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Free calculators for manufacturers.

Free, quick answers for the owner’s desk and the shop floor, right in your browser.

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For owners

These help with the decisions about where the money goes and how much work your website brings in.

  • RFQ readiness scorecardScore your website on the twenty checks an engineer, a quality reviewer, and a buyer make before they put a supplier on their shortlist.
  • Marketing calculatorEnter seven figures you already know to see what each quote request costs you, how long the spend takes to pay back, and what one more request a month is worth.
  • Hire, agency or freelancer calculatorSee what a marketing hire costs once payroll taxes, benefits, tools, recruiting, and the months a new hire takes to get up to speed are counted, next to an agency and a freelancer.
  • Customer lifetime value calculatorSee what a customer is worth over the whole relationship, and what you can afford to spend to win one.
  • Revenue goal plannerWork back from a revenue target to the jobs, quotes, and website visits it needs, and see whether the target is within reach.
  • Trade show ROI calculatorWeigh the booth, travel, and staff time against the gross profit a show is likely to bring in, and see where it breaks even.
  • Quote response time calculatorSee what unanswered and slow quote requests cost you in a year, against a published benchmark of 2,241 US companies.
  • Google Business Profile scorecardScore your Google Business Profile on thirteen checks, weighted by published research on what ranks a business in local search.

For the shop floor

These handle the everyday arithmetic of machining, inspection, finishing, and estimating.

  • Speeds and feeds calculatorTurn SFM into RPM and chip load into feed rate, with the material removal rate and starting surface speeds for 40 materials.
  • True position calculatorWork out true position from X and Y deviation, add bonus tolerance at MMC or LMC, and get a pass or fail against the drawing.
  • Bolt circle calculatorGet X and Y coordinates for any number of holes on a bolt circle, with a start angle and a table you can copy.
  • Tap drill calculatorFind the tap drill size for any thread engagement, with the nearest standard inch and metric drill and the engagement each one gives.
  • Material weight calculatorWork out the weight of bar, hex, tube, plate, and rectangle in 40 materials, and the material cost at your own price per pound.
  • Surface finish converterConvert Ra between microinches and micrometers, and see the ISO N grade, the RMS figure, and which processes reach that finish.
  • Plating time calculatorWork out plating time, deposition rate, current draw, and metal consumed for eleven baths, from Faraday’s law.

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