What Your PartsActually Costto Make
July 29, 2026 · 1 min read
Connor Lanman of the MACH team, writing in American Machinist.
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In American Machinist
Your quote runs on a 2015 time study. The machine knows the real number.
Connor Lanman of the MACH team was featured in American Machinist with a piece on why most shops still price from spreadsheets and old time studies while the machine already holds the real cost. His answer is to capture actual cycle, setup, and idle time, correlate it with machine, operator, material, and job type, and let even basic regression turn that history into accurate quotes that win more of the right work.
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That production data, actual cycle, setup, and idle time captured per job, is what MACH Monitor records, and the foundation for the cost-to-serve view MACH is building.