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Digital Build Plans & Travelers

Replace paper binders with controlled digital documents your operators follow on the floor. Every operation, step, and revision in one place — always the current version, never a stale photocopy.

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From draft to released — one controlled document

Define every operation once — machine, steps, time estimates — and move it through a five-stage approval lifecycle. Release it, and the work order is created automatically.

Release once — the floor gets everything

When you release a build plan, Axis reads the BOM, allocates the materials, creates the work order, and drops the dates on the calendar. No manual re-entry.

Everything a paper traveler can’t do

Built around how shops actually control work instructions — revisions, approvals, and traceability included.

Lifecycle approval workflow

Five stages — Draft, In review, Approved, Released, Obsolete. Operators only ever see the released revision; nothing reaches the floor without sign-off.

Rich step editor

Write each operation step-by-step with reference photos, required measurements, and notes — the work instructions live with the plan, not in a binder.

PDF export & print

Need a physical copy at the bench? Export any released plan to a clean, formatted traveler PDF — revision-stamped so the floor copy can never go stale.

Template system

Save a proven plan as a template and spin up the next job in seconds. Standard operations, step text, and time estimates carry over automatically.

Revision history

Every change is captured with who, what, and when. Supersede a plan and the old revision is preserved — full traceability for your next audit.

Classifications

Tag plans as Standard, First article, Prototype, Rework, or Repair so the right process — and the right level of inspection — is obvious at a glance.

Connected

Build plans link to your BOM and generate work orders

A build plan doesn’t live on an island. It pulls its bill of materials for live material-readiness checks, and releasing it creates the work order with materials already allocated against current stock.

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Build plans work with the rest of Axis Pro

3-State Inventory

Every BOM line shows live QOH, Allocated, and Available — so material readiness is computed before the job hits the floor.

Work Orders

Released build plans become work orders automatically, with materials pre-checked and tracked against every operation.

All of Axis Pro

Material requests, quality records, compliance readiness scoring (coming soon), and everything in Axis Projects — in one connected system.