Fulcrum Customers built hundreds of their own apps. Now every shop can. Builder lets manufacturers create custom dashboards, apps and tools by describing them, on live Fulcrum data Minneapolis, MN - Fulcrum, the manufacturing software company serving more than 600 job shops and fabricators, announced the launch of Builder, which lets shops get the software their processes actually need without waiting on a software vendor or hiring a consultant. Every shop has processes that no software company will ever build a feature for, like a custom shipping label for one customer's format or setup instructions kept in a binder. Those processes end up in spreadsheets and on whiteboards. Builder lets manufacturers turn them into custom dashboards, apps and tools inside Fulcrum by describing what they need in plain language. Working software appears in minutes, built on the shop's live data. During the pilot, Fulcrum customers built hundreds of apps without any involvement from Fulcrum's team. A welding shop in Alberta built a tool to produce the CUSMA Certificate of Origin required on every cross-border shipment. A fab shop in Minnesota built an andon board for its floor. A 15-person machine shop in Washington moved setup knowledge out of binders in toolboxes and put it next to the job. "The interesting question is no longer what Fulcrum should ship next. It's how fast we can make our customers the builders," said Sunny Han, Founder & CEO of Fulcrum. This speaks directly to results seen at Connect 2026, Fulcrum's annual user conference, where Sunny said, "Over 70% of the customers in attendance built their own custom software during breakout sessions. We're working hard to make that number 100%." How Builder Works A user types a request, such as a list of every job behind schedule, grouped by department, with the operation each job is sitting on. Builder finds the jobs, operations and dates and returns a working app. Users can then add actions, such as a button that moves a job to the next operation and sets a new due date. Those changes are written to Fulcrum and recorded in the job history. Published apps appear in the Fulcrum menu alongside every other function, and admins can open Builder from the main menu. Builder is trained on manufacturing fundamentals such as setups, outside processing, scrap and rework. It also knows Fulcrum's data structures and how to write changes safely, so shops don't build integrations, maintain exports or manage a second login. Examples from Fulcrum Customers * Blueline Industries (Chino, CA) built a custom work order traveler formatted around how its floor already works and printed from the job. "Every stage of every work center is using it," the company said. * Wal-Tek Industries (Phoenix, AZ) built an operator efficiency app using its own definitions, rules and exclusions, broken down by operator, machine and run. * Aldine Metal Products (New Milford, CT) built a shipping label generator for the one customer that requires a specific format, while all other shipments keep the standard label. Security and Access Apps run with each user's existing permissions, so nobody can do anything through an app that they couldn't already do in Fulcrum. Each customer's data is kept separate and is not used to train models. Fulcrum hosts Builder, including for ITAR shops, so there is nothing to deploy and no infrastructure to run. Every user on an account can open every published app, with no per-seat charges for viewers. Availability Manufacturers new to Fulcrum can schedule a demo at fulcrumpro.com/demo-fulcrum, where Fulcrum will build a requested tool live on Zoom. More information is at fulcrumpro.com/manufacturing-software/builder. Current Fulcrum customers can talk to their Account Manager to learn more or ask questions about using Builder.

Program lets manufacturers create custom dashboards, apps by describing them. Fulcrum has launched Builder, which lets shops get the software their processes need without waiting on a software vendor or hiring a consultant. Every shop has processes that no software company will ever build a feature for, like a custom shipping label for one customer's format or setup instructions kept in a binder. Those processes end up in spreadsheets and on whiteboards. Builder lets manufacturers turn them into custom dashboards, apps, and tools inside Fulcrum by describing what they need in plain language. Working software appears in minutes, built on the shop's live data. The user types a request, such as a list of every job behind schedule, grouped by department, with the operation each job is sitting on. The program finds the jobs, operations, and dates and returns a working app. Users can then add actions, such as a button that moves a job to the next operation and sets a new due date. Those changes are written to the software and recorded in the job history.