The digital transformation has arrived in the sale of CNC milled and turned parts. New players such as weerg.com and protolabs.de are meeting these growing demands with successful digital webshops for production parts. Buyers receive a quote within seconds based on a 3D file. How can smaller contract manufacturers respond to these developments?
In order to be able to react successfully to new trends in the market, digitalization that covers the entire value chain is absolutely essential. This is because ever faster and more efficient production with high quality CNC components is essential for manufacturing companies today. While developments in the manufacturing industry in recent years have been particularly noticeable in production thanks to robot technologies, better machines and tools, the automation of the sales process in particular must be taken into account today.
Industry 4.0: Purchasing is also undergoing change
Central to this step-by-step sales process automation is the exchange of standardized STEP files, which contain essential geometry data. Here, too, the technologies are constantly improving, and promising projects such as AP203, AP214 and AP242 will soon also include information on fits, threads, tolerances and other important data points.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_10303-21
With Imnoo, manufacturers automate their own quotation process and can calculate CNC components in seconds with the help of 3D STEP and PDF drawings. Imnoo relies on modern machine learning algorithms, which not only adapt individually and sustainably to the company, but are also the foundation of an individual CNC webshop with automatic pricing. Thanks to the automatic runtime estimation, manufacturers already have a more efficient quotation process with Imnoo's solution, which increases sales and margins and saves costs at the same time.
To enable manufacturers, who unfortunately only receive a few 3D files from their customers, to automate their quotation process, they need to work with their customers to obtain more 3D models. Because one thing is clear: in the future, CNC milled parts and turned parts will only be sold digitally using 3D files. Manufacturers are therefore dependent on a centralized, digital and automated sales process and can count on Imnoo's support.