A Manufacturing Archive: Parts You've Made Before but Forgot How

A CNC shop accumulates an archive of finished parts over the years — drawings, machine control programs, versions for different order batches. When a client asks to repeat a part made years ago, you end up searching for the right program and drawing by hand, from memory or by an order number that's long since been lost.

Digercules goes through the archive of parts, drawings, and control programs and builds a catalog from it: which part, for which order, which program and version were used, what can be reused without reworking it from scratch.

How it works

Processing runs either entirely on the client's own hardware, or — if that hardware isn't powerful enough — is delegated to a specific external machine over a closed peer-to-peer channel (not a public cloud): the compute is physically located in the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, the client is always told explicitly which machine and which jurisdiction is doing the processing, and only text/structured results come back — never the source files. Control programs and drawings stay under the same access control — processing runs on direct instruction, and what comes out is a catalog, not the program files themselves.

Objections

"Control programs are manufacturing know-how" — processing doesn't transfer or publish the programs; the catalog is used only within the shop.

"We have an archive organized by order number" — an order number helps only if you already know it; Digercules lets you search by the part's own parameters, even when the order number is lost.

First contact

A pilot on the archive of one manufacturing line — a catalog of parts and programs searchable by part parameters. The decision on access to control programs sits with the production manager, not a line machine operator.