The Dirac Mission: Reuniting The Blueprint

Before the 1970s, engineers and manufacturers were connected by one thing: the blueprint.

In the late 70’s and early 80s, CAD software emerged and became ubiquitous.

The emergence of CAD fractured the blueprint into two parts: CAD software on the design side and work instructions on the build side.

Mechanical engineers — who were natively on the manufacturing shop floor, well-integrated into production — were relegated to the back office, from then on living in front of 2D screens filled with 3D meshes and CAD.

Since then, mechanical design has been divorced from reality.

Planes are designed 5,000 miles away from where they're built, mechanical engineers are trained without ever having seen a shop floor, and manufacturability has taken a back seat to design.

At Dirac, our goal is to bring reality back to mechanical design.

Our first step in this direction is building the 21st century update to the work instruction: BuildOS.

Our plan is to bring CAD and work instructions closer and closer together until we reunite the blueprint. 

Over time, we will radically tighten the feedback loop between the worlds of design and build, enabling the revitalization of American manufacturing and empowering the next generation of American industrialists to build the future.