Industries/Special-purpose machinery
Every machine is new. Most of its pieces are not.
Special-purpose machineryWhy quoting is hard
Special-purpose machines are quoted from a slide or a sketch, weeks before any design exists. The range is wide, so the hard question is which past jobs are close enough to learn from.
Drawgen matches the new machine against your finished jobs module by module, shows how close each match is, and leaves the parts with no good match to your estimator.
The quote comes before the design
The price is fixed on a concept, and the design that would tell you what it costs arrives after the order.
A wide range makes history hard to use
When every machine differs, it takes a person to say which old job is a fair comparison. Drawgen shows its match and why.
Design hours are the big unknown
Hours are booked to general codes, so nobody knows what the design of the last similar machine really took.
An example jobJob 26-080
Press-fit assembly station, two stations
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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