Machine shops for overflow work
Well-rated machine shops near your plant for overflow work.
What it does
Every quarter: the best-rated machine shops, metal fabricators and plastic fabricators within 50 km of your plant, each with what they likely do best by xMap AI, approved by the plant manager, kept in a sheet.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Munich, find machine shops, metal fabricators and plastic fabrication companies in the area, write a summary of each with xMap AI, wait for approval, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
When orders spike, the plant needs trusted subcontractors nearby. An approved list is ready before the spike.
Who it is for
Manufacturing & industrial supply. Manufacturers, industrial distributors and plant teams finding distributors, suppliers and workers, and keeping plants running. Every use case for manufacturing & industrial
Best use cases
- A machinery maker
- An automotive supplier
- An aerospace parts shop
What each run gives you
- A Google Sheet
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 60 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 1 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Around the plantWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- SubcontractorsxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Describe each with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Approve the subcontractorsLogic · ApprovalStops the run until someone says yes.
- Update the subcontractor sheetApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
- Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- The xMap Flows browser extension: what is around this business: On a company’s website or a place on a map, one click shows its market and the AI employees to hire for it.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
- How to find new businesses in a city every morning: A daily list of newly listed businesses of a type, ranked, in your inbox.
More for Manufacturing & industrial supply
- Where to build the next plant: workforce and logistics: Industrial areas ranked by workforce and logistics, as a site memo.
- Factories hiring production staff, for my equipment sales: Factories hiring operators, scored as equipment buyers.
- Metal fabricators for welding supply sales: Fabricators graded as welding supply buyers, with the owner.
- Food manufacturers for my packaging sales: Food manufacturers scored as packaging buyers, with procurement.
- Industrial distributors in a new country: Industrial distributors in a new country, scored, with the managing director.
- Truck repair and machine shops for my spare parts reps: New workshops graded as spare parts buyers, to the reps.