Manufacturing

The Factory Brain.

The orchestration layer between ERP and PLC — the one neither system covers. AI recommends. Humans approve. The PLC executes.

What it does

Seven domains, one planning layer.

Every recommendation is explainable and reversible — planners approve, override, and set priorities.

  • Sales

    Demand prediction, order prioritisation, delivery prediction

  • Inventory

    Stock optimisation, raw material alerts, reorder points

  • Production

    Finite capacity scheduling, line balancing, shift planning

  • Maintenance

    Predictive maintenance, planned downtime, spare-parts prediction

  • Quality

    Vision inspection, root-cause suggestions, rework prediction

  • Dispatch

    Truck planning, delivery ETA, route consolidation

AI never replaces the PLC. It makes PLC-driven factories smarter. Cloud, hybrid, or fully on-premise — 4 to 12+ weeks to deploy.

Human

Approves, overrides, sets priorities

Factory Brain · AI

AI planning · scheduling · optimisation · recommendations

Business & operations

ERP · MES · Inventory · CRM · Purchase · Maintenance · Quality · Dispatch

Deterministic control

SCADA · PLC · CNC · Sensors · Vision systems

Machines

Lines, cells, tooling, plant

10–20%
less machine idle time
Better scheduling
15–30%
less scheduling effort
AI-assisted planning
Lower
inventory carrying cost
Demand prediction
Improved
on-time delivery
Dynamic dispatch
Who needs a Factory Brain
  • Schedules built in spreadsheets

    Planners re-plan by hand whenever an order or machine changes

  • Unplanned downtime

    Breakdowns found after the line stops, not before

  • ERP says one thing, the floor another

    No layer reconciling plan against actual production

  • Quality caught late

    Defects found at final inspection rather than at the cell

  • Inventory buffered on instinct

    Safety stock covering for forecasts nobody trusts

  • Expertise walking out the door

    Scheduling knowledge held by a handful of people

Industry validation: Siemens, ABB and Hitachi all orchestrate above the PLC rather than replacing it — AI predicts and recommends, automation executes, humans approve.

Deployment posture

Cloud

Fastest, usage-based

Hybrid

On-premise data, 4–8 weeks

On-premise

Fully in-house, 8–12+ weeks

Get in touch

Bring us one line, one plant, one planning problem.

We baseline idle time and scheduling effort before we start, and report against them after we ship.

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