Highlights:

  • The new operating system follows the 80/20 principle, where BuildOS automates 80% of the typical work that mechanical and manufacturing engineers traditionally undertake.
  • BuildOS empowers users to generate and review assembly work instructions across versatile formats, allowing seamless crafting on devices like laptops or iPhones and the option to generate and print traditional paper instructions.

Dirac Inc., a startup based in New York, recently unveiled its inaugural product, BuildOS, marking its entry into the assembly work instructions software sphere with a beta release. BuildOS revolutionizes work instructions for the 21st century, tackling the tedious manual process that often extends assembly work instruction creation to weeks or even months. According to Dirac, the painstaking process of determining the assembly sequence, capturing numerous screenshots from computer-aided design files, and manually documenting step-by-step instructions is a significant challenge dreaded by mechanical and manufacturing engineers. This is where BuildOS comes into play.

BuildOS automatically calculates the sequence in which a mechanical system should be assembled, generates 3D renderings and animations of each step, and generates the text for each instruction. In doing so, the service claims to drastically reduce the time for drafting work instructions, shifting from weeks to just minutes.

The new operating system follows the 80/20 principle, where BuildOS automates 80% of the typical work that mechanical and manufacturing engineers traditionally undertake. Although not automated, the remaining 20% allows people to fill in gaps as well as reorder, comment, and edit the generated information as they see fit.

BuildOS empowers users to generate and review assembly work instructions across versatile formats, allowing seamless crafting on devices like laptops or iPhones and the option to generate and print traditional paper instructions. BuildOS is described as a “power tool for manufacturing engineers, not a replacement.”

Dirac’s Co-founder and chief technical officer, Peter Weiss, and co-founder and CEO, Fil Aronshtein, stated in a blog post, “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.”