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IndustriesAerospace and defense

Find the capacity your ramp-up needs.

Your customers raise their build rates, but material and parts arrive late, outside processes take longer than planned and qualified people are scarce. Zentio is the agentic manufacturing OS: its agents flag idle capacity and waiting lots, weigh a second machine against upskilling and draft a plan you approve.

A close-up of a jet engine: bronze-toned pipes and fittings wrapped around the casing, beside rows of fan blades.
Illustrative example: lot 118 comes back from heat treatment on Thursday instead of Monday, and Zen shows how it still makes its delivery date.

A ramp-up strains supply, people and capacity at once. Zentio plans all three together.

Zentio works alongside the ERP, MES and quality system you already run and reads your orders, routings and machine states from them.

  1. Planning and scheduling

    Your delivery dates wait on material and outside processes.

    Material arrives late or a lot stays longer at the heat treater. Only suppliers your customer has approved can step in.

    The scheduling agent follows the delay through the rest of the routing and drafts a new sequence for you to approve.

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  2. Qualifications

    Qualified people decide how much you can run.

    Special processes and inspection need qualified people, and one lapsed qualification takes someone off the plan. The records for your next audit sit in a spreadsheet.

    Zentio proposes only qualified people for each shift and warns you before a qualification lapses. It exports the matrix as it stood on your audit date.

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  3. Long-term planning

    Capacity decisions come before the orders are firm.

    A customer raises its build rate or a defense framework agreement comes without firm quantities. You still have to decide on shifts, machines and new hires now.

    Zentio sets demand against capacity months ahead and compares each option with its cost before you commit.

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  4. Knowledge management

    Process know-how retires with your experts.

    Only a few experienced people know how to make your most difficult parts. Several of them retire in the coming years.

    Zentio keeps their rules and setup sheets in a knowledge graph. Your team confirms every entry, and whoever runs the job next finds them at the terminal.

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Fit a late lot back into the plan. The cell’s new schedule and the shifts that depend on an expiring qualification.

Replans the cell when a lot comes back late.

Lot 118 returns from heat treatment 3 days late. The scheduling agent puts it on 5-axis 2 in draft v31 and moves lot 122 to 5-axis 1.

  • Every downstream operation traced back to the late lot
  • Affected orders checked against their delivery dates
  • Each change kept as a draft until you approve it

Flags qualification gaps before the roster goes out.

Zentio lists every shift that depends on a lapsed or expiring qualification.

  • NDT, welding and machining qualifications tracked by level and expiry
  • Renewal dates proposed before a qualification lapses
  • Training evidence and change history kept for audits

The Agentic Twin: every lot, outside processes included. When one runs late, Zen shows which delivery dates it moves.

Zentio runs on the Agentic Twin, a dynamic model of your machines, qualified people, material, process knowledge and open lots, including the ones at outside processors. Specialist agents share it to schedule work, staff shifts and plan capacity.

Inside the Agentic Twin
  1. Your team

    Planners, shift leads and operators set the rules and make the decisions Zen brings to them.

  2. Ask Zen

    Zen answers questions, handles routine work within the rules you set and asks your team for every decision beyond them.

  3. Specialist agents

    They do the work behind each answer: scheduling, scenarios, staffing or master data.

  4. Agentic Twin

    It holds everything from machine states to the rules your team confirms.

  5. Your systems

    Your ERP, MES, machines and Excel files stay in place and feed the Agentic Twin with orders, routings and machine states.

Three steps, repeated with every change.

Each pass leaves the Agentic Twin more precise.

  1. Understand

    Zen reads the Agentic Twin to show what changed, which delivery dates are at risk and where you lose time and capacity. Each answer keeps recorded facts apart from assumptions.

    Zen · Agentic Twin

  2. Decide

    The agents compare your options with their cost, test each one against likely disruptions and draft the next move for your team to approve.

    Specialist agents · Your team

  3. Learn

    Stop reasons, actual times and the rules your team confirms flow back into the Agentic Twin. The master data agent proposes new planned times when the actuals drift.

    Master data agent · Knowledge graph

Questions from plants like yours.

Does Zentio read our routings and outside processing orders?

Zentio reads orders, routings and resources from ERP systems such as SAP, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Infor, Proalpha and abas. During your evaluation, we confirm how outside processing orders and their return dates reach Zentio.

Does Zentio replace our ERP, MES or quality system?

No. Your ERP, MES and quality system stay in place. Zentio reads orders, routings and machine states, adds terminals and screens where your team needs them and writes changes back only along a path you agree on with us. Inspection results, NCRs and certificates of conformity remain in your quality system.

Where is our data hosted, which AI models process it and how do you handle export control and classified work?

Zentio stores your data in Germany, or in another region if you prefer, is GDPR compliant and reads only what your team allows. ISO 27001 certification and the TISAX assessment are in progress. Zentio works with all common large language models, or with one you host yourself. Your data is never used to train the models. During your evaluation, we agree with you on how export control applies and keep all classified material out of scope.

What does a first evaluation look like?

We start with one cell and one question, such as whether the cell can carry a higher build rate or a new defense order. We work from that cell’s orders, routings, resources and shift calendars.

Bring your toughest operational challenge.

See how Zentio helps your team work through it.

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