StoneEx System
Technology Developed Through Real Stone Operations
StoneEx System grew from technology originally developed to solve everyday problems inside a working stone business.
Beginning in 2004, we started building our own automation tools for project calculations, scheduling and the movement of information between different parts of the work.
Those tools continued to evolve as the business evolved.
In 2014, they became AGM System — our first complete cloud-based operating system. Over the following years, AGM System connected more of the workflow between the office, templating, fabrication, scheduling, installation and field operations.
It was not created from a theoretical model of how a stone company should operate. It developed through daily use on real projects.
That experience eventually became the foundation for a new generation of the technology.
From AGM System to StoneEx System
StoneEx System carries those lessons forward in a modern platform designed for businesses across the stone industry.
The principle behind it remains simple:
Information should follow the work.
Measurements, drawings, approvals, schedules, materials, project decisions and field information should remain connected as a project moves from one stage to another.
For Absolute GM, this means technology is not a separate layer added on top of the project. It supports the way information moves through the work — from the first project details through templating, coordination, fabrication and installation.
Digital Workflow in Practice
A stone project moves through several different environments before installation is complete.
Measurements are captured in the field. Digital information is used to prepare and refine drawings. Project details and approvals may change. Fabrication information must reach the people and equipment responsible for producing the finished pieces. Installation teams then need the correct information when the work reaches the jobsite.
Digital templating, drawings and DXF data help carry accurate geometry from the field into the fabrication process.
Where CNC equipment is used, digital fabrication data can continue into machine-assisted production, reducing unnecessary manual transfer of information between stages.
But the technology is not only about moving geometry from a measuring device to a machine.
The larger objective is to keep the project information connected around that process — drawings, revisions, schedules, materials, approvals, communication and field information — so that the people responsible for the next stage have the information they need.
That is the practical idea behind the principle:
Information should follow the work.
Built From Real Experience
Absolute GM remains part of the real operating experience behind the continuing development of StoneEx System.
The system benefits from seeing what happens outside a software demonstration: revised drawings, changing schedules, material decisions, field conditions, customer communication and the many small details that determine whether a project moves smoothly or becomes more complicated than it should.
That connection between technology and actual stone operations has been part of the idea from the beginning.
StoneEx System is now being developed for the broader stone industry, while the experience behind Absolute GM continues to provide a practical understanding of the work the technology is intended to support.
The Full Story
The history behind StoneEx extends from the first automation tools developed in 2004, through AGM System, to the modern StoneEx System being built today.