FOR MEDICAL DEVICE MACHINING
Medical parts are small, costly to make and unforgiving. Swiss-type turning in titanium and 316L, then deburring, polishing, passivation and cleaning, with a documentation trail for every batch. Kojo handles quoting, production tracking, inventory and payments, and works beside the ISO 13485 or customer-mandated quality system you already run.
HOW THE WORK IS PRICED
Unit cost is driven by material, cycle time and finishing. Implants are machined from implant-grade material: titanium Ti-6Al-4V ELI to ASTM F136, 316L and 316LVM stainless, cobalt-chrome and PEEK, bought with certificates at prices well above commercial grades. Bone screws, pins and small plates are typically run on Swiss-type sliding-head lathes and multi-axis mills, where cycle time and bar used per part decide the price. Instruments in 17-4 PH and martensitic stainless need machining plus heat treatment, grinding and hand finishing.
Then come the costs that commercial work does not carry. Deburring and polishing under magnification, laser marking, passivation, ultrasonic cleaning and controlled packaging all take time per part. Inspection is heavy on small features, and a new part often goes through validation batches at the OEM's request before regular orders flow. Volumes range from a few hundred instruments to tens of thousands of screws a year. Once a part is validated, OEMs are slow to re-source it and slow to accept a price change, so a costing mistake made at the quote stage can stay with you for years.
THE HEADACHES
On some parts, deburring, polishing, marking, passivation and cleaning take as long as the machining. They are the first thing a rushed estimate forgets.
Implant-grade bar is costly, and remnants, scrapped setups and rejected parts add up without anyone comparing usage per part against standard.
A thread or radius out by a few microns scraps a part that already carries full material, machining and finishing cost. These losses need to be seen by shift.
Once a part is validated the OEM rarely accepts a price change, so an under-quoted part keeps losing money year after year.
THE WORKFLOW
Drawings, material specification, annual volume, and the finishing, marking, cleaning, packaging and documentation the OEM expects.
Choose the machine (Swiss-type, turn-mill or five-axis), plan operations and finishing, and cost material, cycle time, finishing, inspection and packaging.
Send the quote, follow up, and machine samples or a first article for the OEM's evaluation.
Run the validation batches the OEM asks for and freeze the process before regular orders start.
Machine, deburr, polish, mark, passivate and clean each batch, with in-process and final inspection, and batch records kept in your quality system.
Pack and dispatch with the batch documentation, then invoice and follow up against the agreed payment terms.
WHERE KOJO FITS
COMMERCIAL
LIVECaptures how your senior estimator thinks about Swiss-type and multi-axis work: cycle time per operation, machine hour rates and setup allowances, applied the same way on every OEM enquiry.
Explore module →COMMERCIAL
LIVEKojo fills in titanium or stainless bar at today's price, plus machining, setup, overhead and margin. Finishing, passivation, cleaning, inspection and packaging are added from your own rates and costing rules, set up during onboarding.
Explore module →OPERATIONS
ROLLING OUTDefine each part's bill of materials once, including bar per part and packaging, and see its true cost at today's material price. Consumption variance against standard shows when bar usage per part starts creeping up.
Explore module →OPERATIONS
ROLLING OUTOperators log production, rejects, downtime and material for each shift on a tablet with big buttons, so a run of rejects on one feature is visible the same day.
Explore module →OPERATIONS
ROLLING OUTTracks implant-grade bar and consumables against real usage and warns at the reorder point, rounded up to the supplier's minimum order quantity, so a long-lead material never stops a batch.
Explore module →COMMERCIAL
ROLLING OUTReminds customers before and after each due date on email, WhatsApp and SMS, and shows who owes what and for how long.
Explore module →STARTER TO ENTERPRISE
Start with quoting, add production, inventory and payments, then scale across plants with integrations and a dedicated support team.
STARTER
Start with quoting: your cycle times, machine hour rates, finishing rates and quote format set up, so every OEM enquiry is costed the same way.
GROWTH
Add BOM costing, shop floor logging and inventory once parts move into regular batches, so bar usage, rejects and stock are visible every shift.
ENTERPRISE
For groups with more than one plant, or a machining unit and a separate finishing site: multi-site roll-up reporting, an open API to your accounting or ERP system, a dedicated support team and an uptime SLA.
NUMBERS TO WATCH
BAR USED PER PART AGAINST STANDARD
On implant-grade titanium and 316L, a small rise in usage per part is real money across a year's volume.REJECT RATE BY PART AND OPERATION
Shows which features or machines are scrapping parts that already carry most of their cost.FINISHING TIME PER PART AGAINST QUOTE
Polishing, marking and cleaning are where medical quotes most often go wrong.SWISS-TYPE LATHE UTILISATION
Sliding-head lathes usually carry the most valuable hours in the shop, so idle time there costs the most.COMMON MATERIALS
Each material page has properties, equivalent grades and a free weight and machining cost calculator.
QUESTIONS
No. Kojo handles quoting, production tracking, inventory and payments. Batch records, traceability and validation stay in the quality system you already run, and Kojo does not replace it.
Yes, from your own rates and costing rules, set up during onboarding. Machining is costed from your cycle times and machine hour rates, and finishing, outside processes, inspection and packaging are added the way you already price them.
Kiviro brings your existing Excel data into Kojo during setup and trains the team, and quoting goes live in about three weeks. Your data stays yours, and you can export it.
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