Engineering systems integration

Connect engineering decisions from CAD through ERP, documents, and reporting.

CAD Guardian connects CAD, PDM, PLM, ERP, estimating, APIs, documents, reporting, and internal applications so engineering data can move without repeated entry or hidden handoffs.

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Systems: CAD, PDM/PLM, ERP, RFQ, document, API, and reporting platforms
Controls: Source of truth, state, identity, validation, and ownership
starting point: One record or artifact moving between two systems
Handoff: Contracts, logs, reconciliation, runbook, and support owner

Implementation diagramEngineering systems integration map

The integration boundary follows the engineering decision and its owners across systems, records, and documents.

Operating problem

The same engineering fact exists in several systems with different owners.

Part numbers, project data, configuration choices, revisions, costs, documents, and approval states often diverge as they move between tools. Integration must make ownership and uncertainty visible rather than silently copy conflicting data.

Repeated re-entry between CAD, PDM, ERP, quoting, and reporting
Conflicting field values and unclear source-of-truth rules
File-based handoffs with limited status or auditability
Integrations that fail without usable logs or reconciliation
Automation that crosses a review or approval boundary without control

Service scope

Design the integration around records, decisions, and failure handling.

Source and target ownership
Field, file, API, event, and job contracts
Identity, permissions, environment, and deployment boundaries
Validation, reconciliation, retry, and exception behavior
User-visible status, logs, notifications, and audit evidence
Support ownership and rollback path

Deliverables

An integration boundary the business and technical teams can inspect.

Architecture: System, record, interface, and ownership map
Contracts: Payload, field, file, state, and error definitions
Validation: Reconciliation and exception evidence
Operations: Deployment, logging, support, and rollback runbook

Delivery process

Prove one handoff before building a broad integration program.

01 — Trace one record or artifact across the current systems.
02 — Assign source-of-truth and decision ownership.
03 — Define the interface, validation, and failure contract.
04 — Implement and reconcile a bounded production-shaped slice.
05 — Handoff monitoring, support, rollback, and expansion criteria.

Relevant implementation

Integration proof is tied to visible contracts and review boundaries.

The public case library shows generalized patterns across quote records, CAD output, workflow state, cloud job orchestration, data validation, documents, and reporting. Customer credentials, private endpoints, and proprietary payloads remain protected.

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Engagement fit

Start with one handoff whose failure is visible to the operating team.

CAD-to-PDM or PDM-to-ERP data handoff
RFQ, configuration, costing, and document workflow
Batch CAD job intake, status, output, and review
Engineering application APIs and data services
Reporting and audit visibility across technical systems

Engineering systems implementationManufacturing

Turn quoting into a governed path from RFQ intake to engineering handoff.

The problem was not simply replacing Excel. The useful rules and operator knowledge had to survive while request quality, configuration state, documents, status, and responsibility became easier to inspect.

14 delivered desktop applications

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Engineering systems implementationManufacturing

Convert assembly state into classified BOMs, DXFs, labels, and release-ready packets.

Production preparation required the same assembly state to be interpreted separately for BOMs, flat patterns, DXFs, labels, lists, and package collection.

3,000+ role-wide drawings

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Engineering systems implementationManufacturing

Carry material-handling assemblies from CAD through fabrication output and plant support.

Assemblies, drawings, BOMs, DXFs, revisions, devices, users, and support were connected even when the organization treated them as separate functions.

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Next step

Bring one record, file, or decision that crosses two systems.

Name the current source, target, owner, failure mode, expected result, security boundary, and examples available later for controlled review.

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