PCB assembly and box build

// For electronics manufacturers

AI for electronics manufacturers, starting with BOMs your quoting team already costed.

For EMS providers and contract manufacturers who build boards and boxes for industrial, medical, automotive and commercial OEMs. The first job is BOM quoting: the customer's spreadsheet scrubbed into manufacturer part numbers, with lifecycle flags, buy quantities and assembly cost, for your quoting lead to price. Engineering change orders are open too. Both run on copies of finished work, and no one signs in to your ERP or your part data accounts.

Book a proof-of-concept call30 minutes with Rob

EMS proof of conceptCommercial programs only

First job: BOM quoting and scrubbing
Also open: Engineering change orders
You send: Copies of 20 to 30 past BOMs or ECOs, under an NDA
We touch: No ERP, MES, quoting tool or distributor account
Calls kept: Part approvals, dispositions and every price
Price: A range on the first call

// Jobs in the front office

The paperwork that moves before a board does

2 open now
2 more later, one at a time

JOB.01 · START HERE

BOM quoting and scrubbing

A customer's BOM cleaned into buyable manufacturer part numbers, with NRND and obsolete lines flagged, buy quantities worked out and assembly cost counted from the board, for your quoting lead to price.

Read the BOM quoting page

JOB.02 · ALSO OPEN

Engineering change orders

An OEM's revised BOM or drawing held against the revision you build today, with each job in WIP, part in stock and open PO it reaches listed for your engineer.

Read the ECO page

JOB.03 · LATER

Compliance declarations

Requests for RoHS and REACH statements, IPC-1752A declarations and the conflict minerals reporting template, answered from your suppliers' own declarations for your quality lead to sign.

See the material declarations page

JOB.04 · LATER

Last-time-buy notices

A supplier's discontinuance notice matched to every assembly that uses the part, with a note to each OEM drafted for your program manager.

See the last-time-buy page

// Why BOM quoting first

Every build starts as someone else's spreadsheet

The Census Bureau's definition of NAICS 334418 covers plants that load components onto printed circuit boards, or make and ship loaded boards. Bare boards are a separate industry, 334412. So a contract assembler buys most of what it builds: boards from a fab, parts from distributors and component makers. Every program begins when an OEM's BOM lands and someone turns it into a costed quote. Your reviewer, the person on your team who knows BOM quoting best, holds each AI draft against the costed BOM that person actually built.

A quote freezes a moving market. On the day your buyer costed a BOM, each line had a price break, a lead time and a lifecycle status, and plenty of those have changed since. So the test reads only the part data your team saved with each quote, never today's listings, and every draft is judged on the market your buyer saw. Many quoting teams pull that data from Octopart or SiliconExpert; for the test, nobody logs in to either.

A quote also carries terms the BOM never states. On turnkey work you buy every part, on consigned work the OEM ships parts to you, and many programs mix the two in a kit whose shortages you fill. The OEM sets the IPC-A-610 class from the product's end use: Class 1 for general electronics, Class 2 for dedicated service, Class 3 for high performance. A Class 3 build carries more inspection, solder joints are held to J-STD-001, and box build adds cable and harness work judged under IPC/WHMA-A-620.

The records live in different systems. Cetec ERP pitches EMS shops on control of BOM revisions and approved vendor lists, Epicor markets Kinetic to electronics and high tech manufacturers, and Aegis FactoryLogix imports CAD and BOM data on the shop floor. Quotes often get built in CalcuQuote or in a workbook. The test reads copies and exports of whatever holds yours.

Engineering change orders are the second open test. An OEM's revision often arrives after parts are on order and boards are on the line, and trade reporting has long named engineering change notices, along with RoHS conversions, among the biggest sources of excess and obsolete material in high-mix work. Past ECOs, set beside the impact lists your team wrote, can be scored the same way.

One limit holds on every manufacturing page: defense, aerospace and ITAR-controlled work stays out of the test. A shop that builds for both brings its commercial programs only.

// Across industries

Jobs compared with other industries

ACROSS INDUSTRIES

Change orders

Compared forElectrical contractors · Metal fabricators · Electronics manufacturers · Injection molders

Compare the industries

// How it runs

Old BOMs first, then a month on live RFQs

Step 01
One job, on BOMs already quoted
After the NDA, your quoting lead gathers 20 to 30 past RFQs: the OEM's BOM as it arrived, the costed BOM your team built and the quote that went out. If an OEM's files can't leave your building, we build look-alikes with you.
Step 02
The owner chooses your reviewer
Before the first file is copied, the owner names the reviewer, and the success criteria and a price range for the live job are written down together. From then on the reviewer marks each draft against the costed BOM your team really sent.
Step 03
Around 30 days live
After a yes, new RFQs get draft costed BOMs for about 30 days. Your team prices and sends every quote, and any part substitution still goes to the OEM for approval.

Every job gets its own price: a range on the first call, then a fixed price once the proof of concept ends and before you sign.

For BOM quoting, the range follows your monthly RFQ count and the length of a typical BOM; for ECOs, the number of changes your customers send in a month.

// Questions

Questions EMS providers ask

We build for medical and automotive OEMs. Can those BOMs come in?

Where your customer agreements allow it. Once the NDA is signed a BOM can come as a copy, or we build look-alikes when an OEM forbids sharing. Your reviewer chooses which programs go in.

Will the AI approve alternate parts?

No. It proposes alternates from your approved vendor list or the OEM's approved manufacturer list and marks each one as a proposal. The OEM approves any substitute, the same as today.

Can box build and cable work come into the test?

Yes, if you quote it. The draft lists the harnesses, enclosure, labels and functional test the customer's package calls for, costed from your own labor rates or left blank where you have none.

We run Cetec ERP and quote in CalcuQuote. Do you need logins?

No. The test runs on copies and exports, with drafts returned as files for your reviewer. Whether and how live drafts reach Cetec or CalcuQuote is agreed only after a yes.

Which job should we test first?

Usually BOM quoting, because every RFQ needs it and a costed BOM makes scoring plain. A shop whose OEMs revise designs often may start with engineering change orders instead. Either way, one job runs at a time.

Rob Eason, founder

// Book a proof of concept call

Bring the BOMs you quoted last quarter.

Thirty minutes with Rob. You'll be asked for your company and role, which job you'd test first and roughly how many RFQs or ECOs reach you each month. Hold back every BOM, Gerber file and drawing until the NDA is signed.

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