OEE that actually moves.

Line orchestration + OEE attribution

Per-station OEE with availability / performance / quality decomposed automatically. Bottleneck identification through ProcessSim discrete-event analysis. Operator-visible dashboards with the agent's recommendation already attached to each loss-bucket: this hour's performance loss came from station C-04 cycle drift; here is the fix.

Robotic assembly with cobots

ISO 10218 + ISO/TS 15066 collaborative cells, with speed-and-separation monitoring backed by OpenPose / HRNet pose estimation. OpenVLA or fine-tuned Octo policies translate task descriptions into manipulator trajectories. Cross-vendor (KUKA, ABB, FANUC, UR, Yaskawa) on a common task abstraction.

In-line vision QC

Cognex In-Sight 3800-class line cameras at 1,200+ parts per minute with documented 99.2%+ defect detection accuracy in 2026 industry data. Qwen3-VL or Pixtral runs the vision model — Pixtral on Hailo-10H, Qwen3-VL on Jetson Orin Nano Super or NVIDIA IGX Thor — so adapting to a new defect taxonomy is a prompt change, not a retraining cycle.

Predictive maintenance on rotating assets

Vibration RMS, kurtosis, crest-factor, envelope spectra at the cabinet edge. Acoustic-emission sensors detect bearing wear earlier than vibration alone. PANNs CNN14 + per-asset linear classifier fingerprinted at commissioning. Documented programs reclaim 30-60% of unplanned-downtime minutes by acting on triggers before failure.

Generative-AI-assisted PLC code

Schneider EcoStruxure and Siemens TIA Portal both ship Copilots in 2026 (Schneider native, Siemens with Microsoft). The platform brokers these — operators describe a behaviour change in plain language; the agent generates IEC 61131-3 ladder logic / structured text; ProcessSim validates before commissioning. The platform manages the change-control trail.

Aerospace + automotive specifics

Generative design for composite layup (GAN-optimised fibre architecture), AI-optimised AFP (automated fibre placement) path planning. AI-driven robotic drilling, painting, and assembly per Airbus-class production lines. Deep integration with PLM / CAD pipelines so the agent reasons about both as-designed and as-built parts.