AI automation for manufacturing: OEE, quality logs, ERP integration, predictive maintenance

Data flow from shop floor to ERP, OEE calculation, quality logs and supplier RFQ automation — make the blind spots of your manufacturing operation visible with AI.

Sectors: Manufacturing

  • Shop-floor data (downtime reasons, scrap quantities, shift output) lives on paper forms or operator memory; no meaningful OEE calculation is possible in the ERP.
  • Supplier RFQ process runs through email chains; price comparison, delivery-date tracking and approval flow are ad-hoc — critical information can get lost.
  • The ERP production module (Netsis, Logo Tiger, SAP B1) holds theoretical work orders; without updates from actual shop-floor data, production planning and cost calculation are inaccurate.
  • Digital shop-floor data capture: operators enter downtime reason, scrap count and output on a tablet or simple touch terminal; the system pushes to the ERP in real time and calculates OEE automatically.
  • Structured RFQ portal: procurement specialist enters the item and quantity; system sends the e-mail template to selected suppliers, compares quotes in a single table and passes the approval flow to the ERP purchasing module.
  • ERP production-module bridge: shop-floor terminals open the work order, close it with actual scrap and output figures; Netsis/Logo Tiger/SAP B1 stock, cost and capacity modules receive live updates — planning is now data-driven, not paper-driven.

Example: A mid-size metal-processing factory in Bursa

3 shifts, 6 CNC lines and 4 press lines, daily capacity 2,400 work-pieces. OEE had never been measured; downtime data was filled on paper forms daily, ERP material data arrived 2 days late. Supplier RFQs were getting lost in the 3-person procurement team's email archive; order lead times were unpredictable. Setviva activated these flows: (1) A tablet terminal at each line — downtime code + scrap count entry, integrated with ERP Logo Tiger; a live OEE dashboard showed a line-average of 68 % from week one. (2) Structured RFQ portal — 38 active suppliers onboarded; in the first 2 months, time to compare supplier quotes dropped from 4 days to 6 hours. (3) ERP bridge — work orders closed in real time; production cost calculation now uses actual scrap rates, not theoretical. By month 6, the monthly OEE target was raised from 68 % to 76 %; a pre-detected vibration anomaly on press line 3 was resolved with a planned maintenance intervention, preventing a forecast 14-hour unplanned stoppage.