Free manufacturing tools
Use transparent, browser-based tools to test machine costs, job prices, and gross-margin assumptions before making a commercial decision.
The calculations run only in your browser. Your inputs and results are not submitted or saved.
Results are planning estimates, not quotations, accounting advice, or approval to accept work.
Machine economics
Estimate the break-even hourly cost of a CNC machine and the charge-out rate needed to achieve a target gross margin.
Best for Owners and managers reviewing machine investment, utilisation, overhead allocation, and hourly rates.
Job economics
Compare a proposed job price with material, machine, setup, labour, subcontract, scrap, contingency, and target-margin assumptions.
Best for Estimators and commercial managers checking whether a proposed order covers expected cost and target margin.
The machine-rate calculator turns annual machine costs and productive utilisation into an hourly rate. That verified rate can then be entered into the job-profitability calculator with quantity, setup, cycle time, material, scrap, and other job-specific costs. Use either calculator independently when that is all the decision requires; neither produces a final customer quotation.
Triaxis can help compare costing assumptions with the way work is actually set up, run, inspected, and reported.