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In this section, we inform you about new technologies, product updates, partnerships, and developments at Lino. Discover current topics around integration, design automation, and digital transformation in the machinery industry.
TECHNICAL ARTICLE
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.
TECHNICAL ARTICLE
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,....
TECHNICAL ARTICLE
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.
TECHNICAL ARTICLE
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.
TECHNICAL ARTICLE
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.
TECHNICAL ARTICLE
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.
LINO SIMPLIFY
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.
CASE STUDIES
STEIN Automation: 3D layouts for customer proximity and modular flexibility
How STEIN Automation digitized its layout planning with Lino® 3D layout, Lino® 2D fix, and Tacton® Design Automation to win customers faster.
CASE STUDIES
GC-heat: Turbo product configuration with integrated add-ons
How GC-heat uses Tacton CPQ and Design Automation to cut quoting time and improve data quality in electric heating system manufacturing.