The Client: Quickparts, Inc.
Quickparts.com is a privately held manufacturing services company dedicated to providing customers with an online e-commerce system to procure low-volume and high-volume custom manufactured parts.
The Problem:
Quickparts wanted to greatly reduce the turnaround time normally associated with the rapid prototyping of parts. Traditionally, design engineers would physically send a CAD drawing to the Quickparts office. Quickparts personnel would then contact the engineer with a quote for having the item prototyped via stereolithography, SLA, or some other prototyping process. The customer could then order the part, which could take up to a week or two to finally arrive. The total time from submittal of the CAD drawing to delivery of the part could take as much as three weeks. Quickparts knew that it could improve its processes and revenue if they could put the entire process of quoting the rapid prototyping services online, saving the customer an enormous amount of time over traditional quoting systems.
The Solution: Online Rapid Prototyping System
Using proprietary algorithms developed by Quickparts, Digital Graphiti created an online rapid quoting system that:
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- Allows website visitors to upload CAD files using a standard web browser.
- The system immediately parses the uploaded file and the dimensions and volume of the part are calculated.
- A real time quote (cost for creating part) is generated for the user.
- The quote can be saved for a period of a week, abandoned or sent for processing.
The Result:
The Quickparts.com website was an immediate success, surpassing $1 Million in online quotes within three months of launch.
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