ONTOLOGY-BASED CAD/CAM MIDDLEWARE AI

Every CAD/CAM system,unified by one intelligence.

DION AI reads design intent, reasons over a manufacturing ontology, and produces verified machining strategies across nine CAD/CAM platforms — without your drawings ever leaving the floor.

Backed by

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01 — The problem

CAD and CAM live in silos. Your expertise pays the price.

Every vendor speaks its own language. Programmers rebuild the same strategies by hand, hard-won know-how walks out the door, and switching tools means starting over.

  • Vendor lock-in across every CAD/CAM system you run
  • Manual, repetitive programming that depends on a handful of veterans
  • Tribal knowledge that is never captured, never reused
02 — What DION means

Design · Intelligence · Ontology · Network

Four letters. One idea: liberate CAD/CAM from its silos.

D

Design

Reads native CAD, STEP and IGES, and resolves geometry into machinable features.

I

Intelligence

Proposes machining strategy learned from fifteen years of shop-floor practice.

O

Ontology

Reasons within a constrained knowledge model — deterministic, never probabilistic guesswork.

N

Network

Connects nine CAD/CAM systems into a single intelligence layer.

03 — How it works

From drawing to verified NC — on your machine.

STEP 01

Ingest, on-device

Load CAD or STEP on the shop PC. Drawings never leave your network.

STEP 02

Ontology reasoning

Feature recognition, constraint-based strategy, deterministic parameters.

STEP 03

Verified output

Human-in-the-loop approval, then post and send to the machine.

04 — Why DION

Built for the floor, not the cloud.

On-device by design

Your drawings stay inside the factory. No cloud egress, no IP leakage.

Deterministic ontology

Precise numbers from a constrained model — no hallucinated geometry.

Vendor-agnostic coverage

One intelligence layer across every major CAD/CAM system you already run.

Born on the shop floor

Founded on fifteen years of mold design and CNC machining.

05 — Proof

Validated by industry, and by the field.

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Validated across three pilot customers. NVIDIA Inception & Innovation Lab (H100). Partnership discussions underway with Hexagon, the global CAM leader.

Manufacturing intelligence that never leaves the floor.

07 — Product

See it in action.

The DION AI board — pipelines, ontology graph, simulation and agent orchestration, running on your shop floor.

Explore the product

Liberate your CAD/CAM. Keep your data.

Talk to us about bringing DION AI to your shop floor.