Manufacturing / Plastics & injection molding
Run the molding desk without adding headcount
Evos operators handle the RFQ-to-ship paperwork that sits between your presses and your customers, running on your ERP, your quoting sheets, and your quality system. They go live in 24 hours.
- RFQ desk
- Order entry
- Press scheduling
- Resin POs
- PPAP & quality
The reality
The paperwork between the press and the customer only ever scaled by hiring another person.
A quote sits in someone's inbox while they cross-check cavitation against tonnage and rebuild a costing sheet by hand. The PO comes in, gets keyed into the ERP, and then an ECN lands mid-run and the schedule has to be redrawn. A hot runner fails on second shift and the scheduler spends the morning slotting an alternate mold and calling the customer. Resin lead time slips a week and nobody notices until the press is about to run dry. Meanwhile a Level 3 PPAP — eighteen elements, dimensional reports, material certs, a signed PSW — is the thing holding the part out of production.
Every one of these jobs is a person reading a document, checking it against another system, and typing the result somewhere else. The work is real and the consequences are real, but it doesn't compound. When order volume doubles, the only lever the plant has ever had is another scheduler, another buyer, another quality clerk.
The operators on the desk.
- 01
01
Customer service & RFQ desk
Takes the incoming RFQ, builds the tooling and run-rate pricing with DFM notes on cavitation and tonnage fit, and sends the proposal back before the customer's response deadline.
See the operator−50% of quote cycle time
- 02
02
Sales order management
Enters the awarded PO, sets the shipment schedule, and absorbs every engineering change notice mid-run so the order and the floor stay in sync.
See the operator−65% of order-admin effort
- 03
03
Production planning & scheduling
Slots the job onto a press by tonnage and runner type, sequences changeovers within setup families to cut purge time, and replans the day when a hot runner or mold goes down.
See the operator−60% of scheduler time on daily replanning
- 04
04
Purchasing & supplier management
Places resin and colorant POs against the schedule by grade and lot, chases lead-time slips, and qualifies an alternate supplier before the floor runs dry.
See the operator−55% of time on resin PO and follow-up
- 05
05
Quality documentation & compliance
Builds the PPAP package — dimensional reports, material certs, capability studies — submits the PSW, and tracks the approval that releases the part to volume.
See the operator−70% of PPAP prep time per part
The after
The desk runs itself, and the people who ran it move to the work that needs judgment.
Quotes go out the same day, the schedule reflows the moment a press goes down, and PPAP packages are built and tracked without a clerk chasing them.
- Quote cycle time cut in half, so awards aren't lost to a slow response
- Daily replanning that used to eat the scheduler's morning runs in the background
- PPAP packages assembled and submitted with 70% less prep time per part
The operators in detail.
What each does, its purpose, and the performance you can expect. See the full catalogue.
5 / 5 operators
| № | Operator | Industry | Sub-industry | Description | Purpose | Exp. performance | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | Production planning & scheduling | Manufacturing | Plastics & injection molding | Owns mold scheduling, changeover sequencing, and run planning end to end. | Presses loaded efficiently, no idle time. | −60% of scheduler time on daily replanning | Hot runner failure forces reschedule; alternate mold slotted, customer notified. |
| 002 | Purchasing & supplier management | Manufacturing | Plastics & injection molding | Owns resin and colorant procurement and vendor performance end to end. | Material available, no production stoppages. | −55% of time on resin PO and follow-up | Resin lead time extends; alternate supplier qualified and PO placed same day. |
| 003 | Quality documentation & compliance | Manufacturing | Plastics & injection molding | Owns PPAP packages, dimensional reports, and customer quality submissions end to end. | Approvals in, production released on schedule. | −70% of PPAP prep time per part | New part requires PPAP Level 3; package built, submitted, and approval tracked. |
| 004 | Sales order management | Manufacturing | Plastics & injection molding | Owns order entry, engineering change notices, and shipment scheduling end to end. | Orders ship on time, changes cause no surprises. | −65% of order-admin effort | ECN arrives mid-production; order updated, schedule adjusted, customer confirmed. |
| 005 | Customer service & RFQ desk | Manufacturing | Plastics & injection molding | Owns tooling and run-rate quoting and customer inquiry resolution end to end. | Competitive quotes out fast, customers stay engaged. | −50% of quote cycle time | New tooling RFQ received; DFM notes attached, pricing built, proposal sent. |
Put the molding desk on operators this week
They run on your ERP, your quoting sheets, and your quality system — live in 24 hours.