InstaQuote
Formedideas offers InstaQuote, an AI-powered quotation and production planning platform for contract machine shops. The system automatically extracts request data from emails, analyzes CAD files to calculate operation times and material consumption, and generates complete production routings directly in the ERP system. This enables shops to respond to quotation requests in minutes rather than days.
- Manufacturing / Industry 4.0
- Artificial Intelligence
- Software Only
Funding
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Product
Problem
Quotation and production planning for contract machine shops is manual and time-consuming, requiring the most experienced staff to create detailed routings while incoming requests sit unanswered. This bottleneck means shops respond slowly, lose profitable jobs to faster competitors, and cannot take on additional work even when production capacity is available.
Solution
InstaQuote is an offer and production planning platform that automates the entire quote-to-routing process for machine shops. The system reads incoming email requests, automatically extracts request documents, material, quantities, and customer information, then analyzes CAD files and drawings to calculate operation times and material consumption based on the shop's specific machine park using data pulled from the ERP system. InstaQuote generates a complete quotation and creates a full production routing directly in the ERP, with the article structure automatically derived from the CAD file and linked to the original drawings. The platform makes pricing consistent regardless of which employee prepares the quote, while senior staff can focus on developing production instead of manual planning work.
Target Audience
Contract machine shops (legoverkstäder) that want to respond faster to quotation requests, win more business, and reduce the manual burden on experienced production planning staff.
Features
- Automatic extraction of request data from incoming emails, including request documents, material, quantity, and customer
- CAD and drawing analysis that calculates operation times and material consumption based on the shop's specific machine park
- Complete ERP integration that creates article structures and production routings directly in the ERP system, linked to original drawings
- AI-based reading of bill of materials on assembly drawings and 3D assembly structures to recreate the full article structure level by level with correct quantities
- Automatic sorting of uploaded PDF drawings, STEP, and DXF files under the correct article, with the connection following into the ERP system
- AI-powered cleaning of customer DXF files that removes drawing frames, title blocks, dimensions, and text, leaving only the part geometry for manufacturing
- Consistent pricing across all estimators since the competence is embedded in the system rather than tied to individual staff
- Traceable calculation basis saved behind every quote, allowing the shop to review how prices were set and adjust pricing logic as the company learns
- Knowledge retention so that learnings are distributed across the organization and remain after key personnel leave