THE WORLD’S MOST ADVANCED MANUFACTURING ESTIMATING SYSTEM
Precision Estimating. Built Around Your Operation.
Micro Enterprise helps you build the complete manufacturing plan—operation by operation, machine by machine—then calculates every cost behind a quote you can defend.
Capability Strip?
CNC Machining
Fabrication
Routing
Assemblies
Bills of Material
Routing
MORE THAN A QUOTING TOOL
The Entire Manufacturing Estimate.
One Connected System.
Fast numbers are easy. Building the right manufacturing cost is harder? Don’t want it to seem hard
Micro Enterprise combines engineering calculations, process planning, configurable manufacturing data, pricing, and production documentation in one enterprise estimating platform, that is fast and accurate
Pillar 1 — Engineering-Based Estimating
Replace Assumptions With Manufacturing Logic
Calculate costs using machine-specific cycle times, tooling feed and speeds, material cost, labor, setup, tooling, burden, engineering, and outside services.
Pillar 2 — Built for Complex Manufacturing
Estimate the Work Other Systems Oversimplify
Support CNC machining, fabrication, secondary operations, purchased components, multi-operation routings, and complete assemblies.
Pillar 3 — Standardized Estimating
Turn Expertise Into a Repeatable Process
Replace disconnected spreadsheets and tribal knowledge with shared machines, materials, rates, rules, and estimating workflows.
Pillar 4 — Complete Cost Visibility
Users all share the same dashboard and file folders
Trace the estimate from raw material through every operation, cost, pricing adjustment, and finished quote.
THE QUOTE IS THE LAST STEP? Not needed?
First Build the Manufacturing Plan
Formula-based estimating begins with assumptions. Micro Enterprise begins with how the job will actually move through production.
Define every operation in manufacturing order. Assign the department, work center, machine, labor, setup, tooling, and outside services. Then calculate the cost and determine the price. Works fast and accurate
Define the Requirements
Start with the customer, part, quantities, material, stock, specifications, and manufacturing requirements.
Build the Routing
Arrange every manufacturing operation in production order—from raw material through the completed part or assembly.
Assign the Resources
Select the machines, departments, work centers, labor, tooling, gaging, fixtures, and suppliers required for each operation.
Calculate the Real Cost Roll Up:
- Materials
- Labor
- Tooling
- Outside services
- Purchased components
- Machine time
- Setup
- Burden
- Engineering charges
- One-time cost
BUILT AROUND YOUR OPERATION
One Platform. Endless Estimating Flexibility.
Most software forces your estimating process into its structure. Micro Enterprise does the opposite. Configure it around your machines, departments, materials, labor, costing rules, pricing strategy, and reporting requirements—then use that intelligence across every estimate. Use templates and macros to quickly quote repeatable processes.
Model Your Manufacturing Operation
Build the system around the way work actually moves through your company.
- Departments and work centers
- Individual machines and machine groups
- Machine-specific capabilities and cycle-time logic
- Alternate machine selection
- Apply Labor, setup, burden, and utilization for each unique process
- Outside-service providers
Your equipment. Your organization. Your manufacturing logic.
Build Your Estimating Intelligence
Turn your company’s knowledge into reusable estimating data.
- Materials, stock shapes, and costs
- Standard operations and cost items
- Material Speeds and feeds
- Custom formulas
- Tool and thread libraries
- Previous jobs usning templates and macros for fast quotingNotes, text, contacts, and estimating standards
What your best estimators know becomes part of every estimate.
Price Every Opportunity Your Way
Use the pricing structure that fits the customer, quantity, and opportunity.
- Multiple pricing quantities
- Tooling and one-time costs
- Margins and markups
- Itemized or non-itemized pricing
- Sales commissions
- Detailed cost review
- Engineering charges
Change the pricing strategy without losing sight of the real cost.
Deliver the Information Every Team Needs
Turn the same estimate into customer, management, and production documentation.
- Customer quote letters
- Bills of Material
- Detailed cost breakdowns
- Shop travelers
- Manufacturing routings
- Production hours
- Process layouts
- Scheduling information
All users share the same dashboard and file folders
DEPTH WHEN YOU NEED IT. SPEED WHEN YOU DON’T.
One Platform. Every Level of Estimating.
A complex assembly, a new machined part, and a repeat service do not need the same estimating workflow.
Micro Enterprise gives estimators the right level of speed and detail for each opportunity.
Routing Estimates
Build operation-by-operation routings with departments, work centers, machines, setup, labor, cycle times, tooling, and outside services.
If you’re in a hurry just do a swag or budgetary quote
Use it for:
Complex parts, new work, high-value opportunities, and multi-operation manufacturing.
This is the flagship Micro Enterprise workflow and should receive the greatest visual emphasis.
Quick Quote
Move Faster When Full Routing Is Not Required
Create itemized or non-itemized estimates using standard cost items and reusable quote databases.
Use it for:
Simple parts, repeat work, standard services, and fast-turn opportunities.
I don’t like Quick quote and don’t talk about it
Bill of Material
Know the Cost of the Entire Assembly
Combine Routing Estimates, manufactured components, purchased parts, and Quick Quotes into one complete assembly estimate.
Import Solid Assemblies into a assembly estimate
Use it for:
OEM products, equipment, weldments, subassemblies, and multi-component manufacturing.
Automatic Feature Recognition
Move From CAD to Cost Faster
Automatically recognize manufacturing features for:
- Plasma
- CNC Mill
- Waterjet
- CNC Lathe
- Oxy-fuel
- Laser
- Fabrication
- 2D AFR for Metal Fabrication
- Digitizing workflows
Use it for:
Complex parts, new work, high-value opportunities, and multi-operation manufacturing.
This is the flagship Micro Enterprise workflow and should receive the greatest visual emphasis.
BRING US AN EXAMPLE of what?
Show Us Your Approach and Discover a Better Way
Bring a complex CNC part, routing, fabrication, or assembly. We’ll show you how Micro Enterprise turns it into a complete manufacturing plan, exposes every meaningful cost, and builds a quote you can defend. Not sure we want to do this
Know the cost. Protect the margin. Win the right work.