A Bureau's Archive: Calculations and Drawings From Many Engineers Over Years

At an engineering bureau, the archive of calculations and drawings grows for years across dozens of employees — some solutions got reused many times, some are obsolete, some were built for a specific project and never needed again anywhere else. Unlike one engineer's personal library, no single person here remembers the whole archive's content.

Digercules goes through the bureau's corporate archive and builds a content index from it: what calculations and drawings exist, which projects they belong to, which solutions repeat and can be reused, what's outdated and needs review.

This is the same tool that already works for an engineer with a personal technical library — just scaled to the whole bureau's archive instead of one person's. The library module is stable, in production: 306,000+ documents already processed on real archives.

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. Technical data stays under the same access control — processing runs on direct instruction, and what comes out is an index and annotations, not the calculations and drawings themselves.

Objections

"Some of these calculations are client trade secrets" — processing doesn't publish materials or transfer them beyond the perimeter you specify; the result is an internal bureau index.

"We have a drawing storage system (PLM/PDM)" — such systems work well when files are entered with metadata from the start; Digercules goes through what accumulated before the system was adopted, outside it, or from engineers who no longer work at the bureau.

First contact

A pilot on the archive of one bureau department — an index of calculations and drawings searchable by content, not by filename. The decision on access to the corporate archive sits with the bureau's principal or chief engineer, not a line employee.