Solutions · Internal labs
Instant quoting for internal prototyping labs
A shop inside a company, charging other teams. The price has to be defensible internally, and the queue has to be visible.
What is actually hard about this.
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You are a cost centre being asked to behave like a supplier.
- 02
Engineers submit parts with no idea what they cost until you tell them, which is after they have designed them.
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Your recharge has to survive an audit.
How shops like yours set it up.
Cost-only or cost-plus configurations
Margin is a setting. An internal lab can run at cost and still show a breakdown that justifies every line of it.
Department price lists and cost codes
Who is charged what, captured at submission rather than reconstructed later.
The detailed breakdown visible to the requester
Line by line, so an engineer can see what material and machine time their design costs, and designs differently. Rates, overhead and margin stay inside the engine at every level.
Webhooks into your own systems
Signed events into the internal job board, the ERP, or whatever the company actually runs on.
The short list.
- Margin set to zero, or to policy
- Breakdown detail turned up
- Custom fields for cost centre and project
- Signed webhooks
- Team roles and the audit log
Not quite you?
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Members and departments rather than customers, cost codes rather than card payments, and a rate card somebody has to be able to justify.
Read moreBring a part you quoted by hand.
Price it on the free plan with your own machines and rates, and see where the engine agrees with you, and why it does not.
Free plan, no card. Paid plans by the month, cancel any time.