Industries/Material handling and conveyors
Conveyors priced by the metre you have actually built.
Material handling and conveyorsWhy quoting is hard
Conveyor quotes run on rules of thumb: a price per metre, a figure for each curve, an allowance for installation. Over the years those rules drift away from what lines really cost.
Drawgen rebuilds the numbers from your finished lines, so the price per metre, the transfers and the installation hours come from jobs you can open and check.
The price per metre is years old
It was right once. Steel, drives and hours have moved since, and nobody has had time to go back and check.
Transfers and curves eat the hours
Straight sections are predictable. The transfers, merges and interfaces to other equipment are where the time goes.
Drives and bearings are bought on habit
The same supplier as last time, at whatever price they quote, with nothing to compare it against.
An example jobJob 26-057
42 m roller conveyor with three transfers
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.
Other industriesBuilt to order
