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Engineering & fabrication

Kings Engineering

Project quoting and cutting stock tool

Excel

Faster quoting on complex fabrication jobs, minimised material waste and protection against underquoting.

Structured fabrication takeoff sheet
Takeoff sheet with section library
The challenge

Where they started.

Complex fabrication jobs were quoted from a workbook that had grown over many years and was understood by very few people.

Material was ordered in stock lengths, but the quote did not reliably account for cutting patterns and offcuts, so waste was either over-allowed or missed.

There was no consistent check to stop a job going out below a sensible margin.

What we built

The system.

  • Structured project quoting workbook with consistent component entry
  • Cutting stock optimiser that nests required lengths into stock lengths and reports offcuts
  • Central material, labour and process rate libraries
  • Minimum-margin locks and an underquote warning before the quote is issued
  • One-click branded quote output
Original estimating workbook
The original workbook
Results

What changed.

Less timeQuoting a complex job
Less wasteMaterial left over from cutting
Caught earlierQuotes that would have gone out under margin

Estimating systems for Engineering & fabrication

TechnologyMicrosoft ExcelVBACutting stock optimisation
Next step

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