Customers

Who we build for, and who we are looking for first.

Draweon is pre-launch. We have no customers to name and will not borrow logos. This page says who the product is for, what a design partner commits to, and who we deliberately do not target.

Pre-launch3 to 5 design partnersPaid pilot on one line

Ideal customer

Wire and cable manufacturers, $150M to $30B revenue

Power transmission and distribution, building wire, automotive and EV harness, data and fibre, magnet and specialty makers running rod breakdown, drawing, annealing, stranding, cabling, insulation and jacket extrusion and testing lines.

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Qualification

What makes a good first plant

The criteria we check, in order.

We look for

  • Enough production volume and cable value to drive a clear ROI
  • Existing drawing, stranding or extrusion lines with laser, eddy-current, spark or vision inspection and MES, with API access
  • An executive mandate to raise yield or cut scrap, give-away or energy
  • Willingness to run a paid pilot with a defined scrap, defect or energy success metric

We do not target

  • Tiny job shops or rewind and repair operations with no continuous drawing or extrusion scope
  • Sites unwilling to integrate drawing, extrusion and inspection systems under IP and security controls
  • Buyers looking for a horizontal dashboard rather than a system that acts
Design partner programme

What the first cohort gets and gives

Three to five plants that operate high-value drawing, stranding, extrusion or inspection lines and agree to baseline scrap, defect, break, energy and first-pass-quality metrics.

  1. Shadow mode, weeks 1 to 3. We connect to the wedge workflow, observe and measure the baseline. Nothing is written.
  2. Assist mode, weeks 4 to 8. The agent recommends draw, lay or extrusion moves and predicts eccentricity, sparks or breaks. Your engineer approves each one. Accuracy and ROI are measured against the signed baseline.
  3. Graduated autonomy. Low-risk loops run inside limits with exceptions escalated, if the plant is satisfied with the recommendations.
  4. Conversion. The pilot converts to the Line tier and expands line by line. Design partners get written access terms for telemetry and QA outcomes, and a say in the roadmap.
Who it is for

Built for the people who run the line

We have no customer quotes to show yet and will not invent any. These are the three roles in a cable plant we build for, and the problems they bring to the first meeting.

Plant or Operations Director

Owns production rate, quality, scrap and yield, energy and delivery.

What this person is dealing with today

  • Fixed die and line-speed setpoints that cap dimension consistency, rate and yield
  • Expensive copper and aluminium scrap and length give-away eroding margin
  • A retiring wire-drawer and extrusion-operator workforce that caps rate

Process or Extrusion Engineer

Owns draw schedules, annealing, stranding lay and extrusion recipes, process windows and yield.

What this person is dealing with today

  • Diameter, eccentricity, lump and neckdown faults driving scrap and downgrade
  • Wire breaks and die wear halting high-speed lines
  • Drawing, stranding, extrusion and inspection siloed and reactive

Quality or Reliability Engineer

Owns cable quality to UL, IEC, IPC and automotive standards, defect and dielectric conformance, reel and length genealogy.

What this person is dealing with today

  • Spark and pinhole insulation failures causing rejects and safety escapes
  • Genealogy stitched together by hand across separate systems
  • Evidence for customer and regulatory review assembled after the fact
Segments

Where cable makers start

Power, building wire, automotive and EV harness, data and fibre, magnet and specialty. Most plants pick one line and one wedge, prove the number, then expand.

Power transmission and distributionGrid and renewables cable

Power transmission and distribution

Large conductors, long runs and dielectric requirements that leave no margin. Drawing, stranding and insulation control with fused inspection on every reel.

Building wireHigh-speed, high-volume

Building wire

Thin walls at high line speed, where give-away and spark faults decide margin. Extrio and Eddix on the insulation line first.

Automotive and EV harnessThin-wall, qualified constructions

Automotive and EV harness

Small conductors, thin walls and USCAR qualification. Concentricity and spark prediction before the reel, genealogy for every lot.

Data and fibreGeometry-sensitive

Data and fibre

Lay and geometry decide electrical performance. Cablyn holds lay and roundness and hands a round core to extrusion.

Magnet and specialty wireFine drawing and annealing

Magnet and specialty wire

Fine diameters, exact conductivity and softness. Drawix on break prediction and annealing control, energy per reel measured.

Run timeline · scenario

One scenario run, step by step

Every Draweon run is an ordered, inspectable sequence. This is run_3d7a1e on EX-3 · 2.5 mm² class 2 PVC building wire. Scenario completes in 10 steps with one approval gate. Wall settles at 0.80 mm nominal, minimum 0.66 mm, concentricity 0.93, no spark faults, reel R-30417 released with full genealogy.

run_3d7a1e EX-3 · 2.5 mm² class 2 PVC building wire illustrative scenario SUCCEEDED
  1. 01 ingest.order SUCCEEDED 0.6 s

    Plant Orchestrator · Pulled the construction spec for 2.5 mm² class 2 PVC building wire from MES: 7 × 0.67 mm conductor, 0.80 mm nominal wall, 0.62 mm minimum spot wall, 6 kV spark test, 48 km order. Locked the target envelope.

  2. 02 twin.simulate SUCCEEDED 41 s

    Line Twin · Simulated 36 candidate recipes on the as-run line twin for draw schedule, lay length and extrusion setpoints, ranked on wall variance, concentricity, predicted spark risk and polymer give-away.

  3. 03 draw.tension SUCCEEDED 1 m 48 s

    Draw-and-Anneal · Capstan tension on RB1 stepped down 6% as the die-wear estimate crossed its threshold. Diameter held at 0.670 mm ± 0.004 mm and the break-risk score fell from 0.31 to 0.09.

  4. 04 anneal.current SUCCEEDED 54 s

    Draw-and-Anneal · Annealer current trimmed against the live conductivity reading to hold the softness target without over-anneal through the speed change.

  5. 05 strand.lay SUCCEEDED 1 m 12 s

    Strand-and-Cable · Lay length set to 28 mm on bunching line ST2 with payoff tension balanced across 7 spools. Roundness index held above 0.97 into the extrusion payoff.

  6. 06 extrude.wall SUCCEEDED 2 m 36 s

    Insulate-and-Jacket · Screw speed and zone 3 temperature re-cut against melt pressure and material-lot moisture. Wall settled at 0.80 mm nominal, minimum 0.66 mm, concentricity 0.93.

  7. 07 inspect.fuse SUCCEEDED continuous

    Defect-and-Inspect · 6 cameras, the laser gauge, the eddy-current head and the spark tester fused at the edge. One neckdown precursor at 12,480 m flagged and cleared by a screw-speed trim before it reached the reel.

  8. 08 approve.human APPROVAL 38 s

    Plant Orchestrator · Line-speed ramp 1,100 to 1,250 m/min exceeded the site autonomy threshold. Held for the shift process engineer and approved at 06:41:52.

  9. 09 reel.change SUCCEEDED 2 m 05 s

    Robot-and-Handling · Reel change on take-up TU3 planned and executed by the handling robot. Payoff aligned and tension re-established inside the changeover window.

  10. 10 reel.release SUCCEEDED 1 m 10 s

    Quality-and-Conformance · Reel R-30417 released: genealogy written (conductor lot, draw and anneal record, lay, wall and concentricity trace, defect map, approvals) and checked against the construction spec.

Autonomy

Four levels, set per agent and per tag

A plant does not go from manual to unattended in one step. Draweon makes the level explicit, auditable and reversible at any time. The first release runs shadow mode, then assist mode, then graduated autonomy.

Autonomy levels and the human role at each
LevelWhat the agent doesWhat the human doesWhere it sits in a pilot
L1 · AdvisoryRecommends setpoints and explains why, with citationsEnters every change manuallyShadow mode, weeks 1 to 3
L2 · SupervisedProposes a write; it executes on approvalApproves each write in the review consoleAssist mode, weeks 4 to 8
L3 · BoundedWrites inside tag, rate and magnitude limitsApproves ramps, die changes and reel releaseGraduated autonomy, from week 9 if the plant is satisfied
L4 · UnattendedRuns the envelope without promptingSets the envelope; reviews the shift recordPlanned; after qualification on the construction
FAQ

Straight answers

The questions plant directors and process engineers ask in the first meeting.

Yes, but only within an explicit tag allow-list with per-tag rate and magnitude limits, and only at the autonomy level your plant has set. Level 1 is advisory: Draweon recommends and a human enters everything. Design partners start there, in shadow mode, before supervised writes.

Get started

Apply as a design partner

Tell us the line, the metric and the baseline you would sign. We will tell you honestly whether the wedge fits.