AI by industry · Industry and manufacturing

The plant generates data. Nobody uses it.

Production sheets on paper, incidents in Excel and maintenance by calendar. We come in through shop-floor data capture and turn it into quality control, predictive maintenance and planning on real information.

Where it hurts

Shop-floor data with no system.

01

The sheet arrives the next day.

Production is known a day late. Shift decisions are taken blind.

02

Quality by manual sampling.

Defects caught late, rework and batches rejected by the customer.

03

Unplanned stoppages.

Maintenance by calendar, not by condition. The machine stops at the worst possible moment.

Where we come in

Four ways in.

We start with one line or one machine. We measure the return before extending it to the plant.

  1. 01

    Production data capture

    We digitise the shift sheet and connect machines (OPC-UA, PLC, sensors) to a live panel.

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  2. 02

    Assisted quality control

    Computer vision or rules over process data to catch the defect before it leaves the station.

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  3. 03

    Predictive maintenance

    Alerts by the machine’s real condition, not by date. Intervention history integrated.

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  4. 04

    ERP and planning integration

    Orders, stock and capacity talking to each other. Planning that sees the plant as it actually is.

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What keeps running
How it applies here · No case of our own yet

What we bring from what is already running.

We do not yet have a published product of our own in manufacturing, and we are not going to invent one. What we do transfer is the engineering that holds up our platforms in production: capturing data from heterogeneous sources, normalising it and turning it into auditable decisions. That is exactly what Eco-Impacto does with waste sensors on public streets — field telemetry, continuous ingestion, an operational panel and metrics a third party can verify. Swapping a bin for a production line means changing the connector and the data model, not the architecture.

Highest-impact use cases

  1. 01

    Digital production sheet

    The operator records on a tablet or the PLC sends it on its own. OEE, stoppages and rejects per shift visible the same day, not in Monday’s meeting.

    Typical first project: one line, 4–6 weeks.

  2. 02

    Defect detection at the station

    Computer vision or rules over process variables that warn before the part moves on. The defect is corrected where it is produced, not at final inspection.

    Attacks the cost of rework and rejected batches.

  3. 03

    Condition-based maintenance alerts

    Vibration, consumption or temperature outside the pattern trigger a warning with the machine’s history in front of you. Maintenance decides; the model does not give orders.

    Turns an unplanned stoppage into a planned one.

  4. 04

    Planning with real capacity

    Orders and stock from the ERP cross-referenced with the capacity the plant has today, not the theoretical one. Delivery commitments that can be met.

    Reduces missed delivery promises.

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What it is built with.

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