Kynea AI Solution: T-Square

Kynea AI Solution: T-Square

What is T-Square?

T-Square is an Engineering Drawing Analysis solution.

It leverages the power of AI and helps drive productivity.

What is Engineering Drawing Analysis?

Engineering Drawing Analysis is the process of examining and interpreting technical drawings to ensure accuracy and compliance with specifications.

Engineering drawings communicate critical design ideas and technical information throughout the design to delivery/production process.

It ensures that designs meet specified requirements and can be manufactured as intended.

Engineering Drawings in a complex engineering projects.

A complex engineering project or assembly may have thousands or hundreds of thousands of drawings.

While these drawings are created from sophisticated 3D models, before embarking on fabrication or assembly, the drawings are usually verified by a team of engineers to ensure clarity, consistency, and accuracy.

This process typically involves checking for errors, discrepancies, and adherence to industry standards.

Key activities in the Engineering Drawing analysis process?

The process of review and verification includes a wide range of highly time-consuming processes.

Some of the key activities include generation of BOM & BOQ, and comparison of various revisions of drawings to identify changes made, and understand their cost impact.

Additionally, it involves validating design intent, checking for compliance with industry standards, and ensuring all components are accurately represented.

What is planned retrofit or upgrade in engineering drawing analysis?

A planned retrofit or upgrade in engineering drawing analysis refers to the process of updating existing drawings and specifications to incorporate new design elements or improvements.

This ensures that the updated documents reflect current standards and operational requirements, enabling effective implementation in projects.

In case of planned retrofit or upgrade, engineers manually comb through old drawings to identify appropriate ones, and then start the redesign process.

These processes are highly manual and can benefit greatly from the introduction of Computer Vision & AI into the process.

This process can streamline the review and updating of drawings, reducing time and increasing accuracy.

Key application of T-Square in: Drawing Comparision

For an Engineering firm, construction drawings are verified by multiple teams (design teams, engineers, end customer).

Changes are made along the way, and it is difficult to track such changes.

The key application of T-Square in drawing comparison is its capability to streamline the verification process by automatically identifying changes across various versions of drawings, highlighting differences, and providing an intuitive interface for easier validation and reporting.

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• Automatically identify all changes across versions, and highlight the differences.

• Intuitive interface for verification of differences across versions & generate a report.

• Saves hundreds of hours for complex projects.

Key application of T-Square in: BOM & BOQ GENERATION

The key application of T-Square in BOM & BOQ generation is its ability to automate the extraction of component data from engineering drawings, ensuring accurate quantities and specifications are compiled.

This streamlines the process, reduces the potential for human error, and enhances productivity in project planning.

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• Generate consolidated BOM by combing through parent & child drawings, and notes.

• Identify key elements within complex drawings, and generate BOM and BOQ.

• Weld volume calculation.

Key application of T-Square in: DRAWING KnowledgeBase

Firms upgrade existing plants, built several years ago by a different company.

Engineers go through hundreds of drawings to identify the right drawings during the modification of design process.

T-Square: facilitates efficient retrieval of relevant engineering drawings, enhancing the design modification process.

• Scans digitized drawings, identifies key information in all drawings including text and images in various views.

• Creates a searchable database that quickly pinpoints and identifies the right set of drawings and parameters.

Technology behind T-Square?

The technology behind T-Square involves advanced algorithms and machine learning to analyze and interpret engineering drawings.

It utilizes image recognition and data extraction techniques to automate the verification, BOM generation, and drawing retrieval processes, thereby improving efficiency and reducing errors.

• Uses complex image processing and AI algorithms to deliver high accuracy

• Leverages existing AutoCAD files

• Highly flexible to address a variety of applications and enhance the overall productivity of engineering workflows.

Who are the typical users for T-Sqare?

Typical users of T-Square include engineers, project managers, and designers across various industries such as construction, manufacturing, and civil engineering, who require efficient management of engineering drawings and data.

• Engineering, Procurement & Construction firms (EPC)

• Fabricators

• Engineering Design firm

How is T-Square implemented?

• On-prem, or on-cloud

• Integrates with your applications

to facilitate seamless drawing management and retrieval, ensuring that users can access and utilize engineering drawings effectively.

Summary of T-Square

T-Square is an Engineering Drawing analysis solution that employs patent pending AI algorithms to:

• Analyze intricate engineering drawings;

• Generate BOM;

• Provide accurate cost estimates, and detect differences;

• Drives precision, accuracy in costing, and saves time.

What are some use cases of T-Square?

Some use cases of T-Square include:

• Streamlining the management of engineering drawings,

• Automating the generation of Bill of Materials (BOM),

• Cost estimation, and

• Comparing design variants to improve project accuracy and efficiency.

Use cases:

• BOM generation,

• Digital twin,

• Change management.

What is a digital twin? How does T-Square help in creating digital twin?

A digital twin is a virtual model that accurately reflects a physical object or system in real-time.

T-Square helps in creating digital twins by providing precise analysis of engineering drawings and integrating data to create a comprehensive digital representation.

This enables real-time monitoring and simulation of the physical counterpart, ensuring informed decision-making and optimized performance.

What are some Industries that can use T-Square?

Industry:

• Defence,

• Aerospace,

• Automotive,

• Ship building,

• Railways

What pain points does T-Square address?

T-Square addresses pain points such as challenges in maintaining accuracy and consistency in design information.

We recognize the challenges inherent in manual assessment of engineering drawings to estimate project costs, and managing revisions effectively.

People intensive methods often lead to inaccuracies, time inefficiencies, and missed opportunities to incorporate valuable client feedback.

T-Square addresses these pain points by leveraging our patent-pending techniques in AI to streamline the process and enhance collaboration, ensuring that all stakeholders have access to up-to-date information and reducing the overall time required for revisions.

When seemingly small changes in drawings can move project costs by millions of dollars or more, T-Square is your answer!

🚄 Scenario: Designing a New Railway Bridge

Imagine you're working on a railway bridge design as part of a high-speed rail expansion project. This bridge needs to support trains moving at 250 km/h, over a river, in a region with complex terrain.

🔧 Problem: A Small Design Change with Big Consequences

Let’s say the original design specifies steel girders with a specific cross-section. But then, a small change is made—maybe someone updates the drawing to increase the girder thickness by just 10mm, thinking it’s safer.

Seems harmless, right?

But that small change can trigger:

Heavier structure → More material costs

Heavier load → More robust foundations needed

Heavier load → Changes to the piers or soil reinforcement

Permits and safety assessments need to be redone

Construction schedule delays

➡ This minor drawing tweak ends up costing an extra $2 million.

✅ How T-Square Helps

T-Square would:

Analyze the design drawing precisely.

Simulate the impact of the change—on materials, weight, stress points, and cost.

Flag how this impacts overall project costs and timelines.

Enable better collaboration between engineers, drafters, and project managers to make informed decisions.

🔁 In Summary

"When seemingly small changes in drawings can move project costs by millions of dollars or more, T-Square is your answer!"

This means: In a complex project like railway infrastructure, even a tiny change in the design file can have massive ripple effects. T-Square helps catch these before they hit your budget and timeline.

T-Square enables precise analysis of design changes to prevent costly overruns.