AI in manufacturing that clears the paperwork.
We build AI agents and software for manufacturers: quotes for special parts prepared from your past jobs, non-conformity reports sorted and routed, spare-part questions answered from your technical sheets. Each agent runs inside the systems your plant already uses, and a person approves what matters.
- Quotes for special parts
- Non-conformities
- Spare parts and after-sales
What AI in manufacturing actually does today
In most plants, AI in manufacturing earns its keep in the office before the shop floor. It reads the documents that hold production up, from customer orders to supplier certificates, and turns them into data your ERP can use. It drafts quotes from similar past jobs and answers after-sales questions from your technical sheets.
Predictive maintenance and machine vision get the headlines, and they need sensors, clean machine data and months of tuning. The faster wins sit in the paperwork: the special-part quote that waits for the one technician who understands the costing spreadsheet, the order PDF retyped line by line, the quality report that stays in an inbox until someone forwards it.
We start with one of those flows, connect it to your ERP and your bill of materials, and test it on your real past cases before it goes live. Your team keeps the final say on prices, deviations and anything sent to a customer.
What your plant lives with today
- The costing of a special part lives in a spreadsheet only one technician understands.
- Customer orders arrive as PDFs and get keyed into the ERP, line by line.
- Non-conformity reports wait in an inbox until someone has time to sort them.
- After-sales calls about spare parts end with someone digging through technical sheets.
- Supplier certificates expire before anyone notices.
Where to start: quotes, quality or after-sales
Three first projects that suit a manufacturing company. Each one is small enough to go live in weeks and runs on data you already have.
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Quotes for special parts
The agent finds similar past jobs, pulls their routings and material costs, and drafts a quote your estimator checks. The costing rules move out of the spreadsheet into software your team can maintain.
Replace the costing spreadsheet02
Non-conformities sorted and routed
Each report is classified by defect, part and supplier, compared with past cases and sent to the right quality engineer, with a first draft of the corrective action request.
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Spare-part questions answered
Customers and field technicians ask about references, compatibility and lead times. The assistant answers from your technical sheets, quotes the page it used, and hands over to a person when the answer is not in your documents.
Knowledge assistant
AI in manufacturing: which first project fits your plant
Choose the first project from the data you already hold. The usual candidates, side by side.
| First project | Data it needs | A sign it fits you | Who approves the output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quotes for special parts | Past quotes, routings and material costs | One person holds the costing knowledge, and quotes wait for them | Your estimator |
| Non-conformity reports | Past reports, part and supplier references | Reports pile up in an inbox before anyone sorts them | Your quality engineer |
| Spare-part and after-sales questions | Technical sheets, compatibility tables and references | The sheets are complete, and customers still call to ask | Your after-sales team, for anything the sheets do not cover |
| Customer order intake | Order PDFs, your item codes and price lists | Orders are keyed into the ERP line by line | Your order desk, for the lines that do not match |
| Supplier certificates | Certificates, their expiry dates and your supplier list | A certificate expires before anyone notices | Your purchasing or quality team |
| Predictive maintenance | Sensor history and reliable machine data | The office flows already run, and machine data is clean enough to act on | Your maintenance manager |
Real project, client kept private
One coherent software base for a maker of smart electronic components
A French manufacturer with long, technical sales cycles needed three things at once: a credible online presence, a structured sales channel, and internal tools to run the new activity. The usual route is a separate SaaS product for each, and an integration bill that never stops. We designed the whole thing as one system.
Client kept private, as for every project we publish. A second manufacturing case, a type case rebuilt from several real projects at industrial companies of 15 to 30 people: the central spreadsheet that carried quotes, orders and production follow-up, replaced by a connected business tool, with one staff member trained to change the rules without us.
- A website written for engineers and buyers, with dense product sheets and downloadable technical notes
- B2B online sales with professional accounts, online quotes and integrated payment
- Internal tools for leads, orders and customer relationships, built to talk to the existing production systems
- No retyping between modules, and no figure that differs from one tool to the next
- One team
- for the website, online sales and management tools, on one architecture
- Daily use
- the tools are in production and used by the company’s teams every day
The rules a manufacturer’s AI project has to respect
- NIS2, if your company is in scopeThe EU NIS2 directive (2022/2555) covers medium-sized and larger companies in several manufacturing activities, electronics and machinery among them. An agent that touches your systems then falls under your cybersecurity measures: access rights, logging, incident handling. We design it that way from the start.
- The Cyber Resilience Act, for connected productsIf you sell products with digital elements, the EU Cyber Resilience Act (Regulation 2024/2847) sets security duties over their lifecycle. When an agent touches your firmware documentation or your after-sales flow, we flag it during scoping.
- Your drawings stay yoursDrawings, routings and prices are trade secrets. They are processed on models hosted in Europe or on your own servers, under terms that exclude training on your data.
- A person signs offPrices sent to customers, deviations accepted on a part, supplier claims: the agent prepares, someone in your team approves, and every step is logged.
Manufacturing: your questions
Where should a manufacturer start: quotes, after-sales or quality?
Where the waiting is longest and the data already exists. Quotes often come first when one person holds the costing knowledge, quality when reports pile up, after-sales when the technical sheets are complete. The free 30-minute assessment is enough to pick one.
Do you connect to our ERP?
Yes, and that connection is most of the work: your ERP, your bill of materials, your shared drives. If your ERP has no API, we work from its exports or its database, with your IT team’s agreement.
Do we need to clean our data first?
We start with the documents and records you have, measure the gaps on real cases, and fix only what the first agent needs. A data project can wait until it has a reason.
How long until something runs?
A first agent typically goes live in four to eight weeks, depending on the systems involved. Scope and price are fixed in writing before we start. The first weeks run it on your past jobs and reports, so you judge it on your own cases before it goes live.
Can AI help on the shop floor too?
Yes, once the office flows run. Predictive maintenance and machine vision need sensors, clean machine data and months of tuning, so we start with the documents and connect shop-floor data when it is reliable enough to act on. The free assessment tells you where you stand.
Keep exploring
- All industries What AI changes, sector by sector
- AI use cases Every use case, by function and industry
- Wholesale and distribution Customer orders keyed in for you
- Logistics and transport Carrier emails and delivery proofs handled
- Construction Site reports that reach the office
- Document AI Orders, delivery notes and certificates read for you
- Document extraction demo A supplier invoice read and checked, live
Quote your next special part without the spreadsheet.
Name the task that holds your plant up: quotes, quality reports or after-sales calls. We reply within one business day and book your free 30-minute assessment, where we pick the first flow together.