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)

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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

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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