Custom app for window frame schedules in the joinery industry
Appfront builds apps for joinery factories and window and door frame companies that produce a frame schedule for each building project: every frame mark taken from the specification and drawing, with quantities, dimensions, profiles, opening direction, glazing, hardware, burglary resistance and colour, questions for the architect and contractor recorded against the mark, every change saved as a new version, and the contractor's approval before the schedule goes to works preparation and production. So that nothing is produced from a version that has already been superseded.
What is an app for frame schedules in the joinery industry?
A building project has dozens to hundreds of frames, grouped into marks: frame A appears forty times, frame B twelve times as a mirror image. The frame schedule is the list of all those marks with everything the factory needs: dimensions, profiles, opening direction, glazing, hardware, burglary resistance, ventilation, interior and exterior colour. An app for frame schedules builds that list from the specification and drawing, manages the questions and changes, and ensures that only approved items are produced.
Without such an app, the schedule lives in a spreadsheet that the works planner builds from the specification and drawings. Questions to the architect go by email, answers arrive in another email, and a change from the contractor is incorporated into version four while the factory has already started on version three. Working out which marks have changed between two versions means someone comparing them by eye. And the contractor's approval is an email sitting in a colleague's inbox.
We build custom software because the schedule has to fit your factory: which products and profile systems you make, how you currently handle specifications and drawings, whether you can read from a building model, which drawing package and ERP your works preparation and production use, and how you communicate with contractors and architects. A drawing package draws the frame; it does not know the list of a hundred marks, their questions and their versions.
Schedule per mark
Each window frame mark with quantity, dimensions, profile, opening direction, glazing, fittings, burglary resistance, ventilation and colour, taken from the specification, drawing or building model.
Questions and versions
Questions to the architect or contractor recorded per mark, answers processed into a new version, and for each version a clear view of which marks have changed.
Approval before production
The schedule goes to the contractor for approval, with sign-off per version in the app. Only once approved does the schedule move on to production planning and manufacturing.
How we build your app for window frame schedules in the joinery industry
We start with a live project: how many marks, how many versions, how many questions, and how often something was made from a version that had already been changed.
Your products and profile systems, how you currently handle specifications and drawings, the software used for production planning and manufacturing, and how you communicate with contractors.
Entering or importing window frame marks with their characteristics, checking for missing or illogical data, and the schedule per project.
Questions and answers per mark, versions showing differences, and approval by contractor and architect within the app.
The handover to costing, production planning and manufacturing, an overview per project, and then ongoing management and expansion.
What an app for window frame schedules in the joinery industry actually does
The components below appear in almost every joinery factory. Which ones you need depends on your products and on how specifications reach you.
Mark entry and import
Window frame marks entered or imported from a list or building model, with their quantities and the locations in the building where they appear.
Characteristics per mark
Dimensions, profiles, opening direction, glazing, fittings, burglary resistance, ventilation and colour per mark, with checks for combinations that are not possible.
Questionnaire
Questions per mark to the architect or contractor, with status and answer, so open questions for each project sit in one overview.
Versions and differences
Every change recorded as a new version, with the marks that have changed in each version and what has changed.
Approval
The schedule goes to the contractor and, where relevant, the architect for approval, with sign-off per version and a block on production until approval is given.
Handover
The approved schedule passes to costing, drawing packages, production planning and ERP, so nothing needs to be retyped.
Who we build an app for window frame schedules in the joinery industry for
The app is intended for factories where the window frame schedule is currently built up in spreadsheets and emails.
Joinery factories
Timber frames, windows and doors for residential and commercial construction. The schedule per mark and approval before production are the core.
Manufacturers of PVC window frames
Many marks per project in fixed profile systems. The import and the checks per mark matter most.
Contractors with their own joinery workshop
Frames for in-house projects, with short lines of communication. Questions and versions are what is needed.
Factories for renovation and transformation
Existing buildings with many irregular dimensions. The integration with measurement data and versions is at the core.
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This page covers the window and door schedule per project. For the entire process from measuring up to installation, see our page on window and door frame software; for the factory as a whole, see our page on joinery factory software; and for on-site measuring, see our page on an app for measuring lists in joinery work. You can read about how we work under building software.
Why choose Appfront for your app for window frame schedules in the joinery industry?
A frame built from an outdated version goes back to the factory. We build on this: one schedule per project, questions raised per item, and production only from what has been approved.
Producing from the right version
Production planning only sees the approved version. Any change afterwards becomes a new version that needs fresh sign-off.
No more lost questions
Every question is tied to the item it concerns. The overview of open questions per project sits on one screen.
Differences at a glance
For each version you can see which items have changed. Nobody has to compare two spreadsheets side by side.
Security and privacy for a window and door schedule app in the joinery industry
The app holds project data, drawings and agreements with contractors and architects. Access is set up by role and by project: production planning edits the schedule, contractors and architects see their own projects and give approval, and manufacturing sees the approved version. Every change and approval is logged with name and time.
The app runs in a European data centre, with encrypted storage and daily back-ups. Integrations with drawing packages and ERP work with dedicated keys that can be revoked.
Frequently asked questions about a window and door schedule app in the joinery industry
Questions joinery factories ask before getting started.
It builds up, per project, the schedule of window and door items with quantities, dimensions, profiles, opening direction, glazing, hardware, burglary resistance, ventilation and colour. It records questions per item, keeps every change as a version with the differences, has the contractor approve it, and passes the approved schedule on to production planning and manufacturing.
If the building model contains windows and doors as objects with their properties, the app can import them as a proposal for the schedule. Production planning fills in whatever is missing. How useful a model is depends on how it has been set up; we look at this per project.
In a dedicated environment per project, the contractor sees the schedule, the questions awaiting an answer and the differences per version, and gives approval. Without approval, the schedule does not go to production.
Yes, provided the drawing software can import data. The approved properties per item go to the drawing software, so the draughtsperson does not re-enter what is already in the schedule.
The change becomes a new version with a new approval. The app shows which items it affects and what of that is already in production, so you can assess what the change will cost.
For each item those requirements are recorded from the specification, with checks on combinations of hardware, glazing and profile that do not meet what you have entered in the schedule. The technical assessment remains with your production planning.
Check that first. Some packages for the joinery industry have a project schedule feature, and that is sufficient if you have few versions and questions. Custom development makes sense when schedules are large, when contractors and architects need to view and approve, or when versions are currently compared by eye.
Never produce from an outdated version again?
Tell us which windows and doors you make, how specifications and drawings reach you, and how you currently coordinate with contractors. We will show you what the schedule, the versions and the approval look like.