Industrial AI for metal fabrication and capital equipment
In configure-to-order metal fabrication every unit is, in practice, a batch of one: the configuration changes from one to the next and lives in a paper folder that travels the shop. iLEAN digitizes that journey without touching the systems that already work — the folder is captured with a photo, a machine's closed panel starts to talk without opening its control, the weld seam is inspected before paint makes it invisible and each unit's conformity file assembles itself, tied to its serial number.
Precision fixtures and frames
Tooling shops where every job is a one-off project: the paperless traveler, the legacy control digitized without replacing it, the drawing revision caught within a minute and the setup verified before the first cut.
View cases → 12 casesLoading dock equipment
Dock levelers, vehicle restraints and dock shelters: paperless work order folder, curing oven panel digitized, the change arriving from the site caught before cutting, Edge vision on the weld seam and a conformity file per serial number.
View cases →All 26 cases in metal fabrication and capital equipment
The complete listing, unpaginated. Each link goes to the specific case: the problem as it shows up on the plant floor, how the IRIS schema solves it and what was measured.
- A late drawing revision is the most expensive mistake in the shop
- A photo of the steel delivery note: heat traceability from unloading
- A tooling shop's core pain is not cost, it is the date
- Edge reads the weld seam before the defect becomes invisible
- Here the defect is not paid for in the part, it is paid for in the cycle
- In a tooling shop, the shop lead is the system
- Industrial AI in custom fixture and frame shops
- Industrial artificial intelligence in loading dock equipment manufacturing
- On one-off work, the setup is the process
- The change arriving from the site, in time for it to cost nothing
- The conformity file assembles itself, unit by unit
- The curing oven starts to talk: the real curve, unit by unit
- The delivery file stops being assembled by hand on the last day
- The dimensional report stops being retyped three times
- The finish and load tests enter the ERP on their own
- The heat number stops getting lost between the dock and the filing cabinet
- The manufacturing folder enters on its own: one photo and the unit exists in the system
- The nameplate, engraved from the ERP and with no typing
- The supervisor dictates while walking and knowledge stops dying at the end of the shift
- The traveler is still paper, but it no longer gets lost
- Two taps before the data enters the ERP: industrial AI’s human gate
- Validated startup: the right tooling and a purged booth, with evidence
- What the AI captures does not enter until a human has seen it
- You already own the good pieces — they just needed stitching
- Your most veteran machining centre can finally talk
- Zero out-of-specification units on site: four verification rings
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