AI for manufacturing
How can a manufacturer use AI with its ERP and shop-floor knowledge?
Short answer
Keep your ERP and put a private AI system on top of it. On the AImpact OS, your team asks questions about orders, jobs and machines in plain English and gets answers with the source of every number, kept as dashboards that stay current. What your best people know goes into a Company Brain, so it stays when they retire. We set it up and run it for you.
See it in 30 seconds
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What’s running late on the floor?
Your ERP has every order, job and machine. Ask which jobs are behind and why, get the answer with its source, and keep it as a live dashboard.
AI for manufacturingWhen your best machinist retires
Put setups, job notes and shift handoffs in your Company Brain, so anyone on the floor can ask and what your best people know stays.
AI for manufacturingYour ERP has the data. Where’s the dashboard?
Ask for the dashboard in plain English. It stays current, and every number shows where it came from.
The data is there. Getting to it isn't.
Your ERP holds every order, job and machine. Finding out what is running late still takes a morning of exports, spreadsheets and walking the floor. And the fixes that keep jobs running live in a few people's heads. When they retire, that goes with them.
What the AImpact OS does on the floor
Ask your ERP in plain English
Which jobs are behind, what is waiting on material, where a number came from. No exports, no hunting through reports.
Dashboards that stay current
Keep any answer as a live dashboard. Every number shows its source.
Keep what your best people know
Setups, fixes and job notes in a Company Brain, so the know-how stays when people retire.
Meetings and shift handoffs, written down
The built-in notetaker files every meeting so you can ask what was decided and promised.
An AI sidekick for each person
Tuned to the job, with approvals on anything that matters and a halt button.
Private and permissioned
Your own server and database. Not a shared chat app.
Managed AI Provider
You don't staff it. We run it.
You run the plant. We run the system: its own server, updates and support included, and our team fixes what breaks. Based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, serving manufacturers across the Midwest.
AImpact Nexus is a Managed AI Provider (MAP): the MSP model, applied to AI. Our founder spent 17 years running a managed services company before its $7M exit. Same playbook: we set it up, keep it running, and stay accountable for it. What is a Managed AI Provider?
Who it's for
Plant and operations managers
You need to know what is late and why without a morning of reports.
Owners of small and mid-size manufacturers
You want AI working for the business without hiring an AI team.
Shops with senior people near retirement
Decades of setups and fixes that are not written down anywhere.
Teams living in ERP exports
The data is in the system. The answers are in spreadsheets.
Pricing
What it costs
Published prices. Month-to-month on the OS.
AImpact OS
$599/mo
your AI · $699/mo if we carry usage
- Dedicated virtual private server and database
- Employee brain (private employee data)
- Company Brain with ACLs (private company data)
- Vault, notetaker, workspace, chat
- One REINS — we run it
- Two named instances
- SOC 2 audit prep, updates, and support
SOC 2 audit prep — no completed report yet.
Extra named instance — $79/mo
After the first two. Sidekick, employee brain, support. $104/mo if we carry usage.
Implementation — from $5,000 one-time
Setup, company knowledge loaded, your people onboarded.
Add-ons
Extra REINS $199/mo. ARIA + Nexus Studio (marketing) $799/mo. Custom apps on a second server from $149/mo.
Questions buyers ask
How can a manufacturer use AI with its ERP and shop-floor knowledge?
Keep your ERP and put a private AI system on top of it. On the AImpact OS, your team asks questions about orders, jobs and machines in plain English and gets answers with the source of every number, kept as dashboards that stay current. What your best people know goes into a Company Brain, so it stays when they retire. We set it up and run it for you.
Do we have to replace our ERP?
No. Your ERP stays the system of record. The AImpact OS connects to the data you already have and lets your team ask questions about it in plain English, with the source of every number shown.
What happens to what our senior people know when they retire?
Procedures, job notes and meeting notes go into a Company Brain on your own server. Anyone with permission can ask it a question and get the answer with where it came from. The built-in notetaker files meetings and shift handoffs automatically.
Who can see what?
Company data sits behind permissions, so the floor, the office and leadership see what they should. Each person gets their own AI sidekick, every agent is permission-scoped, and every action lands on a tamper-evident audit trail.
Do we need an IT team to run it?
No. We are a Managed AI Provider: we set the system up on its own server, keep it updated, support it, and fix what breaks. Your team just uses it.
What does it cost?
The AImpact OS is $599/mo with your own AI or $699/mo if we carry the AI usage, with implementation from $5,000 one-time. Extra people are $79/mo, or $104/mo if we carry usage.
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Your ERP stays. Your know-how stays.
Thirty minutes with our team. Tell us what you wish you could ask your ERP; we'll show you how it would work.