CADSEEK is an exceptionally important achievement resulting from the dedicated work of our founders’, our highly skilled and innovative team members, the relentless support provided by the Iowa State University Research Park President’s office, and of the Iowa angel investor community, all spanning several decades.
Capturing and comparing 3-dimensional shape, universally, has been attempted by many large and sophisticated organizations without success. CADSEEK is a highly optimized technology that far exceeds every competitive approach in accuracy but without sacrificing speed, scalability, or security. Originally proven in production at John Deere at a scale of over two million designs, the use of the technology has evolved and now serves more than a dozen use cases across four platform areas.
iSEEK established CADSEEK technology in the engineering domain, serving the leading use cases of part and design reuse, cost estimation, quotation, and database wide identification of duplication and price variances. With the development of six applications for different use cases and workflows, the user base has expanded into supply chain, for use cases such as supplier selection and price validation, and in the manufacturing domain for reuse of manufacturing plans, fixture designs and tool path programming.
Inspired by a customer’s warehouse full of orphaned inventory, CADSEEK’s capability evolved into a new realm, enabling users to identify physical parts using standard iPad photos and extracting depth maps using LiDAR and infrared imaging. Other use cases include identification at parts counters, service part identification, substitution and 3D printing.
The number of designs in online 3D databases is staggering, from 3D printable figures to appliance service parts and the national Protein Data Bank … but with no useful way to search within or across the databases. CADSEEK enables a single, searchable index at 3DShapeIndex.com. Use cases include finding designs for hobby work, catalog search, and access to scientific data.
iSEEK’s original vision going back to its earliest days, was for the creation of a portal where manufacturers could qualify contract manufacturers. Now, with enterprise applications proving the scalability and security of the CADSEEK technology, iSEEK has developed iSEEKGlobal.com, where OEMs can create a proprietary supplier portal to search the designs of existing and potential suppliers as easily as searching the OEM’s own databases. The key is that the system uses only the highly secure CADSEEK signatures for matching OEM needs with supplier products and capabilities so that intellectual property is not exposed.
iSEEK is a team of engineering and business professionals focused on maximizing the value of our customer’s engineering data. Our culture and core values are inspired by one of our founder’s, Dr. Abir Qamhiyah, favorite poems titled “Bohemia.”
Bohemia, o'er thy unatlassed borders
How many cross, with half-reluctant feet,
And unformed fears of dangers and disorders,
To find delights, more wholesome and more sweet
Than ever yet were known to the "elite."
Herein can dwell no pretence and no seeming;
No stilted pride thrives in this atmosphere,
Which stimulates a tendency to dreaming.
The shores of the ideal world, from here,
Seem sometimes to be tangible and near.
We have no use for formal codes of fashion;
No "Etiquette of Courts" we emulate;
We know it needs sincerity and passion
To carry out the plans of God, or fate;
We do not strive to seem inanimate.
We call no time lost that we give to pleasure;
Life's hurrying river speeds to Death's great sea;
We cast out no vain plummet-line to measure
Imagined depths of that unknown To-Be,
But grasp the Now, and fill it full of glee.
All creeds have room here, and we all together
Devoutly worship at Art's sacred shrine;
But he who dwells once in thy golden weather,
Bohemia--sweet, lovely land of mine--
Can find no joy outside thy border-line.
