Full route, priced · cheapest/quickest/fewest steps · in-house or brokered · department transfers
RouteDFM builds the full manufacturing route for a part that needs more than one process — tooling, forming, degating and fettling, heat treatment, machining, and finishing, plus the handling and queue time every move between departments actually costs. Routes are ranked cheapest, quickest, and fewest-steps, and every step is marked in-house or priced with your vendor's markup when your shop sends it out.
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The problem
Forming and machining a part usually get quoted by two different tools and two different people — nobody prices the finished part as the single route it actually travels.
Cutting sprues free, grinding parting flash, heat treating, moving a part between departments — real hours and real queue days that rarely make it onto an estimate built one process at a time.
Deciding whether a step runs in-house or goes to a vendor is usually judgment and a phone call, not a priced side-by-side with the markup and the added lead time visible up front.
What you get
Tooling, forming, degating/fettling, heat treatment, machining, finishing, and the transfers between departments all price into one route — not just the process that forms the part.
The same feasible route candidates get ranked three ways, so "which route" is a real comparison instead of the first one anyone thought of.
Mark which steps your shop runs versus sends out, and a sourced step prices with your vendor's markup and added lead time named on the step, not buried in a phone call.
The route doesn't stop at "send it to machining" — a formed part's actual as-formed shape routes straight into the program that machines the real blank, not a generic billet.
How it works
The process family's already screened or picked — the route builds on top of it.
Tooling, forming, degating, heat treat, machining, finishing, and transfers, sequenced and priced step by step.
Cheapest, quickest, and fewest-steps rankings over the same feasible candidates.
Flag which steps your shop runs versus sources out, priced with the vendor's markup and lead time.
Pricing
Priced for a one-person shop routing its own jobs and a production shop coordinating vendors alike. Routing is unmetered — run as many parts as you like.
EUR and GBP prices exclude VAT, added at checkout where it applies. Early adopters keep their price as the suite grows.
Run it your way
Sign in and route a part from any browser. We run the compute, ship the updates, and keep your data yours.
Infrastructure and anyone under NDA 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.
Where this fits
ProcessDFM answers which process family should even be in the running, and PlanDFM plans the operations inside one family. RouteDFM is the step after both — planning the handoff when a part needs more than one process family, department, or vendor to become the part you can hold. All three sit on top of the same DFM screening and should-cost engine as the rest of the suite.
One part, three questions, in order:
Priced by CostDFM — see the rest of the suite at partimation.com/#modules.
FAQ
A route covers tooling, forming, degating and fettling, heat treatment, machining, finishing — and the handling and queue time every move between departments costs. Each step names the rule that priced it. The inter-department time is the part usually missing from an estimate built one process at a time, because no single-process tool ever owns the gap between two of them.
The same set of feasible routes gets ranked three ways — cheapest, quickest, and fewest steps. Which route to run becomes a real comparison over one candidate set rather than the first sequence anyone thought of. When the cheapest route and the quickest route turn out to be different routes, you see that trade before you promise a date.
Every route step is marked in-house or priced with your accepted vendor's markup when the work goes out. The markup and the added queue days sit on the step itself, so heat treat sent outside reads as a price and a date rather than a phone call. Compare the two versions of the same route and the decision comes down to a number.
A formed part's actual as-formed shape routes into the program that machines it, rather than a generic billet. Machining time is computed against the real blank, so the second half of a cast-then-machine job is priced on the stock the casting actually leaves behind — not on bar stock the part never started from.
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