No. BL-APX · Apex Platform

All of engineering, inside the plant.

Manufacturing engineering runs fragmented: calculations buried in loose spreadsheets with no traceability, CAD and simulation disconnected, know-how locked in people's heads. Apex brings it all together on the company's own server, accessed through the browser, with an audit trail for every calculation — and nothing, absolutely nothing, leaves for the internet.

StatusRunning in industrial production

Modules14 · 65 tools

Tests2,257 passing · 0 failures

Networkintranet · 100% offline

What it does

From calculation to CAD/CAE automation

Calculations with an auditable trail

Structural (Von Mises, ASME), pressure drop, pumping, welding (AWS D1.1), fatigue, steelmaking — every result comes with a line-by-line calculation record and PDF/CSV export.

AWS/ISO welding symbols

Builds the complete symbol (AWS A2.4 / ISO 2553) with AWS D1.1 validation and AI photo interpretation. The same engine became the SoldaSym app.

Real CAD/CAE automation

Drives the workstation's 3D CAD system live — active document and variables in real time — and queues simulation studies in batches, with STEP/PDF/DXF export and parametric variants.

Offline AI copilot

A local AI that runs the calculation engines mid-conversation and issues grounded assessments — with no evidence in the library, it answers that it cannot evaluate. It never invents a code clause.

Drawing archive study

The AI reads through the company's drawing archive in read-only mode and learns the design standard — the first real study swept tens of thousands of drawings.

Shop-floor traceability

Users and roles, a full audit trail, and history for every calculation: inputs, outputs, verdict, user, and project. Redmine integration included.

The platform in use

Apex on screen

Welding symbology screen: on the left the joint form (T-joint, 12.7 mm and 9.5 mm thicknesses, GMAW process) with code-based justifications; on the right the rendered AWS symbol with a 6 mm fillet on both sides and the process in the tail. — AWS A2.4 / ISO 2553 symbols — drawn live, field by field, and checked against AWS D1.1

Structural module: input form with 3.5 MPa pressure, 150 mm radius and 5 mm wall thickness; alongside it a green pass banner, cards with the principal stresses and safety factor, and a stress-versus-thickness curve with the design point marked. — Every calculation returns the verdict, the stresses, the safety factor and the curve — audit-ready

Apex home dashboard with the offline badge, four indicators and the module tiles grouped by Project and Engineering. — Home dashboard: 65 tools grouped, with the “Offline mode — data stays on the network” badge

Flange table by standard showing diameters and bolt holes, with the selected item rendered below as a dimensioned technical drawing with section view. — Parts catalogue by standard: every item becomes a dimensioned drawing and a 3D model on the spot

Engineering copilot with quick sizing suggestions and a list of automation pipelines linking calculation, simulation and reporting. — A copilot with real access to the calculation engines — and nothing leaving the network

Screens from the real system, with every piece of data replaced by fictional stand-ins: customers, projects, parts and people. No customer information appears here.

Why trust it

Offline isn't a limitation — it's the requirement

Apex was designed to run on an industrial intranet with no path to the internet at all — an active, verifiable egress guard blocks every attempt. The embedded AI runs on the server itself. It's the right architecture for companies whose drawings, quotes, and know-how cannot leak.

2,257tests passing, zero failures — mutation testing included

~10CAD/CAE engineering workstations served

tens of thousandsof drawings swept in the first archive study

0bytes leaving for the internet — active egress guard

Contact

Your engineering team deserves a platform like this.

Apex was born inside a real steel fabrication company and runs there every day. If your company lives with the same fragmentation, let's talk.

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