Custom AI Agents for US Manufacturers with Live ERP Synchronization..

A manufacturing AI agent is software that connects to your ERP, your CRM, your email inbox, and your document files. It runs on its own, not on a schedule. It reads incoming RFQ emails and pulls the bill of materials (BOM) off CAD or PDF drawings. It matches each line item to your inventory master and checks real-time machine capacity. Then it drafts a quote or a PO reconciliation and sends it to a person for approval.

Payback time depends on your plant size and how much of the quoting and PO work moves to the agent. Many mid-market US machine shops and contract manufacturers recover their setup cost within the first few months. The savings come from three places: faster RFQ turnaround, less time spent expediting open POs by hand, and fewer manual data-entry errors in the ERP.

No. FactoryJet builds human-in-the-loop review into every high-value action. The agent reads the raw inputs, works out pricing tiers, and checks machine run times. It stages the full draft transaction inside NetSuite or SAP. Your estimator or purchasing manager reviews it and clicks approve.

Yes. Our agents read multi-level bills of materials (BOM). They identify sub-assemblies, raw stock needs, outsourced finishing like anodizing or heat treating, and standard hardware from your supplier catalogs. Each sub-assembly gets its own costed line, not one blended price. That way your estimator can see exactly where labor, outsourced work, and raw material drive the total. They can adjust one line without re-quoting the whole assembly.

Yes. Multi-plant manufacturers often run a separate NetSuite or SAP instance per facility, or a mix of systems after an acquisition. We build one agent layer on top of all of them. It routes each RFQ and PO reconciliation to the right plant instance, based on customer, part number, or requested ship-from location.

We build native REST, SOAP, and direct database connectors. Today that list covers NetSuite, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business One, Epicor Prophet 21, Epicor Kinetic, Infor CloudSuite Industrial (SyteLine), Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Acumatica, and JobBOSS. If your shop runs something else, or a heavily customized version of one of these, that is not a blocker. We scope the connector against its API or database schema during discovery instead.

When a supplier emails an order confirmation or a PDF acknowledgement, the agent reads it right away. It pulls out the vendor PO number, line item pricing, shipped quantities. The promised ship date. Then it compares all of that against the open PO in your ERP. It updates delivery schedules on its own and flags any price mismatch.

Yes. Many manufacturers run legacy SQL Server, Oracle, or AS400 databases behind a corporate firewall. For those, we deploy a secure zero-trust proxy agent, or a direct VPN tunnel. Either way, the agent can query your inventory tables without opening your internal network to the public internet.

The agent checks your ERP customer master record in real time. It pulls the contract discount, negotiated freight terms, minimum order quantity (MOQ), and any customer-specific markup rule before it drafts a quote. This happens on every quote, not just the first one for a new customer. So if your sales team updates a contract mid-year, the next quote still uses the right numbers. Nobody has to re-key anything.

Yes. The agent walks the full parent-child BOM tree in your CAD or ERP database. It breaks assemblies down into sub-assemblies, weldments, raw stock cut pieces, standard catalog hardware like fasteners, bearings, and seals, and outside vendor plating, each as its own costed line. There is no fixed depth limit. It keeps traversing until it hits a purchased part, so even a five-level weldment gets costed as completely as a simple one.

For older on-premise ERPs, like JobBOSS, Global Shop Solutions, or older SAP or Epicor versions, we deploy a secure, local, read-only ODBC/JDBC gateway. Or we use an intermediate SQL staging table, both behind your firewall with zero cloud exposure. The gateway runs inside your network. It only pushes the specific fields a workflow needs, like part numbers and open PO lines. The rest of your database stays exactly as isolated as it is today.

Yes. AS9100 and IATF 16949 are quality management system (QMS) standards built on the ISO 9001 baseline, for aerospace and automotive suppliers. For those clients, the agent attaches the required paperwork automatically: material certifications, first-article inspection reports, and lot traceability documentation, on every quote or PO record. If a certificate is missing, it flags this before the quote goes out.

We build vision pipelines that read scanned PDF prints, DWG files, and STEP files. They pull out title blocks, part numbers, material callouts (like 6061-T6 aluminum or 304 stainless steel), dimensional tolerances, surface finish notes, and GD&T callouts. Every value links back to its exact spot on the drawing. So when your estimator reviews the draft quote, they can click a tolerance callout and see the source dimension line, instead of re-reading the whole print to check it.

The agent never guesses on a critical dimension. When its confidence score drops below a set safety threshold, it flags that specific callout. It writes a short clarification note and routes the ticket to your senior estimator. The flag names the exact field it could not resolve, plus its best guess and a confidence score. Your estimator can confirm or correct it in seconds, instead of re-reading the whole print to find the problem.

Yes. The agent uses your feeds-and-speeds tables, standard machine hourly rates, and setup times. It also pulls live commodity index prices, like scrap and metal spot prices, to build an accurate cost-plus or market-based quote. Those prices refresh on a schedule you set, usually daily. So a quote built on Monday uses Monday's aluminum or steel spot price, not a stale number from the last manual ERP update.

Yes. Our agents watch shared sales inboxes, like [email protected], and customer portals like Coupa, Ariba, and government bidding boards. They pull in each RFQ package as soon as it posts. Some portals need a login and have no API. For those, we set up a scheduled, credentialed check instead of a true real-time push. Nothing sits unnoticed for longer than the check interval you set, usually every fifteen minutes.

Yes, where the customer grants file access. Beyond flattened PDF and STEP files, we build parsers for native SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, and Siemens NX assemblies. These read dimensional and material data straight from the model tree, not a flattened drawing. That recovers metadata a rasterized PDF loses, like the material assigned to each part in a multi-material assembly. It makes quotes more accurate on complex weldments and machined housings.

Yes. We work under strict, enterprise zero-data-retention agreements. Your CAD geometry, part numbers, customer lists, and pricing margins are never used to train a public AI model. Everything is encrypted at rest with AES-256, and in transit with TLS 1.3.

Yes. You get 100 percent ownership of the IP and the source code. We hand over the full Git repository, the Python connectors, the prompt orchestration scripts. The Docker containers. There is no per-seat fee and no runtime vendor license, ever. Ownership starts on day one. It is not tied to a minimum contract term. You could hand the repository to your own developer, or a different vendor, at any point. You would not need our permission or a data export process.

For aerospace and defense manufacturers under ITAR or CMMC, we deploy AI models inside sovereign AWS GovCloud or Azure Government. Access is locked to US-citizen engineers, with full audit logging. Before implementation starts, we also scope exactly which data classes count as export-controlled technical data under your ITAR determination. That means your compliance team draws the line between what the agent can touch and what stays fully isolated, not us.

One focused workflow, like RFQ email extraction or PO date reconciliation, takes 3 to 5 weeks. A full plant-wide build across quoting, ERP sync, and shop-floor scheduling takes 8 to 12 weeks. ERP access is the biggest variable. A plant that can hand over sandbox and API credentials in week one moves through testing fastest. A plant waiting on IT or a third-party ERP consultant lands toward the longer end.

You keep everything. You already own the full Git repository, the connector code. The Docker containers from day one. So ending the engagement just means we stop billing and hand over any remaining documentation. There is no data migration fire drill, because your ERP and your infrastructure never left your control in the first place.