Intelligent Part Library with Drawing Analysis

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QualityEngineer.ai gives you a centralized part library with revision tracking, automated drawing analysis, and manufacturing context that the document generator pulls from the selected part. Upload an engineering drawing and AI extracts characteristics, tolerances, GD&T callouts, the material specification, and process notes. Model assemblies with parent and child part relationships, place balloons on the drawing that map to extracted features and carry their numbers onto inspection forms, and generate process flows, PFMEAs, control plans, and inspection forms from the active revision's characteristic list without re-entering data.

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Capabilities

What Part Library does

Revision Management

Track part revisions through draft, active, and superseded status, with change notes and a full revision list. Every revision is timestamped, and the creating user is stored with it. When a new revision is activated, the previously active revision is marked superseded. Documents generated from a part in the Build module are linked to the revision that was active when they were generated, and that link stays with the document.

AI Drawing Analysis

Upload engineering drawings as PDF, PNG, JPG, or TIFF and AI extracts characteristics, tolerances, GD&T callouts, the material specification, and process notes. Review the result and create the part from it, and the extracted characteristics become the revision's characteristic list. AI flags SC, CC, and key characteristics, captures surface finish callouts as characteristics, and records the material specification from the title block.

Parent/Child Assemblies

Model assemblies with parent and child part relationships, several levels deep. Link sub-components to top-level assemblies, upload a batch of drawings straight into an assembly, and roll up first article status across the whole tree. Batch document generation runs across any set of up to 20 parts you select. Assembly structures provide the BOM context that quality documents need for traceability.

Balloon Linking

Visual balloon numbers on engineering drawings linked to extracted features for inspection form generation. Balloons are placed from the extraction or by hand, saved as soon as they are placed, and stay editable: relink, renumber, or delete them. When you generate an inspection form, balloon numbers carry through to the inspector portal and the AS9102 Form 3 export, so inspectors can trace each measurement back to the drawing on screen. No more manually numbering characteristics in a spreadsheet.

Manufacturing Context Engine

Set a process type and attach reference documents such as material specs, weld specs, and customer requirements to each part. When you generate a document, the generator pre-fills the applicable standards from the part's process type and from the customer profile, along with the customer's requirements, so process flows, FMEAs, and control plans reflect the actual manufacturing environment. You can change the selection for each document.

Document Generation Integration

Generate process flow diagrams, process FMEAs, control plans, and inspection forms from the part library without re-entering data. When a part revision changes through an engineering change, the linked PFMEA and control plan receive proposed updates that you approve into a new document version, and any document can be generated again against the new revision.

Who does what

Drawing intelligence: the software prepares, an engineer decides.

Prepared by the software

  • Extracts dimensional characteristics, tolerances, and GD&T callouts from uploaded engineering drawings in PDF, PNG, JPG, or TIFF
  • Reads the material specification from the title block, and heat treatment, surface finish, plating, and coating requirements from the notes
  • Flags SC, CC, and key (diamond) characteristics from the symbols marked on the drawing
  • Carries the prior revision's inspection forms onto a new revision and shows which characteristics were added, removed, or changed, such as nominal, limits, classification, balloon number, or gauge
  • Recommends a gauge, its resolution, and a sample size for each extracted characteristic from its type, tolerance band, and GD&T, using fixed rules rather than a model

Decided by an engineer

  • Approves or rejects each document change the software proposes from a corrective action or an engineering change, before it is applied
  • Approves, rejects, or waives each PPAP element, and approves or rejects the submission
  • Approves NCR dispositions and signs off each corrective action
  • Signs control plans, PFMEAs, and other title-block documents by role, and enters the authorized signature on the warrant

Signed in the app: typed signature, name, date

Workflow

How it works

  1. 01Create a part record with part number, name, and revision
  2. 02Upload the engineering drawing, and AI extracts characteristics, tolerances, GD&T, and the material specification
  3. 03Review the extraction, save it to the part, then edit, add, or remove characteristics and link balloons on the drawing
  4. 04Set manufacturing context: process type, reference documents, and the customer whose requirements apply
  5. 05Model assembly structure by linking child parts to parent assemblies for BOM traceability
  6. 06Generate process flows, PFMEAs, control plans, and inspection forms from the active revision

Use cases

Built for engineering and quality teams who need part data to flow into quality documents

  • Quality engineers who spend hours manually keying drawing characteristics into inspection forms, control plans, and capability study templates
  • Design engineers managing part revisions across multiple programs who need a structured system with status tracking and change history
  • Manufacturing engineers defining process types, operation sequences, and tooling requirements that need to flow into PFMEAs and control plans
  • Document control teams maintaining part libraries across shared drives who need revision control, supersedure tracking, and audit trails
  • NPI teams launching new parts who need to rapidly extract characteristics from drawings and generate initial quality documentation for PPAP submissions
  • Contract manufacturers receiving customer drawings who need to build their own part library and generate the quality documents their customer asks for

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What file formats are supported for drawing uploads?
PDF and image formats (PNG, JPG, TIFF) are supported for AI drawing analysis, up to 50 MB per file. A PDF exported from CAD is the preferred format, since it gives the cleanest read. For image files, higher resolution produces better results. If you already keep a part list in a spreadsheet, you can import it from a CSV or Excel file with part number, name, revision, process type, and customer columns.
How accurate is the AI characteristic extraction?
Extraction accuracy depends on drawing quality and format. Clean, text-based PDFs with standard GD&T notation produce the best results. When you create a part from a drawing, the extraction is shown as a summary and nothing is saved until you click Create with Features. After that, you edit, add, or remove characteristics on the part's active revision. Balloons placed on an uploaded drawing are saved right away, and you can relink, renumber, or delete them. Think of the extraction as a first draft to review, not a finished record.
Can I model multi-level BOMs with parent-child relationships?
Yes. Parts can be linked in parent-child relationships to model assembly structures. A top-level assembly can have multiple child parts, and child parts can themselves have children for multi-level BOMs. You can upload a batch of drawings straight into an assembly, and roll up first article status from each sub-component to the top assembly for an AS9102 package. Batch document generation runs across any set of up to 20 parts you select.
How does part data flow into PPAP document generation?
When you pick a part in the Build module, the generator uses the active revision's characteristics and tolerances as the drawing data, fills in the part's process type, and pre-fills the applicable standards, customer requirements, and reference documents, which you can change for that document. The AI model drafts the process flow, PFMEA, control plan, or inspection plan from that data, so you do not key the characteristics in again, and you review the draft before anyone signs it.
What happens when a part revision changes?
A new revision starts as a draft, copied from the active revision along with its inspection forms. When you activate it, the previously active revision is marked superseded. By default, activation waits while an engineering change has proposed PFMEA or control plan updates for that revision, until you approve, reject, or defer them, or choose to activate anyway. Documents already generated stay linked to the revision they were generated from, and you can generate them again against the new revision. The full revision list is kept for audit traceability.

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