Manufacturing

The quote is designed to be computed, not negotiated: an estimated landed cost, every line with its confidence, plus one yearly fee for the capacity and lead time you reserve.

Materials were about 73 percent of the value of US circuit board assembly shipments in 2021, so every BOM line is shown and reconciled against real invoices. The subscription is the premium for optionality that P-09 expects customers to pay. Nothing has been charged yet. The full model, with its limits · The terms

Moduloa writes each build down once as a versioned blueprint: the BOM, a fixed sequence of steps, and the jig and test each step uses.

The jigs and fixtures that flash, position and carry parts are the one thing Moduloa is designed to make itself, to one standard, so every hub on a blueprint revision would use identical ones. The method travels with the blueprint, and the factory OS would version both.

Moving a qualified product to a new site takes a year or more for automotive-grade electronics. It is fast only where the new site runs the identical process. Intel moved products between fabs running its Copy EXACTLY! process with no requalification beyond a mask check; before that method, a new fab took about a year to match yields. Intel Technology Journal, Q4 1998. Whether that works between companies is P-27, due 30 June 2027. It is still open, and the Journal follows it.

Hubs would be certified by Moduloa by domain, such as medical or automotive, and by size class, on top of the ISO certificates each domain requires. Not every hub would carry every class, because that would be waste.

One published rule set would send each order through qualified suppliers and certified hubs, on the path with the lowest landed cost that meets your lead time, and log its reasons. When a route goes wrong, the rule is fixed for everyone. An order can split across hubs already qualified for your product, most products would run at two, and each unit's record names its hub, blueprint version and part lots.

Over time, where demand persists, the route is designed to lean toward your customers: local suppliers qualify, and more of the product is made nearer the people who buy it.

Suppliers would qualify once, against one published standard, and could then supply any customer, with a supplier you already use qualifying first. Xometry, Protolabs Network and Fictiv already audit suppliers before routing work to them, and Xometry and Fictiv first require a test part.

Because demand is reserved, the line is designed to be set up from the blueprint before the parts arrive, and taken down or duplicated as demand changes. Robots doing that setup is the design target, and each new layout would be validated for safety where it stands.

No paper, no pick lists: each part is designed to be scanned to its BOM line on arrival and carried to its station by mobile robots.

BCG puts setup and re-engineering at roughly 75 percent of a traditional robot deployment's lifetime cost: the cost a blueprint is designed to cut. That is the cost of automating a job, not the cost of a product. Even halved, it would stay the largest line.

Assembly, flashing and test are designed to follow the blueprint step by step, every action recorded: station, executor, measurement, time. The floor is designed for robots, so the method never depends on who is on shift. People design, maintain and improve the system, and own its exceptions.

Humanoid assembly is the design target, added as robots prove it. By Moduloa's own index, today's humanoids are 10.1% of the way to humanoids that could run a Moduloa hub (as of 2026-10-02). Moduloa's own methods for the hard steps would travel in the blueprint, written against a hardware abstraction layer that does not yet exist for humanoids. Building or adopting one is part of the work.

Packing and labelling are standard steps in every blueprint, the same at every hub. Each order is designed to ship from the hub to the address it names, your warehouse or your customer's door, so you need not hold stock. Benchmark and Sanmina already offer delivery straight to end customers.

Who imports in each market is settled before the first quote, because importing takes entities, bonds and real liability in each country.

Every unit is designed to carry a code that opens its record behind your sign-in, and the same record by API: each part with its serial or lot, each step with its station and time, each test with its result.

Moduloa is designed to run the production quality system and own every production metric, so you need not staff production quality yourself. Design verification stays yours, and if you are the legal manufacturer of a regulated product, your own quality system still has to control Moduloa as an outsourced process (ISO 13485, clause 4.1.5); the unit record is designed to feed it. No sales layer and no status decks: you see what we see. Every product would have a named quality owner, and every complaint would enter the quality system with its response time on record.

A fault would be traced to the step, part and blueprint version behind it, and the fix would reach every hub running that blueprint through change control, validated at each site.

The unit record is described and its API is not written yet. Neither is built.

A reorder runs on the same blueprint, qualified suppliers and tooling, at whichever certified hub the route picks. The blueprint that built the first unit builds the ten-thousandth, and the record shows it.

A chipmaker owes as little as six months' notice before a part's last order, so continuity is designed in: every part on your BOM would be watched, and you would be warned at the first notice. You choose a last-time buy, a qualified substitute or a redesign, and you see any substitute before it ships.