by Chris Anjel | Sep 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
Bridge tooling sits in a tricky spot: faster and cheaper than production tooling, but more durable and repeatable than prototype methods. For digital manufacturers, it’s a growing revenue stream — especially for customers launching products, running pilot...
by Chris Anjel | Aug 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Your ERP holds the data quoting needs — material costs, labor rates, routings, inventory. But when the connection between ERP and your quoting engine is fragile, quoting slows down. Estimators wait on manual lookups. Prices drift. Lead times become guesses.For digital...
by Chris Anjel | Aug 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Most digital manufacturing shops still rely on paper travelers, whiteboards, or spreadsheets to track job progress. Operators scribble start and stop times, supervisors manually key data into the ERP at day’s end, and management makes capacity decisions on...
by Chris Anjel | Aug 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
You quote a job, the customer approves, and production starts. Then the machinist finds a feature that can’t be held to tolerance, or the 3D print operator spots an overhang that will fail without supports. The fix gets discussed in a Slack message, an email...
by Chris Anjel | Aug 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Your scheduling board shows 70% utilization. Your production manager says the floor is maxed out. Your sales team keeps promising two-week lead times because “we have bandwidth.” Someone is working with bad numbers — and it’s probably...
