Kuken Industries searches 70 years of drawings in minutes
OpenAI
Kuken Industries uses OpenAI-powered search to quickly find replacement part drawings from 70 years of archives.Summary
Kuken Industries, a Japanese manufacturer of cooling towers, has a 70-year archive of engineering drawings that engineers previously struggled to search, often relying on experienced colleagues. To enable engineers at all levels to search independently, Kuken partnered with AI startup Recursive and OpenAI to build a search system and field app. The app allows engineers to search by part number, upload images or PDFs of drawings, and find matching drawings, reducing search time by about 90% annually. This frees up time for mentoring and independent work, and Kuken is also prototyping an AI tool to check partner drawings, with about 90% of flagged issues being genuine discrepancies.
(Source：OpenAI)