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Digital Quality 4.0 · Workflow-connected inspection
From drawing to inspection — in minutes, not hours.
KNEO's Drawing Inspection Workflow transforms manual, time-consuming drawing processes into automated, structured data flows. Rather than stopping at ballooning, the system completes the entire journey from design document to inspection-ready output.
The problem
Ballooning alone leaves the job half done.
A ballooned drawing still has to be turned into an inspection plan — values transcribed, tolerances interpreted, GD&T classified, notes read carefully enough that no compliance requirement is missed.
That second half is where four to six hours per drawing typically disappears, and where the duplicate work across disconnected systems accumulates.
4–6h
Typical manual effort per drawing
Mins
With the connected workflow
On-premise by default. Drawings and extracted data remain within your own system — important where designs are customer-confidential.
The workflow
Six connected steps.
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Auto balloon
Automatic numbering and tagging of every identified characteristic.
03
Capture dimension
Value and tolerance mapping against each balloon number.
04
Detect GD&T
Full classification of geometric tolerances and datums.
05
Capture notes
Automatic detection of critical requirements written as notes.
06
Generate inspection plan
Connected spreadsheet output ready for the inspection team.
Key features
What makes it different.
Revision control
Drawing comparison highlights what changed between versions — without requiring the part to be re-ballooned from scratch.
GD&T detection
Full classification including datums and geometric tolerances, not just linear dimensions.
Notes capture
Automatic detection of drawing notes, preventing the compliance requirements that hide in text from being missed.
On-premise security
Data remains within your own system — no drawing leaves your infrastructure.
Connected integration
Links to PFMEA, Control Plan and inspection modules so the same data serves every APQP document.
Structured output
Inspection-ready data rather than a marked-up PDF that still needs interpreting.
Benefits
What it delivers.
Hours to minutes
Processing time per drawing reduced from four to six hours down to minutes.
No duplicate work
Eliminates the re-keying that happens between disconnected quality systems.
Faster NPD cycles
New product development accelerates when quality documentation stops gating it.
Lower rejection risk
Inspection-ready data with fewer missed characteristics and fewer interpretation errors.
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How long does one drawing take you today?
Multiply that by your annual new-part count. That is the number this product addresses.