Automation for manufacturers
Business automation for small and mid-sized manufacturers
Dravik builds automations for US manufacturers with 20 to 500 people. We connect your ERP, email, CAD files and quality records so quotes, orders, purchasing and shop floor updates stop depending on retyping and spreadsheets. It starts with a $199 fixed-price business audit: a 30 minute call plus a written plan.
$199 fixed price, 30 minute call plus a written plan. Full refund if it isn't worth it
Common tools we build on
- Epicor
- NetSuite
- SAP Business One
- JobBOSS
- Global Shop Solutions
- Infor
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- SolidWorks
- HubSpot
- Thomasnet
Common systems in manufacturers. We build on the stack you already run.
The problem
Where the hours go in manufacturers
In many mid-sized plants the ERP holds the official record, but the work happens around it. RFQs arrive by email with drawings attached, estimators build quotes in spreadsheets, purchase orders come in as PDFs, and someone keys each one into the ERP before production can plan it. Every step is a person copying data from one place to another.
The shop floor has the same pattern. Job status lives on whiteboards and travelers, material shortages surface late, and quality paperwork like certifications, inspection reports and first article records gets assembled by hand at shipping time. Customers ask for order status and someone walks the floor to answer. These are the jobs automation handles well.
What we automate
Workflows worth automating for manufacturers
- 01
RFQ intake and quote preparation
Requests for quote arriving by email or your website are logged with the drawings, quantities and due dates, routed to the right estimator, and tracked to a deadline. Past quotes for similar parts are pulled up, and the finished quote goes out from one place with a follow-up reminder.
- 02
Customer PO entry into the ERP
Purchase orders arriving as PDFs or emails are read, matched to the customer and part numbers, and drafted as sales orders in the ERP. Pricing or quantity mismatches against the quote are flagged for review before the order is released to production.
- 03
Purchasing and supplier follow-up
When planned material falls below need, purchase requests are drafted for approval and sent to suppliers. Open POs past their promised date trigger a follow-up to the supplier and a heads-up to the planner, so shortages show up days earlier.
- 04
Order status updates for customers
Job progress recorded in the ERP or on shop floor terminals feeds a status update to customers at milestones like material received, in production and shipped, with tracking. Customer service stops walking the floor to answer where an order is.
- 05
Quality and certification packets
Material certs, inspection results and certificates of conformance are collected as the job moves and assembled into the packet each customer requires. At shipping, the paperwork is ready instead of being hunted down from folders and inboxes.
- 06
Distributor and rep lead routing
Inquiries from your website, trade show lists and directories like Thomasnet are sorted by region and product line and sent to the right rep or distributor, with follow-up tracked in the CRM so leads do not sit in a shared inbox.
The business audit
Find the workflow costing your team the most hours
The audit maps your repeat work, checks which of your systems can connect, and ranks what to automate first in your business.
$199 fixed price, 30 minute call plus a written plan. Full refund if it isn't worth it
Your stack
Built on the tools manufacturers already use
ERPs common in mid-sized plants range from cloud systems with good APIs to on-premise installs that only allow database or file access. We work with your IT team or ERP partner on what is safe to connect, and keep the ERP as the system of record. Drawings and customer specifications stay in your storage, with access limited to what each workflow needs.
- Epicor
- NetSuite
- SAP Business One
- JobBOSS
- Global Shop Solutions
- Infor
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- SolidWorks
- HubSpot
- Thomasnet
Where we start
What the audit looks at first
The audit follows one order from RFQ to shipped and invoiced, counting each time data moves by hand between email, spreadsheets and the ERP. For many manufacturers the first build is customer PO entry, because it touches every order. RFQ tracking is a common second for job shops that quote often.
- 01The call30 minutes on how your business runs, the tools you use and the growth you are after.
- 02ReconWe study your workflows, your site, your rankings and how AI assistants describe you and your competitors.
- 03The written planA ranked list of what to fix or build first, with a fixed price for anything worth building.
- 04Your callKeep the plan and run it yourself, hand it to your team, or have us build it.
What you own
Everything we build is yours.
- Every workflow and integration, in your own accounts
- Written documentation of what each automation does
- Admin access to every tool, ours removable at any time
- A person in the loop wherever a judgment call is needed
Automation questions from manufacturers
Our ERP is old and on-premise. Can you still automate around it?
Often, yes. Older ERPs may not have modern APIs, but many allow database access, imports or scheduled exports. We check what your version supports in the audit and work with your IT or ERP partner on anything that touches production data.
Will automation change how our shop floor works?
It should not force big changes. Most builds take data your team already records and move it where it is needed. Where a new step would help, like scanning a traveler, we propose it and you decide.
Can you handle customer-specific quality requirements?
Yes. We can build packet rules per customer so the right certs and reports are collected for each order. Your quality team defines the requirements, and we make sure the paperwork is gathered and checked before shipping.
What does the audit cost?
The business audit is $199, fixed: a 30 minute call plus a written plan of what to automate, in what order, and the fixed price of each build.
How much does automation cost for manufacturers?
It starts with a $199 business audit: a 30 minute call plus a written plan of what is worth automating. If something is worth building, you get a fixed price for it before any work starts, and you own everything we build.
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Start with recon
Find the busywork your team should stop doing by hand.
Book the audit. We will tell you plainly which workflows in your business are worth automating, which are not, and the fixed price for anything worth building.
- A 30 minute call about how you run
- A written plan ranked by impact
- Yours to keep, even if you never hire us
$199 fixed price, 30 minute call plus a written plan. Full refund if it isn't worth it