Case Study: Omron turns tacit engineering knowledge into a shared asset with CADDi

Omron turns 10,000+ employees’ tacit knowledge into a shared asset with CADDi

Omron, a global leader in industrial automation and electronic components, faced a significant challenge as its experienced specialists retired, taking valuable tacit knowledge with them. This knowledge was further locked away in siloed, disconnected databases, preventing teams from sharing critical engineering expertise. To address this risk to design quality, Omron partnered with CADDi and implemented its CADDi Drawer solution.

CADDi solved this by centralizing Omron's drawings, procurement data, and technical documentation into a single, searchable company-wide platform. This allowed designers to discover and apply knowledge from different business units, effectively turning decades of engineering expertise into a shared asset. The solution fostered new data-driven networks that connected people across the organization, sparking conversations and drawing out more tacit knowledge. As a result, Omron is now expanding the CADDi Drawer pilot into a company-wide strategy to build quality into parts at the earliest stage of development.

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