INDUSTRIES / MANUFACTURING
AI agents that help your plant run, and keep running after go-live.
Powerede builds AI agents for mid-size manufacturers that take on the busywork around scheduling, quality, and maintenance. Powerede does not hand the system over and walk away. Powerede keeps it accurate, keeps the costs in check, and stays on call once it is live.
INFRASTRUCTURE AZURE
DATA AND AI (AZURE)
DIGITAL AND APP INNOVATION
35%Less time spent on manual work at a multi-site manufacturer, after Powerede agents took over shift-change reporting and exception logging.
Most plant teams lose the first hours of the day to catching up.
Before anyone can act, someone has to figure out what changed overnight. That answer is spread across the ERP, the MES, the historian, and a few spreadsheets, and by the time it is pieced together, the shift is already behind.
Our schedulers spend the first two hours of every shift finding out what changed overnight. By the time they know, the line has already lost the morning.
Operations Director, multi-site manufacturer
Three ways AI agents give your team back its time.
These are the places Powerede sees the fastest payback on a plant floor. Agents handle the repetitive tracking and paperwork so your team can spend its time on the work that needs a person. Powerede sets the targets with you during Discover and reports on them every month.
Scheduling
Keep the schedule current on its own
Agents watch supplier updates, material on hand, and line capacity. When something slips, they suggest a new running order and flag the planner before a shortage stops the line.
- Overnight changes sorted out before the shift starts
- Planners get to spend their time deciding instead of digging
- Fewer surprises that halt a line mid-run
Quality
Catch quality issues and log them right away
Agents spot an out-of-spec result, trace the likely cause across process and batch data, and send it to the right engineer. The record gets written when it happens.
- Root cause found faster, with less back and forth
- Audit records ready without a scramble later
- Fewer bad parts making it to the customer
Maintenance
Fix equipment before it takes a line down
Agents read equipment data against maintenance history and parts on hand, then line up the work while the machine is still running.
- Fewer emergency call-outs and less rush freight
- More uptime across the equipment you run
- Parts on hand for what is actually coming up
Here is one that shipped.
A manufacturer with several sites ran shift changes on phone calls and spreadsheets. Powerede put agents on the production lines to pull the line status together, log exceptions against an owner, and write the shift handover before the next crew showed up.
Live
Powerede engagement
35%
Less time on manual work
1/3
Less unplanned downtime
HOW POWEREDE HELPS
Four pillars, put to work on a plant floor.
Powerede delivers every project through the same four pillars. What changes from one industry to the next is what each pillar actually does.
AI Multi Agents
Agents that handle scheduling, quality, and maintenance together
Each agent owns one area and passes work to the others. A supplier delay reaches the scheduling agent, it checks capacity and material, suggests a new order, and hands the affected quality checks to the quality agent. Built on Microsoft Agent Framework and Azure AI Foundry.
Each agent acts only inside the limits that Powerede helps you set up
Anything touching a released work order waits for a person to approve
Firm customer dates are locked and cannot be moved by an agent
Every decision is logged so you can show your work in an audit
AI-Infused Applications
Screens your team will actually use
A bare instruction gets ignored. Powerede builds the screens where a suggestion shows up with the reasoning behind it, sized for someone holding a tablet on the floor rather than sitting at a desk.
Mobile-friendly screens for supervisors, planners, and quality engineers
The reasoning shown next to the suggestion, including what got ruled out
Overrides recorded against the person who made them
Power Apps where it fits, or .NET, TypeScript, and React where it does not
Microsoft Fabric Data Services
One version of the truth across your systems
An agent is only as good as the data behind it. Powerede builds the Fabric foundation that lines up the ERP, MES, and historian so they agree, and tracks where every number came from.
One clean, current version of each work order
Live equipment data instead of overnight batch loads
Search across work instructions, manuals, and past issues
A warning when a feed goes stale before an agent uses it
Managed AI Services
Powerede stays on after go-live
Most of the risk starts the day the system goes live, which is the day a lot of vendors leave. Pillar 04 is the retainer that keeps the system honest at month six and month twelve.
Accuracy checked against the targets set during Design
Costs forecast for busy seasons and reported every month
Connections kept working when your ERP or MES changes
A named contact and agreed response times when something breaks
HOW POWEREDE HELPS
Four pillars, put to work on a plant floor.
Powerede delivers every project through the same four pillars. What changes from one industry to the next is what each pillar actually does.
AI Multi Agents
Agents that handle scheduling, quality, and maintenance together
Each agent owns one area and passes work to the others. A supplier delay reaches the scheduling agent, it checks capacity and material, suggests a new order, and hands the affected quality checks to the quality agent. Built on Microsoft Agent Framework and Azure AI Foundry.
Each agent acts only inside the limits that Powerede helps you set up
Anything touching a released work order waits for a person to approve
Firm customer dates are locked and cannot be moved by an agent
Every decision is logged so you can show your work in an audit
From first call to live system in five steps.
Powerede runs the same five steps on every project. The same team stays with you from the first call through to running the system.
Walk through how your scheduling, quality, and maintenance run today
Check what your Microsoft setup can already do
Pick the jobs with the best payback first
Agree what success looks like before scope is set
Set what each agent is allowed to do
Plan how it connects to ERP, MES, and quality systems
Agree the numbers you will track and how often
Write down the risks and how to handle them
Build to the plan you signed off on
Test the messy cases: late data, missing data, clashes
Security review before anything ships
Write docs so your team can run it themselves
Start in watch-only mode so the team can check it
Turn on the agents one area at a time
Train the people who will use it
Dashboards and alerts on from the first shift
Keep an eye on accuracy and cost
Update connections when your systems change
Answer incidents inside agreed times
Keep audit records current between reviews
Walk through how your scheduling, quality, and maintenance run today
Check what your Microsoft setup can already do
Pick the jobs with the best payback first
Agree what success looks like before scope is set
COMMON QUESTIONS
What manufacturers ask first.
These are the questions we hear most often in first conversations. If yours is not listed here, it takes about 20 minutes to answer it directly, no pitch deck required.
Bring the schedule, the quality log, and the one system nobody trusts.
A Discovery Session is complimentary, with nothing to sign. Powerede walks your scheduling, quality, and maintenance work, finds the best place to start, and tells you straight whether Powerede is the right fit.