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Quick Turnaround Some of the common themes for or the root cause for something taking longer than it should is we haven’t done a good job of pulling the right information from the customer. To understand the full scope, not only just the manufacture but when are the components needed, what are really the requirements… Continue reading Quick Turnaround – Understanding Scope + Market Segments + Customer Profile for Laser Cutting

Quoting This blog features a video about estimating project costs by understanding, anticipating, and meeting customer needs and expectations.  Various factors are discussed such as: scope of project, cycle time calculation and analysis, technical specifications, material requirements, and the surface finish process. All of theses variables can be addressed by keeping an open dialogue with… Continue reading Quoting – Estimating Project Cost by Understanding, Anticipating, and Meeting Customer Needs

Competitive Pricing A lot of times what we see with pricing, where we can offer very competitive pricing is with our technology we have the ability to nest a lot of different components from like materials together. About 40-50% of our costs come from raw material.  If we have the ability to take several different… Continue reading Competitive Pricing – Competitive Priorities and Customer Relationship Management

Customer Service Orders We receive orders from our customers that tell us what to manufacture, how to manufacture it and those orders come in various formats. They may come in a blanket order, they may come in just releases from a blanket that really indicates to us what we should be making, how to make… Continue reading Customer Service Orders – Overcoming Customer Obstacles to Improve Response Time in the Order Entry

Minor Design Changes I think some of the minor design changes we can do is, like we said, if you watch your tolerances, if you have a bend degree on your print and you are trying to hold it to plus or minus a quarter of a degree.  You have got to really check every part,… Continue reading Minor Design Changes – For Laser Cutting Steel & Other Metals + Welding & Brake Press Bending

3D Modeling-Flat Pattern Drafting Best practices Some of the best practices for the 3D modeling are when a customer draws us the material, parts are in 3D, you need to make sure that if it is going to be a bent part they draw it as a sheet metal part, which is a formed part,… Continue reading 3D Modeling – Flat Pattern Drafting & Design + Sheet Metal Parts for Manufacturing and 3D Conversion

Pricing Strategy One of the current themes that we have here is a customer coming in with an over intolerance on their print. For a part that they want us to manufacture for them and that really comes back to good communication between the customer and ourselves. So we see something, we look at it,… Continue reading Pricing Strategy -Strategies and Pricing Your Work for Services in the Product Manufacturing Process