Plug in your numbers and see how much automation could save your shop each year. Takes 60 seconds.
This tool is built for manufacturing shop owners and managers. It estimates how much your operation could save each year by automating repetitive manual tasks and streamlining your quoting process. Enter your real numbers below — or use the defaults to see a typical example.
Enter Your Numbers
Five fields about your shop: team size, labor rate, and how you spend time on manual work and quoting.
See Your Savings
The calculator instantly shows estimated annual savings, payback period, and first-year ROI.
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Your Numbers
Everyone on payroll — shop floor, office, management. This helps scale the estimate.
Fully loaded cost (wages + benefits). Not sure? $25–$35/hr is typical for most shops.
Across all employees: data entry, inspection logging, material tracking, spreadsheet updates. Most shops with 10–20 people run 30–60 hrs/week.
Count every quote your team builds — new jobs, requotes, and revisions all count.
From opening the file to sending the PDF. Include material lookup, pricing, and formatting. 60–120 min is typical.
Growth inputs
What you charge customers per machine hour. $75–$125/hr is typical for CNC shops.
Average revenue from a won quote. Include material and labor. $3K–$10K is typical for job shops.
Hours freed per week
34
from manual tasks
13.5
from quoting
These hours become billable production and new business development.
Your Growth Potential
34 freed hrs/wk at $85/hr shop rate
+5 quotes/wk at 25% win rate
15% of freed hours were overtime at 1.5x
How we calculated these numbers+
50% reduction in manual labor hours
Automation typically eliminates 40–70% of repetitive manual work (data entry, material handling, inspection logging). We use 50% as a conservative mid-range estimate.
90% reduction in quoting time
AI-assisted quoting pulls from your existing price sheets and generates quotes in under a minute. The remaining 10% is your review and approval time.
Freed hours → billable production
Hours your team currently spends on manual tasks get redirected to making parts. We multiply freed hours by your billable shop rate — the revenue those hours generate when pointed at real work.
50% more quotes, 25% win rate
When quoting takes minutes instead of hours, your team can bid on more work. We conservatively assume 50% more quotes submitted and a 25% win rate — most shops close 20–35%.
15% of freed hours were overtime
Most shops run some overtime to cover manual work that bleeds past the shift. We assume 15% of freed hours eliminate overtime at the 1.5x premium rate.
Nobody gets fired — everyone does more valuable work
This calculator assumes you keep your entire team. The value comes from redirecting their time to billable work, winning more jobs, and cutting overtime — not cutting people.
Payback
1
months
ROI
2203%
first year
Pilot Cost
$20,000
estimated
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