For stamping, forming, and contract manufacturers: AI employees handle quote costing, order entry, and job costing, while approval stays with your team.
Every inquiry comes with a new DXF or STEP drawing, and someone has to pull sheet thickness, grade, blank size, and setup from it by hand, then transfer it all into the costing.
Steel and sheet metal prices fluctuate constantly, but quotes and open costings are rarely updated automatically and get approved at outdated prices.
Drawing revision, bill of materials, and delivery date all need to be transferred from the inquiry into the ERP, and discrepancies between inquiry and order confirmation often only surface on the shop floor.
Comparing planned versus actual setup time, material use, and scrap per order is tedious, so it rarely gets done, and the lessons for the next costing are lost.
Bottlenecks specific to your workflow are included in the scope.
The agent prepares, you approve.
Reads incoming drawings, determines material, sheet thickness, and blank size, and proposes a costing that your estimator reviews and approves.
Regularly reconciles steel and sheet metal prices against current market data and flags quotes or open costings that should be re-checked.
Transfers order data and drawing revision from the inquiry into the ERP, checks for discrepancies against the original inquiry, and creates the order for approval.
Compares planned versus actual values for setup time, material use, and scrap, and prepares the variance report for costing.
Requests availability and pricing for sheet stock and coils from your regular suppliers and provides purchasing with a side-by-side comparison.
Your own checks, exceptions and rules, built in like the standard.
One pattern, many materials.
Specification or drawing in, pricing research, costing, quote out. Based on your prices and your costing history, with human approval of the margin.
Checks the incoming order against your original quote, including all company-specific nuances. Discrepancies are flagged before they surface on the shop floor.
Capture the inquiry, prepare the costing, create the quote, align, follow up.
Orders from email and PDF into the ERP, plus capacity-based scheduling.
Create, check, and link invoices and delivery notes, including customs documents.
Creates and maintains manuals and instructions from CAD, bills of materials, and legacy documents.
Capture incoming invoices, check against purchase orders, prepare account coding.
Capture complaints, categorize, create case, prepare standard resolutions.
Less time spent on quotes and job costing, more time for the orders that really need attention.
30 minutes, one process from your business.