Quotation Factory Platform

Turn CAD Files Into Accurate Quotes — Without Growing Your Sales Team

Your best estimator takes 45 minutes per quote. Your customers expect an answer the same day. And there are 30 RfQs sitting in the inbox right now — sheet metal parts, tube assemblies, structural profiles, and everything in between.

Quotation Factory is the AI-powered cloud platform that reads CAD files, builds Bills of Materials, calculates production costs, and generates quotes — automatically. Whether the job calls for flat laser cutting, tube cutting, profile processing, bending, machining, or welding, the platform handles it. Metalworking companies that use it handle 4x more quotations while their competitors are still opening STEP files.

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Sound Familiar?

Every metalworking company hits the same wall.

Your best people are buried in routine quotes. They spend hours on RfQs that may never convert — while high-value customers wait in line behind simple laser-cut brackets, standard tube lengths, and repetitive profile work.

Two estimators, two prices. Ask Jan and Piet to quote the same tube assembly and you'll get two different numbers. Customers notice. Your margins suffer.

Decades of knowledge, no way to keep it. When your senior estimator retires next year, how much of your quoting logic walks out the door — sheet nesting strategies, tube cutting parameters, profile processing rules, all of it?

You can't quote faster without hiring more. Every new RfQ needs a human to open the CAD file, figure out the features, look up materials, calculate times, and build a price — whether it's a flat sheet part, a laser-cut tube, or a welded profile assembly. That doesn't scale.

What If 70% of Your Quotes Needed Zero Manual Effort?

That's what Quotation Factory delivers.

Upload a CAD file — a sheet metal part, a tube assembly, a structural profile, a full welded construction. The AI reads the geometry, identifies every cost driver, matches materials from your catalog, selects the right machines, estimates production times, and calculates a price — all in the time it takes to pour a coffee.

The numbers from real metalworking companies:

Metric	Before	After
Quotes handled per month	1x (baseline)	4x
Fully automated quotes	0%	70%+
Quotation turnaround	Days	Minutes
Revenue	1x (baseline)	3x

How It Works

1. Upload a CAD File

Drop in a STEP, DXF, DWG, DSTV, NC1, or any of 30+ supported formats. Sheet metal parts, tube profiles, structural steel sections, full assemblies — the AI starts analyzing immediately. No manual setup, no data entry.

2. The AI Does the Estimating

The platform reads every detail depending on the part type:

Sheet metal: piercings, contours, bend lines, cutouts, material thickness
Tubes and profiles: cut lengths, miters, copes, notches, holes, end preparations
Machining: milling operations, turning features, threading, tolerances
Assemblies: welding seams, joint types, component relationships

It identifies the raw material shape — sheet, tube, bar, beam, or profile — builds a full Bill of Materials, and breaks assemblies down into individual components automatically.

3. Get a Complete Quote

Materials are matched from your catalog. Production routes are selected based on your actual machines — your flat laser, your tube laser, your press brakes, your saws, your machining centers. Times and costs are calculated. A quotation document is generated — ready to send.

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Your Factory, Digitized

Quotation Factory doesn't use generic formulas. It builds a digital twin of your specific factory — your machines, your materials, your pricing rules, your business logic.

Your machines and capabilities. Define every resource with its real constraints and tolerances — flat lasers, tube lasers, combination machines, press brakes, saws, drilling lines, machining centers, welding stations. The platform only assigns work to machines that can actually handle it.

Your material catalog. Import your full article catalog with purchasing prices at different quantity thresholds. The AI uses Natural Language Processing to match customer requests to your available materials across international standards — sheets, tubes, hollow sections, structural profiles, bars, beams, channels, and angles in aluminum, steel, stainless steel, brass, titanium, and more.

Your pricing strategy. Set surcharges, discounts, and customer segment strategies (A/B/C/D). Manage cost-to-sales price ratios. Support multiple currencies with live exchange rates. Every quote follows your rules — consistently.

Your business logic. Codify the expertise that lives in your estimators' heads: material assignment rules, nesting strategies for sheets and tubes, remnant management, auto-quote triggers, working step configurations. The platform applies these rules to every single quote, whether it's 2 AM or 2 PM.

AI That Understands Metal

This isn't generic AI bolted onto a quoting tool. Every model is purpose-built for metalworking.

CAD analysis that sees what matters. BREP-based geometry interpretation reads 3D files — recognizing sheet metal features, tube and profile cross-sections, and machined geometries. Layer and color-based detection handles 2D drawings. DSTV/NC1 import processes structural steel profiles directly. PMI extraction pulls dimensions, tolerances, surface roughness, and threading specs directly from the model — no manual reading required.

Production time estimation that learns. Machine learning models estimate times for flat laser cutting, tube laser cutting, profile cutting, bending, sawing, milling, turning, welding, and every other process you run. Compare estimates against actual shop floor times, and the models get more accurate with every job.

Smart routing that picks the right path. The matchmaking engine considers your full set of machines, their capabilities, and your preferred production sequences — then selects the best route. A rectangular tube gets routed to the tube laser; a flat part to the flatbed laser; a complex machined component to the CNC center. When a job exceeds your capacity, it can route to third-party suppliers automatically.

Flexible estimation options. Use the built-in AI models, define custom logic through Excel estimators with 100+ input codes, or connect your CAM system for the highest possible accuracy. Mix and match per process.

Every Process You Run

Quotation Factory covers the full range of metalworking operations:

Cutting

Flat laser cutting (sheet metal)
Tube and profile laser cutting
Plasma cutting
Waterjet cutting
Sawing (tubes, profiles, bars, beams)
Punching

Forming

Bending (press brake, folding)
Tube bending

Machining

CNC milling and turning
Drilling and tapping
Threading, counter-sinking

Joining & Finishing

Welding and assembly
Surface treatment (painting, powder coating, galvanizing, anodizing)
Deburring and finishing

Built for Companies Like Yours

Whether you run a laser cutting shop with 15 people or a full-service metal fabricator with 400, the platform fits.

Sheet metal fabricators quoting everything from single brackets to complex assemblies
Tube and profile processors cutting, coping, and notching round, square, and rectangular sections
Steel construction companies working with structural profiles, beams, channels, and large welded assemblies
Job shops that handle high volumes of unique parts across sheets, tubes, and profiles
CNC machining centers where material and time estimation drives margins
Welding and assembly operations with multi-step production routes combining sheet, tube, and machined components
Surface treatment providers who need to price coatings and finishes accurately

You Won't Be Doing This Alone

Getting a new platform running in a metalworking environment isn't trivial. That's why every Quotation Factory implementation comes with a dedicated team and a structured onboarding methodology.

Sprint 1: Become Consistent. Your dedicated team configures the platform to handle roughly 80% of your quotations automatically — sheet metal parts, tube work, profile processing, and standard assemblies. You'll have a Customer Success Manager, an Onboarding Specialist, an Integration Specialist, and an Estimation Specialist working alongside your people.

Sprint 2: Become Accurate. Fine-tune estimation logic for every process — flat cutting, tube cutting, bending, welding, machining. Refine material matching across sheets, tubes, and profiles. Calibrate pricing rules against your real data. The goal: quotes that match your experienced estimators — every time.

Sprint 3: Become Better. With the platform running, shift to continuous improvement. Feed actual production data back into the models. Tighten estimates. Expand automation coverage. This cycle never stops.

Still Quoting the Old Way?

Every RfQ that sits in your inbox for three days is a deal your competitor already won. Every quote that depends on one person's memory is a risk to your business — whether it's a sheet metal enclosure, a batch of laser-cut tubes, or a structural steel assembly.

Quotation Factory gives you the speed, consistency, and scale to quote more, win more, and grow — without hiring another estimator.

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