Most workshops don’t have a production problem…
They have a data problem.
Engineers finish the design ✔
Then someone manually types part numbers into purchasing ❌
Someone counts quantities again ❌
Someone builds work orders ❌
By the time production starts — the drawing is right, but the information isn’t trusted.
This is why manufacturing delays happen even when the engineering is good.
Modern workshops don’t run from drawings anymore.
They run from structured data.
When CAD feeds your MRP system directly:
• BOMs generate automatically
• Purchase orders create themselves
• Scheduling updates live
• Revisions stop causing chaos
Design stops being documentation — and becomes operations.
I wrote a short article explaining how this workflow actually works inside a factory:
https://www.hamiltonbydesign.com.au/cad-to-mrp-data-integration/
If your team still re-enters information after every design…
you’re running two systems instead of one.
