Technical Article
A formal or opinion-driven text on specific topics such as Lino-supported processes, customer applications, or the Lino portfolio. The goal is to convey knowledge, insights, or experiences to interested readers in a clear and authoritative manner. This archive contains all technical articles from Lino.
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CAM Programming: Why No One Will Do It by Hand Anymore in the Future
A new machining center is meant to run around the clock. Without continuous CAM data, it never reaches its potential. A look at the process - and what Lino® Hub automates.
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3D Web Visualization: Experience Product Variants Interactively in the Browser
A brochure with high-gloss photos appears complete until the customer asks for the variant with a different drive, different housing, and a different connection position. At that point, it becomes clear that the image represented only one out of hundreds of possible configurations.
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CAD Automation: Why Every Custom Configuration Costs Your Engineering Team Two Weeks
A customer requests a custom configuration. Sales configures the matching variant that same morning in the CPQ system. And then the waiting begins: in many machine-building companies, it takes engineering two weeks or more to turn that into a matching 3D model, drawing, and bill of materials.
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Process Automation in Mechanical Engineering: How Companies Are Removing Manual Routine from Design
A customer requests a custom variant, sales commits to a delivery date, and the design department begins the search for the right CAD model. Weeks pass before the drawing and bill of materials are finished,....
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System Integration: The Difference Between Point Solutions and End-to-End Continuity
Why many manufacturers still transfer part numbers and BOMs by hand between CAD, PDM, and ERP – and what that manual work really costs engineering teams.
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Engineering Automation: How Mechanical and Plant Engineers Seamlessly Connect Sales, Engineering, and Manufacturing
Why redundant data entry across CAD, PDM, ERP, and CRM causes up to 30% of engineering errors – and how Engineering Automation fixes the root cause.
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Still Planning Facility Layouts on 2D Floor Plans? You Are Risking the Contract!
Why abstract 2D floor plans become a costly competitive disadvantage in plant engineering – and how 3D layout planning prevents assembly surprises.
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Three days to build a variant that a rule set could have generated in minutes. Why manual design processes are no longer defensible.
Any manufacturer still asking its engineers to model standard variants by hand and type metadata into a PDM system one field at a time is not wasting money. It is wasting engineering judgement. That distinction matters.
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Manual 3D model simplification isn’t a process. Its a waste of resources.
Anyone who still removes screws, holes, and internal assemblies manually from a SolidWorks model before sending it to a supplier is paying a price—in terms of labor hours, the risk of errors, and tied-up engineering capacity. This process can be automated. And there’s no good reason to wait.