Custom manufacturing
Quote a job that isn't in the catalogue — routing, materials and times rebuilt from your past jobs, consistent with your shop floor.
Who is it for?
For manufacturers who build to order — print, finishing, packaging, sheet-metal, plastics, machining, assembly. Worlds where every job has its own routing, imposition, materials and times, and where know-how lives in the memory of past jobs rather than a fixed catalogue.
The business need
Custom quoting relies on experienced estimators who spend hours rebuilding the routing by hand: imposition, basis weight, manufacturing stations, real-world cycle times. This know-how is rarely tooled — it lives in individual experience, which makes new-hire onboarding slow (12 to 18 months on average) and exposes the company as soon as it tries to accelerate growth.
And yet the raw material is already there: your past jobs. The right decisions are documented in your quotes, work orders and production history. The question is whether you can leverage them at the moment a new request lands.
How DARYL helps
DARYL learns your costing method from your past jobs, internal Excel models and shop-floor rules. On every new request, it surfaces similar jobs, proposes a routing, computes materials and times, and prices. The estimator stays in control: validate, adjust or ask for a variant.
Similarity search
DARYL surfaces nearby past jobs (size, quantity, material, fixing) and proposes a price range with its confidence interval.
Manufacturing routing
Rebuilt station by station — cutting, laminating, punching, packing, shipping — using your shop's real cycle times.
Materials & bill of materials
Sheet size, basis weight, imposition and consumables. DARYL applies your domain rules without starting from a blank page.
Analytical costing
Material cost, labour, subcontracting and margin lines. The offer matches your target profitability.
Industry examples
Print & finishing
Compute the routing of a wall calendar — cover size, imposition, basis weight, stations (laminating, punching, packing) — and price from similar past jobs.
Packaging & POS displays
Rebuild a bill of materials and a routing from a customer request, factoring in materials, real cycle times and logistics constraints.
Sheet-metal & weldments
Break a custom part down into operations (cutting, bending, welding, treatment), estimate times and price against comparable jobs already produced.
Plastics & assemblies
Assess a multi-part product: materials, transformation steps, subcontracting, and generate a budgetary offer before engaging the design office.
Use your past jobs to win the next ones
Let's talk about your shop, your typical quotes and a DARYL pilot fed by your production history.
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