Which of your machines makes this part, and why.
- t 2.5 mm
- Ø 12 · 4×
- slot 90 × 40
- bend 90° · R2 · 2×
- cut 1 240 mm
Routing · your work centres
- 10Laser cut · 1 240 mm2.4 minLASER 02 · TruLaser 30302.5 mm aluminium, and LASER 01 has no assist gas for it
- 20Deburr · both faces0.8 minDEBURR 01 · manual
- 30Bend · 2 × 90° R21.2 minPRESS 04 · tool V12only press with a 3 m bed and V12 in its tool list
- 40Inspect · first piece0.5 minQC BENCH
- Time per part
- 4.9 min
- Price per part
- € 16.40
Four operations, four work centres, each with the constraint that chose it.
Example part, drawn by us. The figures show the shape of the output, not a measured job.
At job scale
One part is a demo. A folder of 243 files is the job.
The enquiry that lands in your inbox is not one bracket. It is a folder someone else structured, with the drawings in the wrong place and a revision that arrived on Friday. That is the input AI-Technolog is built for.
- Files in the folder
- 243
- Count against the customer's list
- exact
- Total mass against their figures
- 0.0%
- Mass by material
- matches
- Needs a person
- 8 parts
A steel structure for a metal fabricator. Real figures from a real run.
And the revision nobody flagged
On another job the customer swapped five profiles from HEB160 to HEB240. The run reported the difference by itself: +1 174 kg of material that would otherwise have been quoted at the old weight.
Your shop
It learns your factory, not manufacturing in general.
Anyone can tell you a part needs bending. The work is knowing it has to be PRESS 04, because it is the only one with a three-metre bed and V12 in its tool list. That answer is different in every shop, which is why the routing is decided against yours.
- LASER 01
- 6 kW · 3000 × 1500 · steel, stainless
- LASER 02
- 8 kW · 3000 × 1500 · + aluminium
- PRESS 03
- 100 t · 2 m bed · V8, V12
- PRESS 04
- 160 t · 3 m bed · V12, V16, V20
- DEBURR 01
- manual, both faces
- SAW 01
- Ø 250 · steel, aluminium
Highlighted: the two centres where there was a choice to make. The bracket above went to both, and to nothing else that could have taken it.
Your machines
Envelope, maximum thickness, materials, tonnage, assist gases. What each one can actually take, not what the brochure claims.
Your tooling
What is in the press brake's tool list this week, rather than what exists in a catalogue.
Your conventions
The route your foreman would pick, and the ones he never would. Codified rather than remembered.
Your corrections
When your technolog overrides a choice, it is kept. The same question does not get asked twice.
And it keeps learning: as production reports back what actually happened – which machine, which cycle time, what the operator changed – the model stops estimating and starts knowing your shop.
Why you can trust it
It never quietly guesses.
A price you cannot audit is worth nothing to a technical office. So every run proves itself against the documents the customer sent, and says plainly when it cannot.
- Drawing
- 3.0 mm
- Model
- 2.5 mm
- Mass from
- the model, not the drawing
- Result
- raised for confirmation
It does not average the two, pick the larger, or quietly carry on. The part goes to a person with both numbers attached.
- 01
Count check
Parts counted from the models and drawings against the customer's own list, to the piece.
- 02
Total mass
Mass computed from the geometry against the mass the customer states.
- 03
Mass by material
The same check material by material, so two errors cannot cancel out.
- 04
Structure
Assemblies, sub-assemblies and quantities against the structure in their list.
- 05
Drawing consistency
Drawing against model: thickness, blank size, mass. Conflicts are reported, not averaged.
- 06
Exceptions
Anything the run could not settle is raised as an item for a person, not buried.
When a check fails, the run does not report a clean result. It says which check failed, on which part, and what it read.
Fit
Who this is for, and who it is not.
We built a demo once for a company that turned out not to need it. That is how the second list got written, and it is cheaper for both of us if you find out here.
For you if
- Custom metal fabrication or a job shop, roughly 30 to 300 people.
- The documentation arrives from your customer, not from your own design office.
- Quoting is the bottleneck: the enquiry waits for whoever can read the drawings.
- You have a technolog or an estimator, and too few of them.
Not for you if
- You design your own products from a customer's requirement – that is AI-Konstruktér.
- The work is simple enough that nobody writes a routing.
- Your drawings are export-controlled. Talk to us before uploading anything, not after.
Confidentiality
Your data stays yours.
The drawings in your order folders are usually not even yours – they belong to your customer, and sometimes to theirs. So every commitment below is written into the contract rather than promised in marketing, and you can pass it straight on to whoever asks you for it.
Used only to do your work
Your files produce your bill of materials, your routing and your price. Nothing else: they never go to a third party, and the contract says so in writing.
Held in the EU
The application runs in Frankfurt. Each company's jobs are separated from every other company's, and nobody else's run can see yours.
Yours to remove
Delete any job at any time. Completed jobs archive after twelve months, and the results stay available to you for as long as you want them.
Confidential by contract
An NDA signed before we look at a single file, for your customer's sake as much as your own.
How we start
Three phases. A gate after each one.
Agreed up front, so a gate is a decision rather than a fresh negotiation. Every gate leaves you a finished, usable output and the freedom to stop.
- 01
Processes and timing
4–6 weeksYour geometry recognised, the operation sequence on a default route, parametric times per part with a confidence on each.
Gate80% of operations and times accepted without correction, or a median deviation under ±20%.
- 02
Cost calculation
2–4 weeksYour rates applied to those times: a price per operation and per part, set beside your own manual calculation.
GateWithin 10–15% of your manual calculation, or a difference we can explain.
- 03
Routing to your machines
6–10 weeksThe general operation becomes a specific instruction: this machine, this tool, this order, on your actual work centres.
GateProduction deployment.
Send us a job you have already quoted.
One you know the final price of. We run it, show you what we read out of the geometry, which operations we would put it through and how close the price lands. You will learn more from that in a week than from a demo call.