Quoting and estimating platform for custom manufacturers that reads 3D CAD, detects features, flags manufacturability issues and applies your own pricing rules.
- Price
- Custom quote; not published. Vendor says price depends on shop size, RFQ volume, modules, integrations and contract length.
- Best for
- Established job shops (roughly 10-50+ people) quoting many custom parts per week
Upload CAD, PDFs or drawings (or forward RFQ emails to an inbox) and get DFM risk flags plus an editable draft quote.
- Price
- Free to try, no credit card required. Paid pricing not published.
- Best for
- CNC shops that want faster first-pass quotes with machinability checks
Prices milled, turned and sheet-metal parts from the STEP model plus the PDF print, using editable formulas tied to your own machines and rates.
- Price
- $199/month for the whole shop, unlimited users. 14-day free trial, no card, no contract.
- Best for
- Small machine shops (1-20 people) that want transparent, formula-based quoting
Reads geometry from STEP/IGES or drawings, checks the part against your machines, and prices it on your rates, with an approval gate before anything reaches the customer.
- Price
- From €119/month (Start, up to 100 quotes) or €5 per quote pay-as-you-go; Pro €219/month; prices net of VAT. 14-day trial.
- Best for
- Small shops that want an instant-quote widget on their own website
Quoting plus production software for contract manufacturers: CAD in, rule-based draft quote out, with routing and shop-floor modules on higher tiers.
- Price
- Startup $330/month; Pro $880/month; Factory Floor custom. One-year initial term.
- Best for
- Mixed-process shops (CNC + 3D printing + molding)
Connects to your RFQ inbox, opens the CAD, drawing and BOM in each request, drafts the estimate and lets you reply on the same email thread.
- Price
- Starts at $195/month (1-2 employee shops); vendor says most shops pay $195-$495/month depending on headcount and ITAR. Month-to-month, free 1-week trial.
- Best for
- US machine and fab shops under 100 people drowning in emailed RFQs
General quote-to-cash assistant for trades: picks up requests from Gmail/Outlook, reads STEP files, drafts a priced quote from your history, and books invoices in QuickBooks or Xero.
- Price
- Free (3 AI quotes/month); Solo $14.99/mo; Business $49/mo; Pro $99/mo (unlimited).
- Best for
- Very small shops (1-5 people) that want cheap quoting plus invoicing
Watches estimators' inboxes, turns RFQs with prints into drafts, extracts BOMs, and matches each line against your past won quotes.
- Price
- From $399/month for solo shops.
- Best for
- Fabrication and job shops with a large library of past quotes
AI part analysis (DFM, cycle-time and cost estimates) plus toolpath generation inside Autodesk Fusion; also sold as an API.
- Price
- API plans: Free (100 DFM analyses + 10 estimates/month), Core $400/mo, higher tier $1,500/mo. Shop-app pricing beyond free tools: unknown.
- Best for
- Fusion-based shops wanting estimating and CAM help in one place
Plug-in that proposes machining strategies, operations and toolpaths for 3-axis and 3+2 milling inside your existing CAM package. Vendor says it gets you up to 80% of the program.
- Price
- Bespoke, per active seat; not published in the US. (A Chinese reseller page lists annual plans from ¥2,780/month.)
- Best for
- Milling shops where the programmer is the bottleneck
AI CAM agent that runs natively inside Mastercam and Siemens NX and generates editable, ready-to-post toolpaths using your tool libraries.
- Price
- Not published (per seat, contact vendor).
- Best for
- Shops already on Mastercam or NX doing 3-axis work
Widely used CAD/CAM with automation features; the Manufacturing Extension adds advanced toolpaths and automated programming aids. A common base for AI add-ins like Toolpath and CAM Assist.
- Price
- Fusion $680/user/year; Manufacturing Extension $1,465/user/year (requires Fusion).
- Best for
- Small shops wanting affordable all-in-one CAD/CAM
Combined ERP, MES and quality system built by a machine shop, aimed at precision shops needing AS9100/ITAR/FDA traceability.
- Price
- Quote-based; third-party listing says from about $500/month.
- Best for
- Aerospace, defense and medical job shops (10-200 people)
Cloud ERP/MES for job shops with quoting, job tracking, inventory, quality and an Autoschedule feature that re-plans from live production data.
- Price
- Third-party listing says from about $800/month; vendor requires a demo for pricing.
- Best for
- Machining and sheet-metal shops replacing legacy ERP
Long-running job-shop ERP covering quoting, job costing, scheduling and inventory, with an AI BOM Builder add-on that drafts bills of materials from PDFs, spreadsheets and images.
- Price
- Quote-based; a third-party listing cites from $6,000/year.
- Best for
- Make-to-order job shops (5-100 people)
Job-shop ERP from ECI (formerly Shoptech) with estimating, order management, scheduling whiteboard, purchasing and accounting.
- Price
- Quote-based; not published.
- Best for
- Small job shops that want a widely-supported ERP
ERP for job shops and make-to-order manufacturers covering quoting, scheduling, inventory and accounting.
- Price
- Third-party listing: from $125/user/month.
- Best for
- Small to mid job shops
Machine monitoring and MES: real-time dashboards, alerts, ERP-connected job tracking and drag-and-drop scheduling.
- Price
- Volume-based subscription; price not published.
- Best for
- Shops of 20+ machines that want monitoring plus scheduling
Hands-off production monitoring for CNC shops: connects to FANUC and Haas controls to capture cycle times, part counts, alarms and tool-level data with no operator input.
- Price
- Per machine per year; custom quote.
- Best for
- Small precision CNC shops focused on cycle time and job costing
OEE and machine monitoring with broad CNC protocol support, unlimited users and cloud or on-prem options.
- Price
- Third-party review lists cloud tiers of $47-$140/machine/month plus a $1,000-$2,500 one-time activation; vendor asks you to request pricing.
- Best for
- Job shops wanting budget-friendly OEE tracking
Factory operations platform using clip-on current sensors and PLC connections, so it works on old machines without network controls.
- Price
- Not published; third-party estimate around $50/machine/month. Now sold by ECI Software Solutions.
- Best for
- Shops with older or mixed equipment
Software-only monitoring pointed at the controller IP; free tier for real-time dashboards, paid tier adds integrations and an MCP server so you can ask an AI assistant about your machines.
- Price
- Free tier; Full $30/machine/month. No extra hardware.
- Best for
- Small shops wanting to try monitoring for free
Inspection planning and quality platform: automated 2D/3D ballooning, GD&T/PMI extraction, CMM integration and AS9102/PPAP reports.
- Price
- Not published.
- Best for
- CMM-heavy shops doing aerospace/automotive FAI
Ballooning and characteristic-capture software for drawings, with measurement import and AS9102/PPAP templates.
- Price
- Not published.
- Best for
- Shops producing frequent FAI reports
Browser-based AI that reads 2D PDF drawings, places balloons and fills AS9102 Form 3 with dimensions, tolerances and GD&T for human review.
- Price
- First drawing free, no signup; then per-drawing pricing (amount not published).
- Best for
- Small aerospace shops doing occasional AS9102 FAIs
Train camera-based defect detection models in the browser, then run them on industrial PCs or cameras with LandingEdge.
- Price
- Free plan (1,000 credits/month, up to 3 users; downloaded models non-commercial only). Enterprise pricing via sales.
- Best for
- Shops piloting visual inspection without hiring a vision engineer
Turnkey AI camera inspection stations for cosmetic defects, including multi-camera setups for small parts.
- Price
- Not published.
- Best for
- Higher-volume part runs where 100% inspection is required
Platform for training small ML models (vibration, sound, temperature, images) and deploying them onto microcontrollers, PLCs like Arduino Opta, and edge computers.
- Price
- Developer plan free for prototyping; production deployment requires an Enterprise subscription (custom pricing).
- Best for
- DIY-minded shops and integrators building sensor-based anomaly detection
DIN-rail micro PLC (Wi-Fi/BLE, Ethernet, RS-485, 8 inputs, 4 relays) programmable with ladder logic or Arduino code, and able to run small ML models.
- Price
- Opta WiFi listed at €206 (VAT incl.) on the Arduino EU store; US price varies.
- Best for
- Adding simple monitoring or smart logic to an older machine
Low-cost hardware for running vision models locally: a camera with an on-sensor AI chip (Sony IMX500) and an add-on accelerator board for Raspberry Pi 5.
- Price
- AI Camera $70; AI HAT+ $70 (13 TOPS) or $110 (26 TOPS).
- Best for
- Cheap vision experiments (part presence, counting, simple checks)