AI in manufacturing
Manufacturing AI tends to sit on the line, in the maintenance schedule, and in the file shared with a supplier. The Intelligence Audit reads those uses from the inside, including safety and export duties where the data or the product is controlled.
How AI shows up
Vision tools judge a part. Predictive maintenance ranks which machine is next. Scheduling and yield models change the plan for the shift. Supplier portals and quality systems summarize what a vendor sent. Design tools draft a process or a drawing that later leaves the building.
Worker-monitoring and safety systems are a separate class. They can shape a discipline decision or a stop-work call, not only a throughput number. Staff also paste drawings and process notes into public tools when the approved path is slow. That is shadow AI, and it is in scope.
Rules the audit looks at
The names below are examples the Regulatory and Compliance part and the Sector Controls part look at with your counsel. Listing one is not a determination that it applies to you, and it is not legal advice.
- Workplace safety rules, including OSHA, where a system touches how people work on the floor or how an incident is judged
- The Export Administration Regulations, where technical data or controlled software is shared with a vendor or sent outside the plant
- The International Traffic in Arms Regulations, where the product or the data is a defense article or technical data
- The Colorado AI Act, where a system makes or strongly shapes a consequential decision about a worker
A quality camera on a part is not an export. A drawing of a controlled item, pasted into a vendor model hosted abroad, can be. The audit separates them. Your counsel confirms the classification and the safety duty. We do not issue an export determination.
What the audit checks
Sector Controls follows the plant and the supplier file. It tests whether a model output can stop a line, scrap a part, or mark a worker, and who owns that decision. It also tests whether controlled technical data sits in a prompt, a log, or a vendor's environment. Regulatory and Compliance maps the places you operate and ship, with your counsel.
Go-to-Market covers how AI is used to quote, to find distributors, and to describe a product's performance. The TCPA and the FTC are examples where outreach and advertising claims are in play, not a legal opinion. Vendor review and the security review matter because a maintenance vendor can see more of the process than the contract says.
Before we walk you through it, every Intelligence Audit is reviewed with our counsel. The review is ours, and it is not legal advice to you. The next step after the Assessment report is the Discovery Call.
Questions about this sector
When do export controls enter a manufacturing AI audit?
They enter when technical data or controlled software is shared with a vendor, placed in a model, or sent outside the plant. The Export Administration Regulations are the general example. The International Traffic in Arms Regulations is the example when the item is a defense article. The audit asks what data moved. Your counsel confirms the classification. We do not issue one.
What does Sector Controls check on a plant floor?
It checks the path from a model to a production decision: quality, maintenance, scheduling, and any system that judges how a person worked. The test uses real records, read-only and with permission. It is part of the eleven-part Intelligence Audit.
Is a safety system in scope if it only watches the line?
Yes, if the output can change a stop-work call, a maintenance order, or a decision about a worker. Watching a line is still a use. OSHA and related safety duties are examples the audit looks at with your counsel, not a citation we issue.
How an engagement with us works
- 01
Intelligence Assessment
A short written read from your answers and what is public
Read - 02
Discovery Call
We talk through the organization and the decision in front of you
Read - 03
Scope and Agreement
Scope is agreed in writing before the audit begins
Read - 04
Intelligence Audit
Eleven parts of work from the inside, and the architecture sits inside that work
Read - 05
Roadmap Preparation
The implementation plan for 90 days, 6 months, and 12 months
Read - 06
Counsel Review
Our counsel reviews the audit before we walk you through it. It is not legal advice to you.
Read - 07
Audit Delivery
The report, the architecture map, the plan, and a leadership readout
Read - 08
Ongoing Advisory
We stay when a capability or a rule changes
Read
AI consultingAI governance consultingSuperintelligence consulting
Updated
Start the Intelligence Assessment
Tell us about the organization and the question in front of you. We read every request and reply to the work email you give us.
Start the Intelligence Assessment