Built for Discrete & Process Manufacturers

Your Best Operators Can't Be Everywhere at Once. Your AI Can.

The institutional knowledge that keeps your plant running efficiently lives in the heads of your most experienced people - and in documents scattered across shared drives, binders, and systems that don't talk to each other. Cognetryx brings that knowledge together and makes it available to everyone on your floor, without sending your proprietary process data anywhere it shouldn't go.

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$3T+

Annual economic impact of unplanned downtime globally across manufacturing

Siemens Digital Industries Software, 2023

Proprietary process data transmitted outside your network when Cognetryx is deployed

Architectural outcome

90 days

Typical time from kickoff to a fully deployed, plant-wide system

Implementation roadmap

The Problem

Manufacturing Runs on Knowledge That's Hard to Find and Easy to Lose

Your processes are documented. Your procedures exist. But the gap between what the SOP says and what actually works on your equipment is filled by experienced people who are increasingly hard to replace - and by tribal knowledge that walks out the door when they do.

Knowledge Loss

Retirements Are Taking Decades of Process Knowledge With Them

The average age of experienced manufacturing workers is rising. When a 30-year process engineer or master technician retires, the practical knowledge they carry about your specific equipment, your workarounds, and your quality quirks does not transfer automatically to the next person - even if documentation exists.

Operational Friction

Finding the Right Answer Takes Longer Than It Should

A line stops. A quality deviation appears. An equipment alarm triggers. The operator who knows what to do is on the other shift. What should be a 10-minute resolution becomes an hour of calls, searches through outdated manuals, and waiting for someone senior to become available.

Data Exposure

Your Process IP Is Your Competitive Advantage - Not a Cloud Vendor's Training Data

Process formulations, equipment configurations, quality tolerances, and production recipes represent years of R&D and operational refinement. Sending that information to an external AI service to get an answer is a trade-off most manufacturers would not consciously accept if they stopped to think about it.

The manufacturers seeing the fastest return from AI are not the ones who bought the most sophisticated platform. They are the ones who made their existing institutional knowledge searchable - and kept it inside their own walls while doing it. That is the problem Cognetryx was built to solve.

Two Conversations. One System.

Operations and IT Both Have to Say Yes

AI deployments in manufacturing stall when the ops case and the IT case are not addressed together. Cognetryx is built to satisfy both sides of the table.

For Operations Leadership

Faster Answers, Fewer Escalations, Less Downtime

When your operators can query your SOPs, maintenance history, equipment manuals, and quality records in plain language and get an accurate, source-referenced answer in seconds, the time between a problem appearing and a resolution begins drops measurably. You are not replacing your experienced people. You are making their knowledge available when they are not in the room.

For IT Leadership

No New Attack Surface. No OT Risk. No Vendor Dependency.

Cognetryx lives in your IT environment, not your OT environment. It does not touch production systems directly. Data stays inside your network - nothing goes to a cloud processor. Your existing access controls, logging, and security policies extend to the AI the same way they extend to any other system. No BAAs, no third-party data processing agreements, no new compliance exposure to manage.

The Answer

AI That Knows Your Plant, Not Just the Internet

Cognetryx deploys inside your network and indexes your actual documentation - SOPs, maintenance logs, engineering specs, quality records, training materials. Answers come from your institutional knowledge, cited by source, without leaving your environment.

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Your Documentation Becomes a Live Knowledge Base

SOPs, work instructions, maintenance procedures, equipment manuals, quality control records, and engineering change logs are indexed and queryable in plain language. An operator asks what they need to know and gets the right answer with the source document cited.

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Proprietary Process Data Never Leaves Your Network

Your formulations, tolerances, equipment configurations, and process parameters are processed entirely inside your environment. No external AI vendor sees your production data. No terms of service puts your IP at risk.

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Maintenance and Troubleshooting Gets Faster

Technicians query equipment history, fault codes, and repair records in natural language. The system surfaces relevant prior incidents, successful resolutions, and the specific documentation that applies to the problem at hand - reducing mean time to resolution without requiring senior staff on-call.

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Every Interaction Is Logged and Auditable

For regulated manufacturers - FDA, ISO, AS9100 - every AI query, the source documents referenced, and the output generated are logged immutably inside your environment. Audit readiness is built in, not bolted on.

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New Hires Ramp Up Faster

Instead of spending weeks shadowing an experienced worker to absorb practical knowledge, new operators and technicians can query the institutional knowledge base directly. Onboarding accelerates. Variance in how procedures get applied decreases.

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Connects to Your Existing Systems

Integrates with ERP platforms, document management systems, quality management software, and engineering data repositories. You are not replacing existing systems - you are giving your team a unified way to ask questions across all of them.

Where Manufacturers Start

High-Impact Use Cases Across the Plant

The fastest ROI comes from applying AI to work that is already documented, already repetitive, and already causing friction. These are the areas where most manufacturers see measurable results within the first 90 days.

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Downtime Response and Troubleshooting

Operators query fault history, equipment manuals, and prior maintenance records to resolve equipment issues faster - without waiting for a specialist to become available or digging through paper-based maintenance logs.

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Quality Deviation Investigation

Quality engineers query production records, process parameters, and inspection data in plain language to identify root cause faster. Relevant prior deviations surface automatically rather than relying on individual memory.

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SOP and Work Instruction Lookup

Operators and technicians ask questions about procedures in natural language and get accurate, cited answers - the right version of the right document - without navigating complex document management systems under time pressure.

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Supply Chain and Procurement Queries

Procurement and operations teams query supplier specifications, approved vendor lists, and material requirements against current production needs - grounded in your internal documentation, not external databases.

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Regulatory and Compliance Documentation

For FDA-regulated manufacturers and those operating under ISO or AS9100, AI-assisted document review, change control support, and audit preparation grounded in your own quality system documentation - with full traceability.

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Operator Training and Certification Support

New operators access training materials, safety procedures, and process guidance in plain language. Answers reference your actual documentation, not generic industry content. Consistency of training improves across shifts and facilities.

Built for Industrial Environments

We Understand That Uptime Is Not Negotiable

Cognetryx is led by a CISSP-certified founder with nearly 20 years of experience building secure IT infrastructure for regulated, high-stakes environments. We have worked with organizations where data handling is governed by examiners, auditors, and regulators - and where the cost of getting it wrong is measured in production losses, recall events, or regulatory action.

Our deployment model is built around your operational reality. We do not require production systems to change. We integrate with your existing IT environment, index your existing documentation, and have your team using the system in weeks - not quarters. White-glove onboarding, staff training, and 30 days of on-site support are included.

CISSP FDA / 21 CFR Part 11 ISO 9001 AS9100 OT/IT Separation Audit Logging

Keith Kennedy

Founder & CEO, CISSP

"The most valuable knowledge in a plant is usually not in a document. It's in the head of the person who has been there 25 years. The goal is to get it out before they walk out - and make it available to everyone who needs it after they do."

Keith has advised mid-market and enterprise organizations on IT governance, ERP migrations, and secure infrastructure builds across regulated industries. Every Cognetryx deployment is led by his technical team with a focus on the security and compliance posture from day one.

Common Questions

What Operations and IT Leaders Ask

Can Cognetryx connect to our existing OT and plant floor systems? +

Cognetryx is designed to integrate with your existing data environment without requiring you to overhaul production systems. It connects to document repositories, quality management systems, ERP platforms like SAP and Oracle, and engineering knowledge bases. Plant floor OT systems are addressed through data export and integration layers rather than direct real-time connectivity, preserving the OT/IT separation that manufacturers depend on for uptime and safety.

How does private AI protect our proprietary process data and trade secrets? +

Process formulations, equipment configurations, quality tolerances, and production recipes are among the most competitively sensitive data a manufacturer holds. Cognetryx deploys entirely inside your network. No process data is transmitted to an external server, processed by a third-party model, or subject to a vendor's data use policy. Your proprietary process knowledge never leaves the environment you control.

What about regulatory compliance - FDA, ISO, AS9100? +

Regulated manufacturers face documentation and traceability requirements that cloud AI tools create complications around. Cognetryx provides immutable audit logging for every AI interaction - what was asked, what source document was referenced, what was generated. For FDA-regulated manufacturers, this supports 21 CFR Part 11 electronic records requirements. For ISO and AS9100 environments, it supports document control and traceability obligations. Because data stays inside your network, there are no third-party data handling questions to answer during an audit.

How does this help with the knowledge gap when experienced workers retire? +

This is one of the most immediate and measurable applications. When a 30-year process engineer or senior maintenance technician retires, decades of practical knowledge about how your specific equipment behaves, what the workarounds are, and what the procedures don't fully capture leaves with them. Cognetryx indexes your existing documentation, SOPs, maintenance logs, and engineering notes so that institutional knowledge becomes queryable by anyone. New employees get accurate, source-referenced answers rather than starting from scratch or relying on whoever happens to be nearby.

How long does deployment take, and does it disrupt production? +

Most manufacturing deployments reach pilot stage in 6 to 10 weeks, with full production rollout in 90 days. Deployment does not touch OT systems or production infrastructure directly - it lives in your IT environment and connects to document and data sources. There is no production downtime associated with the deployment itself. Cognetryx includes white-glove onboarding, staff and operator training, and 30 days of on-site support at go-live.