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Artificial intelligence matchmaking within the metalworking industry is the key to increasing agility in the supply chain and value chain

Artificial intelligence is completely revolutionizing the way of working, estimating and planning within the metalworking industry.

Perform different operations and thus handle more production stages. Luckily, digital transformation offers a solution. Feature recognition and automated manufacturability analysis provide additional leeway. In this blog you will read how and why Upstream Feature Management is a necessity and is becoming the new standard within the metalworking industry.

Estimating material consumption and determining purchase costs, go figure as an estimator within the metalworking industry. It is an increasingly complex and time-consuming challenge. But it can also be different. Smart digital solutions make it possible to simplify and speed up the quotation and estimation process. How? We outline the latest developments in this blog.

Unfortunately, sometimes you only see what you need when there is a need. But often it is already too late. If it suddenly becomes a crisis, you think I should have continued that innovation. But at that point there was no need. That requires accelerated innovation. Something that you often see in times of crisis or war.

The metalworking industry has undergone a number of innovations in recent decades. Many companies knew how to take advantage of this but a few missed the boat and had to close their doors. Its a shame, but there is nothing to do about it. This is typical of an industry that used to consist mainly of pure crafts and has now been under pressure for so long.

The metalworking industry, like any other industry, is subject to change. In no smal part because of the digitalization of systems and processes. But also because of the increasing complexity …

Quotations and estimations consume time for many metalworking companies. A lot of time, and valuable time, at the expense of commercial agility. But also time that you would like to …

More than 600 million euros a year are spent by metalworking companies in Europe on quotation-related software. Yet the more than 30,000 metalworking companies (small and large) struggle to respond to quotation requests quickly and consistently.

The Quotation Factory (then operating under the name Metal Heaven) was the winner of the Technishow Smart Potential Award. We received this incentive award on Wednesday, March 4 during the …