Multiple grounded sources
PM AI Agent answers from your plant’s own data and documents (live process data, root cause findings, SOPs, equipment manuals), not generic internet knowledge.
PM AI Agent: the AI assistant built for the plant floor
PM AI Agent answers production questions in plain language, from your live process data, root cause findings and plant knowledge. It upskills operators and, for the first time, lets the process talk back.
Animated example of an operator chatting with PM AI Agent: the operator asks what happened on third shift, whether anything is trending toward a limit, and how last week closed out. PM AI Agent answers each question with root cause findings, live process status, and figures drawn from the plant’s own data and documents.
Simulated conversation. On your line, PM AI Agent answers from your live data, SOPs, and RCA findings.
Read the transcript
Your best operator has decades of answers. Most were never written down. So when something moves on night shift, who do you call? PM AI Agent answers in plain language, from your live process data, root cause findings and SOPs, and cites every source. Every answer is generated inside your environment, and you decide what it sees. Your best operator’s judgment, on every shift.
A new kind of conversation
For the first time, the conversation goes both ways.
Plant equipment has always been silent. Grounded in your live process data, root cause findings and plant documents, PM AI Agent reports what it sees and answers real questions in plain language.
Read the conversation shown above as text (all 6 exchanges)
- Operator: Line 3 had a rough night. What happened on third shift?PM AI Agent: Two moisture excursions between 01:40 and 03:15, both tied to the 01:32 grade change. Dryer zone 4 ran below its golden-run target for 41 minutes, the same signature as two events last month. Top drivers from root cause analysis: dryer zone 4 temperature (100), steam header pressure (62), line speed (47).
- Operator: How’s it running right now?PM AI Agent: In spec and steady. Moisture is 0.3% under target, throughput is at 97% of your best demonstrated rate, and all 14 centerline variables are inside golden-run bounds.
- Operator: Anything trending toward a limit?PM AI Agent: One thing. Moisture is drifting up and crosses the upper limit in about 40 minutes at the current rate. Top driver is steam header pressure; a 2% setpoint correction now keeps you in bounds. Nothing else is trending out.
- Operator: We switch to the lighter grade at 14:00. Anything to watch?PM AI Agent: Your last six changeovers to this grade ran low on tensile for the first 20 minutes. Raising additive dosage 3% about ten minutes before the switch kept the last two transitions in spec. That’s the move I’d make, per SOP-207.
- Operator: Walk me through startup checks after the maintenance stop.PM AI Agent: From your startup SOP: bring dryer zones to setpoint, hold additive flow steady for five minutes, then step line speed up in two moves. One more thing from the shift log: your senior operators let zone 4 soak an extra five minutes in cold weather. It prevents a moisture excursion at speed-up.
- Operator: How did last week close out?PM AI Agent: Quality variability finished 21% below the trailing 12-week average, and chemical usage was down about 9%, roughly 1,600 lbs saved. The Monday summary has the shift-by-shift breakdown.
Simulated conversation on an example paper or nonwovens line. On your line, PM AI Agent answers from your live process data, root cause findings, SOPs, and run history, and figures stay within approved outcome ranges.
On-demand insights, 24/7
PM AI Agent flags what’s changing and answers questions instantly, on every shift, without waiting for the right person to call.
Talk to it like a colleague
Ask a direct question in plain language and get a grounded answer. If the question’s vague, it asks a follow-up instead of guessing.
Your data, your infrastructure
No data leaves your environment.
Built for plants where data governance isn’t optional, PM AI Agent generates every answer inside your environment, under your access controls.
Runs on your terms
PM AI Agent runs leading AI models over your data, on your terms. It is model-agnostic, and your process data never trains an external model.
On-premises available
PM AI Agent can run entirely on a single server inside your network. Nothing leaves your firewall.
You control access
3 query modes, document-only, data-only or hybrid, let you decide what PM AI Agent sees. Nothing is exposed by default.
Why it's grounded in more than documents
The agent needs something true to say.
On SOPs and manuals alone, PM AI Agent is a document search. Paired with PM Vector’s targets and Root Cause Analysis’s ranked causes, it shows where the process stands and what moved it. That’s why it always ships with both.
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Free Data Health Assessment
Give every shift access to your best operator's judgment.
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No coding required. Grounded in your process data and plant environment.
Questions, answered
Frequently asked questions
Where does PM AI Agent get its source data?
From your plant: live process data, root cause outputs, and your own documents, including SOPs, downtime codes, and manuals. It doesn’t answer from the open internet.
How does PM AI Agent work with our operators?
PM AI Agent upskills operators rather than replacing them. Manufacturing is facing a knowledge cliff: as experienced operators retire, the intuitions they’ve built over 20 or 30 years leave with them. PM AI Agent doesn’t generate new knowledge, it captures and preserves what your best people already know, so it doesn’t disappear when they do. The best operators on your floor typically love it first.
Does our data leave our environment?
No. PM AI Agent runs leading AI models over your data, on your terms, with no data leaving your environment. On-premises deployment is available for sites that require it.
Is this the same as ChatGPT or a general AI chatbot?
No. PM AI Agent is grounded in your live process data, root cause findings, and your own plant documents, not general internet knowledge. This is physical AI, applied to your manufacturing process, not general-purpose language-model AI.
Can we control what PM AI Agent has access to?
Yes. 3 query modes, document-only, data-only, or hybrid, mean you decide what PM AI Agent can see. Nothing is exposed by default.
Can we get PM AI Agent without PM Vector or root cause analysis?
No. PM AI Agent’s answers are grounded in PM Vector’s golden-run targets and root cause analysis’s ranked causes. Without them, there’s nothing manufacturing-specific to ground an answer in. All three are always licensed together. See how they work together →
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