From request to estimateExample

From shape and requirements to setups and route.

Manufacturing Intelligence

From design to decision.

Model, drawing, requirements and your team’s decisions stay with the part. From them come a route and a cost build-up per operation, for you to confirm.

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Built for CNC machine shops. We start with milling and turning.

The Blake workspace

The whole part on one screen.

Model, drawing, requirements, revision and route sit together. What was read from the drawing stays a proposal until someone on your team confirms it.

SDX-MFG-001 Rev J, rendered from the original STEP geometry

The problem

Your best people are needed for decisions.
Not for digging through folders.

Requests in the inbox, drawings in folders, the costing method in one person’s head. While your best people piece information together, the next quote sits waiting.

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of companies in Dutch industry invest more in automation because of staff shortages

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Subduxion, the company behind Blake, is based on High Tech Campus Eindhoven.

Product

Four areas.
One workspace.

Requests, materials and machines live in one workspace, so every estimate runs on your own prices and hourly rates, and the quote follows straight from it.

Model and drawing paired per part.

Upload the STEP and PDF files in one go. Blake pairs them per part and lays out the drawing requirements for you to confirm.

Paired by file nameWhen a pairing is uncertain, you get a question, not a guess.
Requirements as proposalsMaterial, tolerance, roughness and finishing: you confirm or correct.
Every revision keptRev H stays beside Rev J, each with its own files.

A well-founded cost price, from one-off to series.

The drawing's requirements and your estimate's inputs on one card: general and specific tolerances, roughness, cycle time, programming and setup. The price runs on your own rates.

Finishing on its own lineAnodising is an outsourced line in the estimate, at your supplier’s price.
Quantity breaksSetup and programming are spread over the batch, in plain sight.
Your own ratesAn hourly rate per machine and prices from your own supplier list.

Your own purchase prices with the market beside them.

Your purchase prices, ready for the whole team, with market and currency references beside them. You see what changed and price again straight away, without waiting on one person or one spreadsheet.

Your purchase pricesPer material, with unit and date. The old price stays in the history.
Metals and plasticsOne catalogue, under the names your shop already uses.
References with a sourceECB, Eurostat and World Bank show the trend. They are not a purchase price.

Every machine with its envelope and rate.

Record each machine with its envelope, axes and hourly rate. Blake checks a part against them; you choose the machine and the setups.

Machines from the catalogueEnvelope, axes and spindle come with them. You add the hourly rate.
A first check per machineAgainst envelope and axes, with the limit that decides.
Setups in the routeWhich side faces the spindle, and how often. You record them.

From one bore
to a whole assembly.

The manufacturing world model records what belongs with a part: its requirements, the block, the setups, the machine, the finishing and who decided what. That holds for one bore and for a complete assembly. Milling, turning and mill-turn are costed on it; wire EDM and sheet metal are the next cost models.

Requirements and tolerancesPer feature, from drawing and model
Material and stock sizeAlloy, block or bar, and your own purchase price
SetupsWhich side is within reach, on your own machines
Surface and finishingRoughness as a requirement, coating as its own route step
Route and outsourcingYour own operations and bought-in steps in one route
AssembliesMade parts, bought parts and your own work together

3- and 5-axis CNC milling
Pockets, faces and bores
Turning
Diameters, shoulders and threads
Mill-turn
Turned and milled in one setup
Wire EDM
Contours through hard material
Sheet metal
Cutting, bending and holes in sheet
Welding and assembly
Separate parts in one assembly

Who it is for

Three roles.
One part.

Cost engineer, manufacturing engineer and inside sales work from the same drawing, route and cost. Even when, in your shop, that is one person wearing three hats.

Cost engineers

Today every request costs you hours of reading drawings, retyping tolerances and estimating times. In Blake the requirements, times and rates are ready, so your time goes to the choices that decide the price.

30 minper request of five parts, instead of 2 hours

Cost per part at 25 pcs

What does this part cost in your shop?

See how Blake calculates with your machines, rates and production setup.

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Material6061, 30.3 kg × €7.20/kg
General tolerance±0.1 mmFlatness 0.05 mmM4-6H, 2×
RoughnessRa 3.2
Machining10 h × €165.00/h
AnodisingOutsourcedSupplier price
ProgrammingOne-off8 h × €95.00/h
SetupPer series4 h

Manufacturing engineers

Requirements, route and setups together, with a first check on each machine’s envelope and axes.

5 minfor a drawing’s requirements, instead of 45

Sales and inside sales

See at a glance what a request asks for, what is still open and what a colleague has confirmed. Cost and selling price stay separate.

1 dayfrom request to quote, instead of 3

Request SDX-MFG-001 Rev JSubduxion, 25 pcsRev J

Estimate ready
Set the price
Quote

Cost per part: What does this part cost in your shop?
See how Blake calculates with your machines, rates and production setup.
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Rev J vs Rev H: +6 min per part
Selling price: Your margin, not publicProposal, not a quote yet

Other requests

A-2041, bracketQuote sentVersion 1
A-2045, flangeEnvelope too smallReview recorded

Platform

The future of work
in precision machining.

Every request in one AI workspace: requirements read, route and cost prepared, shared with CAM, ERP and the shop floor. Your team decides.

Know-how that stays in the company

Craftsmanship that does not retire.

Every decision your team confirms, from setup to tooling, is recorded with the part, with who and when. Your company builds its own manufacturing model that new colleagues use from day one. Next comes measured time beside the estimate, so every new proposal starts from what was actually made.

Record decisionsRequirements, tooling, setups
Next: actuals beside the estimateTime, cost, result
Next: a proposal on measured timeYour team reviews and confirms

The Blake suite

From request to quote without retyping.

01
Requests in order
Models, drawings, quantities and revisions per customer and per part. Manufacturing engineering, sales and inside sales work from the same file.
02
See what a choice costs
Material, machining direction, setup and outsourcing side by side. What a choice does to route and cost reads straight off the screen.
03
Decided stays decided
Confirmed choices and corrections stay with the part, with who and when. Your team builds on what has already been decided.

What will you use Blake for?

The product in four parts

Requests, estimating, materials and the factory: four parts of one workspace.

News

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The program and fixture are paid for, the first article inspection in part. What drops out of a repeat order, what gets shorter and what must be redone?
Category: Guides8 November 2026
Thin walls: when the wall sets the price
A thin wall adds no material, but it costs passes, setups and scrap. How to cost each measure as a separate line, with the reason beside it.
Category: Know-how8 November 2026

Frequently asked questions

Who is Blake for?

For CNC manufacturers making precision parts in many variants, from one-offs to series. Milling from 3 to 5 axes, turning and mill-turn are costed on your own machines; wire EDM and sheet metal come next. Cost engineers, manufacturing engineers, sales and inside sales work in one workspace.

What does Blake do with a request for quotation (RFQ)?

You add the model (STEP) and the drawing (PDF) to a request. Blake pairs them part by part and lays out the drawing’s requirements as proposals. Then you work out the cost on your own machines and at your own rates, with each line on its own.

What is the manufacturing world model?

Subduxion’s model underneath Blake. It records how a part, its requirements, material, processes, your machines and your team’s decisions relate. That is why every proposal and every decision shows what it rests on. The research behind it is on subduxion.com.

Does Blake use my own machines and prices?

Yes. You pick machines from the catalogue and add your own hourly rate. Materials take your own purchase prices, with source and date.

Who decides?

You and your team. What Blake reads from drawing and model, or proposes, stays a proposal until someone confirms or changes it. That decision stays visible to the whole team, with who and when.

What will I see in a demo?

We take one part through with you, from drawing to cost, and talk about what matters for your work. There is nothing to prepare or send.

All frequently asked questions

Your manufacturing knowledge. A lasting advantage.

Two setups, +Z and −X, black anodising outsourced, the machine you chose: confirmed once, and already there for the next frame.

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