating quality as a separate system or after-the-fact documentation exercise, Control connects inspection data directly to jobs, operators, tools, and reporting in one continuous workflow.