MetalWest: estimating and scheduling
Mick Douthie describes how MetalWest uses the AI Estimator and Scheduler.
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Saving $200K/year and Doubling Capacity
WA structural and infrastructure fabricator MetalWest uses the AI Estimator and Scheduler to take manual work out of quoting and scheduling, and reports major labour savings, faster quotes and doubled workshop capacity.
Results as reported by MetalWest in the featured video.
Context
- WA structural and infrastructure fabricator
- 18 staff
- Two decades of experience
How they use it
- AI Estimator prices jobs from drawings so quoting no longer waits on desk time.
- AI Scheduler builds the workshop schedule that office staff previously maintained by hand.
- Quality checkpoints and the customer portal give the shop and its customers transparency on job progress.
What they reported
- Founder Mick Douthie reports roughly $200,000 a year saved in labour by automating two office admin roles.
- Quote turnaround time reported as cut by more than half.
- Workshop capacity reported as doubled.
- Mick can quote a job from his phone on site instead of losing a day at his desk.
Watch
Full Production Transparency Across the Shop Floor
Published 29 November 2024
An earlier MetalWest video on production transparency, covering quality checkpoints and the customer portal.
Jump to
- 1:50Quality checkpoints (opens YouTube in a new tab)
- 3:22Customer portal (opens YouTube in a new tab)
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