Your engineers approve solutions. They stop building them from scratch.
Axle does the applications-engineering work between an incoming technical request and a validated solution: requirements, selection, configuration, sizing, BOM, checks. Your engineer reviews the result and the evidence.
The RFQ waits for the one person who can engineer it.
Selection and sizing don't take long. Getting to the front of a senior engineer's queue does.
Before
- The RFQ sits behind three others until the engineer clears them
- Requirements pulled out of a spec package by hand, line by line
- Catalog research, then the sizing spreadsheet, then the last similar job from memory
- A BOM built accessory by accessory, and something always forgotten
- Four days later, a quote the customer has stopped waiting for
With Axle
- Requirements extracted with sources the minute the RFQ arrives, gaps sent back to the customer
- Selection on the curve or by the rules, with the ruled-out candidates explained
- Sizing run deterministically, margins shown
- Complete BOM by your accessory rules, every line sourced
- A validated solution in the engineer's queue in under an hour, with the assumptions listed
One technical RFQ, from inbox to validated solution.
The engineer's first look is the validation report, not the spec package. Illustrative
- ✓7 requirements extracted, 2 gaps sent to customer9:14
- ✓ANSI 3x2-10 selected at 96% BEP, 2 candidates ruled out9:18
- ✓NPSH margin 13 ft, 15 HP non-overloading9:19
- ✓14-line BOM by accessory rules for outdoor install9:24
- ✓11 checks passed, 1 assumption listed9:38
Q-1184 · produced water transfer pump
Start with the one assumption: NPSHa calculated for flooded suction, pending the customer's answer. Everything else passed.
Engineering judgment stays with the engineer.
Axle takes on
- Requirements extraction and cross-checking
- Catalog research and candidate ranking
- Standard selection, configuration and sizing
- BOM assembly by your rules
- Validation and the assumptions list
Your people keep
- Novel and high-risk applications
- Ambiguous requirements and the customer conversation
- Judgment calls the rules don't cover
- Final approval, wherever you require it
The rest of the workflow is already there.
Start here. When you want the next door, it's the same Applications Engineer, already configured to your catalog, templates and rules.
Applications engineering questions.
What does Axle do when it hasn't seen an application like this before?
It escalates. Applications outside anything your team has approved route to an engineer at Level 1, with the requirements extracted and the candidates it considered, so the engineer starts from a head start rather than a blank page.
Does this replace the applications engineer?
No. It removes the routine work from the applications engineer's day: the reading, the searching, the re-typing. The decisions that need engineering judgment still go to the engineer, with better inputs.
How does Axle know our engineering rules?
From your catalogs and manuals, your customers' standards, the rules you give it during onboarding, and every correction an engineer makes to a draft. Proposed rules queue for a human to accept.
Bring the RFQ your engineer dreads.
Thirty minutes, and we'll show you what lands in the engineer's queue and how long the review takes.