Manufacturing

Estimating, scheduling and production data are the constraint. Not the machines.

High-mix operations where every job is a little different, the estimator sets the ceiling on intake, and automation has to handle variation rather than repeat one motion.

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What we hear from organizations like yours.

  • "Estimating is the bottleneck on the whole plant"
  • "We turn down bids because nobody can get to them"
  • "The schedule lives in one person's head"
  • "We cannot fill the roles we have open"
  • "Every robot we have looked at wants the same part every time"

Where we usually start.

The assessment decides which comes first, on the evidence. These are the areas that usually apply.

Our work

Delivered and in progress.

Described by category rather than by name. Status labels are exact: built and running, proposed, or in scoping.

Millwork manufacturer · Built and running 1 to 20 quotes a week Material takeoffs that took up to a week per job now take minutes, with the same estimator. Before: one estimator, one quote a week, bids turned away Read the build Millwork manufacturer · Built and running 100 bids a day, sorted Every invitation read as it arrives, added to the bid schedule and ranked against the plant's own criteria. Before: invitations piling up unread in an inbox Read the build Construction company · Built and running Decades of process, captured What one person knew became procedures anyone can run, with visibility for the owner. Built for a construction company. The same approach applies to any plant where the schedule, the routings or the customer history live with one person. Read the build

What makes this sector different.

The margins are set at the quote and lost on the floor. A week of delay on an estimate is a job that went elsewhere, and a cell that only handles one part is a cell that sits idle in a high-mix shop. The data that fixes both, job history, drawings, routings and production records, is usually already in the building and rarely connected to anything.

Start with a conversation.

Tell us where the operation is constrained. We will tell you what is worth doing, what is not, and whether an assessment makes sense.

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