RemnantOpt Copilot — AI in Remnant Management

ZeroZeta's RemnantOpt Copilot An AI-driven Remnant Management layer for Indian fabrication, shipbuilding and heavy steel shops — built for the Remnant Management engineer, not the CAM consultant.

Every remnant in your yard is
already paid for. Most of it
leaves as scrap weight.

RemnantOpt Copilot turns that paid-for steel back into BOM lines. A drawing comes in, every part is matched against your remnant yard before procurement is touched, and the savings land on the same screen as the purchase order.

The ZeroZeta
position

Indian fabricators don't need another imported CAM seat. They need a Remnant Management layer that treats every remnant as live inventory and speaks the language of the cut list and the language of the cost sheet — kerf, edge-clearance, kg saved, rupees recovered. RemnantOpt Copilot sits between the CAD file and the cutting machine, so the scrap rack stops being a graveyard and starts being a store.

60^%

of a fabrication shop's cost sheet is raw material — the largest single lever for margin.

Ministry of Steel · GoI

15^%

of sheet and plate material ends up as remnants — most of it reusable, most of it scrapped.

World Steel Association

Where RemnantOpt Copilot plugs into your workflow

01 · Import

DWG, DXF & remnant data

02 · Match

Parts to remnants & plate

03 · Cut

Machine-ready output

04 · Ask

AI Copilot, anywhere

From a DWG upload to a signed PO — five steps, one screen.

The RemnantOpt Copilot workflow is built around how a fabrication shop actually closes a job. Drop a drawing in, get a Bill of Materials parsed and grade-checked, define how aggressively you want to reuse remnants, and walk out with a part-by-part decision: which remnant covers which BOM line, how much you saved, and what still needs to go on a purchase order. No CAM consultant. No Excel handover between stations.

From DWG to a signed PO — in one workflow

Drop the drawing in. The platform reads it.

The Remnant Management engineer opens a fresh job and uploads the cutting drawing — DWG, DXF or PDF. Before they've even chosen a process, the platform has parsed every dimension, mapped material grades to your Excel master, and produced a structured Bill of Materials with item codes, thickness, form (plate / sheet / pipe), grade and quantity. Every BOM line is now a candidate for Remnant Management.

This is the moment the workflow stops being clerical. Drawings stop being PDFs that sit in WhatsApp. The BOM stops being an Excel that someone retypes. Each BOM line is now a query against your remnant yard — graded, thickness-matched and area-filtered — before the storekeeper has even walked to the rack.

Five steps · one screen · one workflow

Step 01

Upload drawing

DWG, DXF or PDF — straight from the design desk. No re-drawing, no Excel handover.

Step 02

Get the BOM

Every part extracted with grade, thickness, form and quantity — ASME-aware, mapped to your material master.

Step 03

Define matching policy

Grade filter, thickness filter, area filter and bounding-box fit — set how aggressively the engine reuses remnants.

Step 04

Get remnant matches & savings

Per-BOM-line: which remnant covers it, which bay it sits in, rupees saved against fresh-plate cost.

Step 05

Auto-PO for the rest

Parts with no matching remnant roll into a single, costed purchase order — ready for procurement.

Built on / Plays well with your stack

DXF / DWG / PDF on Day 1On-prem or cloudProcess-aware kerf & clearanceIndian data residencyConfigurable policy to find remnants

Why us

Most Remnant Management software is built for OEM cost sheets in dollars. Ours is built for the Indian fabricator's scrap rack.

01

Remnants are first-class, not afterthought

Most CAM tools assume a fresh sheet. We assume a rack of irregular remnants. Every Remnant Management run considers existing remnant inventory before it considers cutting new stock — and every cut closes the loop by ledger-tagging what's left.

02

Geometry-native, not raster-approximated

Concave, irregular and rotated polygons are handled as polygons — not pixelated bitmaps. Kerf and edge-clearance are applied as geometric offsets, not visual buffers. The output is dimensionally exact to the cutting head.

03

India-first cost & deployment model

No per-seat dollar pricing. On-prem available for defence and shipbuilding shops that cannot upload cut files. Multi-process from one codebase — plasma, laser, oxy-fuel, waterjet, router. Built and supported from Bengaluru, on Indian fabrication invariants.

Where it fits · how it's built

One Remnant Management layer. Twelve industries. Engineered for industrial-scale workloads.

RemnantOpt Copilot is built for fabrication operations that generate remnants at industrial volume — and where every kilogram of material recovered shows up on next quarter's P&L. The same architecture that handles Remnant Management for a 200-tonne-a-month general fab shop handles the polygon complexity of a shipyard or aerospace cell.

Industries it serves

Shipbuilding

Aerospace

Automotive

Heavy fabrication

Steel plants

Furniture & wood

Construction

Packaging

Textile manufacturing

Oil & gas fabrication

Industrial equipment

Glass & composites

What we commit to engineer

Industrial-scale optimisation speed Multi-strategy Remnant Management attempts evaluated and ranked fast enough to keep up with shop-floor work-order flow — not overnight batch runs.

Scalable geometric processing Polygon engine handles irregular, concave and rotated parts at the part counts a real fab job ships — not just textbook rectangles.

Operator & engineer-friendly visualisation Final Remnant Management layouts rendered for the storekeeper, the Remnant Management engineer and the plant head — same data, three lenses.

Talk to us about a 6-week pilot
on one cutting process.

Week 1 — we import your DXF library and remnant rack. Week 3 — we take over one process. Week 6 — measured kg saved, rupees recovered. No annual contract until the weighbridge agrees.

Talk to us

info@zerozeta.com

Based in

Bengaluru · India