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For engineer-to-order manufacturers

Your documentation team, in software.

First Angle helps manufacturing companies ship physical products faster by taking care of all the paperwork, written from the engineering data you already have.

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First Angle after a run: 7 documents, 412 pages, 16 minutes, built from SolidWorks PDM, SharePoint, Monitor ERP and EPLAN, with an operating manual, maintenance manual, spare parts list, datasheet, risk assessment, EU Declaration of Conformity and technical file.

The whole documentation package from your files.

Writes

  • Operating manual
  • Maintenance manual
  • Spare parts list
  • Datasheet
  • Risk assessment
  • EU Declaration of Conformity
  • Technical file
The documentation package for the SK-400 line: seven documents approved by Tanel Kask, each with PDF and Word export, and all checks passed with 412 of 412 values traced.

Every value traced to its source. Every rule checked.

Maintenance manual page 32, section 6.3 Replacing the drive coupling, with 45 Nm highlighted. The trace panel shows it came from drawing SK400-GB-012 rev D in SolidWorks PDM, BOM line 14 in Monitor ERP and the supplier datasheet in SharePoint, checked against Regulation (EU) 2023/1230, EN ISO 20607, IEC/IEEE 82079-1 and EN ISO 7010; 412 of 412 values traced.

Reads your drawings. Draws the manual's illustrations.

From your files: a 3D model, a 2D drawing, a 2D CAD schematic and a render, all read. Operating manual section 7.2 Gearbox assembly, drawn from them: an exploded view with six balloons, a parts list linked to the BOM and section A-A.

A part changes. Every document that uses it follows.

Change detected: motor M-12 went from rev C to rev D in SolidWorks PDM, power 4.0 kW to 5.5 kW and weight 38 kg to 44 kg. 20 documents affected: the operating manual, spare parts list and risk assessment are updated; the maintenance manual needs a new motor datasheet, with a button to request it from the supplier.

Plugs into the systems your engineers already use.

Connected sources: SolidWorks PDM with 38 drawings, SharePoint with 412 files, Monitor ERP with 1 642 parts, EPLAN with 14 schematics, Outlook with 46 emails and a supplier portal with 27 datasheets.

From engineering files to a signed package.

  1. Connect

    Give First Angle read-only access to your PDM, file shares and ERP, or upload the files for one machine.

  2. Generate

    It writes the package, links every value to its source and checks each section against the rules that apply.

  3. Review and sign

    Your engineer works through the flagged items, approves each document and exports the package.

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Read what it writes.

All documents

Built for engineering data you cannot lose.

  • Read-only access

  • Your engineer signs

  • EU data storage or your own server

  • Separate per customer

Questions engineers ask.

What does First Angle need from us?

The files you already keep for a machine: drawings, the BOM, CAD or 3D models and supplier datasheets. Connect the systems they live in, or upload them.

What happens when a value is missing?

It is flagged in the document, with the page it is needed on, so your engineer can supply it. First Angle does not make up part numbers, torques or standards.

Who is responsible for the documents?

Your company. First Angle drafts and checks, a named engineer reviews and signs, and the manufacturer declares conformity. First Angle does not certify products.

Which formats does it export?

PDF and Word, in each of the languages you deliver documents in.

Where is our data stored?

In EU data storage, or on your own server. Connections to your systems are read-only.

Can we see real output first?

Yes. The documents page has a maintenance manual, a spare parts list, an inspection checklist and a datasheet that First Angle wrote, as PDFs. Open the documents

See First Angle write the documents for one of your machines.

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