Managing Specs & Certs in Steelhead

"Certifications are just so easy now. Making a cert is literally just button clicking." —Sam Pugliese, Operations Manager, Anchor Bay Powder Coat

From Piles of Paper to Full Control

Veterans Metal ditched 27 years of paper and spreadsheets. With Steelhead, they digitized their NADCAP shop—saving time, boosting quality, and staying audit‑ready.

Training New Operators? Make it Easy With Steelhead's Scanner

With Steelhead’s Scanner, operators are production‑ready in minutes—not days. It’s a built‑in guide for every manufacturing stage, boosting quality and keeping you audit‑ready for ISO 9001, NADCAP, and more.

  • Visibility: Real‑time tracking shows exactly where every job stands, with process times and granular data from start to finish.
  • Profit + Efficiency: Automated logging eliminates double data entry, saving hours each week with fewer errors across the board.
  • Control + Traceability: 100% digital “who, what, when, how” records keep you fully audit‑ready.
  • Data‑Driven Insights: Production data highlights bottlenecks and reveals ways to boost throughput.

When it’s time to deliver, automated custom certifications—built from actual process times—are ready in seconds. No typing. No copy‑pasting. Make Certs unbelievably easy.

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SLASH ADMIN TIME 

Steelhead’s certification tools let you generate precise, custom certs with a few clicks, collect and route spec inputs automatically, and process multiple orders at once, freeing valuable labor across your shop.

ELIMINATE PAPER

Go fully digital from start to finish: every spec, process, and signature lives in one integrated system, ending lost docs, scavenger hunts, and costly misfiles forever. No more pencil whipping or fat fingering data.

ZIP THROUGH AUDITS

Deliver accurate documentation in seconds—real-time traceability and tailored certs ensure you lead quality conversations with customers and regulators. Build reputation and trust with a fully digital system.

Managing Specifications in Steelhead

From thickness tolerances to industry standards, create, track and control every Spec in Steelhead —step‑by‑step instructions, revisions, and parameters that keep quality high and profits higher.

Struggling to build Certs by hand with scattered data?

With Steelhead, every part, spec, order, and quality record is unified—no more cobbling certs together from multiple systems or questioning data integrity. Certs are built automatically with data from your workflow.

Drowning in paper, PDFs, and missing specs?

Automate it all. Enter data once, generate custom Certs instantly, sign onscreen, and send them to customers on the spot—everything searchable, accessible, and secure from anywhere, saving hours every week across your whole team.

Spending hours digging through data to find trends?

With Steelhead, you get instant access to automated, customizable reports—quickly spot trends, monitor production data, and make smarter decisions without losing hours searching.

Want customers to see you as a digital quality leader?

Steelhead makes your quality system a competitive advantage: showcase real-time traceability, certification agility, and audit-ready confidence—stand out for all the right reasons.

"When I need to create Certs for parts, all the information is already there. I just click 'make Cert,' and it's done. I used to fill those out in Word, which would take 20 to 30 minutes—now it’s just one click."

Deborah James, President & CEO, Metalex Thermal Specialties