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How We Match an RFQ With a Shop

The whole method, including the parts that do not work. If you are going to send us a drawing, you should know what happens to it.

The five steps

  1. We read the part, not the part number

    Material, size, tolerance, form controls, finish, cleanliness, inspection scope and destination. Those eight things decide which shops can actually take it. If any of them is missing we ask before we match, because a match made on assumptions wastes everybody's week.

  2. We place it in a part family

    Chamber and vacuum, gas delivery, wafer handling, test and change kit hardware, frames and weldments, spares. The family narrows the list faster than the drawing does, because shops specialise by process chain rather than by industry.

  3. We check the chain, not just the machines

    Machines are the easy part. The questions that eliminate shops are who does the finishing, whether cleaning is a written process, whether inspection can produce a report you can audit and whether the shop can ship on its own export documents.

  4. We send a preview first, then the files

    Shops see part family, material, size, quantity, tolerance, finish, packing and destination. No name, no company, no drawing. Your contact details and files go only to the shops that take the request, up to 3. If you asked for an NDA, nothing is released until it is signed.

  5. The shop quotes you directly

    We step out. You compare, you ask questions, you order from the shop you choose. We do not see your price, we do not take a percentage and we do not sit between you and the supplier when something goes wrong.

What a shop has to satisfy

These are the criteria we hold a shop against before a request reaches it. None of them is exotic. Most shops fail on the last three rather than the first two.

  • Real capacityThe machines exist, they run, and somebody there reads a GD and T drawing.
  • A named finishing chainThe shop can say who anodizes, electropolishes or heat treats, where, and in what cycle.
  • Cleaning as a processSteps written down, not a bucket and a habit.
  • Inspection you can auditCalibrated equipment and a first article report with a ballooned drawing.
  • DocumentsMaterial and process certificates supplied with the shipment, not promised after it.
  • Response in EnglishInside 48 hours, from somebody who can answer a technical question.

When we say no

A plain no inside within 24 business hours is more useful than a match that wastes a month, so we send it often.

  • The part needs a finish or a process no qualified supplier here runs yet, such as some high purity or ceramic work.
  • The material has to be imported and the schedule cannot absorb it.
  • The quantity is far below what any shop will set up for, and the design cannot be grouped with anything else.
  • The requirement is written in a way nobody can quote, in which case we say what is missing.
  • Only one shop fits. We send one match and say so, rather than pad the list.

Ready to test it on a real part?

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