4 Reasons to be a Xometry Manufacturing Partner

Streamline. That word gets thrown around a lot these days. Companies like to promise they will streamline your business operations and deliver growth. However, unlike overcomplicated software or shallow ideas, Xometry truly delivers the tools to streamline your operations and grow your business.

Let’s start with Workcenter. For starters, it’s free. And not just free in the monetary sense, but also free from burdensome downloads, slow updates, and limited access. The Xometry Workcenter is where you view, accept, and manage all your jobs. We recognize that our partners are too busy to sit at a computer all day, so the Workcenter is entirely web-based and can be accessed from any computer or mobile device—at the shop, in your home office, or waiting in line for coffee on your way into work. We’ve geared the Workcetner towards one thing: providing you with immediate work that best fits your shop’s capacity and capabilities.

Xometry is your always-on sales and marketing team, matching your shop’s capabilities and capacity to jobs of all sizes from customers around the world. How we do this and why are what make being a Xometry partner so amazing. Your shop is working with and benefiting from cutting-edge machine learning technology.

How does this work? When you apply to become a Xometry manufacturing partner, you fill out a Shop Profile. This profile collects everything we need to know about your shop’s machines, certifications—like ITAR, ISO 9001, AS9100, etc.—inspection capabilities, personnel, and job preferences. This data is then used to feed your Job Board—where we post all jobs that are ordered through Xometry—so you only see work that matches your shop’s capabilities and capacity.

Apart from the Job Board and Workcenter, Xometry Partners have access to a suite of tools that give you the financial stability and flexibility they need to grow their business. We know manufacturing is hard work, but getting paid shouldn’t be. Xometry’s financial solutions built specifically for machine shops and manufacturers makes it fast and easy to get paid for your work so you can overcome the high upfront costs for materials and tooling, and move on to your next job without delay. You can receive 50% of the value of eligible jobs immediately on your Xometry Advance Card—our no-cost, no-fee payment card that can be used wherever Visa™ is accepted. When you complete a job, Xometry always pays net-30. However, you can turn that into net-3 with FastPay to get the money you need to make crucial business decisions.

Along with our financial solutions, Xometry has an in-house team of dedicated machinists and manufacturing technical specialists standing by to help our manufacturing partners with any technical or manufacturing-related issues. What tool is best for this material? How would you machine this feature? Should I get a shop dog or cat? That one’s easy: get one of each.

Our Partner Tech Support team means you never have to tackle a job alone or without the knowledge to be successful. They’ve seen it all and are eager to share their years of experience working in this incredible and fast-paced industry.

Our manufacturing partner community is vibrant and diverse, helping to guide, shape, and build the Xometry marketplace into the most powerful on-demand manufacturing tool in the world. When you join our community, we want to see you succeed. We have dedicated team members who will work with you from the moment you submit your application through your first few jobs to ensure you are set up to successfully deliver high-quality parts on time from the get-go.

We are always looking for industry leaders in sheet metal fabrication, sheet metal cutting, CNC machining, 3D printing, injection molding, die casting, and urethane casting to join us as valued members of our Manufacturing Partner Network. If you are interested in growing your business and streamlining your operations with Xometry, we would love for you to apply to become a manufacturing Partner.