The plant needed parts. All it had was one sample puck.
An engineering manager at a Fortune 500 food & beverage plant sent CADmore a phone photo, three rough dimensions, and eventually the part itself. CADmore returned a reverse-engineered model the next day, then managed a 100-unit production run through Xometry. The parts are on the line today.
The situation
High-volume bottling lines depend on change parts. A puck is one of them: the fixture that carries and positions bottles as they move through filling and packaging. When a plant needs more of them, someone has to have a manufacturable model.
This plant didn't. The puck existed as a physical part with no CAD and no drawing, and the first message to CADmore was a phone photo with three rough dimensions. What the plant needed wasn't a scan or a sketch; it was a production-ready model, dimensioned drawings their team could approve internally, and then actual parts.
Why reverse engineering
A photo and three dimensions can't drive production. The part had to be reverse engineered from the physical sample into clean CAD, then documented in a dimensioned engineering drawing the plant could route through its own approval and purchasing process. That drawing matters as much as the model at a company this size: it is what internal stakeholders sign off on.
What we did
- Received the sample puck and delivered the reverse-engineered model the next day.
- Followed with a dimensioned engineering drawing for the plant's internal review.
- When the plant revised the spec mid-project - the puck needed to be 15 mm deeper while keeping the same 80 mm height - CADmore returned the revised drawing the same day, and flagged the material and cost impact up front rather than after approval.
- After the production order was approved, CADmore managed the run through Xometry: 100 pucks CNC machined in food-grade HDPE/UHMW plastic, with CADmore handling the quoting, ordering, and logistics so the plant had one point of contact.
- The first batch came back with a dimensional issue. CADmore caught it in QA, said so, and re-ran a corrected batch of 100 before the plant's final sign-off.
- A final design review with the plant team closed the project.
The outcome
Seven months after delivery, on a routine check-in, the plant's engineering manager wrote back:
“So far parts that we received are working well!”
The pucks are in service on the line, the revised drawing is on file for the next run, and the plant has a supplier that can go from a sample part to delivered production units without being handed a model first.
Where CADmore fits
CADmore reverse engineered the part and managed production through Xometry. That is the model: CADmore does the design and engineering step, manufacturing runs through your manufacturer or our partner network, and you get one accountable point of contact from sample part to shipped units. It works for a one-person company, and it works inside Fortune 500 procurement.