Real cases

Industrial AI in custom fixture and frame shops

A shop that builds custom fixtures and frames looks nothing like a production plant. Here every job is a different project, with its own drawing, revision, material and promised date. There is no learning curve to amortise a mistake: the part is one-off, and if it goes wrong you buy the material again, program it again and wait on outside finishing again.

That shifts the centre of gravity. The enemy is not cycle time, it is three specific things: the setup, which eats most of the machine time; the current drawing revision, because cutting to a superseded revision is the most expensive mistake in the trade; and the promised date, which is the criterion these shops are chosen or dropped on as suppliers.

This page holds the 12 IRIS use cases landed on that daily reality: what gets captured, what gets seen at the machine, what the system decides and what a person always signs. None of them replaces the shop's craft — all of them take away the work that is not craft.