AI for Manufacturing That Moves OEE.

Live OEE across every plant, predictive maintenance that cuts unplanned downtime, and shop-floor copilots for technicians, integrated with your MES, ERP, and historians, and safe for your OT network.

  • 90daysto multi-plant OEE visibility
  • 25-40%less unplanned downtime
  • About ⅓off planner cycle time

Challenges

What Holds Plants Back

  1. 01

    No Single View of OEE

    Each plant measures differently, so leaders can't compare lines or act fast.

  2. 02

    Downtime You Don't See Coming

    Fixed maintenance schedules miss failures and replace parts too early.

  3. 03

    Data Stuck Between OT and IT

    MES, ERP, and historian data don't connect, and security teams block direct links.

Value chain

Where AI Moves the Needle in Your Plant

AI in manufacturing pays off fastest where data already exists but decisions are slow: equipment maintenance, line performance, quality inspection, and planning. SMI TechSolutions maps use cases to each stage of your value chain and starts where the KPI impact is clearest.

Stage 01 · Plan

Plan from live line performance, not last month's averages.

  • Production planning analytics
  • Capacity scenarios
  • Demand-linked scheduling
Stage 02 · Source

Catch supplier issues before they reach the line.

  • Supplier quality analytics
  • Supplier communications copilot
  • Incoming inspection data
Stage 03 · Make

See every line's OEE, live, and why it drops.

  • Multi-plant OEE cockpits
  • Quality vision and inspection AI
  • Downtime reason codes from operator notes
Stage 04 · Maintain

Fix equipment before it fails, and fix it faster.

  • Predictive maintenance from sensor data
  • Work order assistant
  • SOP search for technicians
Stage 05 · Deliver

Connect shop-floor performance to customer and reporting commitments.

  • On-time-in-full visibility
  • Energy and emissions reporting
  • MES and ERP modernization

Fits your stack

Built on the Systems You Already Run

Your systems
  • MES
  • ERP
  • Historians (PI, Wonderware, Ignition, GE Proficy)
  • PLC / SCADA
  • Quality systems
SMI data layer

Industrial data integration on an ISA-95-aligned model, with OT and IT networks segmented

Outcomes
  • OEE cockpit
  • Maintenance models
  • Shop-floor copilot

Secure manufacturing AI with OT and IT network segmentation, aligned with IEC 62443 practices.

Services that apply

How Our Services Apply to Manufacturing

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

How is AI used in manufacturing?

AI in manufacturing is used to predict equipment failures, track OEE live across plants, inspect quality with computer vision, and help technicians find answers in manuals and work orders. SMI TechSolutions starts with the use case that moves your most important KPI first.

What is OEE software?

OEE software measures overall equipment effectiveness by combining availability, performance, and quality data from your machines and MES. SMI TechSolutions builds multi-plant OEE cockpits with drilldown to line, shift, and asset, so every plant measures OEE the same way.

How does predictive maintenance AI work?

Predictive maintenance AI learns the normal behavior of equipment from sensor and historian data, then flags patterns that come before failures. SMI TechSolutions turns those alerts into prioritized work orders, so maintenance teams fix the right asset before it stops the line.

What is manufacturing analytics?

Manufacturing analytics turns production, quality, maintenance, and supply data into insights that improve plant decisions. SMI TechSolutions builds it on one governed data platform that connects MES, ERP, and historians, with live cockpits for plant managers and executives.

How do you integrate historian data with MES and ERP?

SMI TechSolutions connects historians such as PI, Wonderware, Ignition, or GE Proficy to MES and ERP through an ISA-95-aligned data model, so sensor readings line up with orders, assets, and shifts in one place for analytics and AI.

How do you keep AI safe for our OT network?

SMI TechSolutions keeps OT and IT networks segmented, moves data through controlled, one-way paths where needed, and follows IEC 62443 practices, so AI and analytics never put plant control systems at risk.

Can machine learning explain why our lines go down?

Yes. SMI TechSolutions combines sensor data with operator notes, using generative AI to turn free-text notes into consistent downtime reason codes, then uses machine learning to rank the biggest causes by lost hours.

How quickly can we see results?

SMI TechSolutions typically delivers multi-plant OEE visibility within 90 days, starting from a 60-minute plant briefing and a fixed proposal. Predictive maintenance and copilots then build on the same data platform.

Manufacturing offer

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