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AI adoption: Manufacturing

AI adoption in Manufacturing

On the shop floor, AI pays off in fewer stoppages, fewer defects and knowledge that does not leave with experienced staff.

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Use cases

Where AI pays off first

  • 01

    Predictive maintenance

    Early warnings from machine data before a failure stops the line.

  • 02

    Visual quality inspection

    Camera-based checks that catch defects consistently at line speed.

  • 03

    Knowledge assistants

    Answers from manuals, procedures and past fixes for operators and engineers.

The path

The path for Manufacturing

Four stages, each ending with a decision. The first line of every stage is specific to your industry.

Step 1: Assess

Find where AI is worth it

  • Check which machines and lines already produce usable data and what downtime costs on each
  • List the work that is repetitive, slow or stuck in documents
  • Score each use case by value, feasibility and risk

Use case scoring

12 assessed
Use caseValueFeasibleRiskPredictive maintenanceVisual quality inspectionKnowledge assistants

Owner: Plant maintenance lead

Measure: unplanned downtime

Step 2: Pilot

Prove one use case

  • Pick one line or one defect type and run the model alongside the current process
  • Build one narrow use case with real users and real data
  • Write evaluation tests before the first prompt

Pilot: predictive maintenance

Week 4

Run beside current checks

Unplanned downtime, line 2

Baseline14 hrs
Pilot5 hrs

Decision: continue

Reviewed with the owner

Step 3: Integrate

Put it where work happens

  • Connect alerts to maintenance work orders and quality systems so they lead to action
  • Connect to the systems people already use, not a separate tool
  • Add access control, logging and data protection

Connected systems

  • MESLine events
  • SensorsVibration and heat
  • CMMSWork orders
Access controlLoggingData protectionUsage policy
Step 4: Scale

Make it routine

  • Roll out line by line and add planning and supply forecasting
  • Reuse the same platform, patterns and guardrails for the next use case
  • Move from assistants to agents where the evidence supports it

AI use cases

This quarter
  • Predictive maintenanceLive
  • Visual quality inspectionLive
  • Knowledge assistantsPilot

64% less downtime

On three lines

Manufacturing

Connecting the shop floor to the business.

Manufacturers sit on valuable machine and process data. We build the systems that collect it, make sense of it and put it in front of the people running the plant.

What we buildWhat we build

Find your first AI use case

Tell us about your business and where the time goes. We will come back with the use cases we would assess first and how we would test them.

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Your project plan

Ready five days after the first call

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Approach

Fixed scope
  • Start with sign-up and onboarding, the riskiest flow
  • Ship to a pilot group every week from week three
  • Add the invoice reading agent once data is flowing
First release
Week 4
Demos
Weekly
Code
Yours

Team

5 people
  • PLProduct lead
  • SESenior engineer
  • SESenior engineer
  • PDProduct designer
  • AIAI engineer

Timeline

10 weeks
Discovery
Design
Build
Launch