DISCUS IDA™ is a powerful evolution in manufacturing and quality engineering software solutions. It represents the next generation of tools for reading all the information in a drawing and generating full, compliant, and appropriate documentation.
IDA™ stands out from other software addressing the same need because of its intelligent nature. Through artificial intelligence (AI), IDA™ is laying the groundwork to make the information extraction process almost completely automated. The IDA™ technology framework enables the automated extraction of much more technical data contained in the 2D engineering drawing, requiring less attention from your personnel while also providing better results.
AI tools empower IDA™ to improve over time. Based on usage and feedback when an exception arises, IDA™ can improve its performance, creating greater accuracy and time savings in the future. With a better understanding of what sets IDA™ apart from similar solutions, let’s take a closer look at its benefits.
Increased speed
Our current OCR offering cuts down on the amount of time needed compared to the manual process. One drawing we tested was 40 minutes for OCR versus two hours manually. The time savings you can realize with IDA™ are even more impressive: the same drawing can be completed in about 5 minutes.
That timeline is all the more notable because IDA™ is continuously evolving. Future releases of IDA™ will automatically capture the bill of documents, bill of materials, default tolerances, and other pertinent information.
The speed at which IDA™ operates cuts down on lead times as well, helping to reduce backlog and keeping review and inspection processes running smoothly.
Reduced need for human involvement, lower potential for human error
When your staff members use IDA™, they take on a more supervisory role as compared to the amount of hands-on, direct work required by other tools. They complete a simplified workflow, requiring only a few clicks of their mouse.
After running IDA™, a set of candidate characteristics is presented to the user for review. This review process puts skilled professionals in a role where they can excel — ensuring quality and catching the rare discrepancy that may arise.
Even the most talented and experienced staff can cause errors when they manually review and annotate a drawing. The tedious and repetitive nature of the process works against them. With IDA™, these errors are greatly reduced.
Enhanced precision
Automating the documentation process with AI supports more accurate results. This benefit emerges through the solution both mitigating the potential for human error and by continually enhancing its own capabilities. IDA™ outperforms OCR and many other options when identifying and reporting the details found in a 2D engineering drawing, and your company can count on it evolving and improving as time goes on.
DISCUS Software is the market leader in manufacturing and quality engineering software. We invented the first tools to address First Article Inspection and continue to innovate as the market leader.
IDA™ is one of the most transformative solutions we’ve ever developed, and we want you to take full advantage of its ability to address key pain points and broadly improve workflows related to drawing analysis, review, and reporting.
To learn more about implementing IDA™ in your organization, get in touch with our team to schedule your demo at (614) 360-2424 ext.1 or email [email protected].