Electronics · PCB Assembly
Real-time component pricing for PCB assembly.
Price curves in seconds instead of minutes. In production at AISLER since May 2026.
“Quicopt lets our customers work in a whole new way. That’s worth a great deal.”
The challenge
AISLER runs an online platform for electronics manufacturing: from bare boards to fully assembled units (PCB assembly). Its platform turns an uploaded design into a live price curve across order quantities. The component-price calculation ran as a waterfall: every change forced the user to restart it and wait minutes for the full curve.
The result
Fast answers are only worth something if they are still the right answers. On all 4559 production instances from AISLER’s fleet, Quicopt returned a feasible solution and landed on CP-SAT’s exact optimum on 98% of them, at a median gap of 0.0%. Quicopt did that on a single CPU core while CP-SAT had sixteen. At the far end of the fleet sits one job where CP-SAT needed 201 seconds and Quicopt answered in 0.19.
Measured across 4559 instances from AISLER’s production fleet, Quicopt on one CPU core against CP-SAT on sixteen. Both timings exclude input decoding, and Quicopt’s additionally carries its own precompute and verification, which CP-SAT has no counterpart for. The comparison understates Quicopt rather than flattering it.
BenchmarksThe impact
Quicopt computes the full component-price curve in seconds instead of minutes, called straight from AISLER’s application through a REST API. It has been in production since May 2026, opening the door to continuous, real-time pricing as customers configure their boards.
“The way you built this is absolutely premium. It just worked, immediately.”