case study · aluminum joinery quoter
The system, in a diagram you can move around.
Five views of the quoter: the full circuit, what the client does, how the price is calculated, what the technician loads and how the order reaches the factory. Every box can be dragged; every view has a step-by-step walkthrough.
Two flows that meet at the database: the client’s, which enters through the web and ends at the factory, and the technician’s, who loads recipes and prices so the engine can calculate.
Two-minute script
- It is a web quoter for aluminum-and-glass joinery, built for Grupo CPS. The client comes in, builds the window and gets a price; nobody has to attend them.
- They build the window step by step: aluminum line, window type, dimensions, glass, color and accessories. They can group several in a cart and send everything as one order.
- The price does not come from a per-square-meter table. The engine breaks the window down the way the factory would: profiles with their cuts, glass, hardware and shop hours, using the recipe for that line and window type. Then it adds margin and VAT.
- Everything the engine uses is loaded by the technician in an internal panel: profiles and prices per color, accessories, hours, and which WinMaker product applies. If a combination is missing something, the web shows “Coming soon” instead of a made-up price.
- When an order comes in, the factory gets a notification, sees it in the panel with the full breakdown and downloads a .PTO file that WinMaker opens directly to produce it.
Click a box to see what it is and what it connects to. Drag to arrange; “Rearrange” restores the original layout.