Patent ID: 11935001
Assignee: MCMASTER-CARR SUPPLY COMPANY
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A computer implemented method for processing a Computer-Aided Design (CAD) assembly drawing, the method comprising:
receiving a CAD file of an assembly drawing;
analyzing the CAD file to extract part components located within the assembly drawing;
adding the extracted part components to a part component list of the assembly drawing wherein the assembly drawing and part component list are displayable on a User Interface (UI);
filtering, based on a set of vendors sourcing the extracted part components, the part component list to identify specific vendors from the set of vendors sourcing one or more of the extracted part components or equivalent part components from the part component list;
determining, from each of the identified specific vendors, an availability of the extracted part components, wherein the availability is requested in a computer-based communication to a server of the identified specific vendors, and
highlighting, within the UI, the extracted part components for the identified specific vendors having availability of the extracted part components;
generating, based on the availability of the extracted part components, vendor-specific part component lists for each of the identified specific vendors with the availability;
converting the vendor-specific part component lists to purchase orders; and
communicating the purchase orders to a corresponding one of the identified specific vendors.