Manufacturing software for Australian job shops and custom manufacturers

Quote faster. Deliver on time. Keep your margin.

One platform for your estimating, sales and manufacturing teams, from quote to goods dispatched.

Operators and a supervisor reviewing job schedules on workshop screens

The platform

See what it does.

Quote in hours, not days.

Job shops: SAM AI reads the drawings and drafts the takeoff, labour and price. Product manufacturers: configure the product, and the bill of materials, routing and price follow. Either way, your estimator reviews and sends, and every quote is checked against real capacity.

For job shops For product manufacturers

Drawing takeoff screen with quantities extracted from a fabrication drawing — Drawing takeoff, with the product configurator inset

Product configurator with selected options and a priced bill of materials — Drawing takeoff, with the product configurator inset

SAM AI Manufacturing specialists that prepare the work. Your people approve it.

Meet the four specialists

Also on the platform: customer portal and machine monitoring. Works alongside your ERP: legacy ERP modernisation.

Sound familiar?

Most shops accept these as normal.

Your accounting or ERP handles the money. The gaps sit between the enquiry and the shop floor.

01Quotes go out too slowly to win

Drawings, take-offs and subcontract pricing live in different places, so a straightforward enquiry waits on one busy estimator.

02Two estimators, two prices

Without shared history, rates and assumptions drift. Nobody checks estimates against what the job actually cost.

03Late jobs surface when the customer rings

Schedules live on whiteboards and in heads. Production managers lose time answering status questions instead of running the floor.

04Skilled people stuck re-keying data

Quotes, POs, travellers and invoices get typed twice between the office, the floor and the accounting system.

SAM AI, with your team in control

SAM prepares the work. Your team makes the calls.

SAM drafts the schedule. Nothing reaches the floor until your scheduler approves it.
SAM prepares quotes and customer documents. They go out only after your team signs off.
SAM logs every change. Your team sees what was proposed, by whom, and why.

SAM prepares drafts and notifies your team. Your team reviews customer quotes and subcontract choices, with oversight of production planning.

Meet SAM AI

See approvals in practice: R. Moore and Sons and Klinger.

Software Platform

Four tools, one system

From the first quote to the customer checking their order, Smart Shop Floor runs it in one place, so nothing falls through the gaps between spreadsheets.

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In their words

What Australian manufacturers report

Customer-reported results from Australian manufacturing businesses. Outcomes vary by shop.

Lead times from eight weeks to two.
Specialised Tyre and Wheel
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About $200,000 a year saved.
MetalWest
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Stocktake from a full day to about an hour.
A.D. Coote
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Real-time production answers, floor to front office.
Schlam Payload
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R. Moore and Sons
8,000+ operations scheduled without manual juggling.
R. Moore and Sons
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Machine downtime visible without touching PLCs.
Klinger Australia
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45 minutes per operator per shift. Ask us about the measurement and conditions for your operation. This is Smart Shop Floor's utilisation claim, not a result attributed to the customers above.

All customer stories

Your systems

Works alongside the systems you already run.

No long ERP project. Keep the ERP, accounting and job management you have.

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Business opportunity & capacity report

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Your quoting and operations scenarios

Run your own numbers

What could faster quoting and better utilisation unlock?

Explore potential new business and additional workforce capacity using your own assumptions.

Scenario 1 · Estimation

What could more quotes mean for your business?

Use representative monthly averages for quote volume and turnover from quoted work.

Quotes produced per month

40

Monthly turnover

AUD 200,000

More quotes in the same time

25 %

Potential additional monthly revenue (AUD)A$50,000Based on 25% more quotes in the same time.

Estimates based on user-editable assumptions.

Prefilled values are editable examples, not industry benchmarks. All monetary values are in Australian dollars (AUD). These are illustrative estimates, not guaranteed results, savings or financial ROI.

Additional quotes/month: 40 quotes × 25% uplift = 10 additional quotes.

Implied revenue per quote submitted: A$200,000 turnover ÷ 40 quotes = A$5,000—not average quote size.

Potential additional monthly revenue: 10 additional quotes × A$5,000 implied revenue per quote = A$50,000.

Assumes the same win rate and job-value mix, demand for additional quotes and capacity to deliver. A 25% quoting uplift models 25% more revenue. Turnover may relate to earlier jobs; this is an indicative opportunity, not profit, guaranteed sales or same-month revenue.

Scenario 2 · Operations

More capacity from your existing team

Time that could move from chasing paperwork, instructions or job information back to productive work.

Number of operators

10

Increase utilisation/Operator

30 min/shift

Worked shifts per operator per month

20

Fully loaded hourly labour cost

AUD 50 /h

Monthly salary benchmark

AUD 8000

Optional salary-value comparison: 0.63 monthly salary equivalents at A$8,000. This is not headcount, FTE or payroll savings.

Potential productive hours recovered / month: 100 h
Illustrative value of that capacity / month (AUD): A$5,000

Estimates based on user-editable assumptions.

Prefilled values are editable examples, not industry benchmarks. All monetary values are in Australian dollars (AUD). These are illustrative estimates, not guaranteed results, savings or financial ROI.

Potential recovered hours/month: 10 operators × 20 shifts per operator × 30 minutes per shift ÷ 60 = 100 hours.

Illustrative capacity value/month: 100 hours × A$50/hour = A$5,000 of additional productive labour capacity, without additional hiring.

Monthly salary equivalents: A$5,000 ÷ A$8,000 monthly salary benchmark = 0.63 salary equivalents.

Salary equivalents compare value to a salary benchmark; they are not headcount (FTE). Additional capacity is not reduced payroll, cash savings or guaranteed profit. "Without additional hiring" does not mean software, implementation or other costs are zero.

Review these numberswith a Manufacturing Growth Specialist

Quote faster. Deliver on time. Keep your margin.

See what it does.

Quote in hours, not days.

Every job scheduled. Every promise date kept.

Every operator knows what's next, and why.

Most shops accept these as normal.

SAM prepares the work. Your team makes the calls.

Four tools, one system

What Australian manufacturers report

Lead times from eight weeks to two.

About $200,000 a year saved.

Stocktake from a full day to about an hour.

Real-time production answers, floor to front office.

8,000+ operations scheduled without manual juggling.

Machine downtime visible without touching PLCs.

Works alongside the systems you already run.

Keep your ERP

The sensors are ours

Your system, connected

What could faster quoting and better utilisation unlock?

What could more quotes mean for your business?

More capacity from your existing team

See how it would run in your shop