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Manufacturing.

Intelligent operations, predictive maintenance, and OT/IT security for manufacturing—integrating ERP, MES, and plant-floor data.

Why SUMāTO in this sector
Efficiency is won in the data and the process.

Unplanned downtime, manual processes, and silos between IT and the plant floor. SUMāTO connects data and automates to produce better.

Use cases

12 ways Manufacturing leverages our portfolio.

Assistant for operators on the line

Answers questions on procedure, parameters, and safety from the real documentation for each line, at the level of whoever is asking and from a terminal beside the machine. The knowledge of the experienced shift stops leaving with the person who retires or moves to another plant.

Visual quality inspection

Reviews parts in line and flags the defect, its type, and its position, with the image that supports it and the batch it belongs to. Inspection stops depending on how tired the shift is, and the record is there to answer a customer claim or to raise one with a supplier.

Purchasing and supply

Turns a material requirement into a request, approves it by value and approved supplier, and follows it through to receipt, warning when a lead time slips. Fewer stoppages caused by material nobody ordered in time, and fewer emergency purchases at three times the price.

Work orders and maintenance

Raises the order, assigns the technician by skill and shift, reserves the spare in the store, and closes the loop with a record of the work done. The equipment history builds itself, and it is what later allows a repair-or-replace decision to be made on figures.

Quality documentation and traceability

Gathers material certificates, process checks, and batch records, and keeps them attached to what was produced and to the customer it shipped to. Answering an audit or bounding a product recall goes from days of searching to a query lasting minutes.

Anticipating equipment failure

Detects the change in behaviour that precedes a breakdown — vibration, consumption, temperature, cycle time — and gives enough notice to intervene during planned downtime. The breakdown stops deciding when the line stops, and the weekend overtime goes with it.

Real plant efficiency

Measures availability, performance, and quality line by line and shift by shift, and shows where productive time is genuinely lost. It usually reveals that the big loss is not the visible breakdown but micro-stoppages and changeovers nobody was counting.

Real cost by product and batch

Allocates material, energy, labour, scrap, and rework down to product and batch level. It shows which references leave a margin and which are carried by the family average — precisely what standard costing stops seeing as soon as the mix changes.

Separating the plant from the office

Protects industrial control systems, governs who reaches them, from where, and with what permission, and watches the traffic between both worlds without slowing the operation. It is what stops an incident on the office network from halting production for days.

Drawings, specifications, and versions

Every technical document keeps its current version, its change history, and its approval, findable by what it contains. It ends the expensive problem of manufacturing a whole batch against a drawing that stopped being the approved one two revisions ago.

Support for distributors and customers

Order status, availability, technical documentation, warranties, and after-sales, handled on the channels the commercial network already uses. Anything needing judgment reaches the team with the case identified and the distributor's history and open orders already loaded.

Product technical support

Settles questions on installation, use, maintenance, and spare parts from the official documentation, for the end customer and for the installer on site. It reduces the calls that currently occupy engineering and prevents the returns caused by incorrect installation.

Best practices

How we ensure results in Manufacturing.

01

Start with an assessment

Diagnose first and invest after: what is missing, what is urgent, and what it costs.

02

Build on what you already have

We work on your current systems, without replacing them.

03

Prioritize by impact

We rank the cases by what they save and by how easy they are to put in place.

04

Protected data, clear rules

Who can see what, a record of every access, and limits set from the start.

05

A person has the last word

Technology does the repetitive work; what needs judgment stays with your team.

06

Measure and improve

Indicators your committee reviews, so you can correct as you go.

Methodologies

The method we deliver with.

Diagnosis, strategy, execution, and resilience, applied to the context of your industry.

Diagnosis (Assessments)

We evaluate readiness, maturity, and risk before we begin — view assessments.

Strategy & Architecture

IT strategic planning and enterprise architecture with TOGAF — learn more.

Project execution

PMI, Scrum, and Design Thinking depending on the challenge — agile projects.

Resilience

Continuity and recovery with DRP and BCP — view continuity.

Why SUMāTO

Experience that spans industries.

We have delivered across very different sectors—banking, government, healthcare, telco, retail, energy—and that cross-cutting learning accelerates each project and reduces its risk.

9 years

Mission-critical operations in LATAM

Experience in regulated, highly complex sectors.

No fixed brand

The best technology for your case

We integrate our own software and our partners'; we do not tie you to one vendor.

One point of accountability

We answer for the outcome

From strategy to 24/7 operations, a single firm is accountable.

Portfolio

AI, data, automation, and security

Capabilities that combine to fit what each industry needs.

Across industries

What we learn in one sector serves another

What works in banking or telco accelerates healthcare, retail, or government.

On what you have

Without replacing your systems

It protects your investment and reduces the risk of every project.

Frequently asked questions

What Manufacturing typically asks.

How can video analytics improve plant safety and HSE?+
With AI Video Analytics, video analytics turns your existing cameras into sensors that detect PPE usage, access to restricted zones, near-misses, and risky behaviors in real time. You receive immediate alerts to act before an incident occurs and consolidate evidence for your HSE programs. Learn more at AI Video Analytics and complement the analysis with Analytics.
Does video analytics also help with quality control on the line?+
Yes. Video analytics inspects parts, verifies assemblies, and detects defects or deviations that are difficult to catch with the naked eye. You reduce rework, document every batch, and standardize criteria across shifts and plants. By integrating this data with Analytics, you gain dashboards that correlate quality, production pace, and downtime, so your decisions rest on data rather than perceptions.
How does predictive maintenance work with data analytics?+
SUMāTO brings together signals from your equipment, sensors, and historical records to identify patterns that anticipate failures. Instead of waiting for a breakdown or replacing parts on a calendar, you intervene at the right moment, extend asset lifespan, and protect line availability. The Analytics platform shows you trends, alerts, and priorities so your maintenance team focuses its efforts where they add the most value.
What repetitive tasks can I automate in operations and administration?+
Many. With automation and RPA you delegate repetitive tasks such as order reconciliation, data loading between systems, report generation, and inventory updates. Your staff leave behind error-prone manual work and devote their time to analysis and continuous improvement. See how to get started at Automation and RPA, integrating it with the rest of your systems in an orderly, traceable way.
How do I protect my industrial and operational technology (OT) systems?+
OT cybersecurity protects the systems that govern your production, where an interruption stops the plant. SUMāTO helps you segment networks, gain visibility into connected assets, monitor threats, and respond to incidents without halting operations. Explore the approach at Cybersecurity. This way you reduce exposure to digital risk and maintain control over your industrial environment and your data.
How do I ensure continuity and service to customers and distributors?+
Continuity relies on dependable backups and the ability to recover your systems quickly after a failure. With Continuity & DR (DRaaS) you protect critical information and plan for disaster recovery. In parallel, automation streamlines service to customers and distributors through consistent responses and workflows, so your orders, inquiries, and follow-ups move forward without depending on a single person.
Technology for this sector

How we solve for Manufacturing.

The capabilities with the most traction in this sector, and why.

Data & Analytics

plant efficiency, quality and product traceability.

Cloud

elastic capacity for plant systems, industrial IoT and production analytics.

Artificial Intelligence

predictive maintenance, vision-based quality control and line optimization.

The concrete first step

Data & Analytics Maturity Assessment

The plant already generates the data; the problem is it rarely reaches the decision certified. The assessment measures quality, lineage and governance by domain, and delivers the remediation path.

Further reading

Manufacturing, in depth.

The first step

Let's bring this to your Manufacturing operation.

Schedule a 90-minute assessment and we'll prioritize the highest-impact use cases for your organization.

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