Finding a spare-part drawing: 4.5 minutes instead of an hour
In brief
According to OpenAI, Kuken Industries put in place a tool based on the OpenAI API to look up drawings across 70 years of files. Staff now locate a replacement-part drawing in 4.5 minutes, compared with almost one hour before. OpenAI reports a projected 90 percent drop in annual hours spent on that search.
Source : OpenAI - « Kuken Industries searches 70 years of drawings in minutes »
What it changes for an SME
If you keep large archives of technical drawings, a similar tool could cut the time staff spend hunting for a part. OpenAI's account does not state the cost, the work needed to prepare the files, or where the data is processed. For an SME of 10 to 250 people in Europe, industrial secrecy, GDPR and the EU AI Act turn on those missing points. Time savings only materialise if your drawings are already in a usable digital form.
What you can do
- Estimate how many hours your teams spend each week looking for technical drawings or files.
- Check whether those archives are digitised and who can access them.
- Ask where files go if you trial a tool that calls an external API.
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