Carrolls Machine Shop Inc

On GameSpot: BNET Business Network: Find Articles in: Content from our trusted partner Get your own CNET Networks Widget. Content provided in partnership with Shop boosts manufacturing efficiency and profits with a computerized cost estimating system - Better Production - Carroll Machine Works - Brief Article ,    by ,   At Carroll Machine Works (Pasadena, Texas), the ability to produce cost estimates quickly and accurately is a matter of survival. To win jobs from customers that include NASA, aerospace companies, and a variety of petrochemical, oilfield and gas industries, a precision machine shop must respond to an average of 150 customer Requests for Quotes (RFQs) per week. We pretty much live and die by our quotes down here, competing for every job, says Carroll Machine Works' (CMW) owner and chief estimator, Wayne Carroll. Some parts cost $10, 000 or more. We had better be estimating accurately, or we lose, big time. Most Popular Articles in Business » Most Popular Publications in Business » Realizing that manual cost estimating methods couldn't match the incoming stream of RFQs, many with deadlines of 2 and 3 days, Mr. Carroll turned to a customized spreadsheet. The pr...