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A slow quote, a late DFM finding, a guess at tooling cost — each page below names one real problem and the module that answers it.
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Undercuts, thin walls, hot spots and missing draft usually surface at first article, when the pattern or the die already exists. Partimation flags them on the uploaded part with the rule that caught each one, and runs GPU fill and solidification physics on every casting job — before anyone commits steel.
Plenty of RFQs arrive as a scanned print with no CAD model behind them. Partimation reads dimensions, tolerances and GD&T straight off the sheet, scores the confidence of every value, and cross-checks the print against the model on holes, envelope and GD&T-to-face when one finally turns up.
Manufacturability feedback that arrives after release is a change order, not a review. Partimation returns findings on every upload, before a process has been chosen, and runs a real removal simulation against the tooling you actually run to show exactly which stock a cutter cannot reach.
Whether a step runs on your own machines or goes to a vendor is usually judgment and a phone call. Partimation builds the full route — tooling, forming, heat treatment, machining, finishing and the transfers between departments — and prices each step in-house or at your accepted vendor's markup, with the queue days.
The quote said eleven hours, the floor ran fourteen, and the next quote for the same family said eleven again. Every cost line names the rate or rule that produced it and states what its confidence rests on, so a correction lands on the line that was wrong and tightens the bands on the jobs after it.
Every day an RFQ sits unanswered is a day closer to landing on a faster shop's desk. Upload the model and get a ranked manufacturing route back; send the drawing alone and get its tolerances and GD&T read out while you chase the model, rather than losing the day waiting on it.
When one senior estimator has to touch every RFQ, the queue is the bid you lose. Put the shop's machine rates, labor rates and cost model in one place every quote pulls from, get the route built instead of rebuilding the takeoff, and have the shop-floor card that answers the job already open when it lands.
A quote nobody can take apart is a quote nobody can defend. Partimation builds the price as an itemized ledger where every cost line traces to a named rate, posture setting, or engine rule — and every estimate carries a confidence band that states which of four bases it rests on.
Tool cost is usually a figure someone remembers from the last job that looked like this one. Partimation prices dies, molds, patterns and core boxes through one shared block-and-machining model and amortizes the tool into the per-piece should-cost curve, so the number has a basis you can push back on.
Cast because the last one was cast. Machined because the shop machines. Partimation screens a part against casting, molding, forging, machining, sheet metal and additive together — each verdict naming the constraint behind it — and solves the exact quantity where a cheaper process takes over.
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