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AI for manufacturers, from the shop floor to the supply chain.

We cut downtime and scrap, automate quality and supplier paperwork, and plan production on the data your plant already records.

What your systems already hold
SourceWhat it recordsWhat it is worth
MES or production log
Cycle time, downtime reason codes, operator, shift
OEE that reconciles with the plant report
ERP
Orders, BOM, routing, inventory, purchase history
Demand and spares forecasts built on real consumption
Quality register
Defect codes, rework, scrap, inspection results
Defect patterns by line, shift, batch and supplier
Supplier documents
PPAP files, test certificates, drawings, certificates of analysis
Incoming quality checked without opening a PDF
Maintenance records
Work orders, breakdowns, spares issued, contractor response
The failure pattern, and the work order drafted from it
Warranty and field service
Claims, failure descriptions, dealer and service notes
A field failure visible months before it becomes a recall

Every row is a system you already run. That is where we start, and it is usually enough to prove the case.

In brief

We turn the records your plant already keeps into decisions you can act on.

EigenSpark builds AI systems and the software around them for discrete and process manufacturers, component suppliers and industrial product companies. We reduce downtime, scrap and energy cost using data your machines and operators already produce. We automate the paperwork around quality, suppliers and exports. And we run planning, procurement and supply chain work end to end, so a decision on the floor reaches the order book.

What we cover

The evidence your incentives and audits depend on.

Claims, certifications and export declarations, assembled from your own systems.

PLI claimsBIS Quality Control OrdersIATF 16949PPAP and batch traceabilityRecall readinessEU CBAMExport documentationGST e-invoicingISO audits

The starting position

Why plant data is hard to use.

A pilot that never scaled, free-text reason codes, and three systems that disagree about the same shift.

The pilot worked and never left the one line

A model trained on one line, one product and one operator’s habits does not move to the next plant. Scaling has to be designed in on day one.

The reason code is a free text box

Twelve spellings of the same fault make the analysis worthless. Fixing what the operator types comes first, and most proposals skip it.

MES, ERP and the quality register disagree

Each department trusts its own number. Anything quoted to a customer or an auditor has to come from one reconciled source.

The supplier sends a PDF, and quality retypes it

Test certificates and PPAP files arrive in a dozen formats. Incoming inspection becomes people copying numbers into a spreadsheet.

How an engagement runs

How we work with you.

Read what the plant already records, prove it on one line, then make the second plant cheap.

01

Read what the plant already records

Two to three weeks inside your MES, ERP, quality register and maintenance logs to find what is actually there, how clean it is, and which use cases the existing data can carry today. The answer is usually more than the plant expects and less than a vendor promises.

  • A data inventory per system, with quality scored
  • Use cases ranked by what the data can already support
  • The capture gaps named, with what it takes to close them
02

One line, one product, taken to production

A single use case built end to end on one line and one product family, with the people who will use it in the room. It runs against live data, in parallel with the current process, until the plant trusts the number.

  • Built against live production data
  • A review step before any output is acted on
  • Parallel run until the plant agrees the number
03

The layer that makes the second plant cheap

Ingestion, reconciliation, the reason-code taxonomy and the rule engine are shared. The second line and the second plant are configuration, and your own team does the configuring.

  • Shared ingestion and reconciliation across sites
  • Taxonomies and rules managed by your team
  • Deployed in your cloud tenancy or on plant hardware

Use cases

Twelve things we build for manufacturers.

Quality and production, then maintenance and energy, then supply chain, then the back office.

Defect and scrap pattern analysis

Inspection results, defect codes, rework and scrap read against line, shift, batch, machine and supplier lot, so the recurring cause is ranked by what it costs.

AI & Data Strategy →

Incoming quality from supplier documents

Test certificates, PPAP files and certificates of analysis read on arrival and checked against your specification, with anything out of tolerance flagged.

Document Intelligence Engine →

OEE and downtime reason mining

Machine logs and operator entries reconciled into one availability and performance figure, with free-text downtime reasons grouped into a taxonomy you control.

Data Engineering & Platforms →

Predictive maintenance on existing signals

Whatever your equipment already emits, read alongside breakdown history and spares issue, to catch the pattern before a failure. Work orders drafted for you.

Predictive Maintenance System →

Spares and consumables forecasting

Real consumption, production plan and lead time read into a forecast per item, with slow-moving stock surfaced and reorder points a planner can change.

AI & Data Strategy →

Energy and utility cost per unit

Meter data allocated to lines, shifts and product families, so energy cost sits against the part that consumed it and a tariff change can be argued with a number.

Data Engineering & Platforms →

Demand forecasting and S&OP support

Order history, dealer offtake, seasonality and open pipeline read into a forecast by product and region, with the assumptions visible so planning can push back.

AI & Data Strategy →

RFQ and quotation response

Enquiries and customer specifications read against your capability, routing and cost history, and returned as a draft quotation with the margin shown.

Generative AI →

Supplier contract and purchase order review

Supply agreements read into a record of price escalation, delivery, penalty and quality clauses, with every change from your standard tagged by severity.

Contract Risk Analyser →

PLI, QCO and certification evidence packs

Claims and declarations assembled from source systems: sales from invoices, investment from the asset register, conformity from test records, each with its source.

Continuous Compliance Monitor →

Warranty triage and field failure early warning

Claims, dealer notes and service reports read for the failure behind them, grouped by part, batch and production window, while it is still a warranty cost.

Agentic AI →

Drawing and specification review

Customer drawings and specifications compared against the last revision or your own standard, returned as a difference report with the field and page recorded.

Document Intelligence Engine →

The engineering half

What sits under the AI.

Four layers of ordinary engineering. They decide what the second plant costs you.

01
Shop floor

The signals your plant already produces

We read what your equipment and your operators already record. Instrumentation and vision on physical equipment are a specialist trade and we partner for them.

PLC and SCADA tagsPlant historianMES production logQuality registerEnergy sub-metersMaintenance work ordersOperator entries
02
Integration

The systems a manufacturer already runs

The systems of record stay. Most of the effort in a manufacturing project is getting them to agree with each other.

SAP and other ERPsMESPLM and CADWMSSupplier portalsDealer and service systemse-invoice and GST
03
Application

Screens for the plant, quality and planning

Built for a shop floor terminal and a planner's desk, with a review step before any recommendation is acted on.

Line and shift dashboardsDefect and reason captureInspection reviewPlanner overrideWork order draftingDocument archiveConfiguration console
04
Reporting

The numbers the plant and the ERP agree on

Defined once and used everywhere, so the plant report, the customer scorecard and the claim cannot disagree. Your team runs and owns it.

OEEFirst-pass yieldScrap and rework costMTBF and MTTRForecast accuracyOn-time in-fullEnergy per unit

We also run the training that goes with it: SQL and data engineering, cloud, enterprise systems and cybersecurity, alongside the AI tracks. A team that cannot query its own data cannot specify a model either.

What we offer manufacturing teams

Four ways to work with us.

Most manufacturers start with one line or one paperwork problem, and use three of the four.

Working in a specific function? See how we help Supply Chain & Operations teams.

Security and controls

How we keep you in control.

A person accepts the number, every figure traces to its system, and the rules stay yours.

01

A person accepts the number

Inspection results, forecasts and maintenance recommendations go to the engineer, the planner or the quality head before they count. The system proposes and evidences; the plant decides.

02

Every figure traces to its system

An OEE number, a claim line or a defect rate links back to the record it came from, in the MES, the ERP or the quality register, on the shift it was captured.

03

Taxonomies and rules belong to you

Reason codes, defect categories, tolerances and reorder logic are managed in a console by your engineers. A new product family or a changed specification does not need a release.

04

It keeps working when the network does not

Shop floor screens are built to hold their state through a link outage and synchronise when it returns, because a plant does not stop for connectivity.

FAQs

Questions manufacturing teams ask us.

Do you supply cameras and sensors for line inspection?

No, and we will say so in the first meeting. Vision systems on a moving line, instrumentation and retrofit sensing are a specialist trade with specialist vendors, and the integration work is mechanical as much as it is software. We build the analytics, the integration and the software on top, and we work alongside whoever supplies the hardware.

Our data capture is poor. Should we fix that first or start anyway?

Both, in that order, inside the same engagement. The first phase reads what your MES, ERP, quality register and maintenance logs actually hold and scores it. Some use cases run on that data today; others need the capture fixed first, and we say which is which before you commit to anything. Improving capture is usually a taxonomy and interface change, which is a software job.

We ran a pilot that worked and never scaled. Why would this be different?

Because the second line is designed for before the first one ships. The ingestion, the reconciliation, the reason-code taxonomy and the rules are built as shared, configurable layers, and your team does the configuring. A model tuned to one line, one product and one operator's labelling habits is the thing that does not travel, so we do not build that.

Do you replace our MES or our ERP?

No. Both stay the systems of record. Most of the work here is getting them to agree with each other and with the quality register, so that a number quoted to a customer, a regulator or a PLI claim comes from one reconciled source.

Can you help with a PLI claim or a QCO declaration?

Yes, on the evidence side. We build the data path that assembles a claim or a declaration from your invoice data, asset register, bill of materials and test records, with every figure carrying the document it came from. We do not certify, audit or sign; that stays with your auditors, your certification body and the officers who hold it.

How long does a first use case take?

Scoping runs two to three weeks inside your systems. A first use case on one line and one product family is typically a few months to a production-grade result, including a parallel run against the existing process. The second use case is materially cheaper because the ingestion and reconciliation layers already exist.

Is all of this AI?

No, and the parts that are not are usually what makes the AI work. Integration, reconciliation, the data model and the shop floor screens are ordinary engineering, and they are most of the effort. The same is true of the training: alongside the AI tracks we run SQL, data engineering, cloud, enterprise systems and cybersecurity.

Where does the data sit?

In your tenancy, or on plant hardware where the line cannot depend on a link. Shop floor screens are built to hold state through an outage and synchronise when connectivity returns. Where a hosted model is used at all, what is sent to it is agreed and recorded before build.

Related

Related pages.

The service this ships as, the two products behind it, and the teams that own it.

Send us a month of your plant data.

A downtime log, a quality register export, or a folder of supplier certificates. We call you within 48 hours and go through what the data can already carry, what the capture gaps are, and what a first use case would take.

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