Automating Your Shop's Brain: How AI Matches RFQs to Machine Capacity
Dev.to AI
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Generative AI
Every RFQ that lands in your inbox is a puzzle. You mentally scan your shop floor: "Can we do this? What's the best machine? Is it even possible?" This manual matching is slow, error-prone, and costs you bids. What if your system could do this thinking for you? The Core Principle: Create a Digital Rulebook The key to automation is encoding your shop's tacit knowledge into a structured, digital "matching rulebook." This isn't about complex AI magic; it's about systematically defining the rules you already use to decide if a job is a fit.