Custom lot sizes, changing materials, material certificates for every batch. We automate costing, welding documentation and quality reports, integrated into your CAM and ERP world.
Six recurring time sinks that every contract manufacturer and steel fabricator knows.
Material purchasing, tooling costs, primary and secondary processing times, manually per drawing. The estimator jumps between the drawing, material suppliers and tool management. Hours before a quote is ready.
For every weld per DIN EN 1090 or ISO 3834 a WPQR, per component a welding sequence, per order a documentation folder. The welding supervisor writes up in the evening what was produced during the day.
Certificates arrive as PDFs from the supplier, have to be captured in structured form, linked to the batch and later passed on to the end customer. A permanent construction site in goods receipt.
The smaller the series, the larger the setup share. Setup times are estimated as flat rates because a detailed analysis per enquiry is too much effort. Costing becomes imprecise, margins fluctuate.
First article inspections (FAI) and ongoing quality reports are compiled by hand from the measurement protocols of 3D measuring machines. 30-60 minutes per component.
Bills of quantities for steel construction, pipeline construction or custom assemblies arrive with hundreds of line items. Evaluating them and matching against your own manufacturing portfolio takes days.
From PDF or STEP drawings, the AI extracts geometry, material and tolerances, estimates primary and secondary times based on your machine data and tool library, and produces a costing proposal for approval.
Welding procedure specifications (WPS) are pre-generated based on the weld joint, the material and the filler materials. The welding supervisor reviews and signs off, instead of writing every document by hand.
Incoming supplier certificates are captured in structured form and linked to batch and order. On the outgoing side, the AI creates customer-specific 3.1 certificates in your corporate design, ready to ship.
Measurement protocols from Zeiss, Mitutoyo or Hexagon are automatically compared against drawing tolerances. The FAI report is generated as a structured PDF including deviation comments, ready for inspection.
Complaints are correlated by material batch, manufacturing process (machining, welding, surface) and machine. Systematic root causes become visible before they turn into a serial defect.
Historical manufacturing data provides realistic setup times per component family and machine. The AI suggests optimised order sequences that group setup times together.
Delivery date enquiries are pre-answered from ERP and MES: current production status, planned dispatch, and where relevant certificate status. A specialist reviews and sends.
A machining and welding operation working as a contract manufacturer for machine builders and plant engineers. Before the project: CNC costing 4-6 hours per drawing set, welding documentation 30-60 minutes per component. The two estimators were fully occupied with RFQ processing, and new enquiries were piling up.
After the rollout: the AI reads drawings, matches them against master data from CAM and ERP, and delivers a costing proposal including a material price request to preferred suppliers. Welding documentation (WPQR, welding sequence plan) is generated automatically per component, and the welding supervisor approves it.
Integrated into your existing systems, not another separate tool alongside them.
We do not sell anything we have not built ourselves: our own AI apps in the App Store, a voice agent and a fully automated customer acquisition system that we run in-house every day.
See all projects & referencesWe analyse your costing, manufacturing and documentation processes, with work planning, welding supervision and quality. The result: a prioritised list of concrete levers.
We build the solution to fit your ERP, CAM and measuring system. A pilot in weeks, not months. Compliant with EN 1090, ISO 3834, ISO 9001.
After go-live we stay on board. Monitoring, adjustments for new materials or welding procedures, training for your team.
Two days on site with work planning, welding supervision and quality. A clear list of the biggest levers.
One specific use case (e.g. a machining calculator) live in 4-6 weeks.
Connection to ERP, CAM and measuring machines, no parallel worlds.
Roll out further use cases from your priority list.
By the end, you'll know whether AI automation pays off for your metalworking operation, and if so, where the best entry point lies.
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