Switchonomy AI: Improve Efficiency from SLD to Quotation

Switchonomy AI | Switchonomy

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Every panel business that works from client single line diagrams faces the same efficiency challenge. The SLD arrives. Someone reads it manually — identifying feeders, noting switchgear types, recording current ratings, listing every component. Then all of that gets entered into an estimation tool, one field at a time. Then prices get looked up. Then the BOM gets rebuilt.

Switchonomy AI eliminates this entirely. Upload the SLD — and AI reads it, extracts the complete panel configuration, and populates your estimation automatically. Quotation, drawing, and BOM follow in minutes.

How Switchonomy AI works

Upload your single line diagram using the upload bar. Switchonomy AI reads the diagram and automatically identifies and configures every feeder and component — feeder types, switchgear types, current ratings, and quantities — without any manual input from your team.

This was built specifically to read electrical symbols and configurations found in LT panel and MCC panel SLDs — the exact documents your clients send when requesting a quotation.

What AI reads: EB Incoming, DG Incoming, Solar Incoming, Bus Coupler, Outgoing feeders — ACB and MCCB switchgear types — current ratings 200A to 8000A — all panel components — feeder quantities. All extracted and populated in seconds.

The five efficiency gains — before and after Switchonomy AI

Efficiency gain 1 — SLD interpretation Before: Estimator manually reads SLD — 15–30 minutes per diagram, risk of misinterpretation. With AI: AI reads the uploaded SLD and extracts all feeder and component data. Seconds.

Efficiency gain 2 — Data entry Before: Every feeder and component entered manually — 20–40 minutes on complex panels. With AI: AI-extracted data populates the full feeder configuration automatically. Zero manual entry from SLD.

Why AI accuracy matters: Manual SLD reading introduces interpretation errors that compound downstream. A misread current rating leads to the wrong component being priced, wrong BOM, wrong parts ordered. AI reads exactly what the diagram specifies — eliminating this chain of error at source.

Efficiency gain 3 — Component pricing Before: Prices looked up manually from supplier catalogue — 30–45 minutes. Risk of stale rates. With AI: Live pricing from 12,000+ updated switchgear prices applied automatically to AI-configured components.

Efficiency gain 4 — Panel drawing generation Before: Design engineer opens AutoCAD or EPLAN and drafts the drawing manually — 1–2 days. With AI: Click Generate Diagram — standard-based panel layout drawing produced from AI configuration in seconds.

Efficiency gain 5 — BOM generation Before: BOM rebuilt manually after quotation — 20–30 minutes. Mismatch risk every time. With AI: Export PDF → BOM — complete bill of materials from the same AI-configured estimation data. One click. Zero rebuild. Zero mismatch.

How Switchonomy AI compares to other AI estimating tools in 2026

The total time saving

When every manual step is replaced by Switchonomy AI, the total time from receiving a client's SLD to sending a complete proposal — quotation, panel drawing, and BOM — drops from several hours to under 30 minutes. For a panel business handling ten enquiries a week, this is a full working day recovered every week.

In 2026, AI-powered electrical estimating software is transforming how panel businesses respond to client enquiries. Most of it targets general installation contractors. Switchonomy AI targets the specific workflow that LT panel manufacturers, MCC panel builders, and switchgear professionals actually need — reading a client's SLD and turning it into a complete, accurate quotation with drawing and BOM attached, in minutes.

That efficiency gain is real. It's available today. And it compounds across every single enquiry your team handles.

Start your free account at switchonomy.com

Switchonomy AI: Improve Efficiency from SLD to Quotation

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