ZANUS AI FOR MANUFACTURING — OVERVIEW
Customer calls answered and quotes sent while the line keeps running. SOPs, CAD drawings and maintenance manuals that answer the floor in seconds, revision cited. One AI system for the customer side and the plant side — isolated in YOUR private tenant, or on a server next to the floor.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · OSHA-conscious documentation

A real deployment view: work orders, scheduled AI works, supplier records — the plant’s day on one screen.
Third shift, line 3 down, the one tech who knows the fix asleep at home: the AI walks the floor operator through the troubleshooting tree from YOUR maintenance manuals — page and revision cited.
Non-conformance reports, corrective-action drafts and audit-prep packets assembled from your quality manual and production records — reviewed and signed by your quality manager.
Your tenant is isolated; tooling drawings and process sheets never train anyone else’s model. Need more? The identical OS runs air-gapped on hardware you own, inside the plant.
Distributors and OEM buyers call about lead times, order status and pricing all day. The Zanus front office answers every ring on your menu, quotes from your real catalog with payable links, takes RFQ details and books the plant visit — 24/7, in up to 40 languages.


Work instructions, PM schedules, changeover checklists, the quality manual: the documents nobody can find at line speed become a system that answers back — and the Friday scrap-and-downtime report drafts itself on schedule, sources cited, awaiting sign-off.
Plants with proprietary processes, defense-adjacent customers or strict IT policies run the identical OS on Zanus hardware inside their walls: air-gap capable, USB updates, unlimited users — process knowledge physically incapable of leaving.

API connectors integrate with existing systems, with field mapping and a dry-run preview before anything writes. Bring your ERP or MES to the demo and we walk the exact integration path for your stack.
Yes — the ingestion pipeline handles any format including images and scans, so tooling drawings, prints and marked-up PDFs become queryable knowledge with the source attached to every answer.
One tenant with workgroups per plant, or separate tenants on shared infrastructure. Floor operators, maintenance techs, quality and the front office each see exactly what their role allows.
ZANUS AI FOR MANUFACTURING — FRONT OFFICE
A purchasing agent with a hot requirement calls the next supplier on the list if nobody picks up. The Zanus front office answers on your menu, in your voices, quotes from your real price list, collects RFQ specs and books the plant visit — 24/7, in up to 40 languages.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · OSHA-conscious documentation

Calls, chats, quotes and follow-ups — one dashboard your sales manager can read at a glance.
The question customer service repeats forty times a day, answered instantly from YOUR approved information, identically every time — while your team stays on the exceptions.
The AI quotes from your actual catalog with payable links. A buyer calling at 7 PM gets a number and a link, not a voicemail — and your pricing rules are respected to the line item.
Web-form RFQs and inbound emails answered in minutes: quantities, specs and target dates collected, drawings requested, the qualified package routed to your estimator with a transcript.
A new buyer calls; the AI answers, identifies the part family, collects quantities and delivery targets, quotes catalog items on the spot and packages engineered-to-order requests for your inside sales team — while your people stay on the floor and the phone still gets answered.


Website chat that answers like your best inside-sales rep, grounded in your approved catalog and lead-time information, plus web forms for RFQs and certifications requests — every inquiry logged with a transcript, every lead followed up.
Yes. Your numbers stay; calls route to the AI first, staff first, or any mix per line and per hour — the sales desk keeps its direct lines.
It quotes what your catalog and pricing rules define. For engineered-to-order work it collects specs, drawings and quantities and routes a complete RFQ package to your estimator — no invented numbers, ever.
Customer-specific pricing lives in your rules: the AI quotes each account what your agreements say, and anything outside the rules goes to a human with the full context attached.
ZANUS AI FOR MANUFACTURING — BACK OFFICE
Work instructions, PM schedules, changeover checklists, NCRs, the quality manual: a plant runs on documents nobody can find at speed. The Zanus back office turns that archive into a working AI staff — drafting, cross-referencing and answering with the revision cited, under your managers’ sign-off.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · OSHA-conscious documentation

Work types molded to the plant: downtime reports, PM summaries, NCR drafts — each with default libraries.
The Friday scrap-and-downtime report, the monthly PM compliance summary, the shift-handover digest — assigned to the AI like to a production coordinator, executed on schedule, fully auditable.
A floor operator asks the torque spec from a tablet and gets the current work instruction — revision number and page cited — in seconds, not a walk to the office and back.
Every AI-drafted NCR, corrective-action draft and report lands in Output awaiting review. Nothing enters the quality record without your quality engineer’s decision.
At 2 AM the maintenance tech on duty asks: “line 3 palletizer, fault E-42, what does the manual say?” The AI returns the troubleshooting tree from YOUR equipment manual, the last three work orders on that machine, and the parts used — sources cited, downtime shortened.


The paperwork that eats your quality manager’s week: NCR write-ups from production records, corrective-action drafts in your CAPA format, supplier quality letters, audit-prep packets with the evidence attached. Drafted in minutes, in your templates, awaiting review.
No. It reads, drafts, cross-references and cites. Process changes, dispositions and anything touching the product remain decisions for your engineers and quality staff.
Yes — scans, photos of nameplate data, faxed supplier certs: the ingestion pipeline turns what the plant actually has into queryable knowledge with the source attached.
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Front Office AI picks up every call and chat — books, quotes, follows up, 24/7 in 40 languages. Watch it run a business like yours, live.
ZANUS AI FOR MANUFACTURING — DOCS & DRAWINGS
Tooling drawings, work instructions, equipment manuals, material certs, the quality manual — loaded into curated libraries the AI reads from. Ask in plain language; get the answer with the drawing and revision cited, scoped to whoever asks.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · OSHA-conscious documentation

Libraries: released revisions outrank redlines, the current quality manual outranks the 2019 copy — you set the order.
PDFs, drawings, scanned prints, photos of the nameplate, supplier certs that arrived by fax — the ingestion pipeline turns what the plant receives into queryable knowledge.
No source in your library, no claim: the AI cites the work instruction, the drawing, the cert — or says it cannot answer. On the floor, a guessed spec is scrap.
The temp on line 2 gets the work instruction; the process engineer gets the process sheet with costing. Each answer is scoped to the role, enforced server-side.
“What changed between rev C and rev D of the 4471 fixture?” “Which material cert covers this lot?” “Where is the changeover checklist for the Komori line?” The archive answers with documents attached — instead of a walk to engineering and a dig through the flat files.

Only roles you authorize. Permissions reach the field level and the server redacts what a user cannot see — a contractor asking about a fixture gets the assembly steps, not the process economics.
Never. Your tenant is isolated; your process knowledge is yours alone — and the on-premises option keeps it physically inside the plant.
ZANUS AI FOR MANUFACTURING — AI WORKFORCE
Assign work to the AI the way you assign it to staff: type, records, deadline, recurrence. The Friday downtime report, the monthly PM compliance review, the OSHA-conscious log draft — executed on schedule, with citations, under review.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · OSHA-conscious documentation

Four steps: work type, records and libraries, tags, schedule — the AI takes it from there.
Downtime report, NCR draft, PM summary, supplier quality letter: work types molded to your operation, with default libraries and example documents per type.
The AI’s workload is managed like the team’s: one-click views show what is urgent, late, today and tomorrow — the month-end quality summary never slips silently.
Reasoning streamed as it works, sources cited, milestones tracked, linked to the machine, the lot and the calendar — supervision like a diligent new hire, on the record.
Set “Weekly Scrap & Downtime Report” once: every Friday the AI reads the week’s production records, breaks scrap by line and cause, flags the outliers with sources, and files the draft for the plant manager before the morning meeting.

Yes — open any session, read the reasoning, redirect it, or stop it. The AI works like staff: visible, accountable, interruptible.
Assign an “OSHA 300 log draft” work: the AI compiles incident records into the draft log for your safety officer to verify and file. OSHA-conscious documentation support — the officer decides, always.
ZANUS AI FOR MANUFACTURING — SOPS & SAFETY
A procedure only protects people when the current revision is the one in hand. In Zanus, SOPs, lockout/tagout procedures and safety data sheets are living documents: answerable in chat from any tablet, attached to work, priority-ordered so the latest revision always wins.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · OSHA-conscious documentation

One library: LOTO procedures, changeover checklists, SDS sheets — released revisions outrank drafts.
Lockout/tagout, changeover checklists, forklift pre-shift inspections, SDS sheets, emergency procedures: one library, current revisions on top, superseded drafts outranked.
“What is the lockout sequence for press 12?” — answered in seconds with the procedure attached, on first shift or at 2 AM, to any authorized operator or tech.
Work types carry their default procedures: the AI drafting a PM summary reads from the current PM procedure — by construction, not by memory.
Quarterly SOP reviews, forklift certification expiration checks, JHA refresh drafts, toolbox-talk material for the Monday safety meeting: assign them once as recurring AI work and the safety program never goes stale between audits.

Upload the new revision, set it on top: from that moment every answer and every AI work cites the new procedure. Old revisions remain archived for audit — exactly what a quality system wants.
ZANUS AI FOR MANUFACTURING — TEAM TRAINING
Skilled trades are retiring faster than plants can hire, and the setup tricks live in heads, not binders. New hires learn your procedures from the AI, and every operator has an assistant that answers “how do we…?” from the floor, instantly.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · OSHA-conscious documentation

Training lives inside the software: the AI walks each new hire through the plant’s own procedures.
New operators learn your machines, quality rules and safety procedures through guided training on the plant’s own documents — productive in days, not a quarter.
“How do I set up the brake press for the 4471 bracket?” — asked to the assistant, answered from the setup sheet, without pulling the lead off his own line.
Private chats work on any device with a login — the how-to knowledge follows the operator to the line, the maintenance shop or the night shift.

Interview notes, setup videos, hand-written tweak sheets from your veteran techs go into the libraries — and become answers the next generation can query. The tenth “how do I dial in this die?” gets the same patient, sourced answer as the first.
No — the assistant answers from the live libraries. Update the setup sheet once and every future answer updates with it.
ZANUS AI FOR MANUFACTURING — AUTOMATIONS
Describe the job in plain words — “when a customer complaint arrives, pull the production records for that lot and draft the NCR” — and it becomes connected blocks on a canvas, running on its own, with every run visible.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · OSHA-conscious documentation

A real flow: inbox trigger, record sources, AI compile, outputs routed — drawn from a description.
A customer complaint email arrives: the lot’s production records are pulled, the NCR draft and the customer response are written, and both land in the quality manager’s queue.
Shift logs compiled into the morning report before the production meeting: output by line, downtime with causes, scrap flagged — filed to Output, on time every day.
A receipt lands without its material cert: the supplier request drafts itself, sends on approval, and chases until the cert is filed against the lot.
Run states live on the flow: green success, red failure on the exact block. On a production floor, a silently skipped report is a decision made on stale numbers — here, nothing fails silently and retry is one click.

Your rules: queue every outbound document for human approval, or auto-send only the categories you designate as safe — order confirmations yes, quality responses never.
ZANUS AI FOR MANUFACTURING — CUSTOMER UPDATES
Order confirmations, ship notices, lead-time change alerts, reorder reminders built from purchase history, reactivation of accounts gone quiet — drafted by the AI from your own records, in the buyer’s language, queued for your approval.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · OSHA-conscious documentation

Campaigns and sequences drafted from your records — reorder reminders, capability announcements — awaiting approval.
Accounts quiet for 18 months, buyers of a discontinued part, customers affected by a lead-time change: audiences built from your own categories and order history — no list exports to a third-party tool.
A lead-time slip becomes a notice the buyer reads Tuesday morning instead of an angry call Thursday afternoon. The AI drafts it; your sales manager approves it.
Communication preferences are enforced by the system, not by memory. Every send is on the record, every unsubscribe honored.
The audience, the content and the sending live in the same system as your customer records — nothing leaves your tenant to reach a mailing platform. “Remind every account that last ordered wear parts over 10 months ago” becomes a drafted, scheduled sequence in minutes.


Every outbound customer communication lands in the approval queue unless you designate the category as auto-send. Your name goes on nothing you have not seen.
Yes — a new machine, a new material, a shorter lead time: the AI drafts the announcement to the right slice of your customer base, in your voice, for your approval.
Audiences are built from your own customer categories — distributors, OEM accounts, end users each get communications written for them, under rules you set once.
ZANUS AI FOR MANUFACTURING — ERP & INTEGRATIONS
Your ERP stays the system of record. Zanus becomes the system of work: API connectors sync customers, orders and documents both ways, the intake pipeline files what arrives, and AI-drafted documents flow back where they belong. No rip and replace.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · OSHA-conscious documentation

No rip and replace: the ERP, MES and calendars stay — the AI layer connects to all of them.
Customers, orders and documents mapped field by field, with a dry-run preview before anything writes — push, pull or two-way, your choice per field.
Production data exports, machine logs and quality records flow through the intake pipeline into the libraries — the AI reads what your systems already produce.
A full API for whatever else the plant runs: label printers, quality stations, custom tools — data in, results out, under scoped keys.
The order lives in the ERP, the drawing in the PLM folder, the complaint in the inbox — and the AI reads across all of it. “What is the status of the Acme bracket order, and did the cert issue close?” becomes one question with one grounded answer.


The NCR the AI drafted, the order confirmation, the supplier quality letter: finished documents return to the ERP record through the same connectors — reviewed and approved by your team first.
Connectors are mapped per deployment — bring your ERP and MES to the demo and we walk through the exact integration path for your systems.
No. The connectors run inside your tenant — or inside your plant on the on-premises option. Data moves directly between your systems.
ZANUS AI FOR MANUFACTURING — COMPLIANCE
A plant’s edge is its process knowledge — and its customers increasingly demand proof of data control. Admin-created accounts, permissions to the field level, server-side redaction, a searchable audit trail, and an air-gapped on-premises option inside your own walls.
Private tenant or your own server · unlimited users · OSHA-conscious documentation

One record per user: role, tags, and granular permissions over every domain of the system.
The server redacts what a role cannot see — a temp on the line gets the work instruction, never the costing sheet; a supplier portal contact sees their POs, nothing else.
A searchable log of every audited action: who opened the tooling drawing, who changed the SOP, when — the evidence your customer audits ask for, ready in minutes.
Five-level workgroups map plants and departments; the on-premises option puts the whole system inside your building, air-gap capable, USB updates.
Automotive and defense-adjacent customers push data-handling requirements down the supply chain. Isolated tenants, role-based access, redaction and audit trails give you architecture to point at — and the air-gapped option when the requirement is physical. Bring the flow-down language to the demo.

In your isolated tenant — never training outside models — or fully on-premises on hardware you own, physically incapable of internet exposure.
The workflows are OSHA-conscious: incident records organized, log drafts assembled for your safety officer, every entry auditable. Your officer verifies and files — bring them to the demo for specifics.
ZANUS AI FOR MANUFACTURING — LIVE DEMO
Big vendors show plant demos as videos behind a form. Ours is the product itself, configured for manufacturing: open the chat below-right and try it — ask a lead time, request a quote, ask how the downtime report gets drafted.
The conversation you have with us IS the demo

This screen is watching demos like yours happen: live conversations, outcomes, first response in seconds.
Ask the chat: “what is the lead time on a custom bracket run of 500?” — watch it qualify the request like your best inside-sales rep on a good day.
Ask: “how would you draft an NCR from a customer complaint?” — it walks the workflow it would run in your tenant, grounded, cited, sign-off included.
The full demo loads a manufacturing tenant with sample records: downtime reports, SOP answers, quote flow — your plant’s world, working.
Every link below is a full live-demo page for that specific business — its vocabulary, its calls, its booking rules.
Request the demo and the interactive manufacturing demo arrives in about two minutes — no sales call, no calendar dance. Watch it, interrupt it with questions, and book the human conversation when YOU are ready.

Yes — the same AI, configured with a sample manufacturing tenant. What you see is what your team gets, with your manuals and drawings instead of the samples.
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