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Real-time production visibility across every mould and machine.

A plastic and mould-based manufacturer replaced end-of-shift manual production logs with live, per-mould output — catching under-production while the run was still fixable.

Headline outcome
~15%

reduction in production loss over two quarters

Company profile
Scale200+ across two shifts
Footprint1 plant · 30+ moulding machines
Starting stackManual shift logsExcel production sheetsStandalone machinesWhatsApp escalations
The challenge

Where the business was losing.

Production was recorded on paper at the end of each shift. A mould running below its expected cycle rate could lose output for hours before anyone noticed — and when targets were missed, no one could say whether it was a machine, mould, material or manning problem.

The audit · 2 weeks

What the audit surfaced.

Before building anything, we mapped the operation. These are the findings that shaped what we built.

F01

Under-production was typically discovered at end-of-shift reconciliation — hours after the loss occurred and too late to correct.

F02

There was no machine- or mould-wise view of output; targets were tracked as a single daily number.

F03

When a target was missed, the reason was rarely captured, so the same losses recurred shift after shift.

What we built

The architecture, and the agents in it.

The data foundation, and the AI agents that turn it into decisions and action.

STEP 01

Live cycle capture

Custom BLE devices near each mould stream every production cycle to a central platform with no change to the machines — the real-time signal the agents reason over.

STEP 02

Shortfall-detection agent

An agent continuously compares each machine and mould against its configured cycle rate and, the moment output drifts below threshold, flags the shortfall while the run is still fixable — instead of it surfacing at end-of-shift.

STEP 03

Escalation & root-cause agent

Shortfalls are escalated to the line owner with the likely cause, and every deviation is captured as a structured, reasoned record — so recurring loss patterns are learned and the same losses stop repeating shift after shift.

Implementation
Weeks 1–2BLE devices + hub on the highest-volume moulding lines
Weeks 3–5Expected-vs-actual dashboard across all machines and moulds
Weeks 6–8Threshold alerts, escalation matrix and root-cause capture
Results

Before → after.

Measured against the baseline the audit established — before and after, on the metrics that move the P&L.

Production visibility
End-of-shiftLive, per mould
Under-production detection
Hours lateMinutes
Loss root-cause
Rarely capturedLogged every time
Machine utilisation
Baseline~15% higher
The value created
~15% capacity recovered on existing machines

Value is expressed as operating impact, not a rupee estimate — recovered output on existing machines and moulds, plus fewer missed deliveries.

Recovered production capacity~15%Utilisation gain on existing machines, valued at contribution margin on the additional output
Corrective speedMinutes vs shift-endUnder-production caught during the run, not at reconciliation
Delivery reliabilityFewer missesReduced expedite and penalty costs on late commitments

Illustrative engagement. The client is anonymised and the figures are representative of the outcomes we target in this sector — but the capability described is real and deployed. Named, verified case studies replace these as clients approve publication.

Start here

Could this be your operation?

Start with a Business Transformation Audit — a structured working session where we map where AI changes your P&L, prioritised by impact.

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