Governed AI agents for the plant floor — an agentic MES tied to the ERP/PLM digital thread, on SAP Digital Manufacturing. Clean-core-safe, sovereign by design, and run by your AI Center of Excellence. Australian manufacturing sovereignty, built in.
Most AI on the plant floor is sold on what the software does. These are the three things that actually change — for your plant team, for the numbers already on the board in the plant office, and for the work you can take on.
Can your plant and maintenance teams work with predictive-maintenance and vision-inspection agents — acting on an early failure signal, and knowing when to overrule a flagged defect or a scheduling recommendation the model got wrong? Machines connected is not the same thing as decisions improved.
The measures every plant already runs on: overall equipment effectiveness, unplanned downtime, first-pass yield, scrap and rework rate, throughput, and schedule adherence. These are already on the board in the plant office — that is where AI's contribution has to show up.
A connected digital thread from design through to the shop floor makes high-mix, low-volume production economic — shorter runs, more variants, faster engineering-change rollout — opening work you previously had to turn away because changeover cost too much. That's new capacity to sell, not the same line running faster.
Levels 1 and 2 tell you the platform is working. Level 3 is the reason it was worth the investment.
MES capabilities delivered as governed agents on SAP Digital Manufacturing — the work plant teams actually do, automated with a human in the loop and tied to the ERP/PLM digital thread
Live, agent-assisted visibility into the plant floor with IoT sensor integration — bottlenecks surfaced and flagged for the team, not buried in a dashboard.
Agents watch equipment health and flag likely failures before they stop the line — with maintenance scheduled and parts ordered through the ERP, human-approved.
Computer-vision inspection agents catch and classify defects consistently — with statistical process control and compliance evidence captured automatically.
Demand-aware agents keep materials flowing to the line, tied back to the ERP so plans, orders, and shop-floor reality stay in step.
Virtual replicas of production systems let you test changes and run what-if scenarios off the digital thread — without disrupting live operations.
Agents schedule and raise work orders against production requirements and resource availability — with priorities and adjustments owned by the team.
Live visibility into material flow and stock levels with automated replenishment triggers, reconciled against the ERP for one version of the truth.
A governed agentic layer beside your core, never inside it: S/4HANA & SAP Digital Manufacturing core → clean core → BTP / Business AI → Joule agents → digital thread to ERP/PLM
We never modify the S/4HANA or SAP Digital Manufacturing core. Standard objects stay standard, so upgrades and your RISE/GROW move stay painless.
MES extensions live on SAP BTP against stable, released APIs — upgrade-proof and cleanly separated from the core.
We extend SAP's own agents (Joule Studio) onto the plant floor and orchestrate across SAP, edge, and IoT — human-in-the-loop, audit-trailed.
Shop-floor agents stay tied to the ERP and PLM digital thread — sovereign, AU-resident, with lineage from design through production.
The security, sovereignty, and governance posture a manufacturer's risk team needs to see
Status is indicative and confirmed per engagement. We are not an SAP partner — "SAP-aligned" describes architectural alignment (our MES and digital-thread modules map to SAP Digital Manufacturing), not a partnership. Certification letters available under NDA.
The outcomes plant teams target — each tied to a real workflow. Figures are targets confirmed against your baseline, not guarantees.
Predictive maintenance agents target less unplanned downtime by catching failures early.
Consistent vision-based inspection lifts first-pass yield and cuts manual checking.
Agentic scheduling and monitoring take the manual grind off the plant team.
One connected thread from design to shop floor keeps plans and reality in step.
Every agent action on the floor is logged, explainable, and reviewable.
Adopt the AI during your S/4HANA RISE/GROW move — not as a bolt-on later
Weeks 1-2: analysis of current manufacturing processes, plant data quality, and the clean-core posture.
Weeks 3-6: stand up the BTP side-by-side foundation and the IoT/edge data pipeline — core untouched.
Weeks 7-8: configure Joule-native MES agents, approval flows, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.
Weeks 9-10: tie agents to the ERP/PLM digital thread, run comprehensive testing, and validate with users.
Weeks 11-12: production deployment with parallel run, training, and hypercare.
Ongoing: continuous optimisation, new agent use-cases, and FinOps on agent spend.
Built first for the Australian manufacturers where sovereignty and governance matter most
Plants that need their shop-floor data and agents to stay in Australia — an underserved wedge the global SIs leave open, built clean-core-safe.
Manufacturers who want design, production, and the ERP connected in one thread — with a human in the loop, not a black box.
Regulated or risk-sensitive manufacturers that need Australian data residency, audit trails on every agent, and FinOps cost control from day one.
Aligned to Australia's Whole-of-Government Cloud posture and Hosting Certification Framework for sovereign workloads.
This platform runs on five CoE capabilities — strategy, people, agents, data, and governance. We design, deploy, and govern a clean-core-safe agentic layer that keeps your data sovereign in Australia and every agent auditable and cost-controlled.
Book a walkthrough with a manufacturing specialist — we'll map your shop-floor and digital-thread workflows and show where governed agents take the load, clean-core-safe and sovereign.