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TITLEPROTOFORGE — KNOWLEDGE CAPTURE FOR STEEL-CUTTING SHOPS
DRAWN BY · J.DENNIS
DATE · 2026-04-28
CLASS · DATASHEET
FIG. 1 · STATEMENT OF INTENT

Knowledge
doesn't live in
software.
It lives in people.

I capture it, test it, and get it working for your whole team. 15 years in CNC programming. Perth's steel cutting industry.

02 / RISK·REGISTER

When your best programmer walks out the door, what walks out with them?

03 CASES · OBSERVED / ALL
R·01 ↳
HIGH
· RETIREMENT RISK

The 20-year veteran retires.

Decades of material knowledge, machine quirks, customer preferences — all of it walking out in a single farewell card.

When the card is signed, the institutional memory walks out with him — and most of it was never recorded.

· UNDOCUMENTED
R·02 ↳
HIGH
· TRIBAL KNOWLEDGE

Only one person knows.

The quoting desk runs through one head. Nest parameters live in one programmer's muscle memory. Customer notes are in a notebook.

You're one phone call away from a standstill.

· SINGLE·POINT·FAIL
R·03 ↳
MED
· SCALE CEILING

You can't scale what isn't recorded.

Every new hire starts from zero. Every new machine needs the same hard-won trial-and-error.

At some point the bottleneck stops being the steel.

· ENTROPIC
03 / PROCESS·SPECIFICATION

Three phases. No consulting jargon.

REF · PF-METH-01
PHASE·01

Listen

DURATION · BY AGREEMENT

On your floor, sitting with the people who run the nesting and the quoting desk. Watching how the work actually moves through. Not pitching — learning your shop.

  • Floor walkthrough
  • Programmer shadowing
  • Handoff mapping
  • Pain-point register
PHASE·02

Capture

DURATION · BY AGREEMENT

Sit-downs with your key people. Material rules. Machine quirks. Customer stories. Everything in their head, recorded in a form the rest of the team can follow.

  • Expert sessions (recorded)
  • Runbook drafting
  • Material / tool references
  • Quoting rulebook
PHASE·03

Test

DURATION · BY AGREEMENT

Run the methods on real jobs with your team. Adjust. Re-run. Until the recorded version works as well as the person who knew it.

  • Live job validation
  • Revision cycles
  • Team handoff
  • Sign-off rev 1.0
FIG.2 · FEEDBACK·LOOP

A runbook your ops can follow. A quoting rulebook you can audit. An onboarding doc for the next hire. Nothing proprietary, nothing locked. When I leave, the system stays.

SHEET·05 / CONTACT

Want to talk it through?

30–45 minutes. Over the phone or in person. No pitch, no obligation, no consultant-speak. A conversation between people who know this industry.

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SIGNED · J.DENNIS
PROTOFORGE · PERTH.WA