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Manufacturing Automation

Manufacturing Workflow Automation That Removes The Re-Keying.

Most of the manual effort in a factory office is not decision-making — it is moving the same number between systems. Dharte AI automates the manufacturing workflows around production, procurement, quality and maintenance so the work happens as a consequence of the data, not in addition to it.

What is manufacturing process automation?

Manufacturing process automation is the use of software to carry out the routine steps of a manufacturing workflow — raising a document, routing an approval, issuing an alert, assembling a report — without a person having to trigger or transcribe each one. It is distinct from industrial automation, which concerns the physical machinery on the line.

The prerequisite for it is connected data. A reorder cannot raise itself if stock levels live in one spreadsheet and consumption in another. Because every Dharte AI module writes to the same records, automation becomes a configuration choice rather than a development project.

Workflows Dharte AI automates today

  • Approval chains

    Configurable routing for requisitions, purchase orders and quality decisions, with full audit history against every step.

  • Automated RFQs

    Requests issued to your vendor list, responses collected centrally and compared on price, lead time and rating.

  • Reorder and shortage alerts

    Min and max levels monitored continuously, so a shortage is flagged before it becomes a line stoppage.

  • Threshold triggers

    Rejection rates, stockouts and machine breakdowns raise an alert to the right person the moment a limit is crossed.

  • Document generation

    Purchase orders, invoices, challans and quality records built from live data instead of retyped into a template.

  • Audit pack assembly

    APQP and PPAP submission packs assembled from existing records, so preparation is not a document-gathering exercise.

  • Task routing and escalation

    Actions land with the responsible department automatically, carrying an owner, a due date and an escalation path.

  • AI document processing

    Meeting notes read and turned into structured action items with urgency, department and dependency mapping.

Automation is only as good as the data underneath it

Automating a broken handover produces a faster broken handover. The reason Dharte AI can trigger a preventive maintenance alert at one plant from a failure pattern at another is that both plants record machine events in the same structure. This is why the automation layer and the ERP layer are the same product rather than two purchases.

What stays a human decision

Dharte AI automates the retrieval, routing and paperwork, and surfaces the exception. Approving the purchase order, accepting the deviation and publishing the plan remain yours. The AI Agent currently in development will extend this to taking defined actions on your behalf in natural language, and is not yet generally available.

Frequently asked questions

The ERP is the record: it holds what was planned, made, bought, inspected and dispatched. Automation is what the system does with that record without being asked — routing an approval, raising a shortage alert, assembling an audit pack. In Dharte AI both live in the same platform, which is why the automation can act on live operational data.

Because every module writes to shared records, an event in one process can trigger work in another. A rejection logged at an operation updates the production plan and the quality record together; stock falling below its minimum raises a requisition; a breakdown logged on one machine can raise preventive checks on the same machine type at other sites.

No. Dharte AI automates the information workflows around manufacturing — planning, documentation, approvals, alerts and reporting. It does not operate or control production machinery, though it can be connected to other systems you run through its open APIs.

Yes. Approval chains are configurable per process and per site, and every approval, rejection and escalation is recorded in the audit history.

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