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    Below are a selection of applications where we can help you automate your tasks. If you have other suggestions, we would like to know. Please contact us.


  • QUOTING / ESTIMATION SYSTEMS
  • STOCK SYSTEMS
  • PURCHASE ORDER WRITING
  • DOCUMENT HANDLING
  • Engineering Drawings to MRP/cost sheet link up.
  • 3D CAD AUTOMATION
  • DATABASES
  • Below are a selection of applications where we can help you automate your tasks. If you have other suggestions, we would like to know. Please contact us.

    QUOTES

    The process of quoting is arguably the most time consuming process for an engineering company and returning timely quotes to a customer can be the difference between getting the order or not.

    The Process:

    • The requirement of the customer must be looked over by an engineer to check specification, features and materials.
    • The material must be checked to see if there is an in stock; if not it must be ordered.
    • Finally, this information must be presented in a customer friendly way and ideally also with a reference number which can be used when the customer purchases against this order.

    The Solution

    We can tailor make you a quoting system which links into any MRP systems for stock you may have, uses any existing templates (Word, Excel, or a direct quote via email are the most common), and can also build you a customer database to allow existing quotes to be quickly used as a basis on which new prices can be worked out.

    We can also integrate any calculation tools into the program (e.g. hole pricing, specialist cutting costs such as laser or water-jet cutting, or weld length calculations). We can offer you pre-formatted email which at the click of a button gets addressed to the customer with their name, email address, short message and quote details in it(printed to pdf), all put together automatically and just require you to have a quick look and then press send. The aim of this is that you are working less on the process of quoting, which costs time, and working more at cutting metal, which makes you money!

    STOCK SYSTEMS

    The Process:

    Many companies require parts fast. That means you need to check and order stock fast. We can offer a fast intuitive system which checks your stock and allows simple updates so that you aren’t constantly wrestling with your stock list/MRP system to keep it updated. Once changes have been made we can build a system that links to your existing stock list/MRP and does a bulk change on stock sizes. If something isn’t in stock, then the fastest way to cost out material is normally to pick up the phone and check availability with a supplier. However, in order to keep track, it’s good to keep notes on your conversation.

    The Solution

    We can give you a quick, fully customizable means of logging your phone quote from your supplier, so that you can retrieve it and don’t have hundreds of notes with prices on them. You can then link these details together to any quotes you have from your customers. Add in a flow charthttp ://jsfiddle.net/wkCNm/

    DOCUMENT HANDLING

    Can you handle building larger assemblies or machines? Do you liaise with a 3rd party designer? In order that you don't get caught out by a last minute change in the drawing, we can provide drawing and document handling, which means the shop floor is always working to the correct drawing, at the correct issue, and has the right specifications to hand. A drawing is easily up-issued following a revision by a designer, or an amendment by the shop floor. It’s easy to log all the changes having been done, so that the designer can correct their drawings, and you can keep track of your costs. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-free-screencasting-apps-for-creating-video-tutorials/

    Engineering Drawings to MRP/cost sheet link up.

    We can link your drawing Bill Of Materials to an MRP system so that the design engineers can design a product and the assembly details can be then passed to an MRP system for costing. All of this can be done automatically without the need for longwinded data entry into the MRP system. Designers can concentrate on designing and purchasers can get upto the minute drawings which can be tendered out to quote. Design to cost can also be implemented quickly and simply using this system. CAD package automation: We can design you CAD tools which automate existing design processes. Parts can be part marked at the click of a button for example. Need a complicated feature which you use often? Click a button and it can be drawn. We can also design tools which create new configurations of parts by modifying the models dimensions.