With $10.7M in funding from Founders Fund and Coatue, early aerospace wins, and support from Siemens, Dirac has built the first automated work instruction platform to drive Context-Aware Production Planning and build the bridge from engineering to manufacturing execution.
NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As factories return home and reshoring accelerates, one truth becomes clear: you can't ship know-how as easily as you can ship machines. Dirac is rebuilding the operational backbone of American manufacturing, one work instruction at a time. Earlier this year, Dirac announced the general launch of BuildOS, the first automated platform for creating and managing model-based work instructions. This release comes alongside a swell of momentum for the company, including $10.7M in funding and a new strategic partnership with Siemens to accelerate digital transformation for manufacturers around the world. Tomás Klausing, Siemens Director for Technology Partnerships put it best: "Dirac has built the first and only automated work instruction platform."
America Has Forgotten How to Build Great Things: Dirac Remembers
Dirac's mission is simple: to rebuild the memory of American manufacturing. Across aerospace, shipbuilding, and defense manufacturing, many frontline operations still rely on printed PDFs, outdated SOPs, and manual walkthroughs for training and task execution. Critical process knowledge—how to torque a joint, how to set up for a test, which sequence to follow when things go wrong—lives almost entirely in the heads of senior technicians. As retirement rates surge and production targets climb, defense and Tier 1 suppliers face a growing bottleneck: engineering files exist, but they're unusable without extensive onboarding.
This isn't just inefficient. It's strategically dangerous. While the U.S. produces just 1.5 submarines per year, China produces over 10 per month. Modernizing U.S. manufacturing isn't just an economic priority. It's a national security imperative.
"We don't have a labor crisis; we have a context crisis," said Dirac CEO and founder Filip Aronshtein. "You can't reshore production if nobody remembers how to build. That's what BuildOS is for. It turns engineering intent into repeatable execution and tribal knowledge into institutional knowledge, automatically."
Jogging America's Memory: CAD to Clarity in Minutes
Artificial Intelligence alone is not always the solution. BuildOS replaces static documentation with automated, animated, physics-aware, interactive, and dynamically updated work instructions. The platform automatically translates CAD files and BOMs into shareable step-by-step build instructions, complete with 3D models, tools, and embedded tribal knowledge.
What CAD did for mechanical engineers, BuildOS is now doing for manufacturing engineers: giving them tools to encode, standardize, and scale their processes across a new generation of builders. Early adopters like Ancra Aircraft, which supplies cargo loading systems to more than 60% of the global freighter fleet, have already seen major gains:
"America is investing billions in industrial capacity—but without platforms like Dirac's BuildOS, we're just recreating the same bottlenecks that made offshoring attractive in the first place. BuildOS gives manufacturers the intelligence layer they've never had to make reshoring successful," said Trae Stephens, Partner at Founders Fund. "We backed Dirac because they're giving manufacturers the tooling to compete on intelligence, not just incentives, and re-architecting American manufacturing from the ground up."
BuildOS isn't tech designed in a vacuum. The co-founders recruited a team with hardware backgrounds from industry—building planes, cars, and submarines—who experienced the problem first-hand. Dirac didn't build a platform for Silicon Valley's idea of manufacturing. They built it for the shop floors that form the foundation of American prosperity.
As a result, the platform is already being adopted across aerospace, defense, automotive, agriculture, and heavy industrial equipment, supporting companies navigating low-volume, high-mix production with increasing complexity and compliance burdens.
Dirac x Siemens: Closing the Loop Between Design and Production
Siemens and Dirac have established a partnership to optimize the connection between product design and physical manufacturing. Dirac's technology creates a bridge between PLM and CAD systems on one side and ERP and MES solutions on the other.
"The partnership with Dirac enables us to provide additional efficiency to our customers," explains Klausing. "Initial implementations of our integrated products have already led to improvements in work instructions generation, optimized manufacturability and more agile production planning. Based on these results, we will expand the partnership and deepen the integration of the Dirac platform into our digital manufacturing portfolio."
The partnership supports Siemens' strategic objectives to bring emerging technologies to market faster and to assist manufacturers in their digital transformation through flexible partnerships.
A Smart Labor Future, Not a Cheap Labor One
As the manufacturing industry transitions from mass to smart labor, BuildOS offers a bridge: a way to take the best of experienced operators' knowledge and make it accessible to every new hire from day one. In the face of a workforce transition and mounting geopolitical pressure, the most valuable asset a factory can protect is its memory and its ability to learn faster than it forgets.
"Our edge isn't just speed. It's repeatability," said Aronshtein. "BuildOS gives every engineer, technician, and team the ability to build something once, and then build it right every time after that." In doing so, Dirac aims to relight an industrial engine that's missing its wiring diagram.
About Dirac
Dirac is a leader in assembly automation software, dedicated to advancing American industry through innovative solutions that streamline and enhance the production process. Its flagship product, BuildOS, automatically generates precise assembly work instructions directly from CAD files, enabling companies to quickly transition from design to production. Dirac is committed to strengthening America's manufacturing sector by providing tools that enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure the highest levels of productivity.
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