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Put simply, the problem is knowing how to calculate your costs. Until you know exactly what a part or a batch of parts will cost to manufacture, it’s impossible to calculate a selling price and therefore your profit.
Not only are there a lot of them, but they are all quite dissimilar.
For instance: labour costs, health funds, pension contributions, material costs, water bills, finance charges.
Raw material. Wastage. Wear on equipment. Time to mill. Time to prepare. Cost of likely errors.
Mortgage/rent. Homeowners' or renters' insurance. Property tax. Auto insurance. Health insurance. Out-of-pocket medical costs. Life insurance. Electricity and natural gas.
Rent and Facilities. Salaries and Labor Costs. Equipment Repair and Maintenance. Marketing and Promotion. Costs of Legal Compliance.
With QuoteCAM, every sized machine shops can accurately calculate overheads and recover it in their cost analysis.
QuoteCAM provides a powerful overhead burden calculator that will automatically reduce all your overhead costs into one simple hourly rate that can then be included in your quotes.
Quickly tally up all the costs you’ve probably not even considered in a matter of seconds. From costs-per-hour to healthcare and loan repayments.
Get an accurate measure of your baseline figure instantly. Precisely calculate how much you should be quoting to recover your hidden costs.
Recovering…
Total recoverable:
For the ultimate ease of use, you can add new work centres, processes and materials on the fly. Its simple, clean and clear layout means that anyone can master it in just a few minutes.
Use the analyser to instantly recalculate your costs and selling price if a customer changes the batch size. If you need to match or beat a competitive quote the analyser can work backwards and instantly tell you what your margin will be, in both percentages and money, if you decide to meet or beat your competitor.
QuoteCAM also offers a fast and easy to use, machining calculator, that automatically selects the chosen material and cutting data, as specified in your quote and calculates machining times based on the operation and conditions you specify.
You have no idea how long and hard I searched for a program like this one. I tried loads of other offerings but none of them came close to what QuoteCAM gives me. The workcentre rates calculator alone has completely changed the way we run our business and the burden rate calculators highlighted numerous areas where we were simply wasting money. We work in heavy engineering a lot of the time and the machining calculators are spot on. I would reccomend it to anyone
I have used QuoteCAM (the original version and the new one) for many years and I can honestly say thats its probably the most useful piece of software I have ever invested in.
I use it every day on almost every job and I would be lost without it.
Its very easy to use and above all quick and its very reassuring to know that you have costed a job properly
Since using Quotecam it’s now so much easier to establish and adjust more accurately our actual costs of Overhead and Machine Centre hourly rates. This method of estimating jobs has created a better approach to establishing machining times which is far more accurate than “guestimating” The Price Analyser is very useful for establishing the final pricing to be quoted to the customer.
The more I use it, the better it becomes!
QuoteCAM is designed for everyone. From small-medium sized machine shops to global enterprises.
