AI for custom injection molders, tested first on the resin math.

A custom molder buys resin by the pound at prices that move every month, while the piece price on a customer's PO stays put until somebody changes it. Customer agreements bridge that gap with a resin clause. Each cycle, someone on your team reads every clause, pulls the index values, works out the change for each part and writes to each customer. Those past adjustments are the answer key. Your reviewer, the person who knows this pricing work best, often the controller or a pricing lead, can set each AI draft beside the notice that actually went out, part by part.

The clauses are where the work hides. Two customers buying parts in the same polypropylene can name different indexes, averaging months and weight rules, and one may share the change while the other takes all of it. Applying one customer's terms to another's part is plain to see on the page, which makes this a fair test of whether AI reads agreements the way your desk does.

Your markets set the paperwork. Automotive customers usually expect an IATF 16949 quality system and a PPAP before production parts ship. For medical work, FDA's Quality Management System Regulation, in effect since February 2, 2026, brings ISO 13485:2016 into 21 CFR Part 820, yet its scope section says it does not apply to makers of components or parts of finished devices, who are encouraged to consider it. So the device maker's supply agreement decides what a component molder keeps. Neither open job touches validation or device history records.

Records live in different places. Some molders run DELMIAworks, the Dassault Systèmes product many users still call IQMS; others run Plex, Epicor or a general ERP, with the resin math in a workbook beside it. The test works from copies and exports of whatever you have.

Quoting is the second open test because part of it is judgment. Cycle time, cavity count and the mold build drive both the piece price and the tool, and they belong to your estimator and toolmaker. The quoting test drafts everything around those numbers.

Defense and aerospace work stays out, the same limit the broader manufacturing page sets. Drawings and specs for those programs can be export-controlled, so a molder doing both tests on commercial customers only.