Machine Shops & Metal Fabrication
ARCHAIVE for Machine Shops & Metal Fabrication
ARCHAIVE solves the everyday problems of machine shops and fabricators — finding the right drawing, building the right revision and quoting faster — using existing files, with no expensive PDM/PLM system to install or administer.
Everyday Problems, Solved Without a PDM/PLM Rollout
Can’t find the right drawing
What happens today:Drawings spread across network folders, email, SharePoint and personal folders.
AI search across text and geometry finds the drawing in seconds, wherever it came from.
The wrong revision gets made
What happens today:An old PDF or CNC program still sitting on someone’s PC.
A full revision history, with alerts when a newer revision exists.
“Have we made something like this before?”
What happens today:Manual searching, or asking a senior colleague.
Similarity search surfaces past parts, so proven designs get reused.
Quoting takes too long
What happens today:Estimators hunting for old drawings and past quotes.
Previous similar jobs, pulled up together with their quote history.
Changes don’t reach everyone
What happens today:Changes passed on by email, phone calls and meetings.
Each change shows the drawings, BOMs and departments it affects.
Knowledge lives in people’s heads
What happens today:“Ask John, he knows how we made this.”
The reasoning and past decisions behind every part, captured and searchable.
Engineering and the shop floor are out of sync
What happens today:Engineering has one version; the shop floor has another.
One source of truth, released to everyone at the same time.