Intelligent Production Fix the routing, predict the scrap
AI for SAP Business One with Beas Manufacturing and Produmex WMS, for SME manufacturers: 20 services in three stages, each answer landing on the routing, the work order or the shop floor.
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- Basic 4
- Essential 12
- Professional 20
Three shop floors. Where the dates slip.
All three assume Beas Manufacturing is live and the shop-floor terminal is in use. The plan is only as honest as the routing times it is fed, and on many shop floors those times were written once, by someone estimating.
Which one sounds like your plant?
Beas is live and you still miss dates
- Today
- The plan looks right and the plant ignores it. The routing understates setup, understates small batches, and nobody has updated a standard time since go-live.
- What changes
- Real cycle and setup times proposed for the routing, so planning in Beas Manufacturing works from the times the floor actually takes.
High mix, and changeovers that depend on order
- Today
- Your setup time is not a number in the routing. It depends entirely on what ran before.
- What changes
- A setup prediction that knows the sequence: twenty minutes after a similar colour, ninety after a dark one.
Scrap nobody can explain
- Today
- The scrap rate tells you it happened. It cannot tell you which batch, which resource and which material combination is about to cause it again.
- What changes
- A scrap risk on the work order before the run starts, shown at the operation while it can still be prevented.
Basic, Essential, Professional. Each one contains the last.
Every higher stage includes everything below it, then adds more services and more authority. The difference is not how clever the model is. It is who decides.
Basic
AI assists, you decide
4 services. Language and extraction only: what the floor already writes down, made readable; nothing is scored, nothing is changed.
Essential
AI predicts, you decide
12 services. Adds Score & Predict and Recommend & Guard: real cycle and setup times proposed for the routings, and scrap risk on the work order.
Professional
AI acts, you approve
20 services. Adds eight agents that propose schedule repairs, routing updates and quality responses inside Beas Manufacturing, for the planner, engineering, quality or finance to release.
| Capability set | Basic | Essential | Professional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ask & Explain | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Capture & Extract | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Draft & Compose | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Score & Predict | None | 5 | 5 |
| Recommend & Guard | None | 3 | 3 |
| Agents (draft and propose) | None | None | 8 |
| Services in the stage | 4 | 12 | 20 |
All 20 services. Not one of them a rule.
Each service produces a prediction, a draft or a proposal that a fixed rule could not, and each one has a named place where its answer lands. Choose a stage to see what it includes.
Intelligent Production Basic
AI assists, you decide · 4 services- Ask & Explain
B1: Ask your production data
Plain-English questions such as “which resource lost us the most hours to changeover, and on which product?”, answered across the times recorded in Beas Manufacturing without anyone writing a query, and shown in SAP Business One.
You decideLands in: Beas ManufacturingSAP Business One - Capture & Extract
B2: Downtime and scrap reason clustering
Operators type “machine problem”, “setting issue”, “material not ok”: dozens of variations of a handful of real causes. The free text is grouped into the causes that actually exist on your floor, instead of the reason codes somebody invented at go-live and nobody uses.
You decideLands in: Beas Manufacturing - Capture & Extract
B3: Quality and NCR note extraction
The inspector’s written note becomes a structured defect: code, severity, operation, batch. Linked to the work order and to the batch, so the batch trail you already keep can finally show why, not just where.
You decideLands in: Beas Manufacturing - Draft & Compose
B4: Work instructions in the operator’s language
Drafted from the routing and the engineering drawing, written the way the person at the machine actually speaks, and in the language they speak. Shown at the operation, not in a binder in the supervisor’s office.
You decideLands in: Beas Manufacturing
Intelligent Production Essential
AI predicts, you decide · 8 services addedIncludes the 4 Basic services, and adds these 8.
- Score & Predict
E1: Real cycle time per operation
Learned from the actual times recorded against your work orders. The routing says 12 minutes. The floor takes 19, and always has. The honest number is proposed for the routing, so planning in Beas Manufacturing produces a plan closer to what the floor does.
You decideLands in: Beas Manufacturing - Score & Predict
E2: Sequence-dependent setup prediction
Your routing holds one setup time. Reality holds a matrix: twenty minutes after a similar colour, ninety after a dark one. The changeover matrix is learned from your own recorded times, and in high-mix plants it is often where the lost hours hide.
You decideLands in: Beas Manufacturing - Score & Predict
E3: Scrap and first-pass-yield prediction
Before the run, not after it. The probability that this work order scraps. A yield report records the damage; this predicts it while it can still be prevented.
You decideLands in: Beas Manufacturing - Score & Predict
E4: Predicted order completion date
What the plant will actually deliver, not what the plan promises. Shown on the sales order and the work order, so the date a customer is given is a date the shop floor recognises.
You decideLands in: SAP Business OneBeas Manufacturing - Score & Predict
E5: Machine failure and maintenance risk score
A machine that is starting to fail announces it in the downtime notes your plant keeps, long before it stops, in language no report has ever read.
You decideLands in: Beas Manufacturing - Recommend & Guard
E6: Predicted capacity versus load
A warning when load will exceed capacity in practice, using the real durations from E1 and E2, not the standard times.
You decideLands in: Beas Manufacturing - Recommend & Guard
E7: Lot-size recommendation
The batch size that keeps real cost lowest, proposed for planning in Beas Manufacturing. Lot sizes set by habit are expensive at both ends.
You decideLands in: Beas Manufacturing - Recommend & Guard
E8: Make-or-subcontract recommendation
With honest in-house capacity, honest cycle times and the true cost of the delay, the question stops being a gut call. The recommendation carries the trade-off, and the planner overrules it whenever they like.
You decideLands in: Beas Manufacturing
Intelligent Production Professional
AI acts, you approve · 8 services addedIncludes the 12 Basic and Essential services, and adds these 8 agents. Every agent drafts or proposes; a person approves.
- Agents (draft and propose)
P1: Schedule-repair agent
A machine goes down in the middle of a shift. There are many ways to re-plan the day, and they are not equally good. The agent compares them and proposes the one that saves the most orders, with the reasoning attached. The planner accepts or rejects it.
You approveLands in: Beas Manufacturing - Agents (draft and propose)
P2: Routing-maintenance agent
When actual times drift persistently from the standard, the agent drafts the routing update (new run time, new setup, new resource) and sends it to engineering for approval, so routings stay current.
You approveLands in: Beas Manufacturing - Agents (draft and propose)
P3: Kitting-readiness agent
A work order whose components cannot be picked is stuck. The agent checks warehouse stock and scan data, and proposes a substitute batch, a partial kit, an expedite or a resequence, in front of the supervisor before the shift starts.
You approveLands in: Produmex WMSBeas Manufacturing - Agents (draft and propose)
P4: Quality-response agent
An inspection fails. The agent drafts the non-conformance report, proposes the corrective action from what worked before, proposes holding the batch, and traces what else used it and where it has already shipped, for the quality lead to act on.
You approveLands in: Beas ManufacturingSAP Business One - Agents (draft and propose)
P5: Maintenance-scheduling agent
Takes the E5 risk score and finds the window where servicing that machine costs the least production: a real gap in the plan, not a Sunday somebody guessed at. It drafts the maintenance proposal for approval.
You approveLands in: Beas Manufacturing - Agents (draft and propose)
P6: Shortage-to-plan agent
A component will not arrive. The agent traces the damage through planning in Beas Manufacturing into open sales orders and proposes the response (re-plan, substitute, build partial or expedite) for the planner to decide.
You approveLands in: Beas ManufacturingSAP Business One - Agents (draft and propose)
P7: Cost-variance agent
The work order closed 30% over its planned cost. The agent breaks the variance down into setup overrun, scrap, rework, material substitution and labour, and drafts the explanation a controller can act on, instead of a number they can only argue with.
You approveLands in: Beas Manufacturing - Agents (draft and propose)
P8: In-line visual inspection agent
A camera on the one operation that keeps producing the same defect. It flags the defect at the machine and drafts a quality note linked to the work order, so a person can hold the batch before it travels any further.
You approveLands in: Beas Manufacturing
Inside Beas, not beside it.
Nobody on a shop floor is going to open a second application. Every Intelligent Production answer lands in the system the planner and the operator already have in front of them.
- Real cycle time, real setup times
Proposed as the planning duration, so planning in Beas Manufacturing works from times the floor can hit.
- Work instructions, scrap risk warning
At the machine, in the operator’s language, where the work happens.
- Predicted completion date
Shown beside the promised date, and flagged when the two disagree.
- Every agent proposal
Schedule repairs, routing updates, maintenance proposals and non-conformance reports arrive as drafts. The planner and engineering decide.
Beas is already collecting it. The question is whether it is true.
In this domain the data usually exists already. Whether it means anything is a different matter.
If the operator records time at close of shift, you have no cycle times.
One time receipt for a whole work order, entered at close of shift and covering six operations, looks like data. It is a timesheet, and no model can recover an operation-level duration from it. E1, E2, E3 and E6 need start and finish recorded per operation at the shop-floor terminal, as the work happens. If your floor batches its time receipts, we say so at the readiness gate. That is a process conversation, not an AI one.
Operation-level time receipts, as the work happens
Start and finish, at the shop-floor terminal, per operation. Not entered in one go at close of shift. This is the whole foundation, and it is a discipline question, not a software one.
Downtime and scrap recorded at the moment
In the operator’s own words is fine: B2 exists to make free text usable. What cannot be recovered is a stoppage nobody logged at all.
A routing for every part, even a wrong one
A model can correct a standard time that is wrong. It cannot invent an operation that was never in the routing. Beas Manufacturing needs the structure; aiEnable corrects the numbers.
Engineering willing to let routings change
P2 drafts routing updates whenever actual times drift from the standard. If nobody is permitted to approve them, the routings decay again and the plan goes back to being fiction.
Point it at the process. Never at the people.
Every prediction here is built on data that operators produce. The moment an operator believes the terminal is timing them, the data dies: times get rounded, delays get hidden, and the model faithfully learns a fiction. The design guards against that.
The model measures the process, not the person
The models look at resources, materials and batches, never at people. No output of this domain ranks operators, and we will not build one that does: not because it is impossible, but because it would poison the data.
ADKAR®: Awareness · DesireAwareness · Desire
The operator gets something back
Work instructions in their language, at their machine, and a scrap warning before they start a run that is likely to fail. Recording time stops being something they feed and starts giving something back.
ADKAR®: Ability · ReinforcementAbility · Reinforcement
The planner keeps the plan
No agent reschedules your plant. It proposes one schedule, explains why it chose that one, and waits. Beas Manufacturing remains the system of record and the planner remains the decision-maker.
ADKAR®: KnowledgeKnowledge
Intelligent Production is one of six. It sets the dates everyone else promises.
The completion date predicted here is a date sales can quote. The shortage Agentic Procurement detects is the one re-planned here. Lot sizes here become stock in Smart Inventory, the kits come from the warehouse, and every cost variance explained here reaches Strategic Finance as margin. This domain is where an SME manufacturer’s promises are kept or broken.
- Domain 01Sales Intelligence Between the twoCompletion dates sales can quote
- Domain 02Agentic Procurement Between the twoLate supplier confirmations to re-plan around
- Domain 03Smart Inventory Between the twoLot sizes that become stock
- Domain 05Hyper-efficient Warehouse Between the twoThe kits picked for each work order
- Domain 06Strategic Finance Between the twoCost variances, explained as margin
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You get to know how far every standard time sits from what your floor actually does, in which direction, and which of the 20 services your data can support today.
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