Built-in nesting & cutting optimization

Automated nesting that pays for itself

Nesting is the planning step that decides how ordered pieces are cut from stock panels. In electroforged grating manufacturing, raw material is the biggest cost on the order — so every offcut the cutting plan avoids goes straight back to margin. Flocra plans the cut for best yield automatically, inside the same system that holds the order.

Planned by hand vs planned by Flocra

Why built-in matters

• No third-party software — cutting plans come from Flocra’s own engine, fed directly by the order’s bill of materials. No exports, no re-entry.
• Best yield, automatically — the engine finds the cutting layout that wastes the least material, in moments instead of hours of manual layout work.
• No costly planning mistakes — the plan is computed, not sketched; the shop floor gets it ready to run.
• Savings you can see — saved material is tracked back to stock, and its effect on the order’s margin shows up in reports.

Part of the order journey

Nesting takes its input from the quote’s own configured BOM and hands its output to production — one of the steps the platform runs from a single manual entry.