Manufacturing / Light Industrial

Automate the coordination. Protect the production.

Manufacturing runs on precision, but the coordination around production — orders, quality checks, supplier management, dispatch — is often manual and error-prone. SMEAutomate’s AI agents connect the dots.

Top workflows to automate first

Order-to-production tracking

Orders flow into production scheduling automatically. Status visible at every stage.

4–6 hrs/week saved

Quality check workflows

Agent triggers checkpoints at the right time, flags failures with full context, and routes to the right person.

2–4 hrs/week saved

Supplier management

PO generation, delivery tracking, discrepancy flagging — all automated.

3–5 hrs/week saved

Before and after

Processing a new production order

Today

Sales sends order to production (email)

Production checks capacity

15 min

Materials checked against stock

20 min

Shortages identified, POs raised manually

30 min

Production scheduled

15 min

Customer updated on timeline

10 min

90+ minutes of manual work
With SMEAutomate

Order triggers capacity check

Instant

Materials cross-referenced with stock

< 1 min

POs auto-generated for shortages

Instant

Production scheduled, customer notified

< 2 min

Mostly instant and automatic

Results in practice

Example figures

Specialist component manufacturer

60 staff

Time saved

18 hours/week

Key result

Order processing time cut by 65%

Integrations

We connect with the tools your industry relies on.

ERP / MRP systemsInventory managementSupplier portalsEmailQuality systems

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