CADDi Drawer Demos its System from Engineer’s Perspective

Sept. 5, 2024
Chris Brown, vice president of sales at CADDi Drawer, walks us through a demo as though he were an engineer working on an assembly.

Designed to reduce procurement costs for manufacturers by reducing pricing inconsistencies and consolidating suppliers for optimal sourcing, the CADDi Drawer tool automatically extracts all data from drawings, including dimensions, texts and shape. It also can convert handwritten drawings to be searchable and comparable. 

In this demo at Automate 2024, we learn that CADDi Drawer uses metadata to find similar parts in the library, reducing the need to create new parts while helping to improve economies of scale.

“We know that design standardization across an assembly and across all of our products helps to lower our procurement costs and make all of our MRO [maintenance, repair and operations] work a lot more efficient,” Brown said.

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Sharon Spielman | Technical Editor, Machine Design
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Sharon Spielman | Technical Editor, Machine Design

As Machine Design’s technical editor, Sharon Spielman produces content for the brand’s focus audience—design and multidisciplinary engineers. Her beat includes 3D printing/CAD; mechanical and motion systems, with an emphasis on pneumatics and linear motion; automation; robotics; and CNC machining.

Spielman has more than three decades of experience as a writer and editor for a range of B2B brands, including those that cover machine design; electrical design and manufacturing; interconnection technology; food and beverage manufacturing; process heating and cooling; finishing; and package converting.

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