From inquiry to quote to production — in minutes, not days
Quotation Factory reads your customer's models and engineering drawings, determines how to manufacture every part and assembly — sheet metal, tubes, profiles, machined components — calculates costs, and generates accurate quotes automatically. No manual data entry. No guesswork. No bottleneck at your best estimator's desk.
Trusted by 60+ metalworking manufacturers — from regional shops to global steel producers
More modern tooling to make your business scalable:
Supply chain integration
Coming soon
Configure preferred suppliers, automatically create requests for quotations, and auto-pick quotations with the best price/lead time.
Automatic ERP integration
Feature
Connect to your ERP and create bills of materials for any order in minutes — with zero manual data entry.
Virtual factory modelling
Feature
Automatically determine how to manufacture, which raw materials to buy, which subcontractors to involve.
Automatic CAM integration
Feature
Program the machines without any manual data entry, manual file handling, or barriers between shop locations.
281,000 quotes generated. And counting.
Quotation Factory processes more metalworking quotes than any platform in Europe. Here's what's running through the system:
Unique users
Quotations
Quoted working steps
BOM items
CAD files
Engineering drawings
Three steps from RFQ to quote
Upload
Your customer sends a drawing or your team uploads CAD files and specifications. Quotation Factory reads CAD files, PDF drawings, and structural steel formats, and extracts part geometry, dimensions, and tolerances automatically. (STEP, JT, DXF, DWG, DSTV, NC1, PDF, and even more)
Calculate
The virtual factory (the model of capabilities and constraints) determines how to manufacture every part — whether it's a flat sheet, a tube, a profile, or a machined component. Operations, materials, machine time, subcontractor work — calculated based on your rates and margins.
Send
Review the auto-generated quote (or let it send automatically for standard work) and deliver a professional quotation to your customer. One click to push it to your ERP when they order.
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Before Quotation Factory
With Quotation Factory
A new RFQ arrives
Someone opens the email, downloads files, forwards to the right person. Hope they're not on holiday.
Files are parsed automatically — sheet parts, tube profiles, structural sections, full assemblies. Materials and GD&T detected. Ready for review in minutes.
Estimating a single part
Your best estimator opens the drawing, checks specs, calculates materials, looks up machine times, builds the BOM. 1–3 hours per part — whether it's a sheet, a tube, or a profile.
Virtual factory model determines working steps, raw materials, machine times, and subcontractor needs. Seconds per part.
Quoting a 40-part assembly
Multiple people involved — someone handles the sheet parts, someone else figures out the tubes and profiles. 2–5 days if nothing falls through the cracks.
Complete BOM with pricing generated automatically — sheets, tubes, profiles, machined components, welding, finishing. Review and send same day.
Getting it into production
Re-enter everything into the ERP. Manually program machines — flatbed laser, tube laser, saws. Copy-paste errors guaranteed.
One click to ERP. Automatic CAM programming for flat and tube lasers. Zero re-entry.
Metalworking Process Expertise
Quotation Factory isn't generic manufacturing software adapted for metal. It's built from the ground up for sheet metal, tube cutting, profile processing, CNC machining, welding, assembling, and surface treatment — with process-specific logic for each.
Sheet Metal Cutting & Forming
Automatic nesting calculations, material optimization, and machine time estimates based on your actual flat laser, punch, or plasma setup. Contour analysis, piercing counts, bend deductions — all handled automatically.
Tube & Profile Cutting
Laser cutting of round, square, and rectangular tubes. Sawing of structural profiles, beams, channels, and angles. Cut length optimization, miter and cope detection, hole and slot recognition, end preparation analysis. Machine time estimates calibrated to your tube laser or sawing line.
Machining & Turning
Working step calculations for CNC milling, turning, and multi-axis operations — calibrated to your specific machines and tooling. GD&T automatically obtained from engineering drawings (pdf) and/or 3D PMI.
Welding, Assembly & Finishing
Estimate welding time by joint type and length, assembly labor by complexity, and surface treatment costs by area — automatically. Handles assemblies that combine sheet, tube, profile, and machined components.
ERP and CAM integration
The quote becomes the work order. The work order programs the machine. No re-entry.
Polder Staalproducties doesn't just use Quotation Factory for quoting. Because the platform connects to their ERP and CAM systems, the data that generates the quote is the same data that drives production. No re-keying. No transcription errors. No "someone forgot to update the BOM."
The result: faster handoff from sales to shop floor, with fewer mistakes that cost time and material.
Result: From quote to production with zero manual data re-entry.
“Quotation Factory has helped us speed up our production process and make fewer mistakes.”
Auke Sjoerd Tolsma
CEO, Polder Staalproducties
Virtual factory modelling
Consistent quotes — same logic, regardless of who's calculating
When your pricing depends on which estimator picks up the job, you have a consistency problem. One person quotes tight. Another quotes generous. Neither is great for your margins or your reputation.
Singeling eliminated that variance by running every quote through Quotation Factory's virtual factory model. Same inputs, same logic, same output — regardless of who reviews it.
Result: Consistent pricing across every estimator, every shift, every location.
”In addition to huge time savings and knowledge transfer, all quotations have become hugely consistent.”
Johan Singeling
CEO, Singeling
Self-service portal for clients
80% of requests quoted automatically. Same-day, every time.
JWM Metaalservice handles hundreds of order requests per week. Before Quotation Factory, quoting was the bottleneck — skilled estimators spending hours on calculations that might not even convert to orders. Now, 80% of incoming requests get quoted automatically. The team focuses on complex jobs and customer relationships instead of data entry.
Result: Same-day quotes on every request — up from a multi-day average.
”Every customer receives a quote the very same day. Where we are now, we wouldn’t have dared to imagine a year ago.”
Jaap Dekkers
Coordinator, JWM Metaalservice
Not just faster quoting — a different way to run your business
Quotation Factory: your easy, fast, and modern way to quote, sell, and produce!
Your factory's knowledge — captured in software, not trapped in someone's head
Quotation Factory builds a digital model of your factory: your machines — flat lasers, tube lasers, saws, press brakes, machining centers, welding stations — your processes, your rates, your preferred suppliers. When a new order comes in, the software determines how to manufacture every part and assembly — which operations, which raw materials, which subcontractors — based on your actual capabilities.
No more depending on one senior estimator who "just knows." No more inconsistent quotes depending on who did the calculation. Your factory knowledge becomes a company asset, not a single point of failure.
Works for: Sheet metal cutting & forming · Tube & profile laser cutting · Sawing · CNC machining · Welding · Assembling · Surface treatment
Let your customers quote themselves — and love you for it
Your best customers already know what they need. They have the models and drawings — sheet metal housings, tube frames, profile constructions. They know the specs. What they don't want is to email files, wait three days, chase a follow-up, and then haggle.
Give them a portal where they upload their files and get an accurate, auto-generated quote in minutes — for sheets, tubes, profiles, and complete assemblies. They order on their terms. Your sales team handles the complex jobs that actually need human attention.
Manufacturers using the portal report that customers who previously ordered twice a month now order weekly — because the friction is gone.
The quote becomes the work order. The work order programs the machine. No re-entry.
Most quoting software stops at the quote. You still have to re-enter everything into your ERP. Manually create BOMs. Program machines from scratch — flat laser nesting, tube laser programs, sawing lists.
Quotation Factory connects the entire chain. The same data that generated the quote flows into your ERP as a manufacturing bill of materials, and into your CAM software as machine instructions — for flatbed lasers, tube lasers, and more. Zero manual data entry between quoting and production.
Integrates with: Your existing ERP system and CAM software — no rip-and-replace required.
Your estimators have better things to do than type numbers into spreadsheets
ArcelorMittal, Thyssenkrupp, and 60+ other metalworking manufacturers already use Quotation Factory to quote faster, price more consistently, and connect their sales floor to their shop floor — for sheet metal, tube cutting, profile processing, and everything in between.