Trillions in manufactured goods begin as engineering drawings — the source of truth for materials, processes, tolerances, and cost. Today that intelligence is locked in PDFs, invisible to every enterprise system.
SourceOptima reads them at scale and structures what it finds into procurement savings, design reviews, supplier strategies, and tariff classifications — ranked by dollar impact. No ERP integration to start. Results in 30 days.
Large manufacturers procure the same kinds of parts independently at every location. A mill-turn titanium part bought from one supplier has no visibility to a near-identical part bought from another — different prices, no shared intelligence. In one pilot category alone, we surfaced 80 opportunities worth €3.6M–€5.8M in annual savings.
Same parts. Different suppliers. Different prices. No way to see across silos.
Parts grouped into 93 manufacturing families by process × material × size — turning stainless steel small, milling aluminum medium, mill-turn titanium micro. Volume leverage and consolidation opportunities surface immediately.
SourceOptima reads the same engineering artifacts and turns them into decision-grade outputs for both teams — without making either one choose which to care about first.
SourceOptima reads CAD/PDF drawings the way a senior engineer would — GD&T, tolerances, materials, threads, assemblies — and turns that into a continuous design-for-X check across your whole portfolio.
We classify every component by its real manufacturing requirements — turning, milling, mill-turn, forming, casting — then cross-reference against what you're actually paying. The output is an interactive savings dashboard with four views:
Five steps from raw engineering archive to dollar-denominated action — typically 30 days to first deliverable.
Drop in the drawing repository as-is — ZIP, RAR, 7z, nested folders. We handle 100K+ files without IT involvement.
AI reads each drawing — process, material, tolerance, geometry, GD&T, threads, secondary ops — into structured data.
Every part lands on a manufacturing taxonomy: process > complexity > size > material > tolerance band.
Modular AI plays run sourcing-mismatch, supplier intelligence, cost benchmarking, tariff, and design review over the structured set.
An interactive procurement dashboard — like the live demo — plus per-stakeholder workbooks ranked by dollar impact.
Each play is a self-contained analysis module that runs over your structured drawing data. Turn them on as you need them — no re-implementation, no re-ingest.
Tolerance stacks, GD&T compliance, missing dimensions, BOM mismatches, weight verification.
HTS code prediction from the drawing itself — material, geometry, function — with engineering-grade rationale.
Algorithmic savings identification — negotiation leverage, sole-source risk, consolidation, quick wins — from drawings + purchase history. See it live.
Capability profiles built from delivery history. Who actually makes what, concentration risk, tail-spend visibility, and consolidation targets — all in one network view.
"Modifying this hole diameter affects 4 downstream assemblies and 12 active ECOs." Drawings → consequences.
Process > complexity > size > material > tolerance band. Sourcing categories grouped by what parts actually need.
"You're designing a bracket 98% similar to an existing part." Cuts new tooling cost and qualification cycles.
Ask in plain English: "show me parts designed in the last 6 months with yield below 90%." Get a clean executive answer.
CoLab reviews drawings. Werk24 extracts drawing data. aPriori models cost. Teamcenter manages the digital thread. SourceOptima connects the engineering artifact directly to the business decision.— the SourceOptima difference
Built for messy real-world archives — old PDFs, mixed languages, scanned title blocks. The platform is tested on hundreds of thousands of files.
Each capability is a self-contained module. Add tariff today, supplier intelligence next quarter — no re-ingest, no re-build.
First-round value comes from drawing archives plus a purchase-history export — no IT war required to get going. ERP, PLM, and supplier-system integrations expand the platform's reach on your timeline, not as a prerequisite.
Acquisitions create exactly the fragmentation we resolve. Specific tooling for namespace reconciliation across legacy PLM and ERP.