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Agentic AI
for smart factories and industrial modernization

CognitiveBricks helps manufacturers migrate legacy estates, optimize operations with predictive agents, and unify OT/IT data—for zero-downtime transformation and measurable efficiency gains.

Modernize operations without stopping production, brick by brick.

Cloud migrationPredictive maintenanceQuality & IoTSupply chain
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Industrial operations stack

Plant & OT systems

SCADA · MES · PLCs

Enterprise IT

ERP · PLM · data lake

Cloud & edge

hybrid · IoT hub · GPU

Quality & safety

SPC · audits · traceability

Agent orchestration

ops · maintenance · planning

100%

Zero-downtime migration in enterprise programs

40%

Typical infrastructure cost reduction post-cloud

99.99%

Uptime targets achieved post-modernization

Why manufacturing AI stays in the lab

Factories need agents that respect OT boundaries, integrate with MES/ERP, and deliver uptime—not pilots disconnected from the plant floor.

  • 200+ legacy applications block cloud and analytics initiatives due to dependency complexity

  • Unplanned downtime costs millions while maintenance knowledge lives in senior technicians’ heads

  • OT and IT data remain siloed—preventing unified visibility across plants and supply networks

  • Quality and traceability require auditable agent actions, not black-box recommendations

  • Supply disruptions need agent-assisted replanning across ERP, WMS, and carrier systems

Industry solutions

Manufacturing focus areas

Smart factory, predictive maintenance, quality, and cloud modernization.

Cloud & Application Migration

Zero-downtime migration at industrial scale

Agents map dependencies, refactor for cloud-native patterns, orchestrate phased cutovers, and validate parity before traffic moves—aligned to 24/7 operations.

  • Automated dependency discovery across legacy estates
  • Containerization and microservices refactor assist
  • Wave planning with rollback and smoke-test automation
  • FinOps agents for ongoing cost optimization

100% uptime migrations with 40% infrastructure cost reduction typical.

Predictive Maintenance

Agents that predict, diagnose, and schedule repairs

IoT telemetry, maintenance history, and technician runbooks combined—agents propose work orders and parts before failures occur.

  • Anomaly detection on vibration, temperature, and throughput signals
  • RAG over OEM manuals and internal repair procedures
  • Integration with CMMS and work-order systems
  • Human approval before production-impacting changes

Less unplanned downtime and optimized maintenance spend.

Quality & Traceability

AI-assisted quality with full lot traceability

Agents monitor SPC signals, draft non-conformance reports, and trace lots across suppliers—supporting ISO and customer audit requirements.

  • Real-time SPC alerting with root-cause suggestions
  • Automated NCR drafting with evidence attachments
  • Graph traceability from raw material to shipment
  • Audit-ready logs for agent recommendations

Faster quality closes with defensible documentation.

Supply & Production Planning

Agent assist for planners under disruption

When demand or supply shifts, agents simulate scenarios, draft revised production schedules, and surface constraints for human approval.

  • ERP and APS integration for schedule drafts
  • What-if modeling on capacity and materials
  • Supplier risk signals from external and internal data
  • Executive narrative summaries for plant leadership

Resilience without spreadsheet war rooms.

Engagement roadmap

Align migration waves with OT safety windows, then layer predictive and quality agents on unified data foundations.

01

Assess estate

Weeks 1–4

  • · App inventory
  • · OT/IT map
  • · Migration waves
02

Data foundation

Weeks 3–10

  • · Lakehouse ingest
  • · IoT hub
  • · Semantic layer
03

Ops pilots

Weeks 8–16

  • · Maintenance agent
  • · Quality assist
  • · Planner copilot
04

Scale plants

Parallel rollout

  • · Multi-site rollout
  • · FinOps
  • · Center of excellence

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