01 — The seat
Autonomy,
built from the desk.
This is the view from my chair. One screen, one AI agent, and the whole chain on the other side of the glass: the parts we engineer, the suppliers we buy from, the floor that builds, and the network that delivers.
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02 — The agent
Intent in.
Motion out.
I describe the outcome. The agent works out which systems, suppliers and machines it touches, simulates the change, and only then commits it.
- Plan natural-language goals into task graphs across PLM, ERP and MES
- Simulate parts, cells and supply plans in their digital twins
- Verify safety envelopes, tolerances, costs and dates automatically
- Deploy to PLCs, robot controllers, CNCs and supplier portals
03 — Engineering
Parts that
design themselves.
Requirements come straight out of the customer's package. Geometry grows from the load case, gets checked against the machines we actually own, and is programmed and inspection-planned before anyone opens a CAD seat.
- Intake drawings, specs and emails into structured, traced requirements
- Generate topology-optimised geometry under real load cases
- Check DFM against our machines, tool library and process capability
- Program CAM toolpaths simulated on the target machine
- Inspect FAI plan and CMM program generated from the model's PMI
04 — The floor
Six-axis arms that
learn the line overnight.
Vision-guided picking, closed-loop inspection, and 5-axis CNC cells along the wall that receive toolpaths minutes after a design locks. Every motion is a decision the agent can explain.
05 — Intralogistics
Floors that drive.
Ceilings that fly.
Autonomous mobile robots route material in real time while drones count inventory overhead, so the stock the planners see is the stock on the racks.
06 — The network
The supply chain
is the factory too.
Most lead time isn't spent on the floor. It's spent waiting on quotes, confirmations, certificates and containers. The agent watches every supplier and lane, and acts before a delay reaches the dock.
- Source RFQs out, quotes normalised, award recommended with trade-offs
- Confirm POs acknowledged and promise dates written back to ERP
- Sense port, carrier and capacity signals on every lane
- Reroute qualified alternates switched in before a stock-out
07 — Automate the manual first
The first things to automate aren't robots.
They're the emails, spreadsheets and re-keying between systems. Here is every manual hand-off from customer request to delivered part, scored by the hours it eats, the lead time it adds and the errors it causes, against how hard it is to automate.
Baseline: a representative 200-person discrete manufacturer with about 40 active suppliers. The numbers are typical ranges, not a measurement of any one plant. A real audit of your workflows replaces them, and the ranking moves with it.
08 — Your turn
Where does your manual work hide?
Bring a part, a supplier mess, or a blank warehouse. We start with the manual hand-offs that cost you the most, then automate outward until the floor runs itself.
Start with an audit