Industries/Lifting and handling equipment
Quoted with the engineering in it, not discovered after.
Lifting and handling equipmentWhy quoting is hard
In lifting and handling, the steel is the easy part. The welding inspection, proof load test, certificate and the attachment nobody mentioned are what turn a good quote into a loss.
Drawgen keeps the rules your estimator already applies and the misses from past jobs, and puts them in front of the next quote before it goes out.
Testing and certification come late
Proof load tests, welding inspection and certificates are costed after the quote has gone, and absorbed.
The same misses repeat
A counterweight, an attachment or a heat treatment left out once tends to be left out again, because nobody wrote it down.
Every beam is a little different
The capacity, span and hook arrangement change, so the last quote is only a rough guide.
An example jobJob 26-063
Spreader beam, 20 t, two hooks
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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