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A manufacturing pilot built to prove value
KaizenFlow AI runs a structured eight-week pilot on your real production data. We connect to the systems you already operate, rank every improvement opportunity by dollar impact, and close with a before and after savings report your finance team can verify and sign.
A proof-of-value pilot, not a demo
KaizenFlow AI is at design-partner stage, and that shapes how the pilot works. It runs on your data, on your floor, against numbers your team already trusts, so the result is evidence rather than a slide.
The pilot is a fixed eight-week engagement with one goal: prove value on a defined line, cell, or plant area. We connect on top of the systems you already run (MES, SCADA, ERP, and historians) through more than 43 connectors, then let an ensemble of nine AI specialists rank where the money is. There is no rip-and-replace, and no new sensors are required to start.
Because we are early, we are selective and honest. We take a small number of design partners, we scope tightly, and we tell you when the data will not support a claim. If you want the mechanics first, the platform page walks through the closed loop of connect, surface, decide, and verify.
How the eight weeks run
The pilot moves through three phases. Each has a clear exit before the next begins, so you always know what has been proven and what is still open.
Weeks 1 to 2, connect and calibrate. We stand up the plumbing and agree on how success will be measured.
- Bring up read-only connections to your MES, SCADA, ERP, or historian using existing tags and tables.
- Map your lines, assets, and cost drivers so dollar impact is calculated on your rates, not generic assumptions.
- Agree on the baseline: the OEE, scrap, throughput, and energy numbers we will measure against.
Weeks 3 to 5, surface and prioritize. The specialists read the data and the backlog gets ranked.
- The nine specialists, including Anomaly Sentry, Throughput Analyst, and Quality Sentry, score every opportunity by dollar impact and confidence.
- We rank the backlog so the highest-value, highest-confidence items rise to the top.
- Your team reviews the ranked list and picks the handful worth acting on inside the pilot window.
Weeks 6 to 8, execute and verify. You act, we reconcile, and the numbers get written down.
- Your own people and process act on the selected opportunities.
- The Savings Auditor reconciles measured results against the baseline set in week one.
- We assemble the before and after numbers into a report your finance team can check line by line.
What you walk away with
The pilot ends in one artifact: a verified before and after savings report. It is not a projection. It reconciles what actually changed against the baseline you agreed on in week one, and it is written to be signed by your finance team.
Every number traces back to source data and a method you can inspect. If an opportunity did not pay off, the report says so. That honesty is the whole point, because a savings ledger is only useful when the people who own the P&L believe it. The verification page explains how that reconciliation is built and signed.
A finished pilot report contains:
- The agreed baseline and the measurement window it was calculated over.
- Each opportunity acted on, its modeled impact, and its measured result.
- A reconciled total, split into verified savings and savings still pending.
- The assumptions and data sources behind every figure.
What a good design partner brings
A pilot is a two-way commitment. The engagements that produce real numbers tend to share a few things.
- An executive sponsor in operations, engineering, or finance who can clear access and act on findings.
- Read access to at least one live data source, such as an MES, SCADA, ERP, or a historian like OSIsoft PI.
- A defined scope: one line, cell, or area where a measurable win is realistic in eight weeks.
- People on the floor who can execute the selected opportunities during weeks 6 to 8.
You do not need a data-science team, a new historian, or a finished data lake. If your tags are messy, that is normal, and cleaning enough of them to measure is part of the work we do in the first two weeks.
Fee, credits, and conversion
The pilot carries a fixed fee. It covers the eight weeks of connection, analysis, and verification, and it keeps both sides serious about the outcome. The fee is disclosed up front, with no usage-based surprises.
If you convert to an annual agreement, the pilot fee credits in full against your first year. In practice, a partner who continues has paid for the pilot only if they walk away.
Conversion is never automatic. At the end of week eight you hold a verified report and a clear decision: continue with a full deployment, or stop with the evidence in hand. We would rather you decide on numbers than on a sales cycle. When you are ready to scope one, talk to us.
What the numbers might look like
We do not publish customer results, because at design-partner stage we do not yet have a body of them to stand behind. What we can share are the target ranges our models point to for the opportunity types the pilot surfaces. Treat these as modeled and illustrative, not as achieved outcomes.
- Unplanned downtime reduction: a modeled range of 8 to 18 percent.
- Scrap reduction: a modeled range of 5 to 12 percent.
- Throughput gain: a modeled range of 4 to 11 percent.
- Energy reduction: a modeled range of 3 to 7 percent.
Your pilot report replaces these ranges with your own measured numbers. If you want the fundamentals behind the metrics we baseline, the OEE and TEEP guide is a good place to start.
How your data is handled
Connections are read-only by default, so the pilot observes your systems without writing back to them. Data moves over TLS 1.3 in transit and is held with AES-256 at rest, inside a multi-tenant architecture with per-tenant isolation.
Our controls are aligned to SOC 2 and ISO 27001, though we do not claim certification. Our own site analytics use Plausible, which is cookieless and stores no personal-data cookies. Full detail is on the security page.
Frequently asked
How long is the pilot? Eight weeks, split into connect and calibrate (weeks 1 to 2), surface and prioritize (weeks 3 to 5), and execute and verify (weeks 6 to 8).
Do we need to install new sensors? No. The pilot starts on the data you already collect through your MES, SCADA, ERP, or historian. New instrumentation is only worth it later, and only if a specific opportunity depends on it.
What happens to the pilot fee if we continue? It credits in full against your first-year agreement. If you continue, the pilot effectively costs nothing beyond that first year. If you stop, you keep the verified report.
Will you share other customers' results? No. We are at design-partner stage and do not publish customer numbers, case studies, or logos. The only results we will show you are your own.
Who signs the savings report? It is built for your finance team to review and sign. Every figure traces back to source data and a stated method, so it can be checked line by line.
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Tell us about one line or cell where a measurable win matters. We will tell you honestly whether a pilot can prove it in eight weeks.