Your Shop Floor Runs on Expertise. Your Back Office Should Not Run on Spreadsheets.
You have invested in CNC machines, quality systems, and skilled operators. But quotes still sit in email for three days, material reorders happen by memory, and your best estimator is the only person who knows the pricing logic. We work with manufacturers across the Pittsburgh region, building automation systems that connect production floors to back-office operations without disrupting what's already working.
The real bottlenecks in your operation
These are not hypothetical problems. They are the ones your shop manager complains about every Monday morning.
Quoting takes too long
An RFQ comes in by email. Someone prints it, walks it to the estimator, who pulls up past jobs manually, looks up material costs in a separate system, and builds a quote in Excel. Three days later the customer has already awarded the job to whoever responded first. Your estimator is not slow — your process is.
Quality documentation is a fire drill
Every audit feels like a scavenger hunt. Inspection reports are in one folder, certs of conformance in another, and the material test reports are on someone's desktop. You pass your audits, but it takes your quality manager a full week of prep time that could be spent on actual quality improvement.
Material ordering runs on memory
Your purchasing manager knows the reorder points by heart. That works until they are on vacation and the shop runs out of 6061 bar stock on a Thursday afternoon. Or when lead times shift and nobody updated the mental math. One stockout can cascade through your entire production schedule.
Production scheduling is a whiteboard
A rush order comes in. Now someone has to reshuffle the entire board, figure out which jobs can slide, check machine availability, and hope they did not just push a customer past their delivery date. The whiteboard worked when you had 10 jobs. You have 60 now.
We've conducted deep operational analysis of manufacturing technology environments — evaluating hundreds of applications against migration and modernization strategies, and building the roadmaps that connect shop-floor systems to modern cloud infrastructure. We bring that enterprise-scale experience to the problems that Pittsburgh-area manufacturers face every day.
Custom automation that fits your shop
We do not sell you a platform and wish you luck. We build software around how your shop actually operates — connecting what you have, automating what slows you down.
Automated RFQ intake & routing
RFQs come in through email, your website, or even forwarded from a customer portal. Our system captures the specs, attaches the drawings, creates a record, and routes it to the right estimator based on job type. No more digging through inboxes.
Smart quoting assistance
The system pulls similar past quotes, current material pricing, and shop rates to give your estimator a head start. They still apply their judgment — but they are not starting from scratch every time. Quote turnaround drops from days to hours.
Quality document assembly
When a job ships, the system automatically pulls together the cert of conformance, inspection data, material certs, and any customer-required documentation into a single package. Your quality manager reviews and approves instead of assembling from scratch.
Intelligent reorder alerts
The software monitors your inventory levels against upcoming job requirements and historical usage. When a material hits its reorder point, purchasing gets notified with the quantity needed, preferred suppliers, and current lead times. No guessing, no stockouts.
Production schedule dashboard
A live view of every job, which machine it is on, and where it sits in the queue. When a rush order lands, the system highlights what shifts and flags any delivery dates at risk. Your scheduler still makes the calls — but with real data instead of gut feel.
Job costing & profitability reporting
The system pulls labor hours, material costs, machine time, and overhead from your ERP and shop floor data. Each job gets a real-time P&L so you know which customers and part numbers are actually profitable — and which ones are quietly losing money. Your estimating team uses the data to quote the next job more accurately.
What this looks like in practice
Scenario: a 45-person machine shop
A precision machining shop was processing 30+ RFQs per week through email. Their two estimators spent half their time just organizing incoming requests — printing drawings, looking up past jobs, and manually entering data into their quoting spreadsheet. Average quote turnaround was 4.5 business days.
After implementing a custom RFQ intake system, incoming requests were automatically parsed, logged, and routed with relevant past job data attached. Estimators opened each RFQ with the drawings already linked, similar historical quotes pulled up, and current material costs pre-loaded.
Quote turnaround dropped to 1.5 business days. The shop started winning work they used to lose purely on response time. The estimators did not change how they estimated — they just stopped doing data entry.
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Faster Quoting
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Manufacturing / Systems
A global manufacturer needed to evaluate its entire application portfolio — hundreds of systems — for cloud readiness, then build a migration roadmap that connected legacy shop-floor tools to modern cloud infrastructure without disrupting operations.
Comprehensive analysis and reference architectures delivered to senior leadership, with a phased migration plan aligned to 12-factor compliance standards.
— Global Manufacturing Company
Built with ISO & AS9100 awareness
We understand that your quality management system is not optional. Every automation we build respects your existing document control procedures, revision tracking requirements, and traceability standards. Whether you are ISO 9001, AS9100, or IATF 16949 certified, our software supports your audit trail — it does not create gaps in it. We work with your quality manager during implementation to ensure every automated workflow maps to your existing procedures.
Frequently asked questions
Do you work with our existing ERP or MES system?
Yes. We integrate with whatever you're running — JobBoss, Epicor, SYSPRO, E2, MasterControl, or custom databases. The goal is to connect what you have, not replace it.
Can you automate quoting without replacing our estimator?
Absolutely. Your estimator's knowledge is the foundation. We build tools that pull material costs, reference past jobs, and apply your pricing logic automatically — so your estimator spends time on complex quotes, not routine ones.
How do you handle compliance documentation like ISO or AS9100?
We build documentation workflows that generate, route, and file compliance documents automatically. Inspection reports, certs of conformance, and material traceability all flow to the right folders without manual filing.
What's the ROI for manufacturing automation?
Most manufacturing clients see 10-20 hours per week reclaimed from administrative tasks. Quoting speed improvements alone often pay for the system — when you respond to RFQs in hours instead of days, you win more jobs.
Find out where automation will hit hardest in your shop
We will map your current workflows, identify the biggest time sinks, and show you exactly what custom automation would look like for your operation. No sales pitch — just a clear picture of what is possible.
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