How Many Engineers Does It Take to Quote a Screw? If the Answer Isn’t ‘Zero,’ Your System Is Broken

Let’s be blunt: if your sales process still requires an engineer to quote a standard part, you’re doing it wrong.

In 2025, there is no excuse for engineering teams to be stuck building parametric models, digging through legacy spreadsheets, or emailing screenshots to sales. Whether you're selling screws, custom enclosures, or fully assembled machines, the quoting process should be instant, automated, and completely self-service.

That’s where modern product configurators and CPD platforms like Spokbee come in.

Engineering Bottlenecks Are Killing Your Growth

Every time your sales team sends a request to engineering for a basic quote, you’re adding friction, wasting time, and delaying revenue. Multiply that by 10 requests a day across your team, and you’re hemorrhaging hours.

Worse yet, you’re burning out engineers who should be focused on innovation, not quote babysitting.

Quoting Should Be Sales-Led, Not Engineer-Gated

Let’s reframe the question:

Why do you need an engineer to quote something you already know how to build?

With cloud-native product configurators, sales reps (or even customers themselves) can generate accurate, dynamic quotes with no engineering input. All the logic, pricing rules, and CAD updates happen automatically.

From Tribal Knowledge to Scalable Systems

Traditional quoting relies on tribal knowledge: the senior engineer who “knows what works,” the Excel spreadsheet with 16 tabs, the random folder of CAD macros on someone’s desktop. That’s not a system. That’s a liability.

Spokbee replaces all that with a unified CPD platform that connects engineering data directly to sales. With Spokbee 2.0:

• Your CAD models become live configurators
• Your pricing logic becomes rules-based automation
• Your quoting pipeline becomes a digital product experience
  
  

Why This Matters for Every Manufacturer

If your customer wants to order a custom-length bracket or a new motor enclosure, they should be able to:

• Select the product
• Customize specs
• See it update in 3D
• Get a price
• Place the order

All within minutes. No emails. No engineers. No bottlenecks.

The Real Cost of Manual Quoting

Waiting 3 days for an engineer to respond might not seem like a big deal. Until your customer goes to a competitor with instant quoting tools and gets their order placed in 3 clicks.

Every manual step in your quoting process is a lost opportunity.

Make It Zero

The future of quoting doesn’t require an engineering degree. It requires the right platform.

Spokbee 2.0 empowers manufacturers to ditch the bottlenecks, reduce quoting time to seconds, and unlock scalable, engineer-free sales.

Because when it comes to quoting a screw, the answer should always be: zero engineers required.

Ready to modernize your quote process?
Explore Spokbee 2.0 on the Onshape App Store and turn your CAD files into automated sales engines.