AI co-workers for toolmakers and factories
Design, check and cost the tool from the part.
CAS drafts the strip and the die, estimates forces, checks tool motion and prices the tool on your rates. Your toolmakers make every call.
For toolmakers
A worked design behind the press tools you quote.
Customers ask what a tool will cost and how long it will take before anyone has designed it. CAS does the drafting and the calculations from the part, so your toolmakers start from a worked concept and decide what gets built.
- Tool designEarly access
- Strip layout, station sequence and die assembly drafted from the part’s drawing or model.
- Motion and clash checksEarly access
- Tool motion stepped through the stroke at sampled positions. Cutting force and springback are calculated estimates, not validated forming analysis.
- Tooling costAvailable
- Tandem or progressive tooling priced in Quotation on your tool-room rates, with its uncertainty stated.
- CNC programmingProposed
- Milling setups, tools and operations would be drafted from the model and drawing. Your CAM system would still calculate every toolpath.
For factories
From the first RFQ to the profit on every part.
CAS quotes each part on your machines, rates and costing policy, then keeps the request, the customer and the accepted price together, so you can see what each part earns and act when material prices move.
- Quotes
- Drawings, scans, models and RFQ sheets priced on your factory, every number linked to its source. Missing CAD is rebuilt from the drawing.
- Requests
- Every RFQ with its reply-by date, next step, revisions and the customer’s answer.
- Customers
- Companies, contacts and notes, with their requests and the prices they hold.
- Parts
- Each part under one number, with its revisions, files and the price the customer accepted.
- Profit
- What each accepted part earns over a period, compared with the profit in your accounts.
- Price reviews
- When a material price moves, the business it affects is listed for your team to keep, defer or reprice.
Every part priced the way it is made.
CNC machining
Milling and turning, with stock, setups and cycle times from the 3D model.
We also consult and build custom systems around other bottlenecks.
Consulting and custom systemsHow a quote is built
The agent turns the customer’s files into a 3D part model, plans the route your shop would run, and prices every operation, tool and outside service. Your policies set overheads and margins, an estimator checks what the agent assumed, and every correction is saved for the next quote.
PDF, STEP, CAD
Part model
Learnings
Process plan
Shop rules, machines
Tooling and outside services
Suppliers
Cost of Ownership
Costing policy, materials and rates
Estimator review
Corrections become learnings
Quote
Pricing policy
Vision
Factory Connectivity Model
Every request a factory receives, from a customer, an employee or an agent, passes through the same layers. Policies decide what the factory commits to, operations track the work, engines plan and cost it, and the factory model holds what the factory has and knows. Quotation already runs the modules in white; the outlined ones come next.
Requests
- Discover
- Manufacturability check
- Quote
- Order
Policies
- Pricing policy
- Commitment policy
Operations
- Human review
- Order management
- Reservations
Engines
- Part intake
- Process planning
- Should-cost
- Quality planning
- Scheduling and delivery dates
Factory model
- Capabilities
- Supply network
- Job history
- Live shop state
Shared by every module
- Identity and access
- Integrations
- Audit trail
- Calibration
- Performance reporting
