An AI audit for manufacturers — find the admin hours, leave the plant floor alone.
Most of the AI conversation in manufacturing aims at the wrong target. The savings rarely sit on the line. They sit in the office: re-keyed sales orders, scheduling done in spreadsheets, compliance docs assembled by hand. We map exactly where AI pays back, where it shouldn't go near, and the three workflows worth building first.
14 days · under 2 hours of your team’s time · 0 refunds in 15+ audits
Where the office actually loses time
Common admin drains we see in manufacturers between 20 and 250 staff. The audit quantifies each one in your operation.
POs land by email or portal. Someone retypes them into the ERP, then again into the production schedule. The same field, three times a day.
A single planner holds the schedule in their head and in a workbook. One sick day and the floor stalls.
Batch records, COAs, ISO paperwork — assembled from photos, PDFs, and memory at the end of every shift.
Delivery dockets, packing lists, BOLs. Printed, signed, scanned, refiled, re-entered.
Rosters built manually around skills, leave, and certifications. Reworked every week when something moves.
Chasing ETAs, missing PODs, and price-list updates by email. Hours a week, no system of record.
Workflows AI should not touch in a plant.
Some steps look automatable on paper. In a real factory they sit one bad output away from a recall, an injury, or a failed audit. The audit calls these out explicitly.
- Final QA and quality sign-off on shippable goods
- Safety-critical procedures and machine-safety interlocks
- Hazardous-materials handling and incident triage
- Regulatory submissions and signed compliance attestations
- Hiring and disciplinary decisions on the floor
Fourteen days. Three stages.
Mapping, diagnosis, handover. The audit comes before any build, so you know what is worth automating, what should stay human, and what to fix first.
A document built to be acted on, not filed.
One structured diagnostic document. Five sections, every one specific to your plant and your systems.
- §01Process map of how the business runs today — every step, handoff, and system
- §02Admin Hour Map showing where office hours actually go each week
- §03Waste / Win / Risk / Fix matrix scored across your workflows
- §04Do-not-automate list with the reason each item stays human
- §05Top 3 implementation-ready build specs for your highest-value workflows
- §0690-day roadmap with sequencing, risk, and savings outlook
On a recent 38-staff manufacturer, the audit found 26 hours a week lost to re-keying data between systems that don't talk. One workflow. One fix. Already public on the homepage.
What ops directors in this sector actually ask.
Find out exactly where AI earns its place in your plant — and where it doesn't.
Book the audit14 days · under 2 hours of your team’s time · 0 refunds in 15+ audits.