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quoting and project manage- ment, or at least determine the status of a quote or job. The point is, whatever is needed for any portion of the process— from simply eyeing a 3D part file to designing the tooling and delivering a working tool—soft- ware suppliers have you cov- ered. Of course, expect to pay more for greater capabilities, and be sure to do the research before buying.
software can be accessed and understood by nontech- nical folks like sales person- nel and management. That allows a team approach to quoting and a reduction in the bottleneck created when only one or two staff engi- neers can develop quotes. Software databases have improved as well, allowing for lessons learned from pre- vious quotes and the ability to reuse similar existing data for new quotes.
“The software provides accurate data upon comple- tion of a quote, so future
“The rate of quoting success is
three to five percent in this indus-
try,” says Hari Sridharan, vice president of engineering for Cimatron Technologies, Inc.,
Novi, MI (www.cimatrontech.com), provider of CimatronE software for quoting, forming analysis, design and machining. “Too often, people quote not with a good mathematical model, but instead merely take some num- bers and send off the quotes. A success rate of only five percent means sending
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Not only have software providers developed products to produce more- accurate quotes more quickly, but the
quotations can be completed more accurately, with less guessing,” says Jeff Jaje, marketing and business devel- opment manager for Sescoi USA Inc., Southfield, MI (www.sescoi.com). “More people have access to the soft- ware due to its ease of use, allowing more input for the quote. We want the
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