Guides for Shops in the Network
We place stainless orders with machine shops every week and we see which jobs run cleanly and which ones eat their margin at first article. These guides are that view, written for the shop rather than the buyer. Nothing here is behind a form.
Quoting a JIS Drawing: The Nine Checks That Protect Your Margin
The title block items that change a stainless quote, why shops outside Japan misprice JIS drawings, and how to quote SUS CNC so the first article does not eat the job.
How to Read Our Order Package and Commit to a Date in Ten Minutes
What arrives with a purchase order from SUS CNC, the six items that decide whether your shop should take the job, and the signals that mean you should tell our engineer no.
The Capability Data That Gets a Shop the Right Orders, and the Kind That Does Not
What to put in your registration so our engineer places the right stainless orders with you, why honest limits win more work than broad claims, and what to leave out.
What Buyers Actually Judge a Machine Shop On
Price decides fewer stainless jobs than shops think. The six things buyers, and the engineer placing work for them, really judge a shop on, and what each one costs you to get right.
Where Stainless Quotes Go Wrong, and What Each Mistake Costs the Shop
The seven assumptions that turn a profitable stainless job into a loss, what each one costs in real terms, and the check that prevents it before the number goes out.
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