Automating the Validation Process for Engineering Drawings
Our customer designs and manufactures FPSOs – complex offshore facilities for extracting and processing hydrocarbons at sea. Each project can involve 7,000 – 20,000 engineering drawings, all of which requires senior engineers to manually validate them for accuracy, compliance, and downstream usability. This process is resource – intensive, error-prone, and carries the risk of costly redesigns.
Alumnus built a solution to automate the drawing validation process. The solution utilizes computational geometric algorithms and rule engines to detect errors.
Key Features
The core complexity of the project was to devise rules that precisely describe the mapping between a set of coordinates (which describes a geometric shape) to a real-life object, while also ensuring continuity across multi-sheet drawings.
The solution enabled better utilization of senior engineers, reduced turnaround time, and caught expensive design errors early – delivering significant productivity and quality gains for the customer.
