SHEET 1/7

For Tier-1 Automation Integrators & Production-Line Builders

We read your plant layouts.
You quote in hours, not weeks.

Upload the layout PDF, the 50-page requirements doc, and the product drawing. Get a feasibility verdict, a Frankensteined line from your past jobs, and a per-station estimate - before lunch.

5–6 wkshrs
Quote Cycle
$1.3M+
Avg. Missed-Cell Cost
80%
Pilot Accuracy Target
2D PDF
No 3D Required

NDA-first · Your data stays on your servers · Pilot in one week

MAVLON SHEET 1 / 7 PROD-LINE QUOTING REV 1.0 · 2026
The Layout PDF

What your advanced
processing team sees every Monday.

10 20 30 40 50 Sta. 20 - 4 ROBOTS · RESPOT Sta. 30 - FRAMING · GEO-LOCK Sta. 40 - HEMMING PL-7250-D 32.4s · 55 JPH REV - DRAFT 48'-0" × 36'-0" · Sheet 1/12
PDF Size
17 MB · 12 sheets
Spec Doc
52 pages
Turnaround
5–6 weeks

One drawing. A senior engineer eyeballing it. Three cells pulled from memory. A Frankensteined estimate. Five weeks gone.

Mavlon - within the hour

What Mavlon sees
the moment you upload.

Project
PL-7250-D  ·  Cargo Door Line  ·  32.4 sec / 55 JPH
Envelope
48' × 36'  ·  6 columns identified  ·  5 stations
Content
26 robots  ·  17 conveyors  ·  4 operators  ·  12 grippers
Stations
10 LOAD · 20 RESPOT · 30 FRAMING · 40 HEMMING · 50 BUY-OFF
Spec Hits
Geo-lock req. (§4.2)  ·  Class-A surface (§7.1)  ·  FMEA mandated (§9.4)
Past Match
3 similar jobs in memory: F250-D (2024), F150-D (2023), Bronco-D (2022)
Feasibility
High confidence (87%)  ·  Gripper swap from F250-D recommended
Cycle Calc
Sta. 20 = 28.1s  ·  Sta. 30 = 31.7s  ·  Sta. 40 = bottleneck @ 33.2s
Estimate
$43.8M  ·  $1.9M ±band  ·  12% margin  ·  5 line items flagged

A missed cell isn't a typo.
It's a seven-figure correction.

Every senior engineer in this industry has a war story. The cell that wasn't in the quote but the customer expected on the line. The bid that landed $7M off true cost. The five-week study that finished after the RFQ window closed. Here's what those moments actually cost.

1
MISSED: Sta. 40 - Hemming
The Cell That Wasn't Quoted
Senior engineer pulled three cells from a previous F-platform job and assumed hemming carried over. It didn't - customer spec called for a dedicated hemming station. Bid won. Cell discovered during detail design. Eaten.
↳ $1.3M absorbed · 11 weeks schedule slip
2
MIS-PRICED: 7-figure delta
The Bid You Almost Lost
Quoted $50M. OEM pushed to $45M citing competitor pricing. You negotiated to $47M. Executed at $43M. The job got delivered, but you never knew if you left money on the table or barely escaped a loss.
↳ ±$7M variance · No way to learn from it
3
UNREACHABLE: Past-job memory
The Engineer Who Retired
The estimator who Frankensteined every doors quote for 22 years retired. His muscle memory of which previous job to crib from, which gripper swap works, which station to copy-paste - gone. Now junior staff start every RFQ from scratch.
↳ +40% quote cycle · -28% accuracy on new bids
RISK ANALYSIS SHEET 3 / 7 CLASSIFICATION: CRITICAL SOURCE: INTEGRATOR INTERVIEWS

The same RFQ package.
Two realities.

Your Shop Today With Mavlon
RFQ-to-quote turnaround 5–6 weeks Hours to a day
Past-job recall Whichever senior remembers Vector recall over every past RFQ
Layout parsing Manual eyeball, 17MB PDF Stations, robots, conveyors auto-extracted
Cell-miss risk Multi-million per slip Cross-check vs. past jobs + spec
Margin band Gut, then negotiation Confidence-scored against history
Senior engineer dependency Every RFQ Junior drafts, senior approves
New-hire ramp 12+ months Day one - system carries history
Where the IP lives In the retiring engineer's head On your server, searchable, permanent
PROCESS COMPARISON SHEET 4 / 7 DATA: INTEGRATOR AVG.

From RFQ packet to defensible quote - in five moves.

You drop the OEM's package in. Mavlon walks the same path your senior engineer walks - but with all your past jobs in memory and the clock ticking in hours, not weeks.

01 · INGEST
Drop the packet
Plant layout PDF, 50-page spec, 2D product drawing. Drag-and-drop into the sidebar that sits inside your Outlook or ERP.
≈ 30 seconds
02 · PARSE
Extract the content
Stations, robots, conveyors, columns, dimensions, cycle calls. Spec callouts cross-referenced. Product shape classified.
≈ 4–8 minutes
03 · RECALL
Match past jobs
Vector search across your previous RFQs. Surface the 3–5 most similar builds with their layouts, prices, and post-mortem notes.
≈ 1 minute
04 · PROPOSE
Frankenstein a line
Mavlon assembles a proposed layout from the closest matches - gripper swaps flagged, bottleneck stations highlighted, cycle calcs done.
≈ 15–30 minutes
05 · ESTIMATE
Roll up the quote
BOP + BOE per station, material + labor, ±band, confidence per line item. Export to your existing estimating template.
≈ 30 minutes

Three deliverables. Per RFQ.

Upload the package. Receive three artifacts your estimators and engineers can defend in a buy-off meeting. Senior judgement spent where it actually matters.

Deliverable 01
Feasibility Verdict
Can we do this? At what confidence? Mavlon answers the question your senior engineer is asked first - backed by the closest past jobs and the spec clauses that drive the answer.
  • Confidence score with rationale
  • 3–5 most-similar past jobs surfaced
  • Spec-clause risk flags
  • Clarification questions to send back
Deliverable 02
Proposed Line Layout
A Frankensteined line - stations, robots, conveyors, grippers - pulled from your closest past builds and adapted to the new product shape. Cycle calcs and bottleneck flags included.
  • Station-by-station content
  • Cycle & JPH calculations
  • Bottleneck & balance flags
  • Gripper / EOAT swap suggestions
Deliverable 03
Per-Station Estimate
The quote your customer expects to read: Bill of Process, Bill of Equipment, material, labor, ±band, and a margin guide tied to past outcomes - not gut feel.
  • BOP & BOE per station line item
  • Material + labor roll-up
  • Confidence-scored ±band per line
  • Export to .xlsx / your estimating tool

Memory that compounds
with every RFQ.

The first quote is fast. The hundredth is unfair. Every job you load deepens the layer no competitor can buy, hire, or shortcut.

PHASE 01
5 jobs
Segment Memory
System learns one market segment - doors, BIW framing, transmission tooling. Recognizes the product family, the recurring station logic, the gripper swap patterns. First wins.
PHASE 02
20 jobs
Customer Patterns
System knows how Ford writes specs vs. how GM writes them. Surfaces the tacit assumptions each OEM expects. Catches the clauses that always trigger rework.
PHASE 03
50+ jobs
Competitive Moat
Your past 50 RFQs become a private intelligence layer. No competitor can buy or hire it. New estimators ramp on day one. Senior engineers spend their judgement on what's actually new.

Your senior estimator processes one RFQ in five weeks. With Mavlon, the same head does five RFQs in five weeks - and the sixth, seventh, and eighth ones get easier, not harder. That's how a quoting moat actually compounds.

Montanstahl Group, Switzerland

How a multi-site Swiss engineering group eliminated the feasibility bottleneck across three plants

Montanstahl's estimating teams across Switzerland, Germany, and Italy spent thousands of hours per year answering the same question on every RFQ - "Can we make this, and at what cost last time?" - by digging through old quotes, emails, and tribal memory.

Mavlon embedded into their existing workflow, parsed the package the moment it arrived, and surfaced the closest past jobs with prices and outcomes. Senior judgement stayed where it mattered - on the 20% that was genuinely new.

>85%
Pilot Accuracy
Hours
vs. Weeks
1000s
Hours Saved / Yr
7-fig
Annual Upside (est)
Swiss Precision Metals · Aerospace, Motorsport, Energy · Multi-plant · Since 1983

"What previously required emails, phone calls, and digging through old RFQs is now answered in seconds for standard and semi-standard cases."

Read the full case study
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The cell we missed cost us a million-three. Not because the job was hard - because the engineer who would have caught it had already started his next quote. We don't need faster engineers. We need a memory that doesn't walk out the door.

VP Engineering - Tier-1 Automation Integrator

Built for Tier-1 Automation Integrators
ISO 27001 (In Progress)
GDPR Compliant
DPA with OpenAI · Anthropic · Google
On-Premise Deployment
No-Train Redaction Pipeline
SOC 2 Pending

Embeds in Outlook · Exports to SAP · Oracle · Tecnomatix · FactoryFLOW · Excel - or your own estimating template.

One layout PDF.
Eight hours.
See it on your own data.

Sign an NDA. Share three past RFQs from one segment - doors, BIW framing, whatever you quote most. We set up the memory layer on your server and run the pilot in a week. 80% accuracy target. Your engineers tweak the rest.

NDA first. Your data, your server. IP transfers to you on day one.

The first integrator in your region to build this intelligence layer quotes in hours while the rest negotiate calendars. Compounding starts the day the first RFQ lands in memory.
MAVLON SHEET 7 / 7 END OF PACKAGE 2026