One of our enterprise plan customers has agreed to share his case.
Thermoforming tool producer with more than 15 years of experience has a constant flow of incoming requests from existing and potential customers.
4 designers are working on a full-time basis. When a customer requests a tooling quote, he needs to get answers:
- How many cavities can be placed at the forming area;
- Tool efficiency;
- Estimation for the speed in CPM;
- Price of the tool.
To answer the first two questions designer needs to spend a couple of hours studying a product, material, and machine.
Sounds straightforward. Problems appear when designers are busy with their project flow and have to put a project on hold to work on a new layout. Why is it a problem for a toolmaker?
Try our tool layout automation software!
Anyone into project management knows that jumping between projects and tasks is a nightmare – you lose focus, and time, both will be delayed, and a chance of mistakes grows.
The designer has to postpone a confirmed project and delaying it affects all further processes, like machining testing, etc. If there is a tight schedule and multiple projects at work, it affects all of them.
Usually, customers do not provide all the details, sometimes they change the parameters after the designer has already spent his time.
Most of the requested projects never happen for a variety of reasons.
After our customer had calculated how much time his design team spent on layouts, he realized that having one designer dedicated to layout requests is much better than withdrawing designers from confirmed projects.
The designer’s salary annually is at least 25-30 thousand euros per year, keeping things as described above is also bad, so is there any other option?
Tool layout generator with an enterprise plan is the answer. After just a few hours of training, anyone can generate a tool layout as easy as just a few clicks.
After 3 months of using the tool layout generator, our customer has shared his experience:
- 95% of tool layouts are prepared by project managers/sales team.
- In 3 months design team has spent only 10 hours on layout drawings (without Tt layout generator it would take at least 200 hours of designer’s time).
- Designers are focused on their workflow – only confirmed projects. No more need to keep a dedicated designer working on tool layouts. Direct economy 28 000 euros.
- Project managers create layouts in just a few minutes; calculations and a tool quotation now are prepared less than in 1 day. Reaction to incoming inquiries reduced from 2-5 days to 1-day max. It allows to process more projects and make more offers in the same time.
