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AI for Manufacturers

Automate Your Operations

Custom AI tools and automations built around your ERP, your spreadsheets, and the way your shop actually runs.

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Optimize your most complex workflows

From the front office to the shop floor, we automate workflows that eat the most hours and build tools that fit them.

Shop Floor & Scheduling

See every job and every machine, live.

Live job tracking, dashboards for every level of the shop, and production scheduling synced to your ERP.

  • Live job status without walking the floor
  • Dashboards for leads, supervisors, and owners
  • Production scheduling synced to your ERP

Shop floor

Tuesday · 14 jobs in progress

Live

J-4471

CNC mill · Haas VF-4

Running

J-4468

Weld · Bay 2

Queued

J-4462

Finish · Powder line

Late
Machine utilization81%
Inspection & Quality

Inspection sheets off paper and onto tablets.

Paper inspection sheets moved to tablets, first-article documentation, and full traceability.

  • Digital inspection at every station
  • First-article documentation generated as you go
  • Serial-number traceability from raw material to ship

Inspection · Station 3

Part 88-1042 · Serial 00417

First article
Bore Ø 1.2500 ±0.00051.2503
Overall length 6.000 ±0.0106.004
Surface finish 32 Ra41 Ra
FAI report drafted · traceable to heat lot H-2291
Purchasing & Materials

Know what's on order and what it costs.

Order status, material quantity tracking, and supplier and input-cost visibility in one place.

  • Order status and ETAs in one view
  • Material quantities tracked automatically
  • Supplier and input-cost visibility

Purchasing

7 open orders · 2 arriving today

Synced to ERP

PO-1187

Ryerson · 4x8 A36 plate

Thu

+3.2%

PO-1184

McMaster · Fasteners

Today

-

PO-1179

Tiodize · Coating

Mon

-1.1%

Steel input cost, 30 days▲ 3.2%
Quoting & Estimating

Quotes out the door in hours, not days.

RFQ intake, quote drafts built from drawings and prior jobs, and pricing that reflects your real-time capacity.

  • RFQ intake and triage straight from your inbox
  • Draft quotes from customer drawings and past jobs
  • Pricing that reflects real-time shop capacity

Quote #Q-2291

RFQ from Hendrick Fab · 2 drawings

Draft ready

Drafted from 3 prior jobs

Bracket, 1/4" A36 plate×250$4,120
Laser cut + form×250$1,880
Powder coat, RAL 7016×250$960
Total · 9-day lead time$6,960
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Proven on the shop floor

Tangible results from manufacturing clients, from heavy equipment to metal fabrication.

Heavy-equipment OEM shop floor

OEM

Digitized job tracking and reporting for a heavy-equipment manufacturer.

  • BeforeJob status tracked on whiteboards and scattered spreadsheetsAfterLive job tracking synced with the ERP
  • BeforeWeekly reports assembled by handAfterDashboards that update themselves
  • BeforeFinding an answer meant walking the floor or digging through emailAfterPlain-language answers about any job, in seconds
“Lattice Partners transformed how our manufacturing team leverages AI, saving us significant time and costs.”

COO

Heavy-Equipment OEM

Clean metal fabrication shop floor with tubing racks, machinery, and a technician at a workbench

Metal Fabrication Co.

Quoting and job-history tools for a metal fabrication shop.

  • BeforeQuotes built from memory and old job foldersAfterQuote drafts generated from drawings and prior jobs
  • BeforeTooling history spread across binders and file sharesAfterSearchable tooling and job history in one place
  • BeforeSenior toolmakers pulled off the floor to answer pricing questionsAfterEstimators get answers without interrupting the floor
“They took the way our most experienced people quote a job and turned it into something the whole shop can use.”

Shop Owner

Metal Fabrication Co.

Opportunities hiding in plain sight

Your floor is full of inefficiencies waiting to be found.

Scroll to reveal them: the quoting delays, the blind spots, the quality leaks. Every one is an AI opportunity sitting in the way you already work.

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Hidden delay

Quotes completed from memory leaving hours on the table per estimate

Blind spot

No live job status means walking the floor or digging through email to find answers

Quality leak

Paper inspections leave you within uncaught defects and no way to track

Cost drift

No reporting or monitoring of your supply chain leaving you at risk for price jumps

Why manufacturers work with Lattice Partners

  1. 01

    We build around the way you work.

    We don't rip things out and replace them. We integrate with how you already run your shop.

  2. 02

    A team that stays in touch post-launch.

    We come on site to help you launch because we believe nothing replaces in person.

  3. 03

    We know your industry.

    We’ve worked in manufacturing ourselves, so we already know where AI helps on the floor and in the office, and where it doesn’t.

  4. 04

    Built for your specialty, not a generic template.

    Metal fab, heavy equipment, pipes, and metering shops all work differently. We customize every solution.

Built for how your shop works

Every specialty runs differently. Here's what we typically build for each.

Welder in protective gear working metal with sparks on the shop floor

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