Vendor vision (unlike Marvel’s Wanda Vision) is very real and will have a long-term effect on your fabrication business. With new tools, technologies, and techniques, manufacturing is constantly progressing. Organizations in reactionary mode will always be losing ground in the race for contracts, efficiency, and profitability. Today, more than ever, it’s critical that your software solutions partners understand, anticipate, and plan for what’s ahead.

Do you remember the 80s?  We kept our valuables secure in a fanny pack, recorded a cassette music mix tape, dressed like MC Hammer, and thought that Excel was “totally rad”. But for today’s fabricators, these spreadsheets – along with many other trends – have (some would say “fortunately”) gone out of style.

Today, companies are embracing automation and intelligent software systems throughout the business – from the front office to the shop floor. For a growing number of metal fabricators this means replacing Excel with fabrication estimating software.

These systems accelerate and add value to the process doubling or even tripling the number of quotes that can be generated in a day or week.  Over the course of a month or year, this exponentially increasing quote quantity and quality results in more opportunity for winning and profitable sales.

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