Case Study: Flex-N-Gate streamlines tool costing and quoting with Hexagon's COSTOPTIMIZER Professional

Streamlining tool costing and process planning

Flex-N-Gate, a major automotive supplier, faced significant pressure from OEMs to cut costs and needed to automate its manual, experience-based costing process to deliver faster, more consistent quotes. To address this challenge, the company implemented the COSTOPTIMIZER Professional software solution from vendor Hexagon to streamline tool costing and process planning.

By adopting Hexagon's solution, Flex-N-Gate empowered its costing team to perform forming feasibility assessments and generate accurate process plans. The implementation resulted in dramatic time savings, reducing the quote generation process from hours to just 5-15 minutes, allowing two operators to process between 3,500 and 4,000 quotes per year. This provided the company with a scientific, repeatable corporate standard for costing and enabled proactive capacity planning, significantly enhancing efficiency and cementing its competitive position.

Flex-N-Gate

Tony Gray

Manager