Special tooling configurator
Calculate prices in minutes.
The faster initial costing gave experienced specialists time back for more demanding cases.
- to an internal guide price
- Minutes
- to an internal guide price
Overview
01 · Problem
Technical tooling enquiries tied up specialists all the way up to the management.
02 · Approach
A guided calculation connected parameters and cost logic.
03 · Result
An internal guide price is produced in minutes; use of the tool saved many hundreds of hours of expert work.
Before / after
What changed in the business.
Mechanical & plant engineering
Costing rolling tools faster
Starting point
The family business holds more than 100 years of know-how in the cold forming of rotationally symmetrical workpieces. For rolling tools, profile, material, process parameters and expected tool life determine the effort. Until then, costing required the special knowledge of the owner family and extensive calculation work.
How does a configurator speed up the costing of rolling tools?
In the course of a bespoke configuration and development process, this knowledge was turned into a reproducible process: a step-by-step configuration with around 15 inputs and an underlying cost logic that links tool design and costing parameters. Technical enquiries can thus be classified for internal costing in a few minutes.
Thread type, rolling tool and material costs are part of the query; the costing rules stay within the company. The company described in retrospect that the costing time for the products concerned had fallen almost to zero.
As a result, costing knowledge no longer depends on the owner family alone. It gained room for innovation, new lines of business and investment, and was able to step back from day-to-day operations, a step that also eases succession.
At a glance
Levers and services.
- LeverReducing cost pressure The initial costing no longer ties up expert time all the way up to the management.
- LeverSecuring succession The owner family's costing knowledge now sits in a reproducible process.
- Services
- ConceptDevelopmentFurther development
- Type of solution
- Configurators, costing & pricing
- Industry
- Mechanical & plant engineering
Result
Result and assessment.
- to an internal guide price
- Minutes
- to an internal guide price
The faster initial costing gave experienced specialists time back for more demanding cases.
What entrepreneurs can take from this
When experience sits in parameters and cost logic, a guided process can take over the first assessment.
A mechanism, not a promise of results: the effect depends on your starting process.
What this means for you
Building blocks from this case.
This project gave rise to use cases that we now deploy in other companies, adapted to their processes.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about this case.
Your question is not here? In the initial conversation we take 30 minutes for your specific topic.
No. It is an internal guide price for a quick assessment. Specialists still check the binding quotation.
The faster initial costing gave experienced specialists time back for more demanding cases.
The principle yes, the implementation never one to one. When experience sits in parameters and cost logic, a guided process can take over the first assessment. In the initial conversation we check which part of it has the greatest leverage for you.
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