by Chris Anjel | Jul 13, 2026 | Materials & Pricing, Quoting & Estimating
Ask ten shops what their labor rate is, and you’ll get ten confident numbers — most of them wrong. A labor rate that doesn’t reflect your real shop floor quietly bleeds margin on every job. Here are the questions we hear most from CNC, sheet metal, and 3D...
by Chris Anjel | Jul 13, 2026 | Materials & Pricing, Quoting & Estimating
Most digital manufacturing shops don’t lose quotes because their work is bad. They lose them because their quoting is slow, inconsistent, or disconnected from how the shop actually runs. An RFQ lands in an inbox, waits for an estimator, and by the time a price...
