RFQ lines and customer prints, read for the standard each part describes and drafted as a quote.

The RFQ gives a customer part number, a revision and a quantity, and the print gives the rest, or says something else. Someone reads the title block and the notes, decides which standard the part describes, finds the item you stock and works out whether it is stock at all. Anything needing a special run, a plating you don't keep or a drilled head goes to your buyer for a cost.

For the test, AI reads copies of those RFQs and prints beside your item file and drafts each quote line: the customer's part number, the standard it matched, thread, length, grade, plating, head style, your item and a price from your records. Specials land on your buyer's list with the reason. Where the print and the description part ways, the line is flagged, not settled. No quote is sent.

A thread callout has an order. Machinery's Handbook gives the Unified designation in sequence: nominal size, threads per inch, series symbol, class symbol, with LH after the class for a left-hand thread, as in 1/4-20 UNC-2A, also written 0.250-20 UNC-2A. ASME B1.1 is the standard that sets those series and classes. A customer description that stops at 1/4-20 and a print that asks for class 3A are different instructions, so the draft carries the class the print gives and asks when neither says.

Length and thread length live in tables. ASME B18.2.1, the inch standard for hex bolts and cap screws, keeps separate tables for length tolerances, for short screws threaded full length and for maximum grip gaging lengths and minimum body lengths. A print that asks for more or less thread than those tables expect is often a special. So is one adding a drilled head or a self-locking element, which the standard treats in a nonmandatory appendix of guidelines. The draft sends those to your buyer instead of pricing them from stock.

Metric names moved. DIN 931 and 933 and ISO 4014 and 4017 describe the same hex cap screws, partial and full thread, except at M10, M12, M14 and M22, where the wrench size changes. Wermac's reference lists ISO widths across flats of 16, 18 and 21 mm for the first three, a little smaller than DIN, and 34 mm for M22, a little larger. A customer's description can say one and its print the other. The draft flags those four sizes whenever the two documents name different standards.

Grades outlive their specifications. ASTM F568M, the specification for carbon and alloy steel externally threaded metric fasteners, was withdrawn in 2012 with no replacement listed by ASTM, and its scope said seven of its nine classes were essentially identical to ISO 898-1 while 8.8.3 and 10.9.3 were not recognized in ISO standards. ISO 898-1 itself warns that some screws with low or countersunk heads might not meet its tensile or torsional requirements. Inch prints often point to SAE J429, Mechanical and Material Requirements for Externally Threaded Fasteners. The draft keeps the grade the print names and never treats a close one as the same.

Plating and partial callouts. A plating note can argue with the grade: the American Galvanizers Association wrote in 2013 that ASTM standards do not allow hot-dip galvanizing of A490 bolts, so a line asking for both goes to your quality lead. A print can also cite a standard for only part of a fastener. The Fastener Quality Act says a reference to a consensus standard for particular requirements doesn't represent or require that a fastener meets all of it, so the draft records what each citation was for. These are drafting checks, not legal or engineering advice. Your reviewer, usually the inside salesperson others take a hard print to, checks that every special reached your buyer and every disagreement was real.

With a yes against the success criteria, the same job runs on new RFQs and prints for about 30 days.

A person on your desk checks every quote, and only your team sends one. Specials still go to your buyer, and every flagged line waits for someone to settle it.

The live month has a fixed price agreed before signing. Each later job is priced on its own, and monthly support follows once a job is running.