Success Stories

Common challenges manufacturers face with technical drawings

Manufacturing teams across industries struggle with the same fundamental bottlenecks when processing technical drawings:

  • Time-consuming manual processes: Engineers spend hours reading PDFs, transcribing dimensions, and interpreting GD&T by hand
  • Data extraction errors: Manual reading leads to missed tolerances, incorrect materials, and costly rework downstream
  • Inconsistent feasibility checks: RFQ triage varies by engineer experience, creating margin risk and delayed decisions
  • Bottlenecked quoting workflows: Drawing interpretation becomes the limiting factor in competitive response times

See how leading manufacturers solved these challenges with automated PMI extraction: