Requirements get fragmented
Customer requirements arrive through emails, PDFs, spreadsheets, forms, and conversations. Open questions and exceptions get lost between them.
Open Automation
Engineering Workflow Automation for Manufacturers
Open Automation builds software systems for manufacturers and equipment companies that connect customer requirements, applications, quoting, engineering, and production around the way technical work actually happens.
ManufacturersOEMs & equipment companiesSystem integrators
From customer input to production
- 01
RFQ
- 02
Requirements
- 03
Configuration
- 04
Quote
- 05
Engineering
- 06
Production
Common workflow problems
Where engineering workflows break.
The opportunity is making technical decisions easier to capture, review, and carry through the next handoff.
Decisions get reconstructed
Applications, sales, and engineering reinterpret information already understood earlier in the workflow, repeating checks and reopening decisions.
Product knowledge becomes tribal knowledge
Rules, exceptions, and historical reasoning live across spreadsheets, previous jobs, documentation, and experienced employees.
Outputs drift apart
Configurations, quotes, drawings, BOMs, and production documents stop reflecting the same engineering decisions as changes move between teams.
Custom solutions
Software built around your engineering workflow.
Custom software, engineering configuration systems, structured workflow tools, and integrations for a defined problem in your existing process.
Requirements & Applications
RFQ intake, requirements extraction and structuring, historical project retrieval, and application engineering tools. Engineering knowledge and AI-assisted review where useful.
Configuration & Engineering
Product configuration, engineering rules and validation, BOM automation, and drawing or document generation built around supported options and exceptions.
Handoff & Integration
Quoting-to-engineering handoff, structured project data, ERP/MES/CRM and API integration, production information, and controlled downstream changes.
Representative examples
From customer input to a usable engineering handoff.
These illustrate possible workflow builds. They are representative examples, not completed customer projects.
RFQ → Structured Requirements
Customer emails, PDFs, and spreadsheets leave applications engineers reconstructing requirements before they can assess a request.
Requirements → Validated Configuration
Product options and application constraints are checked across spreadsheets, past projects, and individual engineering knowledge.
Configuration → Engineering Handoff
An accepted quote reaches engineering without the configuration decisions, customer exceptions, or document inputs needed to proceed.
Built by Open Automation
We build engineering software ourselves.
LogiDraft is our standalone parametric electrical drafting platform. It demonstrates the engineering logic, configuration, and software development capability we bring to custom workflow projects.
Smart Blocks and reusable assemblies carry parametric engineering logic, configuration, parts, and drawing outputs together. LogiDraft turns engineering knowledge into reusable software behavior.
How we work
Start with a bounded, high-value first problem.
Define measurable success and validate a useful first phase before expanding.
01
Discover
Understand the existing workflow, inputs, application decisions, systems, owners, handoffs, and outputs.
02
Scope
Choose a bounded, high-value first problem. Define constraints, review requirements, and measurable success before building.
03
Build
Implement the focused software or automation solution and validate it with real examples, users, and engineering exceptions.
04
Integrate & Improve
Connect relevant systems, document the handoff, and measure results. Expand only where the first phase justifies it.
For implementation and referral partners
Need engineering implementation capability for a manufacturing client?
We work with system integrators, ERP and MES consultants, CAD/PLM specialists, industrial software providers, and engineering and manufacturing consultancies.
Bring Open Automation into a defined client problem for custom engineering software, industrial integrations, or engineering workflow automation. We can support subcontracted implementation, joint delivery, and specialized technical work alongside your team.
White-label delivery and referral relationships can be discussed where appropriate. Scope, responsibilities, and client communication are agreed for each engagement.
Share your firm, client/project context, and the implementation capability you need.
Founder-led engineering and software
Engineering experience, carried into implementation.
Open Automation combines electrical engineering, industrial/controls experience, software development, and hands-on development of LogiDraft. That background shapes how we approach requirements, engineering decisions, and implementation.
Contact
Discuss a Workflow
Tell us where requirements, configuration, quoting, engineering, or production information gets stuck, and what you want to improve.