Cell shall include safety fencing and interlocked access to the load station.
Scope doc §4.3Custom Automation
Price a system nobody has built yet.
There is no part number to look up and no last quote to copy. Nyotta reads the requirements, layouts, standards, and supplier inputs behind a one-off system, then holds scope, feasibility, cost, and margin together so the number you commit to is the scope you actually quoted.
Scope, in five partsOne structure
01
EquipmentMachines, tooling, material handling, and purchased hardware.
02
ControlsPanels, devices, safety systems, networks, and commissioning.
03
SoftwareApplication logic, interfaces, data flows, and reporting.
04
IntegrationMechanical, electrical, facility, and third-party dependencies.
05
Installation and servicesSite work, launch support, training, documentation, and spares.
Nothing estimated twice · nothing falling between the five
Why it is hard
The number is an argument about scope.
Scope arrives across technical requirements, layouts, equipment lists, standards, correspondence, and supplier inputs. It is assembled by hand, which is why the omissions, the assumptions, and the margin are the hardest things to point at when the review asks.
Scope spans disciplines
Equipment, controls, software, integration, installation, and services have to be understood together, not costed in six places.
Requirements need judgment
Included, excluded, compliant, deferred, or still unclear. Every line needs a call, and the call needs an owner.
The estimate moves with the scope
Cost, labour, risk, and commercial assumptions have to stay attached to the latest decision rather than the version that was costed first.
The proposal repeats the analysis
The same information is reassembled across pricing sheets, clarifications, alternates, and the customer-facing document.
One requirement, followed through
See the whole system, not isolated line items.
A single line in the scope document becomes a decision, an estimate line, and a paragraph in the proposal, carrying its source and its owner the whole way.
Comply. In base scope, guarding to ISO 13849 PL d.
Engineer approvedSafety systems: equipment and labour, priced against the approved decision.
EditableScope · Safety and guarding, with the clarification carried forward verbatim.
Customer-facingScope categories are configured to match how your team already estimates
From the product
One cell, six stages, nothing assumed.
A reversing-valve leak-test and assembly cell for two lines, from nine documents landing to a brief written for the engineer who signs it.
RFQ-RVLT-2026-0741 · intake9 documents · 318 pages indexed
Nine documents land: the RFQ template, the cell specification at Rev 2.0, test procedure TP-118, a valve-family matrix, the volume schedule, two plant standards, purchase terms, and our own scope-ownership map. Nyotta indexes all 318 pages against one program and opens any of them in place.
Deliverables
Move from RFQ package to an approved proposal.
Four deliverables in one sequence, each carrying the decisions, evidence, and open clarifications from the one before it.
01
URS and scope capture
Organize requirements by system, discipline, deliverable, ownership, and source.
02
ISO 13849 and NFPA 79 review
Record comply, deviate, defer, clarify, and exclude decisions with the evidence and rationale behind them.
03
System cost build-up
Build an editable estimate across equipment, controls, software, integration, installation, services, risk, and margin.
04
Proposal and responsibility (DOR) matrix
Prepare scope, pricing, assumptions, clarifications, alternates, exclusions, and supporting schedules from the approved work.
Also supportedRequirements traceabilityClarification managementSupplier input reviewEstimate-to-proposal checksReuse of approved modules
Where the money goes
These jobs are rarely lost on the price.
They are lost on what the scope never said, discovered on site.
Unstated exclusions
What you assumed the customer was providing
Utilities, fixtures, spare parts, network drops. Nyotta forces every exclusion to be written where the reviewer sees it, not implied in a rate.
Interface boundaries
Where your scope stops and theirs starts
Mechanical tie-ins, electrical drops, upstream conveyor handoffs, plant IT. Each one becomes a line with an owner instead of a conversation at commissioning.
Assumptions that aged
Costed against a spec that has since moved
Cycle time, part presentation, changeover count. When a requirement changes, the estimate lines built on it are flagged rather than silently stale.
Alternates and deferrals
Priced once, then lost track of
Every alternate, deferral, and clarification keeps its own state, so the proposal says what was offered and what was held back.
What changes
A proposal engineering and sales can both sign.
Applications and sales working from one scope and one set of numbers, rather than a technical view and a commercial view that met for the first time at the review.
Scope
Inclusions and exclusions are explicit
Interfaces and responsibilities are visible before the commitment, not renegotiated on site.
Handoffs
One chain from requirement to proposal line
The decision, the estimate line, and the customer-facing paragraph stay connected to the requirement that caused them.
Review
Both owners see the same state
Engineering signs feasibility and scope, commercial signs terms and margin, against the same evidence and the same open clarifications.
Precedent
The next system starts from this one
Approved scope patterns, estimate logic, and the reasoning behind clarifications carry forward with the conditions that made them defensible.
Questions from integrators.
How does Nyotta quote a custom automation build from an RFQ package?
Nyotta reads the full package, including layouts, mechanical drawings, specification documents and the customer's own bid forms, then drafts a scoped bill of materials, a line-item estimate covering hours, labour, material, equipment and margin, and a proposal on your letterhead. Every line is editable, and an engineer reviews and approves before anything goes out. The estimate is structured in your own cost buckets and rate structure, with the basis shown on every line and margin adjustable by the user.
What happens when the RFQ package contradicts itself?
Nyotta flags the conflict rather than picking a side. Contradictions inside one package are common: a specification given one way in a datasheet and another in the customer's own bid form, a dimension that changes between sheets, a requirement that two documents scope differently. Each is raised with both sources named and the difference shown, on the day the package arrives. Without Nyotta, the same conflicts would surface a week later, once a person has finally read everything.
What kinds of automation projects does Nyotta quote?
Material handling and palletising, case packing and packaging lines, conveyor and sortation systems, assembly and test cells, robotic work cells, automated guided vehicle fleets, and turnkey lines that combine several of these. Nyotta reads components and their connections from floor layouts and mechanical drawings as well as from specification documents and bid forms.
Can Nyotta learn our rates, margins and standard components?
Yes. Nyotta reads your historical quotes, your standard component library, your labour rates and your margin structure, and applies them to new RFQs. Until it has them it reasons from public and industry data, so an early estimate is not yet tuned to your business and is marked as such. Your data stays in your own tenant and never trains a model that serves another customer.