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Automated CAD marking prep replaces an 8-hour weekly manual task
Anonymous manufacturing case · Production Engineering
Before laser marking, one person opened each CAD file by hand and placed the part or project number themselves — a task the process owner reports at roughly 8 hours a week. The system now detects ready work by itself and proposes a spatially valid marking position.
Result
The programmer reviews one traceable result per list instead of building every marking by hand; the actual time saved has not yet been measured in production.
Before Cognima
- Manually open each CAD file and judge the correct marking face
- Hand-place the part/project number, checking clearance to holes and bends
With Cognima
- Ready work is detected automatically from ERP and project signals
- Marking geometry is placed automatically within validated safety limits
- Delivery model
- Desktop-first operator workbench
- Human oversight
- Programmer verifies every result in CAD/CAM first
- Data & IP
- Source CAD files stay read-only throughout