CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – October 11, 2016 ––The staff at FastCAM will be showcasing their FastCAM® Quote Everything™ software at this year’s Fabtech.
The move to a value-add service model and digital flow of information means there’s a shift of the skills base back up the line from the shop floor to the front office. FastCAM® QE™ upskills estimators and sales people to a modern quotation system that solves their everyday challenges.
‘Value added’ processing quotes are now an integral part of daily profitability for Steel Service Centers. Getting quotes right is critical but not always easy. Most costing systems cater for ‘assemblers’ but Service Centers are really ‘disassemblers’ – repeatedly cutting stock into many smaller parts as required by customers. Aside from standard stock quotes, salespeople need to account for an increasing number of processes like plasma and flame cutting, shearing, sawing, drilling, blanking, weld preparation and more. Without a system in place, many services aren’t being quoted very well, or sometimes not at all.
FastCAM® QE™ is the perfect fit. Not just a costing or nesting system, QE is a beginning to end solution. On average 2 to 5 out of every 10 quotes mature into orders. Time, accuracy and consistency are the 3 main factors in this rate. QE customers are happy because not only are they handling more quotes and winning more work, they’re selling more steel without sacrificing margins.
The FastCAM® QE™ product takes a load from NC programmers by putting a lot of basic shape and long product estimation power in the hands of sales people, so that programmers can concentrate on programming and maximizing productivity. Users can quote entire nests and multiple CAD files and drill down into the details of the quote and nest data, materials, machine processing costs, handling, delivery, discounts etc. The reporting utility makes it easy for managers to get an instant snapshot of quote status.
Salespeople have control over the level of detail the customer sees in the quote and discounts and delivery costs can be applied before it’s emailed to the customer from within the system and stored in the quote database for fast re-quoting.
To see FastCAM® QE™ in action, visit FastCAM at Booth C47097 at the Las Vegas Convention Center from November 16-18, 2016.
FastCAM Software
Founded in 1978, FastCAM is one of the oldest CAM software companies in the world supplying cutting solutions for all types of CNC machinery including Gas, Plasma, Laser and Waterjet. Today the product line has been expanded to include dozens of trademarked products encompassing many industries and distribution points. The whole of business side is where FastCAM has a major advantage. We know processing and our systems are used throughout the world for beam and plate processing. We’re not just a nesting company.
FastCAM has offices in Chicago, Shanghai and Melbourne, Australia. More information may be found on the Web at http://www.fastcam.com.
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