AI for plant and production operations
Ultramarine Work reads the shift reports, downtime logs and quality data in your plant folder. It drafts the OEE review, the crew schedule, the 8D and the injury log, and every number carries the source it came from.
Plant-review-week-11.pptxExampleAsk it for
“Calculate OEE for Line 3 for the week of March 9 to 13 from the shift reports, split into availability, performance and quality, losses ranked by minutes.”
OEE-Line3-week11.xlsx“Turn the week’s shift reports into Monday’s plant review pack: attainment by line, top stop causes, scrap, overtime and open actions.”
Plant-review-week-11.pptx“Draft the 8D for NCR-0417, the 214 cosmetic rejects Redfield Motors reported on Line 5 on June 2, with containment, fishbone, 5 Whys and the escape point.”
8D-NCR-0417.docx“Run the five March injury cases and the clinic notes against the recordability criteria, and draft the 301 wording for each case that qualifies.”
Recordability-review-March.xlsx“Build the four-week crew schedule for Lines 2 and 3 starting March 23, four operators per shift, and flag the shifts that break rest rules or draw a premium.”
Crew-schedule-mar-apr.xlsx“Score October OTIF for Northvale Foods from the shipment log using their vendor guide, in full at order-line level, failures by reason.”
OTIF-Northvale-Oct.xlsx
How it works
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Put the plant’s files in the folder
Load the shift reports and handover sheets, the downtime log as operators typed it, ERP and MES exports, quality holds, the customer’s vendor guide, and last year’s schedule and budget. Scans and whiteboard photos are fine.
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Ask for the piece of work
Brief the request the way you would brief a relief supervisor coming onto shift. What comes back is an Excel workbook with live formulas and a source on every figure, the 8D in your template, or the schedule with the conflicts listed.
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Review it like a handover
Each figure points to the file it came from. Check the codes it marked unsure with the operator who typed them, redo one OEE calculation from the raw log, then make the calls. The log entry, the schedule and the CAPA closure are yours.
Inside the Plant & Production Operations mode
Production performance and OEE
Builds OEE from the shift reports for the weekly review, splits it into availability, performance and quality, and ranks losses in minutes rather than events.
Workload capacity and staffing model
Turns routing volumes and labor standards into crew hours, FTEs, overtime and shifts, and names the constraint that sets the output.
Staff scheduling
Drafts the crew schedule and checks it for fair workweek notice, rest between shifts, breaks and overtime premiums before it is posted.
Root cause analysis and CAPA
Assembles the 8D or CAPA and tests each suspect cause against the evidence you supply. It writes the effectiveness check with a date attached.
Safety incidents and OSHA records
Classifies injury cases under the recordability criteria, drafts the qualifying 301s and 300 log entries, and recomputes TRIR and DART on hours actually worked.
EHS audit and inspection
After the site self-audit, it ties every finding to the OSHA, EPA or permit clause it breaches and tracks corrective actions and abatement dates to closure.
Emergency action plan
Writes the emergency action and fire prevention plan for a new line or building, covering alarms, exits, accounting for people, critical shutdowns and drills.
Supply chain KPI scorecard
Computes OTIF, fill rate and turns under each customer’s own definitions, reconciles the results to the shipment log and attaches the evidence for disputes.
Operating metrics and reviews
Produces the Monday plant review and the monthly pack. Attainment, scrap, overtime and open actions all trace back to the shift reports.
Close variance and forecasting
Explains the month against budget by volume, mix, scrap, overtime and indirect labor, and updates the rolling forecast from the MES export.
Business case and capital allocation
Frames the capital request around the do-nothing cost, adds downtime and scrap evidence, and works out payback and NPV at the hurdle rate finance uses.
- Office skills
- Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PDF
- Tools
- Read, edit and write files, Search files, Run code, Search and read the web, View images
- Connectors
- SharePoint, Google Drive, Gmail, and additional custom connectors
- House style
- Your fonts, layouts and rules, on every file
Who it’s for
People who run production at a plant, from shift and production supervisors and plant operations analysts to production, manufacturing and plant managers.
Questions
Can it decide whether an injury is recordable?
No, the recordability call is yours. It walks the case through the work-relatedness, new-case and recording-criteria tests, cites what the case meets or misses and drafts the 301 and the log entry. You or your EHS lead then decide, with the evidence in front of you.
How do I know it isn’t inventing causes or numbers?
It cites the source file behind every figure and writes down what it could not find or reconcile instead of guessing. Treat the causes it proposes as hypotheses until the floor confirms them. Take the flagged lines back to whoever ran the shift, keep the operator’s original wording next to the code, and confirm one calculation against the raw log.
Can AI write the root cause and close a CAPA under ISO 9001?
It can draft and verify, but it cannot decide or close. The root cause decision, the corrective action and the closure stay with you and your quality team, because an auditor will look for the human judgment behind them when AI is in the loop. Hand it the inspection data and it tests each proposed cause against that evidence, then drafts the effectiveness check with a due date.
Where does our production and injury data go?
Ultramarine Work changes files only in the project’s folder. When a request needs it, it can read files elsewhere on your computer, never passwords, keys or app data, and you can turn that off in settings. The model runs on Paper Instruments’ servers, so the content it works on is sent there to be processed. Paper Instruments is SOC 2 Type II, and our security and compliance details are on our compliance page.