---
title: "Partimation Core — capture the reason before it walks out the door"
url: https://partimation.com/core/
description: "Capture shop-floor decisions and the reasons behind them in two taps — a photo, a video, or a voice note plus a context tag — and resurface the right knowledge card exactly when the next quote or DFM decision needs it. Start free."
product: "Partimation Core"
domain: coredfm.com
---

# Capture the reason before it walks out the door.

*Decision capture · knowledge cards · confidence & recency · quote-time surfacing*

Why you run this material at that feed, why this fixture, why this job gets quoted differently from the last one that looked the same — that reasoning lives in a handful of senior people's heads, and it's retiring right along with them. When nobody writes it down, the shop pays to relearn the same lesson a second time. Partimation Core captures the reason in two taps — a photo, a video, or a voice note plus a context tag — and turns it into a knowledge card that resurfaces exactly when the next quote or DFM decision needs it.

- **Two taps** — photo, video, or voice — no required typing
- **Symptom → cause → action** — captures become searchable, taggable knowledge cards
- **Confidence + date** — cards carry a last-confirmed date and resurface for review
- **Where the job is** — cards surface inside quoting and DFM, not in a binder

Free to start · no credit card · your files stay yours.

## The know-how is walking out the door, one retirement at a time.

- **The people who know why are retiring** — Why we run this material at that feed, why this fixture, why this job gets quoted differently from the last one that looked just like it — it's in a few heads, and those heads are heading for retirement.
- **The same mistake, twice** — The fix for a recurring problem lived with one person. They're gone, the problem comes back, and the shop pays for the same lesson a second time.
- **Nobody has time to write it down** — Documenting a decision means stopping the job to type it up somewhere nobody will find again. On a busy floor, that never happens — so nothing gets written down at all.

## The reasons behind the work, captured on the floor and reused on the next job.

- **Two taps, not a form — Capture the moment while it's still fresh** — A photo, a video, or a voice note plus a context tag — that's the whole capture. Short, context-triggered prompts fire right when a decision gets made, so it actually gets recorded instead of remembered wrong later.
- **Not just a save — a card — Captures turn into cards your team can search** — Symptom, cause, action — tagged by process, machine, alloy, and part family, and blessed by a senior person before it's trusted. A real answer, not a guess buried in a group chat.
- **Knowledge doesn't rot quietly — Cards expire on purpose, so someone re-confirms them** — Every card carries a confidence level and a last-confirmed date. When it's due, Partimation Core asks the right person to check it's still true instead of letting it go stale unnoticed.
- **Where the decision actually happens — The right card shows up on the job that needs it** — Open a quote or a DFM check on a part with a matching history and the card that answers it is already there — not three folders and a retired coworker's cell number away.

## Four steps from a moment on the floor to a card on the next job.

1. **Capture the moment** — Photo, video, or voice, plus a context tag. Short prompts fire at the moment a decision gets made, right when it's easy to answer.
2. **It becomes a card** — The capture turns into a symptom→cause→action card, tagged by process, machine, alloy, and part family, and routed to a senior person to bless.
3. **It stays current** — Every card carries a confidence level and a last-confirmed date, and resurfaces for a quick re-confirm before anyone leans on it.
4. **It shows up on the next job** — Open a quote or a DFM check on a related part and the relevant card is already surfaced — no search required.

## Start free. Upgrade when it's saving you the same mistake twice.

One account across every module. Simulation is metered by compute run, not by part — analyze as many parts as you like.

| Tier | Price (EUR / USD / GBP) | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | €0 / $0 / £0 | 10 parts a month; DFM findings + best-fit process; Advisory analysis, draft resolution; No credit card |
| Pro | €199 /seat · mo / $199 /seat · mo / £169 /seat · mo | Unlimited parts, full resolution; Should-cost, reports, exports; Process selection, routing, DFM across processes; 30 simulation runs a month |
| Shop | €699 /mo · 5 seats / $699 /mo · 5 seats / £595 /mo · 5 seats | Everything in Pro; Your shop's rates & cost model; Quote calibration + API access; 150 pooled simulation runs a month |
| On-prem | €15k yr 1, then €10k renewal / $15k yr 1, then $10k renewal / £12.5k yr 1, then £8.5k renewal | Runs on your hardware; Unlimited simulation, no metering; Signed updates, never phones home; 10 seats · optional device lock |
| Enterprise | from €25k / from $25k / from £21k /yr | Multi-site licensing, custom processes and rules, a model tuned on your own quote history, and an SLA. |

EUR and GBP prices exclude VAT, added at checkout where it applies. Early adopters keep their price as the suite grows.

## In the cloud by default. Behind your firewall when it has to be.

- **Cloud — Nothing to install** — Sign in from a phone on the floor. We run the compute, ship the updates, and keep your captures yours — the shared model only ever learns from your own history to prioritize what resurfaces.
- **On-prem & air-gapped — For photos and voice notes that can't leave the building** — Aerospace and anyone who can't put shop-floor photos or voice notes in someone else's cloud can run the whole thing on their own hardware. Licenses and updates are signed files — it never phones home, so an air-gapped install stays air-gapped.

## Frequently asked questions

#### How does someone on the floor actually record why they did something?

A photo, a video, or a voice note plus a context tag is the whole capture — two taps, with no login wall to start. Capture happens on a phone at the machine, at app.coredfm.com, because that is the only place a reason gets recorded before it turns into somebody's recollection of it. No typing, no form, no walking back to a desk to write it up.

#### How does a note from the floor reach the person quoting the next job?

Open a quote or a DFM check on a part with a matching history and the approved knowledge card that answers it is already there. A card is three things — symptom, cause, and action — tagged by process, machine, alloy, and part family. Those tags are what make the match, so the reason reaches the estimator on the job it applies to instead of sitting in a binder.

#### Is Partimation Core something we buy separately?

Partimation Core is the decision-memory module of the Partimation suite, on the same account as everything else — no separate purchase, no separate database. Capture has its own phone-first app at app.coredfm.com, because a decision gets made at the machine and not at a desk. The cards it produces surface inside the quoting and DFM work back in the main app.

## Related pages

- [MFGDFM](https://partimation.com/dfm/)
- [PlanDFM](https://partimation.com/process-planning/)
- [ProcessDFM](https://partimation.com/process-selection/)
- [PartDFM](https://partimation.com/part-analysis/)
- [Every quote waits on one estimator | Partimation](https://partimation.com/solutions/quoting-bottleneck/)

## Put your next fix through it.

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> Partimation Core is decision support, not a guarantee — every card names who blessed it and when it was last confirmed. Re-confirm an aging card before you rely on it.