The enterprise friction point
A major OEM gave Precision Mfg 30 days to digitise its workflows or lose the account. Manual inventory tracking ran clipboard-to-Excel, creating 24–48 hour blind spots, and paper-based quality control meant root-cause analysis took weeks.
Transformation objectives
- Achieve real-time inventory visibility across the floor.
- Automate defect detection and logging.
- Enable rapid executive reporting for the client audit.
- Meet the 30-day implementation deadline.
Discovery & architectural audit
The audit found the constraint was not the OEM's reporting format but the lag between an event happening on the floor and it becoming visible anywhere. Every downstream problem — reorder timing, root-cause analysis, audit readiness — traced back to that gap.
The Fortiv AI architecture
- 01
Floor Data Pipeline: Clipboards replaced with tablet apps. QR scans trigger instant database updates and ERP reorder requests, with alerts routed to the responsible team.
- 02
Automated Quality Logging: Line-side inspection connected to edge servers, auto-rejecting and logging defective parts in under 500ms so root cause is available immediately rather than weeks later.
- 03
Executive Dashboard: A single management interface showing live throughput, defect Pareto charts and inventory health.
- 04
Training & Deployment: Live by day 21, on interfaces deliberate enough that staff needed two hours of training.
Verified audit outcomes
Post-deployment impact
- 21 Days
- From kickoff to full deployment, inside the OEM deadline
- 48hrs → <1s
- Inventory reporting lag
- 5% → 0%
- Data entry error rate
- $5M/year
- Contract retained