Industries/Automation and robotic cells
The robot is bought in. The hours around it are yours to price.
Automation and robotic cellsWhy quoting is hard
In a robotic cell, the robot and the safety equipment come with a supplier’s price. What decides the margin is everything around them: fixtures, infeed, programming and the days on site.
Drawgen separates the bought-in lines, where a supplier request is the right answer, from the hours, which it prices from the cells you have delivered and what they actually took.
Integration hours vary widely
Two cells that look alike on paper can take very different time to commission, and the reason is rarely recorded.
Bought-in quotes arrive late
The robot, vision and safety offers come in while the quote is already due, and the gaps are filled by guesswork.
Each cell has one new thing
A new part, a vision task or an interface nobody has done before. That line needs a person, not an average.
An example jobJob 26-072
Machine-tending cell for two machine tools
Each line priced from what similar work actually cost on finished jobs, with its sources shown. The line no past job can support is left open for the estimator, who sets the price.
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