# AI Solutions for Manufacturing & Industry | Alher Tech > Predictive maintenance, quality cameras, production scheduling, supplier OCR. Self-hosted AI infrastructure and bilingual support. - Canonical page: https://alhertech.com/en/services/ai-for-manufacturing/ - Site: Alher Tech (custom software, AI agents and SEO engineering, https://alhertech.com/) - Contact: https://alhertech.com/en/contact/ --- AI for factories and industrial plants, predictive maintenance, quality-inspection cameras and production-scheduling optimisation. Edge-only. ## What AI for Manufacturing Can Do for Your Business - **Predictive Maintenance**: Our manufacturing rollout typically combines predictive-maintenance models on your PLC/SCADA sensor data (predicting failure 3-10 days before it happens), quality-inspection cameras on the line (catching defects humans miss), and production-scheduling AI that optimises against orders, material availability and energy prices. - **Quality-Inspection Cameras**: AI on the line catches defects at 10-50x human throughput, with full image evidence logged. - **Production Scheduling**: Orders, material stock, energy cost and line capacity optimised together, hours vs. the days of manual Excel work. - **Supplier Invoice OCR**: Clean accounting entries into SAP/Dynamics/Odoo with 3-way match to POs and receipts. - **Incident Classification**: Free-text maintenance reports automatically classified by cause, severity and root-cause pattern. - **Bilingual Shift-Change Reports**: Our bilingual team ships English and Spanish content natively. Your AI agent speaks your customers' language without awkward translations. - **Production Cost per Batch**: Materials, machine time, scrap and labour assigned per batch, giving a real unit cost instead of a standard cost nobody trusts. - **Purchasing and Supplier Invoice Matching**: Purchase orders, delivery notes and supplier invoices matched three ways, so price and quantity differences are caught before payment. - **Shift Planning and Plant Payroll**: Shifts planned against the production programme, with clock-ins, bonuses and overtime prepared for payroll. - **Plant Management Dashboard**: Output, scrap, downtime and unit cost per line in one weekly view, with the deviations explained rather than just plotted. - **In-Line Quality Inspection**: Cameras check every unit against the reference instead of a sample, catching defects at the station where they happen rather than at the end. - **Safety and PPE on the Floor**: People in machine zones, missing protection and blocked exits detected live, with each event logged for the safety report. - **Your Own Chat, Not Only WhatsApp**: WhatsApp is one channel, not the plan. We build real-time chat straight into your own website or app, as we did for Boathous and ReservPark, and connect Instagram, web chat, email or the phone line to the same assistant, so the conversation lives where your customers already are. - **Fits the Tools You Already Run**: We plug into the software you already work with instead of asking you to migrate, your booking system, your ERP, your accounting, your spreadsheets if that is what you have. And when the piece you need does not exist in any product on the market, we build it to measure, because that is what we do the rest of the week. - **Prevention on the Shop Floor**: Our bilingual team ships English and Spanish content natively. Your AI agent speaks your customers' language without awkward translations. ## How We Build Your AI for Manufacturing - **Plant Walkthrough**: We walk the line in your your business plant, identify high-ROI automation points. - **Sensor / Camera Survey**: We audit available PLC data and where cameras can add value. - **Model Training**: Historical sensor data for predictive models; labeled defect images for vision models. - **Edge Deployment**: Industrial-grade hardware on the shop floor, no cloud dependency. - **MES/ERP Integration**: SAP, Dynamics, Odoo, custom MES. Events and alerts push to your system of record. - **Continuous Improvement**: Monthly reviews with the plant manager on defects caught, downtime avoided, schedule compliance. ## AI Technologies We Use From self-hosted open-source models to cloud APIs, we choose the right tool for each ai for manufacturing use case. ## Related services Neighbouring problems we also solve, in case the one that brought you here is not the first to tackle. - [Computer Vision](https://alhertech.com/en/services/ai-computer-vision/) - [AI for Logistics](https://alhertech.com/en/services/ai-for-logistics/) - [Custom ERP Development](https://alhertech.com/en/solutions/custom-erp-development/) - [All our services](https://alhertech.com/en/services/): The full catalogue, from web and mobile to AI, data and maintenance. ## AI for Manufacturing: FAQ ### What PLCs and SCADA do you support? Siemens S7, Allen-Bradley, Schneider, Mitsubishi, Omron; SCADA from Ignition, Wonderware, zenon and custom stacks. OPC-UA is our default integration. ### Does it work on non-connected machines? Yes, we retrofit low-cost IoT sensors (vibration, current, temperature) on legacy machines so the predictive layer works without replacing the PLC. ### How much? A single-line pilot and a multi-line plant are different scales of project. Payback often hits within one quarter at industrial volumes, and starting with one line is the cheapest way to prove it before committing the plant. ### On-prem mandatory? Usually yes, both for latency and data sovereignty. We deploy on industrial-grade Linux servers with local failover. ### ISA-95 compatible? Yes. Our integrations respect the ISA-95 hierarchy and push events to your MES at the appropriate level. ### Do you work with businesses across Spain and internationally remotely? Yes. We work fully remotely with clients across Spain, Europe, the US and LATAM. We run video calls, live demos and collaborative documentation for every milestone, and we're available in your time zone.