THE FASTEST WIN IN THE SHOP.
Intake, prints, prior-job history, and pricing logic in one flow. Most shops lose work to response time rather than to price, and this is usually the first thing worth fixing.
TMI / MACHINE SHOPS
KEEP THE CRAFT. MODERNIZE THE COMPANY AROUND IT.
TMI helps machine shops preserve hard-earned machining knowledge while building better systems for quoting, scheduling, visibility, sales, and owner freedom.
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WHERE COMPANIES GET HELD BACK
GOOD WORK.
TOO MUCH FRICTION.
- The owner or estimator is the quoting system.
- Schedule changes live in conversations, spreadsheets, or whiteboards.
- The best machinists carry knowledge that is difficult to transfer.
- Excellent work is hard for new customers or employees to discover.
- Quotes go out slowly during busy weeks, which is exactly when the good work is available.
- Nobody knows which jobs actually made money, so the shop keeps taking the ones that feel familiar.
WHAT WE LEARN ON SITE
FOLLOW THE WORK
BEFORE WE BUILD.
- RFQ intake and estimating
- Job routing and scheduling
- Machine and labor capacity
- Inspection and quality flow
- Expert knowledge and onboarding
- Website, content, and sales follow-up
WHAT TMI CAN BUILD
THE SYSTEM
AROUND THE WORK.
- Faster quoting workflows
- Production and owner visibility
- Captured machining knowledge
- Connected internal tools
- Modern industrial brand and website
- Repeatable lead and follow-up systems
THE FIRST BUILD
WHERE WE USUALLY
START.
CAPTURED, NOT REPLACED.
How your estimator reads a print, where they add time, which customers get handled differently. Documented as a system that supports the estimator and survives their vacation.
VISIBILITY FOR THE OWNER.
Load, throughput, quote hit rate, and margin by job type—so the decision to add a machine or a shift is made on the numbers rather than on how busy it feels.
RELATED TRANSFORMATION
Machine Tech Services
See how TMI learns a real operation, protects its expertise, and builds the company around what already works.
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WHAT OPERATORS
ASK FIRST.
Will TMI tell machinists how to machine parts?
No. The operator owns the trade. TMI learns from the people who know the work and builds the systems, visibility, and infrastructure around their expertise.
Can TMI improve quoting without replacing the estimator?
Yes. The goal is to capture the estimator’s logic, remove repetitive coordination, improve access to information, and preserve human judgment for the decisions that require it.
Does TMI work on-site in machine shops?
Yes. When required, TMI walks the operation, follows jobs, interviews the team, maps handoffs, and builds with the people who will use the result.
We already have an ERP. Does that change things?
Usually for the better. Most shops have an ERP holding good data behind an interface nobody enjoys. Connecting it and building focused tools on top is often faster and cheaper than replacing it.
How small is too small for this?
If quoting, scheduling, and knowledge transfer are real constraints, the size of the shop matters less than whether the owner is the system. Scope changes; the problem does not.
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