Setup technician with a tablet at a CNC machine.
LOKI in manufacturing

AI for manufacturing, without your drawings ever leaving the building.

LOKI runs fully local on your hardware. It finds drawings, process plans, inspection records, material certificates and mailboxes with a single question. Every answer names its source.

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The customer wants the 3.1 certificate for batch 84120. Where is it, and where did the rest of the bar go?

LOKI

The EN 10204 inspection certificate is filed with the goods receipt from 12 May [1]. The batch went into three orders, the cutting list shows dimensions and remaining length [2]. The delivery note for the customer order lists position and quantity [3].

3 sources used 3.1 material certificateCutting listDelivery note
0 drawings in someone else’s cloud
years of technical documentation under EU Machinery Regulation 2023/1230, evidenced in seconds
unlimited users in the license. Foremen, work preparation, QA, sales
4 weeks to go live, with no intervention in running machines or controls

Selected customers

From family-run businesses to DAX corporations. Machine building, chemicals, and the public sector.

The stakes

This data must never leave your building.

NDAs, liability and your margin depend on it.

View into the working area of a CNC machine, milling cutter in the cut.
What takes shape here comes from your customers’ drawings, often under NDA. It stays in-house.

Drawings and NC programs

Your customers’ know-how, often under NDA. Many framework agreements in the automotive, defense and plant-engineering sectors explicitly prohibit uploads to third-country clouds.

Costing and post-costing

Hourly rates, setup times, scrap rates: whoever reads them knows where your margin sits. None of it belongs in someone else’s data center.

Inspection and batch records

EN 10204 material certificates, measurement reports, batch traceability: liability-relevant for years. And in a complaint case, your defense.

The bottleneck

Making the part is fast. Proving it is the work.

  1. Documentation with a ten-year memory

    EU Machinery Regulation 2023/1230, binding from January 2027, requires technical documentation including risk analyses, drawings and software logic, for ten years. Add initial sample inspection reports and batch records that customers still ask about years later. All of it is filed. Just in five different places.

  2. Every audit asks about the chain

    ISO 9001, IATF 16949 for suppliers, and customer audits in between: document control, measuring equipment monitoring, training records, 8D history. If you have to hunt for evidence first, you lose audit days and trust.

  3. The experience is retiring

    Machinists and setup technicians have been on the German Federal Employment Agency’s shortage list for years. Why a part runs at reduced feed and which fixture takes out the vibration lives in setup sheets, deviation approvals and in heads that are leaving.

  4. Systems that don’t know each other

    Orders in the ERP, inspections in the CAQ, NC programs and setup sheets on the file server, machine times in the BDE, agreements in the mailbox. None of these systems can search the others.

The knowledge is in the building. It just sits in the ERP, the CAQ, the CAM folder, the BDE journal and the project manager’s mailbox all at once.

The solution

Four worlds, one question.

Your knowledge lives in four worlds that don’t know each other: orders and costing in the ERP, inspections in the CAQ, NC programs and setup sheets on the file server, agreements in the mailbox. LOKI lays one search across all four, fully on your hardware, with a source for every answer.

  1. 01

    Four worlds that don’t know each other

    ERP order, CAQ inspection, NC folder, mail thread.

  2. 02

    One index, behind your firewall

    LOKI opens up all four, following your role-based access.

  3. 03

    One question, in plain language

    No system knowledge, no file names, no folder hunting.

  4. 04

    One answer, with the source

    Every statement carries the source it came from.

Your plant · Your hardware ERP Orders & costing proALPHA · abas · APplus CAQ Inspections & 8D Babtec · iqs CAM NC & setup sheets Mastercam · hyperMILL Mailbox Mail history Exchange · Outlook LOKI One index on your hardware Answer With sources [1] [2] [3]

One question. Four systems. One answer that tells you where it knows it from.

Thursday, 7:40 a.m. The customer reports a dimensional deviation. The 8D report is due by Monday.

The customer wants the 3.1 certificate for batch 84120. Where is it, and where did the rest of the bar go?

LOKI

The EN 10204 inspection certificate is filed with the goods receipt from 12 May [1]. The batch went into three orders, the cutting list shows dimensions and remaining length [2]. The delivery note for the customer order lists position and quantity [3].

3 sources used 3.1 material certificateCutting listDelivery note

The report cites evidence instead of memories: measurement report, tool change, program version.

Compliance filter

Use external AI. Without data leaving the building.

Your team wants to work with the best models, and does so anyway, if need be around the official toolbox. LOKI turns that into an official path: you connect external models, and every request passes through a check first. Names, order numbers, part identifiers and amounts are detected and redacted before the prompt leaves the building.

What happens to your question before it goes out
Cloud model active. Whatever goes out now leaves the building.

Summarize the complaint from Brandt[CUSTOMER] about drawing 4711-B Rev. C[DRAWING] for me. Dimensional deviation on the Ø 12 H7[FEATURE].

Checking 3 found

Protokoll07:58 · M. Weber · Claude Opus 4.8 · 3 findings redacted · sent

Detect

Name recognition and configurable patterns find what must not go out.

Decide

The user sees in the chat what was found and chooses: send anonymized, send unchanged, or cancel.

Prove

Every call is in the log, with user, model, time and the result of the check. Including the cancelled ones.

And this is what the switch looks like in the product: choose a cloud model and it tells you right above the input field.

That’s the difference between a ban that gets bypassed and a path you’re allowed to take.

Compliance

The regulators have already described this architecture.

We don’t have to vouch for the architecture ourselves. The conference of Germany’s data-protection authorities (DSK) described it before we built it.

Architecture

Technically closed

The DSK’s guidance on AI and data protection states that technically closed systems are preferable from a data-protection perspective: in open systems, the input data leaves the users’ protected environment. With LOKI it doesn’t.

Permissions

Where they technically work

Inside a language model itself there is no way to control who may see which information; the supervisory authorities state this explicitly. In the knowledge system in front of it, tenant separation and role-based access do work. That’s why LOKI is built this way. And that’s why individual entries can be deleted deliberately instead of disappearing into a model.

Regulation

EU Machinery Regulation, IATF records and customer NDAs

EU Machinery Regulation 2023/1230 requires documented software and AI aspects in the technical documentation from January 2027. Suppliers inherit their customers’ documentation duties, from document control under IATF 16949 to the NIS2 supply chain for anyone supplying critical-infrastructure industries. A stack that runs entirely on your premises is one line of answer in the supplier questionnaire instead of an essay of justification.

The regulators call this a mitigating measure, not a blanket solution, and name open questions around transparency and data-subject rights. We put it exactly the same way.

Data sources

We collect the knowledge where it already lives.

Without you changing your system landscape.

Coordinate measuring machine in the measuring room, part on the measuring table.
Every measurement ends up in a report. LOKI finds it, along with certificate and batch.
ERP / PPS
proALPHA, abas, APplus, Infor, SAP — orders, bills of materials, costing and post-costing
CAD / CAM
SolidWorks, Siemens NX, Inventor; Mastercam, hyperMILL, Tebis — drawing revisions, NC programs, setup sheets
CAQ
Babtec, iqs, CASQ-it (Böhme & Weihs), CAQ AG — inspection plans, measurement data, 8D reports, measuring equipment
MES / BDE
MPDV HYDRA, PROXIA, FORCAM, gfos — machine and order times, downtime reasons
Metrology
Zeiss CALYPSO, Mitutoyo — measurement reports and initial sample inspection reports, even as PDFs
Tools
TDM, Zoller, WinTool — tool data, tool life, presetting records
Material & batch
EN 10204 material certificates (3.1 and 2.2), goods receipts, cutting and batch lists
Communication
Exchange and Outlook mailboxes, meeting minutes, customer portal exports, scanned paper archives

LOKI replaces none of these systems; they stay in charge. LOKI makes findable what lies between them, and turns it into finished documents: the 8D draft, the certificate bundle for the batch, the audit template.

In daily operations

Three tasks that cost a day today.

Complaint

The 8D report that has to be done by Monday

LOKI finds the measurement reports, the tool change in the BDE journal, the NC program version with its change note and the sorting inspection of the remaining batch, every point with a source for D2 through D5.

The report cites evidence instead of memories.

Audit

The customer audit asks about the chain

Measuring equipment monitoring, training records, control of specification documents, 8D history: LOKI delivers the status and source of every record. You find the gaps before the audit, instead of during it.

The audit checks the chain of evidence, not the machine.

Knowledge retention

The setup technician leaves, his setup knowledge stays

Why the part runs at reduced feed, which fixture takes out the vibration, where the deviation approval sits: LOKI finds the setup sheet, the change note and the mail in which it was decided.

The successor inherits the machine, and its memory along with it.

Also: pull material certificates for a batch in seconds · compile initial sample inspection reports · keep the maintenance history of each machine in view · search quotes for similar parts · compile technical documentation for the EU Machinery Regulation

What convinced our customers.

  • With our locally installed AI assistant from IGNAITE, our employees can access company knowledge much faster. For example, information from past projects. This enables higher productivity and, above all, more comprehensive knowledge sharing.

    Rainer Braun Managing Director, bonGroup

  • In our collaboration with IGNAITE, we built a practical, high-performance computer-vision solution that has sustainably improved our incoming-materials processes. What particularly convinced us was the structured approach, the deep process understanding, and the ability to translate complex requirements into pragmatic solutions.

    Dr. Philipp Reisert CEO, C.Hafner · Computer vision project
MINERVA boards: hub, node and measurement board side by side.
And when you measure

Where no file exists, MINERVA creates one.

LOKI opens up what has been written down. But a lot happens at your machines that never makes it into a document: spindle currents, vibrations, temperatures, cycle times, downtimes. MINERVA captures them at the machine, with its own boards in its own network, and turns them into sources LOKI can cite. The vibration curve of the milling machine becomes a record with a source.

Extendable with MINERVA

Both products follow the same principles: sovereign, source-based, local. You start with one and add the other when you need it.

How it works

Three steps to sovereign AI.

From order to productive operation in under four weeks — with no intervention in machines or controls.

Intro call, 30 minutes

We look at where your records live (ERP, CAQ, CAM folders, mailboxes) and tell you honestly what LOKI can open up from them.

Installation on site

The hardware goes in behind your firewall. File shares, ERP, CAQ and mail server are connected, with no intervention in running machines or controls.

Onboarding and training

We hand over only once it runs production-ready. The EU AI Act has required you since February 2025 to train your staff in the competent use of AI; we deliver that training.

Frequent questions

What every intro call asks about.

Can LOKI read our drawings and CAD data?

We open up the relevant content: drawing PDFs including title block and revision status, bills of materials, NC programs as text, setup sheets and the metadata of the CAD archive. The aim is to answer the question "Where is the valid revision?" in seconds, with no ambition to replace your CAD. What is specifically possible in your landscape is something we clarify before the installation.

Our NC programs and costings are our capital. Does an AI see them?

Only your own. LOKI runs on your hardware behind your firewall: no upload, no API call to OpenAI, Anthropic or Google, no training by third parties. And role-based access governs who in the building may see what: sales sees no NC programs, the shop floor no costing.

What if LOKI states a wrong dimension?

LOKI answers based on sources and names the document behind every statement, verifiable before anything goes into production or a report. And we draw one line deliberately: LOKI issues no production releases. It finds; deciding stays with QA and the foreman.

We’re IATF-certified. Does LOKI get in the way of our document control?

No. Your QM system remains the leading source for controlled documents, your CAQ for inspections. LOKI changes nothing about that. It makes findable what sits alongside: the mail about the deviation approval, the scanned legacy report, the 8D report from 2022.

Our old order files are paper and scans. Useless?

No. Scanned documents are processed with text recognition. With handwritten entries the hit rate drops. We tell you that up front instead of promising otherwise.

We make parts for customers who are competitors. Do the worlds stay separate?

Yes, through tenant separation and role-based access: whoever isn’t allowed to see a project doesn’t see it, including through search. We set up that separation together with you before the rollout.

How is it licensed?

A fixed monthly price plus a one-time setup fee that includes the server hardware. The license covers unlimited users. There are three packages that differ in hardware sizing. Operation, maintenance, updates and support are included. We’ll give you the specific price in the intro call.

Other industries

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The industry pages show LOKI in the everyday work of individual industries. If yours is missing, that only means we haven’t written it up yet.

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