Leverage Past Drawings for New Design Innovations

Quickly access and reference historical drawings with a single click to streamline the design process with CADDi Drawer. Improve accuracy and reduce design time by building on past assets
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Engineering

Key Features: Your Search, Your Value

Digitization of Drawings

Batch Scan
Simplify the management of manufacturing data by bulk uploading all 2D drawings and crucial quality documents, like defect reports, into a unified central system
Automatically Digitize
Extract all data from drawings and quality defect reports, including causes and types of past quality defects. Make even handwritten drawings and documents from 30 years ago searchable and comparable
Shape Analysis
Our proprietary technology discerns each part’s shape, enabling a search for similar designs across all historical drawings
Digitization of Drawings
Keyword Search

Keyword Search

Keyword Search
Search through the entire archive of historical drawings using any keyword found on the drawings, such as material, size, designers name, part name, and annotations
Highlight Text
Highlight all keywords within the drawings to facilitate an efficient and effective keyword search process
Tag Drawings
Tag the drawings to then make them searchable

Similarity Search

Leverage Past Similar Designs
Maximize design efficiency by accessing and reusing past similar designs
Design Standardization
Accelerate and streamline the design standardization process with CADDi Drawer’s similarity search function
Design Review Optimization
Streamline design reviews with CADDi Drawer by easily comparing current projects to historical ones with quality, cost, and delivery related data
Similarity Search
Connect Supply-Chain Data to Drawings

Connect Supply-Chain Data to Drawings

Connect Cost and Supplier Data
Enhance searches by linking all procurement data, including suppliers and costs, directly to the associated drawings
Connect Quality Defect Reports
Integrate all quality-related data with drawings, turning them into design improvement insights in design review process
Connect with PLM and PDM
Combine data from different systems such as ERP and PLM/PDM

Difference Identification

Design Review Enhancement
Automatically identify differences between original and updated drawings in design review process
Difference Highlights
Quickly detect and emphasize distinctions between two similar drawings or revisions with just one click, simplifying the identification of changes and updates
Difference Identification

Empowering Engineering with Real ROI Through CADDi Drawer

Engineering teams face unique challenges, from managing design timeline to optimizing costs of projects. Key benefits of using CADDi Drawer include:
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Search Time Reduction
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Faster Design
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Cost Reduction by VAVE
Case Study: Sumitomo Riko

Enhancing Development Speed in the Face of Accelerating Global Competition

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Early Access to Past Issues and Cost Benchmarking
Engineers can easily obtain information on past problems and manufacturing costs linked to drawings in the early stages of product design.
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Eliminating Person-Dependent Processes
CADDi Drawer helped reduce reliance on individual knowledge for finding similar drawings and designing products.
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Reduction in Time for Searching Drawings
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Design Productivity
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Improvement in Defect Rate
Transforming Development Processes to Create New "Value"
Case Study: Ebara Corporation

From “Drawing Management” to “Drawing Utilization”

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Enabled Higher-Value Procurement Activities through Rapid Drawing Search
CADDi Drawer reduced drawing search time from hours to seconds, enabling more productive work.
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Enhanced Supplier Evaluation and Selection
Easily compare prices and identify suitable suppliers by linking drawing and purchasing data.
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Reduction in Time for Searching Drawings
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Design Productivity
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Improvement in Defect Rate
Achieving Optimal Procurement by Leveraging Hidden Data
Case Study: Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing

Unlocking the Potential of Hidden Drawings and Purchasing Data

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Accelerated Similar Drawing Retrieval
CADDi Drawer enables instant access to similar drawings, streamlining design and procurement processes.
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Optimized Supplier Selection
By linking drawings with order data, suitable suppliers are easily identified for each part.
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Reduction in Time for Searching Drawings
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Design Productivity
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Improvement in Defect Rate
Achieving long-abandoned cost reductions
Case Study: Hilltop

Accelerating Company-Wide Digital Transformation with CADDi Drawer

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Tripled Utilization of Past Drawings
Despite high-mix production of 4,000 varieties per month, significantly reduced search time led to increased referencing of past drawings and data.
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Improved Sales Proposal Capabilities
Sales can create better proposals by benchmarking past quotation and order prices, and properly considering differences with similar parts.
30
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Reduction in Time for Searching Drawings
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Design Productivity
15
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Improvement in Defect Rate
Overcoming Limitations of In-House System Development
Assetize your drawings and supply chain data

See how CADDi Drawer can help simplify your workflows

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