Machine builders promise a delivery date long before the design is final and the last part arrives. Zentio is the agentic manufacturing OS: when a part runs late, its agents show which build waits for it, compare overtime with a later delivery date and draft the plan your planners approve.
Engineering swapped the gearbox on order 2381. Does the FAT on 20 Oct still hold?
Yes, if engineering releases the adapter plate drawing today.Yes, if engineering releases the adapter plate drawing today. The machining center makes the plate tomorrow and bay 2 does cabinet installation and wiring first. The new gearbox is confirmed and goes in on Friday.
Machining center
2381 adapter2402 housing
12:0016:0020:00
Draft v74 operations changedReview the draft
Illustrative example: Zen checks whether the factory acceptance test for order 2381 still holds on 20 October after a gearbox change.
The design is still changing while you build. Four places where a delivery date slips.
Zentio works alongside your ERP and imports the Excel plans you keep today. Your assemblers report progress at a terminal in each bay, so the plan shows where every build stands.
Planning and scheduling
Assembly waits on missing parts.
The build is due to start, but parts are still being made, on order or waiting on a drawing. Your assemblers start anyway and a half-built machine blocks the bay.
Zentio shows which machine still waits on which part. The scheduling agent plans your in-house parts around the date assembly needs them.
Sales promises delivery dates without seeing the assembly load.
Assembly is overbooked one month and short of work the next. By the time the capacity plan in Excel shows it, a delivery date has already slipped.
Zentio shows the assembly load of confirmed and planned orders months ahead, so you spot a peak before sales promises a date. The scenario agent compares what overtime and a Saturday shift would cost.
Only a few people can wire and commission your machines.
Electrical work and commissioning fall to the same specialists. When one is ill or out on a customer site, a machine waits in its bay.
Zentio staffs each bay from the assembly schedule and counts weeks on customer sites as planned absences. When a specialist is out, it shows who else is qualified or which build the gap will delay.
Fixes found during commissioning stay in reports, marked-up drawings and the heads of experienced assemblers. Few of them reach the next team.
Zentio links reports, work instructions and the rules your team confirms to each assembly. The next team asks Zen and gets the times and fixes from earlier builds.
See what one engineering change does to the plan. Thursday’s draft schedule and the parts still missing for assembly.
Replans assembly around an engineering change.
Engineering swaps the gearbox on order 2381. The scheduling agent puts the new adapter plate on the machining center and moves cabinet installation and wiring in bay 2 ahead of the gearbox fit.
Changed parts traced to every operation they affect
Machining, welding, assembly and testing planned in one schedule
Every new version saved as a draft for your planner to approve
Assembly bay 22381 lubrication unit2381 cabinet installation2381 wiring
Checks every part against its assembly start.
Zentio links every missing part to the builds that need it. When a supplier moves a date, you see which builds the move affects.
Purchased and in-house parts tracked in one view
Late deliveries and unreleased drawings flagged
Lead times kept current by the master data agent
Missing partsWeeks 41–48
Adapter plate · 2381Scheduled
Slewing ring · 2390Late
Guarding · 2402Waiting on drawing
Servo drives · 2394Update proposed
The Agentic Twin: bays, parts and people in one model. From the first BOM revision to delivery.
At the core of Zentio sits the Agentic Twin, a dynamic model of your work centers, assembly bays, people, parts, orders and know-how. Specialist agents share it, so once an engineering change reaches the model, the next draft schedule, the roster and every answer from Zen start from the new revision.
Agentic TwinWork centers and baysParts and assembliesAssemblers and electriciansCustomer ordersBOMs and routingsKnowledge graph
Specialist agents
Ask Zen
Your team
Your team
Planners, shift leads and operators set the rules and make the decisions Zen brings to them.
Ask Zen
Zen answers questions, handles routine work within the rules you set and asks your team for every decision beyond them.
Specialist agents
They do the work behind each answer: scheduling, scenarios, staffing or master data.
Agentic Twin
It holds everything from machine states to the rules your team confirms.
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.
01
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
02
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
03
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.
How do our BOMs and engineering changes reach Zentio?
Through your ERP or PLM. Zentio reads orders, routings and resources from ERP systems such as SAP, PSI, Proalpha and abas. During your evaluation, we confirm how and how often BOM revisions and engineering changes arrive.
Does Zentio replace our ERP?
No. Your ERP stays in place, and Zentio adds terminals and screens in assembly. It writes back to the ERP only along a path you agree on with us.
Where is our engineering data hosted, and can we choose the AI model?
Zentio stores your data in Germany, or in another region if you prefer, and is GDPR compliant. 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.
Can Zentio plan a build before engineering releases the BOM?
Zentio’s long-term planning compares the load from confirmed and planned orders with the capacity of your bays and assemblers, month by month. During your evaluation, we confirm how builds without a released BOM or routing enter that plan.
Can we start with one build?
Yes. Pick one build and one question about it, such as what an engineering change does to assembly. We work with your orders, routings, resources and shift calendars.
