Data in
MES and downtime logs
Events, stoppages and scrap
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Case study · Manufacturing
Shift handover for a mid-sized machining plant
Client
A mid-sized precision machining plant supplying automotive OEMs
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Solution families
AI and Autonomous Operations · Data and Decision Intelligence
Time to proof
3 weeks
Executive summary
Downtime reasons and open quality issues were lost between shifts, so every morning began by rediscovering yesterday's problems. A shift-brief layer over the plant's MES now gives every line a consistent handover, reviewed by the supervisor in minutes.
Key outcomes
14
Lines with a consistent brief every shift
60%
Reduction in repeat downtime investigations
10 min
Handover meetings, down from 30
Solution and architecture
What we composed.
Events, stoppages and scrap from the MES and downtime logs flow into a brief generator that summarises each line's shift. Supervisors edit and confirm the brief on a tablet, and open issues carry forward automatically to the next shift's dashboard.
Intelligence
Brief generator
Summary by line and shift
Workflow
Supervisor review
Edits and confirms on a tablet
Systems of record
Shift dashboard
Open issues carried forward
Solutions Intelligence, applied.
Level 1
Sense
Sat in on handovers and traced where information was lost.
Level 2
Reason
Decided what the brief must contain and who signs it off.
Level 3
Compose
Designed the generator and tablet review around the existing MES.
Level 4
Prove
Piloted on four lines against agreed accuracy and time targets.
Level 5
Evolve
Rolled out line by line and added quality issues to the brief.
Technology
MES connectorPythonLLM gatewayPostgresDashboardsTablet app