Ordering Parts or a Completed Welded Assembly?
Cut parts and a welded assembly are two different scopes. Deciding which you are asking for before the quote clarifies price, responsibility and inspection.
Two customers can send the same drawing and want different things. One wants the components cut and delivered. The other wants the assembly welded, checked and delivered as a single part. Both are valid, and they are not the same job.
What a parts order covers
Components supplied loose: plates cut, holes drilled or tapped, blanks formed, tube cut with shaped ends. Each piece is checked against its own drawing and delivered identified. Assembly, fitting and weld sequence stay with whoever builds the frame.
This suits a shop that has its own welding capacity, a site team assembling on location, or a project where the components feed a larger build already in progress.
What an assembly order covers
The welded component, built from the parts and inspected as a whole: overall dimensions, square and fit up, welds completed. That is a different review, because the assembly drawing has to define what the finished part is, not just what the pieces are.
Assembly also brings the questions a parts order never raises: which face is the reference, what the joint type is, whether the assembly has to be square to a diagonal, and what is checked before it ships.
The question that decides it
Look at the drawing you have. If it describes individual parts, you have a parts requirement. If it describes a finished welded component with overall dimensions, you have an assembly requirement. If it describes both, the request should say which level you are buying, because the quote differs.
Say also what you are supplying. Customer supplied components, purchased hardware, castings or bearings that go into the assembly are not fabrication scope, and their arrival date becomes part of the schedule.
Where the line sits
KorFab cuts, forms, welds and coordinates finishing through partner shops, then delivers. It does not install on site. Work that happens in the field, including final connection and anchorage, sits outside the fabrication scope.
How to make the request unambiguous
State the level, list the drawings at that level, list what you supply, and say what happens to the finished part. What to include in a welded assembly drawing covers the assembly case, and how to organize a multi part fabrication request covers the package around it.