Print in at 10:04, quote out by 10:12
Kedzie Machine Works is a CNC shop we invented in the O’Hare corridor, quoting 500 brackets for a buyer in Elgin.
Before: days, then a late night
Prints waited in the inbox until someone found two hours on a Sunday night to do the takeoff.
Now: eight minutes
The owner approves quotes instead of building them, and Sunday nights are free again.
Reads like a machinist wrote it
A buyer arrives with a print in hand and a deadline. Each part of this one answers a buyer’s question, noted beside it.
The upload sits in the bar
Upload a print sits beside the phone number, so the first thing a buyer can do is send one.
Upload a print, get a real quote
The hero is a promise with a drop zone: a print in, a quote back the same day.
Capabilities written like a machinist
Axes, materials and outside processes listed plainly, so an engineer can qualify the shop without a call.
Proof a buyer can forward
The quotes come from a buyer, a program manager and purchasing, the three people who vet a new shop.
Certs and the towns served
Certs with every shipment, the towns served and the upload once more at the bottom.
- Milling
- Turning
- Finishing
- Quality
Send the print in the morning, and the quote is back by lunch
Three and four axis milling, tight-tolerance turning, and outside processes managed with certs in the box. Upload a print and get a real quote the same day, from a shop that read every callout.
PDF and STEP in, quote back the same day. Or call (847) 555-0122
Capabilities, plainly
- CNC millingThree and four axis work in aluminum, steel and plastics
- CNC turningBar work and chucked parts held to tight tolerance
- Finishing and outside processesAnodize, plating and heat treat, managed for you
- Prototype to productionFirst articles, bridge runs and repeat orders
Quotes come back the same morning, and they hold
Dan K., buyer, ElginThey flagged a rev mismatch before cutting. Saved the run
Sofia G., program manager, NapervilleOn time, certs already in the box. Easiest vendor on the list
Mark T., purchasing, Rockford
The owner machines parts instead of assembling paperwork.
From print to traveler
It reads each print, flags the tight tolerances and prices the part from past jobs, and an estimator signs off before the quote goes out.
The drawing reads itself
A buyer in Elgin uploads a print and a STEP file for 500 brackets. The part, revision, material and finish are read into a part card.
The two-thou tolerance was flagged before anyone opened the file.
Request for quote
What the buyer sent
RFQ: bracket, anodized, qty 500. Print and STEP attached.
Need them in four weeks.
Buyer, Elgin. Second RFQ this quarter.
The part card
Request for quote
- Part
- Bracket, rev C
- Material
- 6061-T6, from the title block
- Tightest
- Two thou true position, flagged
- History
- A similar part ran in March
- Part card builtQueued for pricing
Priced while the spindle turns
Material comes from the model’s volume, machine time from the feature count and the March run, and the shop’s margin rules apply. The owner reviews it for a minute on the floor and sends it.
The buyer placed the order that afternoon.
Bracket rev C, qty 500
Priced
- Material
- From model volume and stock size
- Machine time
- Feature count and the March run
- Anodize
- Vendor lead time, pulled live
- Lead time
- From the real floor load
- Margin
- The shop’s own rules
The PO walks onto the floor
The buyer’s PO is matched to the quote line by line: part, rev, quantity and price. A clean match becomes traveler 1481, with its routing, cert checklist and material order.
A mismatch would have stopped it before any metal was cut.
PO 88410, from the Elgin buyer
References quote 2214
- Clean matchPart, rev C, qty 500 and price agreeMatched
- Also checked: rev mismatch and quantity or price drift
Floor tablet, station 3: traveler 1481, with routing, instructions and certs
The whole pipeline before the first cycle
Quotes out and how old they are, POs matched and jobs by machine sit on one screen. The win rate is there too, with no spreadsheet to build.
Quote 2214 went from print to traveler without anyone retyping a line.
- Quoted, PO matched, traveler 1481
- HousingDrafted overnight, waiting on approval
- Quote ageOne out six days, nudge queued
- Traveler 1481Mill 2, material inbound Thursday
- Mill 1Housings, second shift
- Certs owedTwo, none late
- Every PO
- Matched line by line to its quote
- Mismatches
- Flagged before metal is cut
- Last catch
- A rev mismatch that saved a run
- Retyping
- None
Quote 2214, bracket rev C
Sent 10:12 am
- Part
- Bracket, rev C, 6061-T6
- Quantity
- 500
- Priced from
- Model volume, features, the March run
- Approved
- On the floor, in a minute
Every traveler on your floor, followed from print to ship
A person reads every request and replies within one business day.
Start a project
Your margin rules price every quote.