AssemblyIQ isn't a document tool with procurement bolted on. Everything derives from one structure — change a quantity in the BOM and the assembly sequence, the purchase list, the stores allocation and the estimate all move with it.
Exported from your CAD system, or a spreadsheet someone maintains by hand. Messy is fine — nested, duplicated, half-named.
Pair them and the QC step reconciles callouts against the model. Load an assembly and the estimator reads the geometry directly.
Printable method sheets, a purchase list that chases itself, a stores register that reconciles, and a ship date you can defend.
The live build tree. Drag to reshuffle, click a branch to collapse it, and edit part number, description, quantity, type and manufacturer straight on the line.
Every edit is shared instantly with the assembly document, audit, purchase list and prints. Adding or deleting a part asks which ECR it belongs to, so the record explains itself later.
Order the parts the way they actually go together and the step-by-step writes itself. Each operation carries its own tools, consumables, torque and cautions — placed before the step, where a warning still changes what someone does.
Quantities are checked against the BOM as you type. Ask for more than the BOM holds and it stops you, then offers to raise it through an ECR rather than letting the numbers drift apart.
Every line carries a quote and lead-time request. Tick several and send one combined enquiry per vendor instead of a dozen separate emails.
Replies are read as they arrive and mapped back to the right row — latest price, lead time and availability update themselves. Where a vendor exposes an API, the columns fill live.
A company-wide register that sits above individual projects but can be filtered down to any one of them. Inward, outward, transfers and returns are recorded with quantity, bin, timestamp and person — and the ledger is append-only, so a correction is a reversing entry rather than a quiet edit.
Receiving a delivery writes the bin location and receiving status straight into that project's audit. Technicians request a kit for a sub-assembly; stock is reserved immediately, partial issues are allowed, and the shortage stays open until it's filled.
Pair a drawing with its STEP file and the callouts are reconciled against the model. Missing dimensions and mismatches surface before material is cut, when the fix is still cheap.
Where the drawing text isn't machine-readable, the page is read optically; with a Claude API key configured, an AI pass handles the drawings that defeat plain OCR.
Load an assembly and it reads the geometry of every solid, dedupes identical parts and prices the job from a rate card you control. Untick the bought-out branches and they drop out of the estimate.
Calibrate against quotes you've actually received and the model tightens to your shop rather than a generic average.
Who was online, who signed in, time on tool, a thirty-day per-person rollup, and a full edit/delete/restore trail. Prints come out as clean A4 — build procedure, bill of material, material audit, summary sheet and an assembly sign-off.
The fastest way to judge it is to load a BOM you've built before and see whether the method sheet matches what actually happened on the floor.