Executive brief — Theegarten-Pactec pilot (customer-safe)¶
RapidDraft · May 2026 · For engineering leadership
Your stated priorities¶
Theegarten-Pactec engineers mechanical and electrical product data in SOLIDWORKS and EPLAN, consolidated in CIM Database as the central PLM. You are exploring AI to improve drawings and bills of materials, technical process standardization, and engineering data quality — under strict requirements for design know-how protection, cybersecurity, and employee trust in day-to-day use.
You expect solutions that integrate into existing workflows, support traceable and consistent processes, and respect machinery-regulation and functional-safety contexts — with transparent, reviewable outputs rather than black-box automation.
Proposed pilot wedge¶
We propose a focused pilot:
AI-assisted release check for a modified machine module
Before a change package is released in CIM Database, RapidDraft reviews the released drawing and BOM package against your rules and cross-discipline consistency checks (including electrical references where available). The system produces traceable findings — each linked to a drawing zone, BOM line, or PLM object — and a draft change summary for engineer review.
Engineers remain responsible for approval. CIM Database stays the system of record.
This addresses your priority topics: data quality, design-error prevention, traceability, and drawings/BOM processing — without replacing PLM or CAD tools.
Integration approach¶
| Phase | Scope |
|---|---|
| Discovery | Confirm CIM Database deployment (on-prem/cloud), API access, and release workflow |
| Pilot integration | Trigger on workflow state; read parts, projects, and released documents via CONTACT REST/Catalyst patterns; return a linked review report |
| Expansion | Broader change-management checks, terminology standardization, knowledge retrieval — scoped in SOW |
We will align technically with CONTACT’s documented REST/OpenAPI and integration platform, and validate tenant-specific endpoints with your IT and CONTACT as needed.
Deployment & trust commitments (honest scope)¶
For industrial OEM environments we prioritize a controlled environment:
- Customer-controlled hosting (on-premises or private cloud/VPC) for analysis and optional local knowledge indexes
- No reuse of your specific engineering data, embeddings, or trained artifacts outside your approved project boundary
- No training on your data for other customers unless explicitly agreed in writing
- Human-in-the-loop release: no automatic PLM state changes in the pilot
- Audit-friendly logs: findings tied to document revision; engineer decisions recorded
Detailed subprocessors, model-routing options, and retention policies will be documented in the Pilot Agreement / DPA to match your IT review.
Suggested next steps¶
- Technical discovery session (60 min): deployment model, CIM Database integration path, sample module for pilot
- Pilot SOW: one machine module family, 8–12 weeks, success metrics (release review time, pre-release findings, engineer acceptance)
- CONTACT alignment: joint clarification of API scope for released objects and report write-back
- Controlled-environment deployment for pilot execution
Contact: info@rapiddraft.ai · LOI effective 26.05.2026
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