Case Study: ICAMS boosts quoting speed and growth with Paperless Parts

How Auburn University Uses Paperless Parts to Drive Growth & Innovation in the Manufacturing Industry

Auburn University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Manufacturing Systems (ICAMS) needed a faster, more consistent way to quote CNC machining jobs. Its manual process, spread across Excel, email, and phone calls, was time-consuming, hard to standardize for one-off prototypes, and pulled valuable staff time away from production, research, and education.

By implementing Paperless Parts, ICAMS streamlined and centralized its quoting workflow, with an undergrad able to learn the system in just one afternoon. Paperless Parts cut average quote turnaround from about 1 day to 15–30 minutes, saving roughly an entire workday per quote for a design engineer and helping ICAMS increase customer satisfaction, win more orders, and devote more time to workshops, demonstrations, research, and other mission-driven work.

Interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Manufacturing Systems (ICAMS)

Scott Neff

Research Engineer III