Manufacturing

Managed AI Delivery for Manufacturing. Eliminate unplanned downtime, resolve critical supply chain gaps, and keep your operations audit-ready.

Connected Systems
Operational Intelligence
Governed Automation
Connected Systems

Every plant, supplier, and back-office system working together — one complete picture of your operations.Always current.

Operational Intelligence

Maintenance histories, quality reports, supplier contracts, and engineering specs turned into answers your teams can act on immediately.

Governed Automation

From quality incidents to compliance reporting, your critical workflows run automatically with a clear trail behind every decision.

Manufacturing use cases

Unframe powers manufacturing operations.

Supply Chain & Procurement

Prevent stockouts. Maximize savings.

  • Tier-1 supplier delay tracking
  • Master contract invoice auditing
  • Engineering BOM and procurement synchronization
  • Component part design standardization

Quality & Compliance

Zero escapes. Audit-ready.

  • Mid-mix material variance detection
  • Escaped defect and flaw isolation
  • End-to-end product genealogy tracking
  • Automated regulatory file generation

Maintenance & Asset Reliability

Fewer breakdowns. Continuous production.

  • Critical-line failure prevention
  • Long-lead spare parts forecasting
  • Condition-based overhaul scheduling
  • Field repair feedback loop integration

Production & Operations

Higher throughput. Total operational control.

  • Throughput micro-stall pinpointing
  • Dynamic shift line balancing
  • Automated cascading event responses
  • Real-time OEE data aggregation

Frontline Intelligence

Retained expertise. Faster shift onboarding.

  • Expert knowledge capture before retirement
  • Cross-system troubleshooting guidance
  • Digital shift handover summarization
  • Standard operating procedure compliance audits
Customers
What our customers are saying
"The reason we wanted to work with Unframe was to improve our quality and take our proofreading team’s capabilities to the next level with AI. They have been a very inspiring and incredible partner to work with."
Barnaby Skinner
Deputy Editor in Chief
Customers
What our customers are saying
"Swish by Unframe has helped us better understand those trends across our support experience and identify opportunities for improvement."
Ken Thompson
Senior Director of IT Customer Care, RSM US LLP
Customers
What our customers are saying
“Every other tool kept showing us the same names. Unframe’s solution surfaces companies we'd never have found on our own — and they're exactly the kind of hidden gems we built this firm to back.”
Jacob Bernstein
General Partner
Customers
What our customers are saying
“At Cushman & Wakefield, we’re working to redefine the built world and challenge the status quo with cutting-edge data and digital strategies. Our ability to draw meaningful insights and deliver client outcomes has been significantly enhanced by working with Unframe. Our AI+ strategy is focused on bringing fast-paced and innovative solutions to unlock critical insights, and we are aggressively pushing forward with Unframe.“
Salumeh Companieh
Chief Digital and Information Officer
Customers
What our customers are saying
“Scaling AI requires a smart ‘build, buy, or borrow’ approach. For us, Unframe provides a clear ‘buy’ path, with reusable foundations that drastically shorten the road to impact. What sets them apart is their deeply collaborative spirit."
Phil Lockhart
Chief Digital Officer and Partner
Customers
What our customers are saying
"Unframe is now a strategic relationship for us and a core part of our platform for delivering on the promise of artificial intelligence. We're delivering in excess of 15 projects, and we expect that to grow as we move forward."
Ross Hodges
Global Head of Emerging Technology
Customers
What our customers are saying
“Unframe went into impressive depth to understand our workflows and set an important puzzle piece for NZZ's AI strategy. We are building toward a long-term success story together."
Volker Dietzel
CTIO
Customers
What our customers are saying
"Unframe built VISION, a comprehensive case management and image-matching platform specifically designed for missing children investigations. This is Advanced AI focused on what truly matters: saving children’s lives."
Matt Shelton
Co-Founder and CEO
Customers
What our customers are saying
"Getting in front of things instead of chasing them — that's the shift Unframe made possible for us. The impact on how my buyers engage, how orders come in, how the business moves? Immeasurable."
David Epstein
President/CMO
Customers
What our customers are saying
"We’ve approached it department by department, use case by use case, and what’s powerful is how those AI solutions start to build on each other across the business. As we expand into new use cases, that value will only continue to grow."
Joe Lopez
President
Why AI is hard in manufacturing

Every facility's data lives in a different system, so by the time AI could touch real production data, months have gone into integration instead of results.

Every plant runs different systems with different data formats
Months of integration work before AI can touch real production data
Black-box point solutions lacking strict audit compliance
Workflows that vary by site, shift, and team - requiring flexible automation
Proven impact

Fortune 500 Manufacturer achieves 100% visibility into supplier commitments

100%
visibility into supplier commitments
3
weeks’ advance warning of supplier disruptions
30%
reduction in supply-driven stockouts
Fully compliant

Global enterprises need compliance wherever they operate. We build it in from day one.

How to work with us

Different challenges call for different approaches. Find yours.

01
Managed Delivery
From a use-case to production, with our ownership of the outcome.
02
You Build
Your team builds on our platform, with our expertise and support to move faster.
03
We Advise
Got an AI question, challenge, or idea? We're here to help.
FAQs

Frequently asked questions

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How does Unframe help manufacturers scale AI beyond the first use case?

Unframe brings together AI expertise, technology and delivery on a shared enterprise foundation. Each solution can reuse existing integrations, capabilities and business context, making it easier to expand AI across operations and plants.

Is our data safe with an AI platform?

Your data never leaves your environment. Unframe deploys within your own infrastructure — on-prem or private cloud — with no training on your data and full audit trails across every workflow.

How does AI help reduce unplanned downtime in manufacturing?

By continuously monitoring equipment data and surfacing failure signals weeks before breakdown — so maintenance teams act before production stops, not after.

Why do most manufacturing AI projects fail to deliver results?

Most stall because they're built on fragmented data and disconnected systems that were never designed to support AI. A pilot that works in isolation rarely survives contact with real production data across multiple plants and systems.

Does AI work with our existing SAP, MES and SCADA systems?

Yes. Unframe connects directly to your existing systems without migration, rip-and-replace or disruption to production. Your infrastructure stays exactly as it is.

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