RAG & Knowledge Systems for Manufacturing
Manufacturers hold critical knowledge in SOPs, work instructions, maintenance manuals, quality records, and supplier specs, and it is scattered across systems and the shop floor. When a technician needs the right torque spec or a quality engineer needs the controlling ISO procedure, a wrong or stale answer creates safety and quality exposure. RAG fits because it grounds answers in your controlled documents and cites them, while respecting the OT and IT boundary so shop-floor systems stay protected. We build retrieval over your quality, maintenance, and supply-chain knowledge so the right procedure reaches the right person, fast and traceable.
RAG & Knowledge Systems, built for manufacturing
We ingest SOPs, work instructions, maintenance manuals, and quality and supplier records, with version control so only the controlling revision is retrieved.
Hybrid retrieval returns the exact step or spec, and every answer cites the document and revision so quality and safety hold up to audit.
We design for the OT and IT boundary, keeping retrieval on the IT side and feeding the floor without exposing control systems.
An eval harness scores accuracy and citation quality on real shop-floor and quality questions before each release.
Where it pays off in manufacturing
Work instruction lookup
Give technicians the exact, cited step or spec from the controlling work instruction, reducing errors and rework on the line.
Maintenance and troubleshooting
Surface cited procedures and prior fixes from manuals and logs to cut downtime when a machine faults.
Quality and ISO answers
Answer quality questions against current ISO procedures with citations, so audits and CAPA work stay grounded.
Supplier spec search
Retrieve and cite supplier specs and supply-chain documents so sourcing and engineering work from the same facts.
Technicians and engineers find the controlling procedure in seconds instead of digging through binders, cutting downtime and quality errors with every answer cited to the right revision.
Manufacturing AI, answered
Retrieval runs on the IT side and never reaches into control systems, so the OT and IT boundary stays intact. The pipeline deploys in your own environment, keeping operational knowledge under your control.
No. We version-control documents so only the controlling revision is retrieved, and every answer cites the document and revision. Superseded procedures are flagged, which matters for ISO compliance and safety.
Yes. We ingest SOPs, maintenance manuals, quality records, and supplier specs into one retrieval layer. A single question can draw a cited answer across all of them, so teams stop hunting across systems.
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