Quoting & cost estimation
Gavos reads the drawings, the emails and the spreadsheets your customers actually send, builds the process routing, and prices it against your real machine, labour and yield costs.
“Need pricing on 250 units. Substrate per drawing rev C, wafer is customer-supplied. Test per the spec doc. Can you get us something by Friday?”
Illustrative quote. Six minutes from inbox to priced routing.
Why quoting breaks
When no two jobs repeat, there is nothing to copy forward. So the work lands on whoever has been there longest — and the queue is as long as that one person's week.
A PDF drawing, a BOM someone re-cut by hand, and three emails of clarifications. Before anyone can price it, somebody has to read all of it.
Cost lives in the process steps and the setup time, not in a rate card. Get the routing wrong and the margin is wrong before the quote is sent.
The assumptions behind last year's pricing aren't written down anywhere. When that estimator is out, quoting stops.
Buyers send the same RFQ to four shops. The one that answers on Wednesday is in the conversation; the one that answers next week is not.
How it works
Forward the email or upload the files. Gavos pulls out the part, quantity, revision, materials, tolerances and test requirements, and flags what's missing so you can ask the customer once instead of three times.
Gavos proposes the process steps, setup and cycle times from work you've quoted before. Every line is editable, and every change is kept — so the routing becomes your standard, not a black box.
Machine rates, labour, materials, scrap and yield roll into a cost breakdown you can show a customer. Set a margin floor and the quote tells you when a discount crosses it.
What's in it
Cost accrues per operation, so a change in setup time moves the number where you'd expect it to.
Price the units you'll actually ship, not the units you'll start.
Rev C and rev D are separate quotes with a visible diff, not two files with similar names.
Set floors by customer or product family. Anything below needs a named approver.
A clean quote PDF plus the cost breakdown behind it, in your own template.
A won quote leaves with its routing intact, ready to become a work order in your ERP or MES.
Advanced packaging
Generic configurators assume a catalogue and a bill of materials. OSAT and advanced packaging work assumes neither — the cost is in the process flow, the equipment time and the yield. That's the model Gavos prices against.
Book a demo
Thirty minutes. We'll quote a real part of yours on the call, walk the cost breakdown line by line, and you can tell us where it's wrong.
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