Waste and ROI calculator

What is waste costing your shop?

Answer a few questions about your shop. See what waste costs you a year, what ARCIFAB takes back, and how fast it pays for itself.

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1Your shop

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Shop floor through the year
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Trades you fabricate

Shop floor through the year: your slowest and busiest months. A rental bills every seat all year, used or not; ARCIFAB is sized to your slow months, or to your shop when the floor swings more than normal.

Labor cost is what one shop hour costs you, fully loaded: wages, benefits, payroll taxes and overhead (typical $110). Shop floor through the year: your slowest and busiest months. A rental bills every seat all year, used or not; ARCIFAB is sized to your slow months, or to your shop when the floor swings more than normal.

More detail drawings, machines and other software

Drawings

Where your drawings come from

Machinery

Plans

Machines you plan to add
Other software you pay for or plan to buy

We can make other software as modules of your own ARCIFAB system.

2Potential revenue lost

Enter your shop employees above, and we walk through it one question at a time.

Every typical number comes from published research or ARCIFAB’s own floors: open a line and tap Where this number comes from, or read all the sources.

Outright cost, year by year

What each way costs

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Three ways to take it back

Same shop. Same numbers. Three ways to fix it.

Savings, features and a system with your name on it that you own. Of the three ways, only one gives you all three.

Staying on manual processes, spreadsheets, and paper spool and cut sheets could cost you as much as $0 in waste and rework over the next 3 years, based on the figures you just provided. Waste adds up when no one is paying attention to it.

Rent per seatSomeone else’s system, rented by the seat.The natural choiceOwn it with ARCIFABYour system, with your name on it, made around your floor.In-house IT teamA system your own team writes and keeps alive.
The money
How it is billedPer seat, per year.By scope: one agreement for 24 months of development and hosting.Bodies: the developers and IT staff it takes, with salaries, benefits and payroll taxes.
First invoiceThe smallest of the three: the first year of seats, plus training and implementation.The largest: your system made around your floor, and two years of hosting and development.Recruiting and hiring, before any code is written. Mechanical engineers with shop management experience are hard to find.
Every year afterEvery seat renews, with the obligatory yearly increase.Maintenance and development from year three, set by data capacity.A full payroll again, plus raises, for as long as the system runs.
Adding peopleA seat for each one, prorated, and billed all year whether it is used or not.No charge per person. Sized to your slow months and set up for your busiest.More for the same team to support.
Training and supportBilled on top, mostly remote. Then a ticket queue.Two days on site at launch, monthly training, two years of development included.Your team trains your team, when they have the time.
Ways to payThe yearly renewal, every year.In full, half at signing and half on delivery, or financed with no payments until 2027. Net 14 days.Every payday.
The floor
Live on your floorMonth 9 to 18, set up remotely.Day 90. We walk your floor and learn how you deliver, so your crew is trained on its own work.Month 24, then the tweaking starts.
Made forOff the shelf and hard coded, the same for every shop that pays for a seat.Your shop, set up around how your floor runs.Your shop, as far as the team gets.
Your drawingsWhatever formats it supports, often with someone in-house to get detailing into the right format.Revit, STEP, PDFs, CSVs and sketches straight in. Nobody redraws the job.Whatever your team writes code for.
Your machinesDepends on its integrations.Profilers, saws and weld cells on the same data, through PypeServer.Whatever your team connects.
Your other softwareA separate subscription and login for each tool.Made as modules of your own system, each with its own scope. One login, one bill.Your team writes and keeps each one alive.
The fieldUsually stops when the truck leaves the yard.Follows every spool to the hanger.If your team makes it.
Your name on itTheir logo.Your logo, your colors, your statuses.Yours.
Ownership
Your dataOn their system, with an obligatory yearly increase to keep using it.Yours, in its own separate system.Yours.
At the end, or if you switchYou own nothing and start over fresh, without your data or your processes, whether you leave or the product is sunset. Switch, and the 9 months on paper start over.You keep it. Move it to your own hosting whenever you want, with a disconnect fee.You own it, as long as more than one person can run it.
The bottom line
Software over 3 yearsThe lowest the first year, then it climbs with every renewal, and none of it stays with you.More than renting the first year, then less.The highest, every year.
Waste eliminated over 3 years   
3-year ROI for every dollar invested today   

The way each is contracted and invoiced, side by side. No one’s prices, just how the money moves.

Already running your own system

We start from what works.

We assume your in-house system does its job. Tell us where it stops, and we quote only what fills the gap, each with its own scope.

What we will ask about your system

  1. How many people does it take to run it, and what do their salaries and benefits come to?
  2. Are they mechanical engineers with shop management experience, or programmers learning the floor?
  3. How long have they worked on it?
  4. Is it quick on the floor, or clunky?
  5. Can more than one person keep it running?
  6. What does it cost you a year, all in?
  7. What is missing?

Your answers tell us where to help, and what to leave alone.

Your machines

Profilers, saws and weld cells on the same data, through PypeServer.

The field

Spools followed from the floor to the hanger.

Your drawings

Revit, STEP, PDFs, CSVs and sketches straight in, without redrawing the job.

Other software

Accounting, scheduling, purchasing and more, made as modules, each with its own scope.

Extra hands

Maintenance and development from our team when yours is stretched.

Yours to keep

Your logo, your data, and whatever we make for you stays with your shop.

Tell us where it stops

Your next step

See it on your own floor.

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Your estimate

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Your numbers stay on this page until you leave it. Take them with you, or walk through them with us on a live demo.

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Financing

Up and running before your first payment.

Finance your system through Complete Capital Services and your shop is live on the floor before the first payment is due. From day 90 it eliminates waste every month, so the system is already working for you when the first bill comes.

  • No payments until 2027
  • As little as $0 down
  • As little as 0% interest
  • Approvals typically in 72 hours
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At Equipment Vendor Information, enter Vendor Company Name ArciFab, LLC and Sales Representative Barbara Kreutz.

Complete Capital ServicesComplete Capital ServicesEquipment financing since 2001. Subject to credit approval.

How you pay

In fullOne invoice at signing for your first 24 months.
Half and half50% at signing, 50% when your system is delivered.
FinancedThrough Complete Capital Services, with no payments until 2027. Subject to credit approval.

Invoices are due net 14 days. Development starts once your first payment or your financing is in place.

How this is calculated

Your numbers
Every dollar comes from the numbers you enter.
Take-back shares
Set by ARCIFAB from what shops recover once the work runs on their own system. We confirm them on your floor in the first 30 days.
Counts, not guesses
Questions ask for counts and shop totals a fab manager knows, or minutes a day for each fitter and welder. The typical figures are sized to your headcount.
A conservative year
The cards show your week in full. Every yearly figure counts a quarter of those weeks added up, so the estimate stays on the low side.
Larger shops
Larger shops spread the load. Past your first 25 employees, each block of 25 counts 20% less than the one before in the typical figures and the minutes off the tools. Numbers you type count as you give them.
Owning, not renting
Owning costs more at the start and earns it back in the lost time and material it recovers, and the system stays with your shop. The chart shows what each way costs outright, year by year: renewals, implementation and payroll, with no waste counted. No price is shown; your proposal comes from a walk of your floor.
Three ways, one waste
All three go after the same waste, from the same start. What differs is how much each takes back, who is on it and what it costs. If you already rent or have an in-house team, each way is credited only with what it adds to what you have.
Start dates
Shown on the cards, not counted in the money. Every month a system is not live is lost time and frustration on the floor, and it is where most software stalls. ARCIFAB is live on your floor at day 90.
Term
Pick 3 to 7 years. It opens on the first year you are ahead, counting the waste. Waste taken back, return and cost follow the term.
Shop floor through the year
Most shops swing with their work. A rental bills a seat for every license all year, used or not, so the comparison rents for your busiest months. ARCIFAB is sized to your slow months and set up for the busiest; when the floor swings more than normal, it is sized to your shop employees. Its upkeep changes only with data capacity.
Renting
A typical first year for a shop your size, lower than owning at the start, including a one-time fee for training and implementation; then every seat renews with an obligatory yearly price increase, added seats prorated. If you rent today and type what you pay, your own figure is used. At the end of the term you own nothing: not your data, and not the processes that made your workflow.
In-house team
Two developers, plus one IT staff member for every 35 people in your shop, with benefits. Live at month 24: two years of personnel with no production.
ARCIFAB
Priced by scope, never per license. Each trade past the first, and each machine you have or plan to add, is added scope. Every deal covers 24 months of development and hosting; after that, a yearly rate for maintenance and development that changes only with data capacity. No system’s price is shown.

Read the full disclosures and where the typical numbers come from