Extracting Post Processing Steps from Technical Drawings

Do you need to conveniently categorize and locate mechanical components for Post-Processing Steps? 

Werk24 has the perfect solution for you! Just upload all the drawings on our API and grab a coffee to watch how Werk24 will deliver you a comprehensive report, categorizing all your components and suggesting the best methods for post-processing by extracting these information from Technical Drawings.  

Manufacturing of a mechanical component is completed when the post-processing steps are performed. These processes are crucial to achieve proper functioning of the part, ease of assembly, durability, and physical appearance.  

One might think it’s easy to read these post-processing steps on a drawing using an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Technology but reading them automatically is real challenge. In the manufacturing industry, there are a variety of post-processing procedures. They might vary greatly depending on the conditions, methods, and units used in the measurement. Moreover, there is no standardized location for these methods on an Engineering Drawing, which makes it even more difficult to identify and locate them in a categorization. Werk24’s Artificial Intelligence learns every day and extracts these post-processing methods from a technical drawing.  

Werk24 categorizes Post-Processing Steps as follows:  

• Cleaning               

• Polishing              

• Painting                

• Plating  

• Heat treatment   

Our Product Owners can extract all the post-processing steps from the drawing and use this information in several ways. For example, getting an estimate of the number of components that need a post-processing step, the number of methods needs to be applied, categorizing components that can be grouped together to optimize utilization of the machines.  

Here is an example showing the complexities involved in reading a heat treatment step. The required Post Processing Step is: “Hardened and Tempered 440HV30/20”, which means the part should be hardened followed by a tempering step by the following parameters to be achieved or maintained:  

1. 440 is the hardness number

2. HV gives the hardness scale (Vickers) 

3. 30 indicates the load used in kgf.

4. 20 indicates the loading time 

Werk24 can read through thousands of the drawings in your archive and provide you with a detailed report categorizing all the parts according to the Post-Processing Steps. This can save a great amount of time needed to go through for each drawing!