Cohere for Manufacturing
Controlled AI agents for the connected factory.
Cohere helps manufacturers connect production, maintenance, quality, and supply-chain data with controllable AI workflows. North, Cohere's agentic AI platform, brings secure reasoning into the systems that run manufacturing – deployed under full EU data sovereignty and aligned with the EU Machinery Regulation, NIS2 and the Cyber Resilience Act, CSRD reporting obligations, and the EU AI Act.
For production & maintenance teams
Narrow down failure causes faster, prioritize maintenance proactively, and run shift handovers with full context.
For executives
See OEE, quality KPIs, supply risks, and compliance deadlines across plants, lines, and sites.
For IT, security & compliance
Deploy with scoped access, approvals, audit trails, and sovereign data controls – including OT/IT separation and protection of manufacturing know-how.
Powered by North
Detect deviations. Trace root causes. Act with control.
North turns fragmented factory and product context into controlled AI workflows – for companies whose products are subject to conformity obligations and who cannot afford black-box automation on the shop floor.
Detect earlier
Surface quality drifts, asset wear, material shortages, and compliance gaps before they escalate into scrap, downtime, or audit findings.
Connect the dots
Bring MES, SCADA, ERP, quality management, maintenance systems, shift logs, and supplier data together in one traceable context.
Humans stay in control
Recommend next steps with approvals from plant management, quality, and maintenance – documented with audit trails and evidence that stands up to auditors and market-surveillance authorities.
Manufacturing is ready for AI that works where decisions are made.
The greatest value emerges when AI can reason across machine data, asset documentation, and compliance evidence, surface problems early, and keep humans in control – all under EU data sovereignty.
Time spent on conformity & evidence documentation
Potential reduction in preparing technical files, CE conformity evidence, CSRD data points, and audit documentation through automated aggregation from source systems.
Downtime & failure-analysis duration
Potential reduction in root-cause analysis time when agents combine machine data, shift logs, maintenance history, and vendor documentation.
Regulatory accuracy
Near error-free evidence management for ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 27001 audits in pilot environments – every answer with its sources attached.
Manufacturing agents that earn trust over time.
Start with observation only, then expand to production diagnostics, asset analysis, compliance orchestration, and controlled workflow automation as teams build confidence.
Aggregate machine data, shift logs, alarm records, and quality data into structured incident reports with source citations – and make scrap causes comparable across lines and plants.
Connect maintenance history, spare-part data, vendor manuals, and condition data to prioritize maintenance windows – and give technicians the right instructions at the right moment.
Structure technical files, risk assessments, and declarations of conformity under the EU Machinery Regulation, check substance lists against REACH and RoHS requirements, and prepare evidence for the EU Digital Product Passport.
Connect supplier assessments, shortage alerts, certificates, and contract data – and document due-diligence obligations under the German Supply Chain Act (LkSG) and the EU CSDDD with verifiable, traceable evidence.
Structure CSRD reporting data points, CBAM declarations, and energy and emissions evidence, accelerate audit preparation for ISO certifications, and track NIS2 and Cyber Resilience Act requirements with documented human oversight.
Built for the shop floor, not just office workflows.
AI in manufacturing has to reach companies where their data lives. North connects production, maintenance, quality, and procurement systems. Cohere Compass unlocks the unstructured estate – shift logs, maintenance reports, vendor manuals, certificates, test protocols, and email threads – as a searchable, multi-aspect index. Sovereign deployment options include air-gapped, hybrid, and EU-jurisdiction cloud.
Factory and product context
Built for the shop floor, not just office workflows.
AI in manufacturing has to reach companies where their data lives. North connects production, maintenance, quality, and procurement systems. Cohere Compass unlocks the unstructured estate – shift logs, maintenance reports, vendor manuals, certificates, test protocols, and email threads – as a searchable, multi-aspect index. Sovereign deployment options include air-gapped, hybrid, and EU-jurisdiction cloud.
MES + SCADA
Production and machine signals
Make OEE, cycle times, alarm patterns, and quality drifts visible alongside order and asset context – as a decision basis for plant management and shift leads.
ERP + Maintenance
Asset and maintenance intelligence
Connect work orders, asset master data, spare-part availability, and condition assessments – with Compass reaching into PDF manuals and service documentation, too.
Sovereign by design.
North is built for manufacturers whose products are subject to conformity obligations, whose process knowledge is a trade secret, and who cannot compromise on regulatory compliance.
EU data sovereignty
Data processing, model inference, and audit logs stay within the EU. No data transfer to non-EU jurisdictions – GDPR-compliant by design.
Protection of manufacturing know-how
Role and access concepts, tenant isolation, and logging in line with ISO 27001 – recipes, process parameters, and design data stay protected, including across separated OT and IT networks.
Ready for the EU AI Act
Transparency, human oversight, and risk classification are anchored in every agent workflow with documented governance controls.
Air-gapped & hybrid deployment
Deploy North and the Cohere models fully on-premises, hybrid, or in an EU-sovereign cloud – including network-isolated production environments. No external API calls required.
Audit-ready traceability
Every agent decision is logged with sources, reasoning chains, and business approvals – ready on demand for certification audits, customer audits, and internal audit.
Tailored demo
Map out your AI-powered manufacturing workflow with us.
Talk to Cohere about a tailored demo for production, maintenance, conformity, or supply-chain workflows. We align the conversation with your systems, governance requirements, and business goals.
- For plant management, maintenance, quality, and procurement teams in discrete and process manufacturing.
- For CIOs, CISOs, and transformation leaders evaluating controlled AI under OT-security and EU sovereignty requirements.
- For machine builders, component manufacturers, and process manufacturers exploring secure agentic workflows with North and Compass.