From an OEM's Design Package to a Winning Quote and a Flawless PPAP
Every day, suppliers receive OEM design data they can barely open — native CATIA, complex STEP, foreign-language PDFs — and are expected to quote it accurately, inspect it, and prove it. DocIQ uses engineering-grade AI to read any OEM package in one click, flag the cost drivers before you quote, and turn it into ballooning, dimensional results and OEM-ready PPAP — all inside your own cloud.
The Real Cost of Consuming OEM Design Data by Hand
For a supplier, this isn't a drawing problem — it's a margin problem. It shows up as underbid quotes, unbillable inspection hours, and PPAP rejections that put payment and the next award at risk.
The blind quote
Native CATIA files, complex STEP, or foreign-language PDFs you can't fully open. Miss one GD&T callout or tight tolerance and you underbid — then eat the scrap and rework on a job you were never paid to fix.
Cost: lost margin, scrap and rework on the jobThe ballooning & PPAP bottleneck
Manually numbering every dimension for First Article Inspection and PPAP Element 9, then copying measurement data in by hand — slow, error-prone, and re-done on every revision.
Cost: unbillable engineering hours on every partChange & multi-OEM overload
Models change between RFQ and start of production, and every customer wants its own PPAP format, level and portal. Miss a change or a format and it becomes a rejection — or un-costed tooling.
Cost: PPAP rejections and packages rebuilt again and againDocIQ — From OEM Package to Submission-Ready
DocIQ pairs engineering-grade AI with the OEM data you receive — native CATIA, STEP, or 2D drawings — and gives you the same design visibility the OEM has: read everything it holds, flag the risks before you quote, and produce inspection and PPAP that's ready to submit. Read by AI, verified by your engineers.
License-Free Native CATIA Intake
Reads native .CATProduct / .CATPart and STEP directly — no CATIA seat on every desk — and shows dimensioned 2D views instantly, so an estimator can see the part the moment it lands.
GD&T, PMI & Cost-Driver Risk
Dimensions, GD&T, datums, surface finish and tolerances extracted and confidence-scored — with tight tolerances and special characteristics flagged as cost drivers before you price the job.
Annotations & Language Translation
Foreign-language notes extracted and translated against an engineering glossary — including Chinese to English. Symbols and numbers pass through untouched. Bilingual output: source retained, English added.
Automated Ballooning
Deterministic numbering of every characteristic for inspection readiness — consistent across inspectors and revision-safe, so a change never scrambles your balloons.
Element 9 / FAIR Dimensional Results
Dimensional-results tables populated with actual CMM data (QIF / DMIS), pass/fail computed, and each measurement locked to its balloon — eliminating the transposition errors that hand-keying invites.
Stealth-Change Detector
Compare the RFQ model against the production release and see every geometric, dimensional and PMI change — so you raise a change request for cost adjustment before you cut tooling.
PPAP Validation & Conformance
Checks completeness and conformance to the required submission level before anything leaves — so gaps are caught by the system, not by the customer.
Multi-OEM PPAP Submission
A standards-based PPAP core — 18 elements plus the Part Submission Warrant — mapped to each customer's required format. Ingest the data once, submit to every OEM. Multi-OEM submissions, painless.
Dashboards & Tracking
Live status across RFQs, inspections and submissions — what's in review, approved, submitted and accepted — with exception queues so nothing stalls silently.
One Pipeline, RFQ to PPAP
Native CATIA (.CATProduct / .CATPart), STEP AP242 and existing 2D drawings all flow through the same pipeline — the input format changes how the file is read, never what you get out of it.
Ingest
Native CATIA, STEP or 2D drawings — from the customer portal or upload.
Read & Flag Risk
GD&T, tolerances and special characteristics extracted; cost drivers highlighted.
Balloon & Measure
Automated ballooning and Element 9 dimensional results with your CMM data.
Validate & Map
Conformance checked, then mapped to each OEM's PPAP format and level.
Submit & Track
OEM-ready PPAP with PSW, submitted and tracked to acceptance.
AI Built for Engineering Drawings — Not a Generic Chatbot
Engineering drawings are dense, abbreviated and highly visual — exactly the kind of content generic AI tools get wrong. DocIQ's AI is purpose-built to read them, and built to be trusted with the accuracy your quoting and quality demand.
Reads Like an Engineer
Vision, OCR and language models trained on engineering content — reading dimensions, GD&T symbols, feature control frames and dense annotations the way your engineers do, not the way a generic chatbot reads a paragraph.
Confidence, Not Guesswork
Every extracted value carries a confidence score. Where the AI isn't sure, it says so — flagged for your engineer to check, never silently guessed. Human-in-the-loop by design.
Catches What Manual Review Misses
Cross-checks values across the drawing and model and flags discrepancies automatically — the kind of mismatch that's easy to miss under quoting-deadline pressure.
Ask It a Question, Get a Traceable Answer
Search your drawings and parts in plain language — find a tolerance, a feature, or a prior job — and get an answer traced back to the source drawing, not a black box.
What Changes When OEM Data Stops Being a Manual Burden
Price accurately without guessing at hidden manufacturing risk.
Right-first-time inspection and PPAP — less scrap, rework and rejection.
Critical characteristics surfaced before you quote, carried through to inspection.
Submit to every customer from a single ingest — no per-format rebuild.
Enterprise-Grade by Design
- Your cloud, your boundary. Deployed in your own cloud tenancy — processing and storage stay inside your environment, and the OEM's IP never leaves your control.
- You choose where the AI runs. Local models kept fully inside your environment, or frontier models on cloud — balancing data residency against capability.
- Integrated, not bolted on. Connects to your PLM as a source and to your QMS, ERP and CMM downstream. API-first, ready for portal and shop-floor integration.
What It Changes
- Win more RFQs with faster, more accurate quotes.
- Protect margin — fewer missed tolerances, less scrap and rework.
- Compliance velocity — ballooning, Element 9 and PPAP in a fraction of the time.
- Multi-OEM submissions produced from a single dataset.
- The OEM's engineering IP stays inside your environment.
The Same Engineering-Intelligence Foundation, Both Sides of the Hand-Off
UnifyIQ builds AI-based, tangible solutions for automotive engineering. DocIQ brings one engineering-intelligence foundation to both sides of the design hand-off — helping OEMs author and release design data, and helping suppliers turn that data into quotes, inspection and PPAP. One foundation, two editions.
See DocIQ Turn an OEM Package Into a Submission-Ready PPAP
Bring a handful of your toughest OEM packages to a working session — and watch our AI read them, flag the risks, and build inspection and PPAP, live.
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