Application Engineering Intelligence
Understand the knowledge behind every AI answer: seven categories over fifteen knowledge packs, selected per request.
Updated 23 September 2026
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- Why
- A request is only useful once it is read in your industry's own terms.
- How
- Nothing to configure: every workspace has all of it, and each request draws on the packs it needs.
Seven categories, fifteen packs
Each knowledge pack carries the vocabulary, designation grammar and extraction conventions of one supply area.
| Category | Knowledge packs |
|---|---|
| Cutting tools and abrasives | Cutting tools and Abrasives and grinding |
| Machines, workholding and automation | Machine tools and CNC, Workholding and toolholding, Hydraulics and pneumatics and Power transmission |
| Fabrication and joining | Welding and joining, Sheet metal and fabrication and Fasteners and fixings |
| Measurement and quality | Metrology and inspection |
| Surface engineering and heat treatment | Coatings and heat treatment |
| Materials and stock | Materials and stock and Plastics and composites |
| Fluids, consumables and workshop | Fluids and lubricants and MRO and workshop |
Selected per request
A quick scan of each request picks only the packs it needs before any model runs, so a bearing enquiry is read with power transmission knowledge and a regrind list with cutting tool knowledge.
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- Cutting tools
- Abrasives and grinding
- Machine tools and CNC
- Workholding and toolholding
- Hydraulics and pneumatics
- Power transmission
- Welding and joining
- Sheet metal and fabrication
- Fasteners and fixings
- Metrology and inspection
- Coatings and heat treatment
- Materials and stock
- Plastics and composites
- Fluids and lubricants
- MRO and workshop
Profiling line: 2 of 15 packs selected before any model runs
Real request lines lighting only the packs the prescan selects.
What AEI does with a request
- Reads the text, tables and scanned pages you sent into one document.
- Sets out each line with its units normalised and a citation behind every value.
- Fills a missing detail only where your customer's own history or the stated application settles it, and shows it as an assumption you can change.
- Matches each line by calculation against your catalogue, your designs and your services.
- Answers with the matches, the questions it still needs answered and the draft.
The packs know what a designation means. What you stock, charge or will substitute comes from your own catalogue, fields and pricing, which is why the same enquiry gives two businesses two different answers, each right for the business that received it.
Cite or abstain: AEI never invents a specification, tolerance, price or part number. A value the request does not state stays empty and becomes a question.
AEI sits behind every product that reads a request. More on the website: AEI.
Related
- The AI interfaceUse the one AI input: pick the right mode, find past threads and know what it can do in your workspace.
- How requests are structuredRead the structured request: typed lines, normalised units and a citation behind every value.
- Working with matchesRead how a line is matched to your catalogue, and overrule the match when you disagree.
- ClarificationsAnswer what a request left out, see what was assumed, and have the line resolved again.