Part specs in · a structured RFQ package + first-pass estimate out · minutes, not a back-and-forth week

The intake seam between a customer's drawing and your engineering estimate.

You've run a serious shop since 1987 — 3-to-6-axis turning and milling, gear hobbing, safety-critical brake-assembly parts, full traceability. None of that is broken. What eats time is the front door: every RFQ arrives as a PDF drawing plus an email, and someone rekeys material, volume, tolerance and secondary ops before engineering can even price it. Here's what that front door could look like — structured intake and a ballpark first-pass estimate, so the real DFM review starts from clean data instead of a rebuild. Sample pricing — try it.

STEP 1–3

Scope the part

1 · Part family & operation

CNC turned part

Bar-stock, high-volume turning

$2.40 / pc

Prismatic milled part

3–5 axis milling

$6.80 / pc

Gear-hobbed / splined

Hobbing + broaching

$9.50 / pc

Safety-critical pin / roller

Brake-assembly grade, traceable

$4.20 / pc

2 · Annual volume & material

pieces / year

material class

3 · Secondary ops & requirements Heat treat + hardness certification +$0.35/pc Plating / anodize / passivate +$0.28/pc PPAP + full traceability documentation included Expedited first-article / tooling +8%

Today this is a phone call and a spreadsheet. Here it rides along with the estimate.

LIVE

First-pass estimate

Estimated annual program

$0 +HST

$0.00 / pc · order-of-magnitude only

RFQ package auto-built. This scoping also assembles a clean intake sheet — part family, material, volume, tolerance class, secondary ops and cert requirements — so engineering opens a structured RFQ instead of rekeying a PDF and an email thread.

Where this fits — and where it doesn't: a real Glueckler quote is engineering work — DFM, tolerance stack-up, cycle-time on your machines. A web form doesn't replace that, and this concept doesn't pretend to. What it does is kill the rekeying at the front of the funnel: structured intake plus an order-of-magnitude first pass, so estimators start from clean data and faster RFQ turnaround wins more programs. Sample pricing shown; a real build wires to your actual routings, material costs and cert rules.