“How much would it cost me to automate this press?” “How many pallets fit if I go up to six metres?” In this sector, before giving a price you have to calculate, and it is always the same engineer who calculates. With a 3D configurator, the customer or your network choose the equipment while seeing it in 3D, with its figures on the spot, and you receive the order sheet.
Monday, half past eight. The lubrication systems manufacturer receives the photo of a press with eighteen grease points and a “how much would it cost me to automate it?”. The company that installs racking, the sketch of a 900 m² warehouse with the dimensions in biro. The conveyor workshop, a “conveyor for boxes, urgent” and a photo of the floor marked out with tape. And at the tank factory, a cooperative asks whether the 3,000-litre one fits through a 1.40 door.
The product changes; the bottleneck is the same. Before giving a price you have to calculate: split outlets between distributors, work out the capacity for a flat, count frames and beams, choose a motor, see how many pallets fit in a trailer. It is always the same person who does it, the same for the offer that will be signed as for the one nobody will answer.
The offer reaches purchasing as a technical document with a number at the bottom. Nobody sees the greasing hours that disappear or what the anti-collapse mesh is for, and a simpler, cheaper one wins. If it is signed, the bill of materials is copied by hand into the order: an 8-outlet distributor where a 10-outlet one should go, and the mistake travels in the lorry.
In the technical office, on the customer's shop floor and at the counter. Below, how it gets solved.
Points, shifts, rooms, load or speed are missing, and every figure is one more email. Meanwhile, the customer asks someone else for a price.
With the configuratorThe customer chooses points, metres, modules or speed, and it reaches you with all the data and the indicative price they have already seen.
Distributors and tubing, frames and beams, motor and drive: engineer work repeated in every offer, signed or not.
With the configuratorThe base calculation comes out on its own, with your rules: distributors and tubing, capacity, pallet positions, boxes per minute. The engineer checks; they do not start from scratch.
You read the diagram at a glance; the person who signs sees lines and references. And what is not understood is not approved.
With the configuratorThey see it assembled in 3D and working: the grease reaching every point, the boxes moving along the conveyor. With labels on the pump, the distributors or the motor.
Two offers on the table and only the final figure gets looked at. The savings appear in neither, and the simpler equipment wins.
With the configuratorNext to the price, the greasing hours saved per year, the consumption and the savings versus old equipment, or the boxes per minute. And up to three options side by side.
Guards, mesh, emergency stops or bunds go into the offer as priced lines with no explanation. They are the first thing to be cut.
With the configuratorGuards, mesh, emergency stops or bunds are seen fitted and labelled. And a warning pops up if the racking goes over 7 metres or if a tank for diesel or chemicals has no bund.
The distributor has the customer in front of them, but not the external dimensions or the pallets that fit in a trailer. They call, and the order waits.
With the configuratorExternal dimensions of the tank next to a person, the loading area of the van, pallets per lorry. And at full size on their phone, with nothing to install.
From the spreadsheet to the order. A wrong beam or a dozen forgotten fittings are discovered with the fitter in the warehouse.
With the configuratorA factory order sheet with reference and quantity, taken from the same configuration the customer saw. The same for one van as for a whole fleet.
Five stops with email, phone and spreadsheet. Something is lost at every one.
A photo of the machine, the sketch of the warehouse or a call from a distributor. You lose: the figure nobody sent.
Emails and calls to complete points, loads, dimensions or uses. You lose: days, and sometimes the customer.
Sizing with the spreadsheet and one person's judgement. You lose: hours on offers that never get signed.
A technical document with a price at the bottom, compared with a cheaper one. You lose: margin to match it.
The bill of materials, copied from the calculation into the order. You lose: a second trip for what was missing.
The problem is not your equipment. It is everything that happens between the customer's photo and the order sheet, right where a catalogue falls short (3D configurator vs PDF catalogue).
Replace the example values with your own: hours on offers that never get signed and extra trips.
| Figure | Example | How it is calculated |
|---|---|---|
| A · Technical offers you calculate per month | 20 | Signed or not |
| B · Engineer hours per offer | 4 h | Questions, calculation and changes |
| C · Offers that end in an order | 25 % | One in four |
| D · Second trips per year for missing material | 4 | Fittings, anchors, a belt |
| E · Cost of each second trip | €400 | Travel, hours and material |
| Hours per year on offers that never get signed | 720 h | A × B × (100 − C) % × 12 months |
| Cost per year of second trips | €1,600 | D × E |
The same five stops, with a 3D industrial configurator on your website:
The customer configures on your website: points, metres, modules or capacity.
No longer needed: the data arrives with the configuration, and the customer takes away their PDF.
Checks a base calculation made with your rules and adjusts it at the visit.
Sees the equipment working, what it saves and up to three options compared.
What the order sheet says goes out, with its reference and its quantity.
To get started: what a 3D configurator is and product augmented reality.
Each with its own page and open demo, with no registration, with example products and prices (for pallets, with no prices and indicative example loads).
Progressive, single-line or oil. Pump, distributors and tubing sized, annual savings and the grease flowing.
Split, multi-split or ducted. Square metres, rooms, climate zone and orientation: capacity, units, consumption and savings versus old equipment.
Pallet, picking or cantilever. Bays, height, levels and load: pallet positions, capacity and floor area on the spot.
Belt, roller or modular belt. Length, width, incline and speed, and the conveyor running with its boxes per minute.
Shelving, drawers, floor and roof rack. Each side fitted out and seen from inside, with the added weight.
Vertical, horizontal or IBC container. Capacity, use, colour, bund and marking, with the external dimensions.
Six types, new and recycled. Fork entries, ISPM-15, stacking, lorry loading and an order with weight and trips.
There are separate pages for industrial doors, electrical enclosures and warehouse lighting. A video of your machine? 3D visualisation for industry.
What the base already does and what gets developed to order.
After studying your case we give you a fixed price, in writing, before starting.
What you really make or install: systems, sizes, kits and capacities.
How you size, which loads and ranges you allow, which combinations are not possible and which accessory goes with each use.
Prices, distributor margins, areas and who receives each enquiry.
On your website and on your network's websites, with training for the sales team.
We start from a base that already works: you do not pay for development from scratch.
Developments start from €6,500 for a visual configurator of one product family; most projects for manufacturers fall between €14,500 and €35,000, depending on the catalogue, the rules and the integrations, plus maintenance from €190 a month.
More detail at the price of a 3D configurator and in how much a 3D product configurator costs.
A tool on your website where the customer, the distributor or your sales rep choose a piece of equipment in 3D while what is done by hand today gets calculated: distributors and tubing, pallet positions, boxes per minute or capacity. At the end, the PDF with the indicative price and the factory order sheet come out.
The demos have seven: centralised lubrication, air conditioning, industrial racking, conveyor belts, van equipment, plastic tanks and pallets. Any other equipment whose options change the price or the calculation is studied and developed to order. The other sectors, at 3D configurators for manufacturers.
No. It makes an indicative base calculation with your rules; your engineer checks it, confirms whatever is needed at the visit and signs off the final project. What changes is the starting point: a complete configuration instead of a photo and an email.
Yes: which system you allow depending on the points or the lubricant, which pump goes in each case, which loads and heights you permit, the ranges of each conveyor or the kits for each van. What you do not make cannot be chosen.
Yes. The project includes an area where each one logs in with their margin and their brand, configures with their customer in front of them and sends you the order sheet with your references.
It is connected in the project, if you have them: it does not come ready-made, it is developed to order. In the meantime, every enquiry stays in the dashboard with its configuration and, with an email account set up, it also reaches you by email.
The pallets are generated from their dimensions, without modelling each one. The customer sees where the forks go in, ticks the ISPM-15 treatment, loads the lorry and sends you the order with the weight and the trips, or offers you their used pallets. More at the 3D pallet catalogue.
Projects start from €6,500 for a visual configurator of one product family; most projects for manufacturers fall between €14,500 and €35,000, depending on catalogue, rules and integrations, plus maintenance from €190/month. Separately, per product, 3D modelling and materials, from €30 to €120 per part or finish (or more). Pallets, at a fixed price after studying the case.
All seven demos for the sector are open with no registration: six together, with example products and prices, at configurador.grup3d.es/demo, and the pallet one, with example loads, at configurador.grup3d.es/palets. On desktop, tablet and mobile.
With your range in front of us? Bring an offer you have already done by hand and in a 20-minute video call we will configure it together.
Would you rather talk it through? Call us on 662 061 421 or write to grup3d@grup3d.es.
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