Since the emergence of ChatGPT, generative AI has been moving from intense discussion to application implementation. Under the wave of artificial intelligence, traditional industries are experiencing unprecedented changes. According to McKinsey's latest report on the trend potential of generative AI, in China, advanced manufacturing, electronics and semiconductors, consumer packaged goods, energy, and banking will be the five most affected industries. As an important part of the electronic industry, the PCB industry also faces challenges such as improving efficiency and optimizing costs. After the grand launch of Glorysoft's industrial general intelligent platform (GloryIGI) last year, one of its industry applications, the intelligent quotation system for the PCB industry, has been successfully verified, bringing a revolution in the quotation mode for the PCB industry.
Traditional PCB Industry Pain Points
1. Low Efficiency Caused by Cumbersome Manual Operations:
In the traditional quotation process, manual operations such as looking up and classifying emails, parsing Gerber files, and manually entering quotation parameters are not only cumbersome and time - consuming but also have low efficiency. Most quotation systems require inputting more than 100 basic column parameters for cost calculation, which requires extremely high business skills for quotation personnel and seriously restricts the timeliness and accuracy of quotations, resulting in high labor hour costs.
2. High Skill Requirements for Quotation Engineers and Difficulty in Skill Transfer:
Quotation engineers play a central role in the quotation process. They need to have deep experience in the PCB industry as well as knowledge of design, manufacturing, cost structure, and processes. However, the thresholds for these knowledge and skill requirements are high, and the difficulty in skill transfer is large. The lack of experienced quotation engineers or advanced quotation tools often leads to inaccurate quotations or low efficiency, which directly affects the market competitiveness of enterprises.
3. Increased Quotation Complexity Due to Diversified Customer Requirements:
With the increasingly fierce market competition, the diversification of customer requirements makes the quotation process more complex. Inquiry files, design files, and output files of the circuit design process - Gerber files often lack a unified standard format, and the system is difficult to replace manual operations through rules. In addition, customers may also have special design requirements, time schedules, or budget limitations, which will further increase the complexity and time - consuming nature of the quotation process and bring great challenges to the quotation work.
Therefore, the quotation mode of PCB enterprises urgently needs to be improved.
Potential Improvement
The intelligent quotation system of Glorysoft has realized the practice value in a listed PCB enterprise. The successful verification of Glorysoft's AI intelligent quotation system in the PCB industry has indeed demonstrated the great potential of artificial intelligence in the PCB industry. By combining AI multi - modal large model technology, this system has solved the pain points in the traditional quotation process and significantly improved quotation efficiency and accuracy.
The advantages of the GloryIGI intelligent quotation system lie in its ability to deeply understand the details in inquiry files, engineering design files, and plate making requirements, accurately extract key cost factors, including processes, material selections, commercial terms, and expected production cycles, and generate quotation parameter analysis results with a confidence level of 99% currently achieved. At the same time, it supports privatization deployment model verification, training, and multi - language support models, adapting to various enterprise requirements and special designs, demonstrating excellent adaptability and efficiency. This intelligent quotation system not only improves quotation efficiency but also realizes the interaction and traceability of quotation information, providing a comprehensive enhanced quotation and cost management ability for enterprises as a high - efficiency comprehensive solution.
Quotation Efficiency Improvement:
The cost calculation interface parameters are arranged according to the PCB production process, optimizing the quotation management system and improving the efficiency of quotation personnel; customizing the cost calculation formula for processes/sections, visualizing the cost calculation logic; integrating quotation basic parameters, reducing the technical difficulty of using the system and improving the work efficiency of each department; and also performing excellently in accurate answering. It can well avoid human carelessness or calculation errors, reducing human work pressure while ensuring quality. In addition, GloryIGI generates new content based on previous data, imitating the expression way of human beings and expanding the pattern of training data.
Quotation Information Interaction:
Through the information interaction with ERP, CRM, and OA systems, the information communication between the quotation system and other business systems is opened up, realizing end - to - end business management and finally realizing the intelligent management of the whole process from customer inquiry to customer order placement.
Quotation Information Traceability:
The historical traceability and analysis of quotation information are realized, adding anti - error control for quotation information entry and improving the accuracy of quotation by quotation personnel.
Comparison between Glorysoft's Intelligent Quotation System and the Original Quotation System:
In the implementation case, Glorysoft's intelligent quotation system has been successfully applied in a listed PCB enterprise
✦100% Demand Research:
The demand target of the quotation business system has been researched, and the integrated blueprint specifications with OA, ERP, and CRM have been generally recognized
✦100% Solution:
The quotation form information entry is arranged according to the PCB process template, integrating quotation basic data, configuring the cost of each process/section and page statistical formula, defining the production model after completing the quotation form cost calculation, fitting the enterprise progress plan, a small - step - fast - running mode
✦99% Parallel Qualification Rate:
The cost calculation logic is configured according to the logic of the old quotation system, comparing the accuracy of various cost data of both systems in parallel under various business scenarios; checking and rationalizing the original quotation data and logic in combination with the business demand direction. Combining the old quotation system, the business side conducts parallel operation and comparison of the two systems and continuously optimizes and improves
The product structure and parameter library of GloryIGI are based on the industry model, which can be configured and flexibly adjusted, and can also be implanted with customized attributes to meet the personalized needs of different enterprises. With the continuous progress of artificial intelligence AI technology, combined with the functions of knowledge management and R & D assistant, GloryIGI provides an all - round intelligent platform for pan - semiconductor enterprises, giving birth to a new working method, significantly improving human efficiency, and also helping enterprises to achieve more efficient decision - making, more accurate cost control and more rapid innovation and R & D.
