Lino Hub
CAD Automation
The bridge between sales and manufacturing.
Lino® Hub CAD Automation automates the generation of models, drawings, and bills of materials, ensuring a seamless data flow all the way to manufacturing. This saves your engineering team valuable time by converting sales configurations into production-ready CAD data automatically. The result: shorter lead times, fewer errors, and relieved design teams.
Automate your engineering and transform technical expertise into digital performance.
In the modern manufacturing industry, time is the most valuable resource. Lino Hub CAD Automation provides a powerful software module within the Lino Hub integration platform, which centrally manages product data of parametric CAD models and makes it available to all stakeholders in sales and manufacturing throughout the order process. Like a “conductor,” the platform generates production-ready design data from a product configuration with just one click.
Seamless system integration for end-to-end processes
The true strength of CAD automation in Lino Hub lies in its role as middleware. It “translates” configuration results into CAD commands while ensuring bidirectional data exchange with PDM, PLM, and ERP systems. Even the derivation of machine codes for CAM programming can be integrated. This creates a digital thread extending from the initial customer inquiry to the finished machine.
Seamlessly connect sales, engineering, and manufacturing.
In the modern manufacturing industry, speed and data quality determine competitive advantage. Lino Hub is the central integration platform that transforms your existing system landscape into a seamless, digital process chain. As intelligent middleware, Lino Hub bridges the gaps between CPQ solutions, CAD automation, ERP, and PDM systems. The web-based Lino Hub system can be operated either on-premise or via cloud hosting.
Benefits of Lino Hub CAD Automation
Make your design the driving force behind your success – with Lino® Hub CAD Automation.
The seamless integration of sales, design, and manufacturing ensures that technical data is created and processed without any data gaps. Automated CAD processes improve data quality, speed up order processing, and make growth more predictable.
See for yourself, using your specific use case, how complex processes are simplified, systems are integrated and automation delivers measurable results.
- Practical demo with realistic use cases
- The next step for your digital transformation project
- Measurable benefits and ROI in record time
Lino Hub Platform
Additional modules for end-to-end automation
The Lino Hub has a modular design and scales to meet your needs. The following modules
specifically enhance CAD automation with visualization, product planning, and layout capabilities—
seamlessly integrated into a central platform for end-to-end, automated processes.
3D Web
Core
Customer Success Stories
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Simply integrate. Intelligently automate.
Digital engineering processes for mechanical and plant engineering: Automate design, product configuration, and workflows; seamlessly integrate CAD, PDM, and ERP; and accelerate sales, planning, and manufacturing—efficiently, error-free, and with future-proof connectivity.
Frequently Asked Questions
Knowledge base on variant design and automated document generation.
This FAQ section explains how CAD models, drawings, and bills of materials are automatically generated from configurations.
Learn how to reduce engineering effort and significantly shorten lead times for products with many variants.
What is Lino Hub CAD Automation?
Lino Hub CAD Automation uses the central Hub platform to integrate CAD generation and automation into the configuration process. Parameterized CAD models automatically create new variants and production-relevant outputs such as drawings and bills of materials.
How does Lino Hub CAD Automation accelerate the engineering process?
By automating recurring tasks – such as model generation and derivation of production-relevant data – CAD automation significantly reduces manual work and shortens engineering processes.
How does Lino Hub CAD Automation reduce manual design work?
Lino Hub CAD Automation automates recurring CAD tasks such as model generation, drawing derivation, and bill-of-materials creation. Based on defined product rules, parameterized CAD models are generated automatically, including manufacturing-ready documents. This eliminates manual adjustments for variants or special designs. Design engineers gain time for complex development tasks while standard processes run reliably and error-free in the background.
Can Lino Hub CAD Automation generate variants automatically?
Yes. The solution is specifically designed for highly configurable products in mechanical and plant engineering. After configuration, the system automatically creates all associated CAD models, drawings, and production-relevant data. Changes to parameters lead directly to updated models without engineers having to remodel every detail. This enables customer-specific variants to be implemented quickly, consistently, and at scale.
Does Lino Hub CAD Automation support different CAD formats?
Lino Hub supports automated generation of native CAD data and neutral exchange formats such as STEP and IGES, which can be used for approval processes, manufacturing, or data exchange with external partners.
How does Lino Hub CAD Automation improve data quality?
Automated processes minimize manual errors and ensure that CAD outputs are consistent, complete, and ready for immediate use – for example in design, manufacturing, or quotation documents.
How much time can be saved with Lino Hub CAD Automation?
With Lino Hub CAD Automation, up to 70 percent of design effort can be saved. The exact time savings depend on the product portfolio and the range of variants. Automatic model generation, drawing derivation, and bill-of-materials creation remove manual routine tasks. Especially for customer-specific machines or series with high variant diversity, lead times in the order process are significantly reduced. This lowers costs, speeds up quotation and project phases, and increases scalability as the business grows.
For which companies is CAD automation particularly useful?
Lino Hub CAD Automation is particularly well suited for companies with complex and/or highly configurable products, such as those in mechanical and plant engineering. Wherever recurring CAD tasks consume time and resources, CAD automation delivers clear added value and helps companies secure their market share.