AI in Metalworking: Tools Built from Your Order Data
Contract manufacturers and metalworking shops live on tight quotes and many small orders. Knowing which parts really earn money and where the machine time goes makes for better quotes. The data for that is usually already in the ERP.
- Runs on your server
- Reads only, never writes
- GDPR ready
- First result in weeks
In short
With Onagero, metalworking companies build their own internal tools from existing data: post-costing per order, time balance per machine, scrap per operation, material prices against the quote. Everything runs on your server, only reads and replaces no system.
What is different in Metalworking
Many orders, small lots
In one-off and small-batch production, deviations disappear in the average. The tool shows them per order.
Material is the largest item
Sheet, bars, tubes: price movements hit the quote directly. The tool shows which orders are affected.
Machine hours are the currency
Laser, press-brake bending, welding, machining: how much time goes to setup, how much to processing? The completion confirmations tell you.
Questions asked every week
Any of them can become a pilot.
Analyze contribution margin
Onagero calculates contribution margins from your actual data: revenue per order, material from withdrawals, production time from confirmations, valued with your rates. …
Learn more →Evaluate machine times
Onagero evaluates the times that your machines and your ERP already post: run time, setup time, downtime with reason, planned and unplanned breaks. The result is a tool …
Learn more →Track material prices
Onagero continuously compares your actual purchase prices with the material basis of your pre-costing. The tool shows which materials have moved, which items contain …
Learn more →Quote costing
With Onagero, your costing team builds an aid from your own orders: for a new inquiry, it shows similar earlier items, their actual times, material costs and deviation …
Learn more →Your systems
Metalworking companies often run industry-specific ERPs with their own BDE, plus Excel for quoting and planning. Onagero connects to whatever your IT releases for read access.
Start with one problem.
Keep the capability.
No AI transformation. One real process, solved on your data in a few weeks. Your team solves the next one itself.
Questions from Metalworking
Is this worthwhile for a company with 50 employees?
If a recurring task costs hours today, yes. The start has a clear scope and a goal agreed in advance; the measurement at the end shows the benefit in hours and euros.
We quote with Excel. Does that work?
Yes. Excel files are a common source. What matters is that their layout is stable; where it varies, the tool flags it.
What do we need internally?
A person who owns the process, a contact in IT for the read-only access, and someone who can release the start.
Other industries
Which problem would
your team solve first?
Show us a real process. We will show you how it could look with Onagero.
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