Kuken Industries searches 70 years of drawings in minutes
TL;DR
Kuken Industries uses the OpenAI API to search 70 years of cooling tower drawings. Engineers can find the drawing for a repair in 4.5 minutes, down from nearly an hour. Kuken Industries uses the OpenAI API to search 70 years of cooling tower drawings. Engineers can find the drawing for a repair in 4.5 minutes, down from nearly an hour.
Nauti's Take
A small team should start with a bounded archive of known repair cases and measure retrieval accuracy, search time, and how the system handles unreadable or conflicting drawings against the existing filing process. The 4.5-minute figure is a useful reference point, but missing details on indexing, data quality, and API costs make it too early to draw a reliable business case.
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