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October 2, 2023

Dirac: Work Instructions, Automated

We’re thrilled to emerge from stealth and announce the Public Beta Release of our first product, BuildOS: the first automated work instruction platform.

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BuildOS: The Future of Work Instructions

Today, assembly work instructions take weeks or months of manual, mind-numbing effort.

From figuring out what order to assemble all of the parts in, part by part, to taking hundreds of screenshots of CAD files, to manually typing up each step-by-step direction and producing several hundreds of Powerpoint pages – work instructions are the dread of all mechanical and manufacturing engineers.

Some of the most advanced manufacturing companies on the planet suffer from the archaic work instruction process.

“We run a tight ship and move quickly at Lumafield. Our team of world class mechanical and manufacturing engineers are able to do more in less time than most organizations because of our use of advanced software tools in every part of our work,” says Eduardo Torrealba, Co-Founder and CEO of Lumafield. “Assembly instructions are one area where we are typically forced to adopt slow, clunky processes from traditional engineering workflows due to the lack of great software. We wish there was a better way to get this work done more efficiently.”

We’re bringing work instructions into the 21st century with BuildOS.

Demo GIF of BuildOS, the first automated work instruction platform.

Engineers build software for other engineers, yet no one builds software for technicians or manufacturing folks. That’s what we’re doing.

With BuildOS, drop in a CAD file and let the product do the rest.

BuildOS figures out what order to do all of the assembly of a mechanical system, produces 3D renderings and animations of each step, and generates the text for each instruction — all automatically. We’re taking the process of drafting work instructions from weeks to minutes.

BuildOS is an 80/20 tool.

We automate 80% of the grunt work, and for the remaining 20% that we don’t automate — the tribal knowledge, rules of thumb like “grease this,” “locktite that,” and “torque this bolt to this spec,” — we allow the user to fill in those gaps as well as reorder, annotate, and manipulate the generated content as they see fit. Users can generate and view in several flexible formats, from viewing and crafting on a laptop or iPhone, to generating outputting paper instructions, and everything in between.

BuildOS is a power-tool for manufacturing engineers, not a replacement.

We’re building something that improves their quality of life, that automates away the grunt work that hundreds of thousands of people dread doing every day at work. We’re automating work instructions so production teams can get back to doing what they love: building great things.

Thank you to all of our friends, supporters, and investors for making this possible.

If you’re interested in changing the way your team builds, get BuildOS today here or reach out at contact@diracinc.com.

Left to right: Peter Weiss (co-founder & CTO), Fil Aronshtein (co-founder, CEO)