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title: "Who it's for — Partimation by role"
url: https://partimation.com/for/
description: "How different teams use Partimation day to day — what changes for each role, and which page to start on."
---

# Find the page that talks about your own day, not just the product

Every page below is written for one role — how they work today, what changes, and where to start.

## Who it's for

- [For design engineers: DFM and should-cost while the model is soft](https://partimation.com/for/design-engineers/): You design the part. Somebody else has to make it, and they tell you weeks late. Upload the model before release: manufacturability findings come back before a process is picked, and six process families are screened with the constraint behind each verdict and a should-cost curve across quantities.
- [For steel fabricators — price the hours, not just the tonnage](https://partimation.com/for/fabricators/): You quote weldments where fit-up and arc time set the price, not the steel. What runs in the browser today is the handrail and stair configurator — tonnage, fit-up hours, weld metres, coating area, a should-cost curve — plus routing that prices the coating you send out, on a ledger where every line names its rule.
- [For foundries — the pour, the tooling and the rate, before you quote](https://partimation.com/for/foundries/): You pour metal, and the expensive surprises land late: a section that won't feed, a pattern price someone recalled, a yield nobody scored. Partimation screens the casting before tooling, runs fill and solidification physics on every casting job, prices the pattern into the piece, and quotes on your foundry's rates.
- [For CNC job shops: quote inbound RFQs without the gut-feel number](https://partimation.com/for/job-shops/): You run a CNC or contract machine shop, twenty to fifty RFQs land a week, and one senior estimator gates all of them. Upload the model or the drawing you were already sent, get the route built and ranked, and send a price where every line names the rate or rule behind it.
- [For procurement — know what the part should cost before you negotiate](https://partimation.com/for/procurement/): You buy parts you did not design, priced by suppliers whose numbers you cannot take apart. Partimation gives the buy side its own should-cost: an itemized ledger where every line names its rate or rule, a process verdict that names the constraint behind it, and the exact quantity where a cheaper method takes over.

## Don't see your role here yet?

Send us the part and the RFQ — we'll show you where it fits.