Size the drive once — the BOM and the GA drawing follow.
A screw conveyor for a palm kernel mill, a packing line for an F&B plant: the drive sizing lives in the senior engineer's workbook, the component BOM is typed out separately and drifts from it, and the machine you have built thirty times is redrawn from scratch. We build systems where the sizing, the BOM and the GA drawing come from one entry — so a repeat product is a parameter change, not a fortnight.
Sound familiar?
The week, as it actually runs.
Sizing lives in one head
Belt speeds, material densities, drive selections — the rules of thumb are in the senior engineer's workbook, and nobody else trusts themselves to touch it.
The BOM drifts from the sizing
The calc says a 5.5 kW gearmotor; purchasing orders from a BOM typed weeks earlier. The difference is found at assembly, not before.
Repeat machines redrawn from scratch
The same inclined conveyor, 800 mm wider this time — and the drawing office starts a fresh GA, fresh weights and a fresh BOM that must all agree.
What we would build
What we would build for a machine builder.
Start where the risk is: the sizing workbook. We rebuild conveyor power and component sizing as validated software — material density, inclination and speed limits made explicit, the drive and bearing BOM generated from the same run — so sizing and buying cannot diverge. That is Estimating & Engineering Software at RM 16,000, Essential, fixed. Acceptance is the Re-quote Test: twenty machines you have already sized, re-computed, with the tolerance agreed in writing before the build starts.
For the machine you keep re-selling, the fix is parametric. Enter the new width, height and duty; the GA drawing, weights and BOM regenerate together, so a repeat order is a parameter change, not a fortnight in the drawing office. We won't point to a machine-builder client — we don't have one yet. What we can show, live on the first call, is Quadron, our own parametric CAD tool: exactly this class of software. And where the job is moving information rather than calculating it — sizing results straight into the purchase requisition, transmittals logged as they happen — Engineering Workflow Automation starts at RM 8,000 for one workflow, fixed.
From the calculation library
Sizing, BOM and GA drawing — one entry, three documents.
The ladder, in this room
What the three levels look like here.
Essential — RM 16,000
One engineer, one sizing tool. Duty in; power, shaft and drive selection, component BOM and a datasheet on your letterhead out. Proved against twenty machines you have already sized, to the agreed tolerance.
Standard — RM 32,000
The whole design office on it, with approval before release. Juniors size and draft; the senior approves anything outside the standard range, and the BOM feeds the purchasing system you already run.
Advanced — RM 36,000 on the Client Portals ladder
Your clients configure and enquire against their own line — throughput in, budget GA and quotation out — and follow build status without phoning your workshop.
Start here
Bring us the machine you keep redrawing.
Send the sizing workbook and the GA drawing of a machine you have built more than once. We'll walk the path from duty to drive to BOM, show you where they diverge, and tell you honestly whether a system would pay for itself.
The workflow review is free, and you don't need to know the technical solution. Describe how the work happens today — that's the whole brief.