Novineer Partners with AM Craft to Integrate AI-Powered Reverse Engineering for Flight-Certified Parts

Generative design software firm Novineer has partnered with contract manufacturer AM Craft to integrate its AI-powered reverse engineering tool, NoviVision, into AM Craft's workflow for producing flight-certified replacement parts. The tool allows workers to convert smartphone photographs of physical parts into editable CAD models in approximately two minutes, requiring no specialized training. This integration aims to accelerate the supply of certified parts for airlines and MROs, particularly for legacy systems where original digital blueprints are unavailable. AM Craft, which has produced over 35,000 flight-certified parts, will leverage the technology to streamline its process from physical part to certified replacement.

This partnership directly targets the persistent, high-value challenge of aerospace sustainment, where aircraft routinely outlive the production of their original spare parts. It fits the established pattern of software-service innovation seeking to de-bottleneck the long aerospace qualification grind by attacking the front-end digital thread problem. The collaboration is strategically layered, building on Novineer's existing partnership with Stratasys—a strategic investor in AM Craft—which integrated Novineer's NoviPath FDM simulation into Stratasys' GrabCAD Print Pro. This creates a contiguous software chain from reverse engineering to print simulation, specifically tailored for the polymer extrusion processes AM Craft uses for many interior and non-structural aircraft components.

The practical value hinges on seamless workflow integration and the tool's performance under the rigorous documentation and repeatability requirements of EASA certification. For AM Craft's engineers, the test is whether NoviVision's AI-generated models reduce manual touch time without introducing errors that require extensive rework, thereby genuinely compressing the lead time from broken part to certified replacement. The partnership's success will be measured not by the novelty of the AI, but by its ability to demonstrably lower cost and turnaround time for a specific, certified production cell within a regulated vertical.