Agents that do the routine work across the manufacturing value chain — scanning programmes for margin and obsolescence risk, chasing supplier documents, ranking maintenance work, reconciling primary and secondary sales — on the governed data fabric. Policy decides what goes straight through; a named person approves everything else, and no quality, safety or recall decision is ever taken by an agent alone.
These are agent designs from our AI & Agentic Engineering practice, mapped to the manufacturing value chain for automotive OEMs and suppliers, other manufacturers and trading & distribution businesses. Agents linked to an accelerator mirror the SCIKIQ manufacturing accelerators; the live agent demo runs on banking sample data under the same controls.
Engineers and scientists get cited answers from lab systems and documents, and programmes see component and compliance risk before it lands.
Answers engineering and materials questions from LIMS/ELN data and documents, digitising charts, tables and formulas, and shows every source behind the answer.
See the accelerator →Monitors parts in active programmes for end-of-life and last-time-buy notices and quantifies the exposure per programme.
See the accelerator →Traces the impact of an engineering change across BOMs, open orders, stock and suppliers and drafts the change summary.
Supplier risk, documents and demand signals watched continuously, with buyers deciding the orders.
Scores suppliers on delivery, quality, financial and geographic signals and flags single-source parts at risk.
Tracks PPAP submissions, certificates and export-eligibility documents per part and supplier, chases what is missing and assembles the pack for review.
See the accelerator →Drafts replenishment orders from demand, stock and lead times within approved suppliers and price agreements.
Matches purchase orders, goods receipts and invoices and explains the mismatches.
See the accelerator →Plant managers see OEE losses and capacity conflicts as they happen, with recovery options drafted for the shift.
Breaks OEE into availability, performance and quality losses by line and shift and ranks the causes.
Detects when committed orders oversubscribe line capacity or the engineering bench and quantifies the impact.
See the accelerator →Drafts the shift handover from MES events, downtime and quality holds.
Defects, warranty claims and field signals joined up so quality teams see emerging issues early — and keep every decision.
Clusters warranty claims and field reports by part, supplier, build period and failure mode, and flags emerging patterns.
Classifies non-conformance reports and defect photos and drafts the 8D problem statement.
Assembles audit evidence for IATF 16949, ISO 9001 or customer audits from QMS, training and calibration records.
Condition and failure history turned into a ranked work list, with maintenance planners deciding.
Watches condition signals and failure history to estimate failure risk for critical assets.
Ranks open work orders by risk to production, safety and cost and proposes the week's schedule.
Forecasts spare-part demand for critical assets and drafts replenishment within agreed stock policies.
Primary and secondary sales in one view, with dealer and distributor signals routed to the right owner.
Joins distributor (DMS) secondary sales to SAP primary sales and explains stock, scheme and price differences.
See the accelerator →Tracks dealer and distributor performance, stock cover and credit exposure and flags those at risk.
Checks dealer and distributor scheme claims against the scheme rules and sales evidence and drafts the credit note.
Drafts quotations from price lists, cost and capacity with margin shown against target.
See the accelerator →Parts, service and installed-base data working together so the right part is in the right depot.
Forecasts aftermarket parts demand by depot from the installed base, service history and seasonality.
Summarises service cases and suggests likely fixes and parts from history and manuals.
Identifies supplier-attributable warranty cost and drafts the recovery claim with evidence.
Programme margin, cost and cash watched against plan, with a value ledger that tracks what the agents found and what was realised.
Compares quoted against delivered margin by programme and quantifies the gap in money terms.
See the accelerator →Tracks every agent finding from identified to approved, in flight and realised, so value is counted once.
See the accelerator →Drafts month-end commentary on cost, price and volume variances by plant and product.
Checks export eligibility, origin and classification evidence for shipments and flags gaps.
See the accelerator →Policy decides what goes straight through; people approve everything else; a kill switch halts all agents. The live demo runs on banking sample data — the same controls apply to every Manufacturing squad.