New dedicated AI Unit to integrate AI into Cadmatic software suite

Posted on September 30, 2024

“It is not about the technology you use, but about what you do with it.”

It is with great excitement that we announce the formation of a dedicated AI unit at Cadmatic. Our goal is to advance our capabilities in integrating AI technologies across our suite of software products and services. The AI Unit will be spearheaded by Madalina Florean.

“While AI is a fantastic field, we see it as a helpful technology that should be tailored to empower engineers and simplify their work; allowing them to focus on what matters: building great products for the real world,” Florean explains.

Madalina Florean, Director of AI at Cadmatic.

From ships to plants to buildings, our world is built with engineering creativity. While engineers have the know-how and creativity, Cadmatic’s software tools serve as their partners in the design process. According to Florean, AI offers tremendous opportunities to take the user experience of use of Cadmatic software to the next level.

There are immediate possibilities offered by generative AI, such as building a sparring partner to assist with CAD custom scripting and APIs, and using natural language or drawn sketches instead. Furthermore, generative AI can help simplify software use and access to information by enabling users to ask for data in their own natural language instead of navigating UIs with different tables, grids, or pages.

Florean indicates that there are other possibilities that require extra exploration, such as receiving suggestions on design choices or even generating a basic design model. The goal of the newly formed AI Unit is to explore these possibilities and stay true to the Cadmatic credo: empowering engineers. Usability comes before technology.

“I am thrilled that Cadmatic has entrusted me to lead the new AI unit. Over the years, I have contributed in various roles, and now it feels like the perfect moment to leverage my experience in these different roles and nurture a new talented and enthusiastic team. We build software that is used to create products for the real world, and as such, we bear great responsibility for the software we develop. We are committed to exploring the right ways to use AI in the complex use cases of our customers,” says Florean.