Instant Bill of Material Extraction for Complex Engineering Projects
Material planning depends on accurate information from engineering drawings. Scinotic developed an application that extracts Bill of Material data from complex drawings in less than a minute per drawing, helping engineering teams move from design to procurement faster.
The Challenge
Weeks of work hidden inside engineering drawings.
For piping projects, pharmaceutical equipment manufacturing and process engineering, preparing a Bill of Material can involve manually extracting and counting information across thousands of isometric and CAD drawings.
The process described in this case study could take more than a month for a batch of up to 2,000 drawings. This delayed procurement planning, held up project preparation and tied engineering teams to repetitive data entry.
The Solution
Turning complex drawings into usable material data.
Scinotic introduced a custom application that reads complex engineering drawings and automatically generates a comprehensive Bill of Material.
What previously required weeks of manual counting and data entry can now be processed in less than a minute per drawing.
The Impact
Faster material planning. Earlier project readiness.
Under one minute per drawing: Accelerate Bill of Material extraction.
Earlier procurement planning: Help teams estimate costs and plan material orders sooner.
Fewer manual counting risks: Reduce the risk of errors associated with manual data entry.
Greater project capacity: Help engineering and procurement teams handle more concurrent work without proportionally increasing administrative effort.
By removing a time-consuming step between design and procurement, Scinotic helps teams move projects forward with greater speed and clarity.
