A+W Software is bringing Order Entry AI powered by Mira to GlassBuild America's inaugural Innovation Lounge, using large language models and Google Gemini to convert PDF glass orders directly into ERP entries. For fabricators and specifiers, it hints at a faster, less error-prone quote-to-cut workflow.
The Announcement
When GlassBuild America opens at the Las Vegas Convention Center this week, one of the more consequential debuts won't be a piece of glass or a new frame profile. It will be a piece of software running quietly in a cloud tenant. A+W will present A+W Order Entry AI powered by Mira at GlassBuild America 2026, offering smaller glass fabricators a simple and scalable way to automate manual PDF order entry, designed to save time and improve efficiency without requiring complex implementation.
The product is being demonstrated live at Booth #IA-17 in the show's inaugural Innovation Lounge, alongside A+W's main booth on the show floor. A+W Order Entry AI powered by Mira is A+W's AI at work — it reads order information, flags what matters, and moves orders into your ERP faster. In the Innovation Lounge in Booth #IA-17, Sebastian Dick, manager innovations at A+W Clarity, will be running live demos throughout the show.
What Mira Actually Does
Under the hood, Mira is not a simple OCR macro. Powered by advanced Large Language Model (LLM) technology, Mira enables seamless interaction between human concepts and technical execution. The A+W Order Entry AI is hosted in the A+W Cloud, offering a comprehensive suite of features designed to enhance efficiency and user experience in automated order management. Automated order capture is achieved through OCR-based data recognition, leveraging Google Gemini to extract and process information from PDF documents received either by upload or email. The platform provides intelligent article mapping by matching customer specific article wording with ERP system articles.
The interface layer is where the LLM earns its keep. Users can benefit from chat-based document editing, interacting with Mira through a conversational chat interface to modify layouts, adjust data, and correct mappings without requiring programming expertise. Data is also accessible in a deeper UI level for advanced users to directly define and change values.
In plain English: a fabricator's CSR opens a customer's PDF purchase order — often a messy scan of a spreadsheet with hand-written notes and non-standard product callouts — and Mira extracts the line items, matches them against the fabricator's ERP catalog, and pushes the order through. When it gets something wrong, the user tells it what to fix in natural language rather than editing a template.
Why It Matters for the Building Envelope Supply Chain
PDF order entry is the invisible bottleneck in the commercial glazing supply chain. Architects and glazing subcontractors routinely submit orders for insulating glass units, laminated makeups, and heat-strengthened lites in whatever format their project workflow spits out — schedules, marked-up shop drawings, revised PDFs. Fabricators re-key that data into ERP systems like A+W Clarity, and every keystroke is a chance for a wrong coating orientation, a flipped tempered/annealed spec, or a missed edgework note.
That matters for three audiences:
- Architects and specifiers. Faster, cleaner order intake compresses the gap between spec release and cut ticket. When a curtain wall schedule changes mid-project, the ERP catches up in hours instead of days.
- Glazing contractors. Fewer transcription errors mean fewer re-orders, fewer field remakes, and less friction on change orders — the single biggest margin killer on commercial jobs.
- Fabricators. "GlassBuild America gives us a real chance to connect with the flat glass industry," said Dennis Tiegs, COO of A+W Clarity. "We're not just showing technology. We're showing how our software solutions for flat glass fabricators solve real challenges in dispatch, production, and the daily work that keeps your facilities moving." One goal ties it all together: help glass processors simplify their work, cut down manual tasks, and keep pace as jobs get more complex.
The Broader Trend
Mira isn't landing in a vacuum. The Innovation Lounge features the most forward-looking products in the areas of technology, sustainability, robotics, artificial intelligence and architectural glass. The AI zone inside the Innovation Lounge showcases how artificial intelligence is reshaping the way glass and fenestration companies design, quote and manufacture.
A+W is also using GlassBuild to advance adjacent automation plays. A+W Smart Companion Dispatch, shown as a prototype back in 2024, is now ready to run — dispatch teams can handle order picking, loading, route planning, and documentation right from a scanner, phone, or tablet. A+W Glass Lab shows automation up close: software, machines, and data working as one system. A+W Smart Factory keeps production running smart and connected.
The Practical Read
For architects and GCs, the near-term implication isn't that you'll interact with Mira directly — it's that your fabricator partners are about to get materially faster at responding to schedule releases, RFIs, and change orders. Ask your glazing subs which ERP platform their upstream glass suppliers run, and whether AI-assisted order entry is in play. Over the next 12 to 24 months, that answer is going to correlate directly with lead time and quote turnaround on commercial glazing packages.
The manual PDF-to-ERP handoff has been the glass industry's most durable inefficiency. If Mira works as advertised, GlassBuild 2026 may be remembered as the show where it finally started to disappear.