Industrial & manufacturingSOC 2 · On-prem available

Turn technical chaos into structured assets.

Engineering specs, technical drawings, safety data sheets, supplier RFPs and quotes, inspection reports. Bem links the documents that hold your institutional knowledge to the systems of record your operations actually run on. SAP, Oracle, Teamcenter, your custom MES.

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Documents we handle

The artifacts your engineers actually receive.

Industrial documentation is the gnarliest mix of formats and tribal knowledge in any vertical. Massive PDFs, CAD exports, legacy scans, handwritten annotations. Bem ingests all of it.

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Engineering specs

Multi-page PDFs, CAD-exported PDFs, legacy scans. Parameters, tolerances, callouts.

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Technical drawings

Drawings with title blocks, bills of materials, revision histories. Linked to part numbers.

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Safety data sheets

SDS, MSDS, GHS classifications. Hazards, handling, regulatory codes into your EHS system.

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Supplier RFPs

Inbound RFP packets, quote sheets, technical responses. Extracted and normalized.

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Inspection reports

QC checklists, dimensional reports, NCRs. Field-by-field against your acceptance criteria.

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Bills of materials

BOMs in spreadsheets, PDFs, exports. Part numbers, quantities, descriptions, suppliers.

The workflow

RFP packet to supplier comparison.

Inbound supplier RFP responses arrive in every conceivable format. Bem normalizes them into a single comparable record per supplier per line item, with the source page anchored for the buyer who has to defend the decision.

Supplier RFP comparison
SPOTLIGHT

Twelve suppliers. One comparable record.

Each supplier responds in their own template. Bem reads each one, extracts the line items, normalizes part numbers and units, and returns a single comparison table the buying team can act on the same day.

Normalize
Units, part numbers, currencies
Anchor
Source page on every field
Compare
Line-by-line across suppliers
A worked example

A spec packet, structured.

POST /v3/workflows/spec.run200 OK · 5.4s
{
  "part_number": "PN-44091-B",
  "revision": "C",
  "material": "AISI 4140",
  "tolerances": {
    "diameter_mm": { "nom": 24, "tol": 0.05 }
  },
  "linked_ids": {
    "sap_material": "MAT-118842",
    "twin": "TWN-0291"
  },
  "confidence": 0.978
}
Linked to SAP master and digital twin. On-prem deployment available.
01
Classify

Identify the document. Spec vs drawing vs SDS vs RFP. Route to the workflow that knows its layout.

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Extract

Layout-aware models identify engineering parameters. Voltage, pitch, tolerance, material grade, even in complex tables or handwritten notes.

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Join

Reconcile drawing against bill of materials. Match supplier quote line items against your RFP. Flag the gaps.

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Enrich

Match extracted part numbers against your master data in SAP, Oracle, or Teamcenter. Resolve fuzzy matches, attach digital-twin IDs.

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Payload Shaping

Shape structured assets for ERP, PLM, or MES. Versioned, validated, ready to post.

Customer · Ply

“Supplier RFPs used to consume a full day a week per buyer. Comparing apples to apples meant transcribing every response into a spreadsheet. That work is gone.”

15h
saved per team member weekly automating supplier RFPs at Ply.
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