Manufacturing

AI and data for manufacturing

A manufacturing business can grow revenue and earn less. Smaller orders, more changeovers, more handling. Understanding a manufacturing number means understanding the business behind it, and that is the point where a general AI tool stops being useful.

What we get asked

The questions that decide the year

Three things manufacturing businesses ask us, in the words they use.

Which customers grew and made us less money?

What has the March freight rate actually cost us?

Is this quote above our minimum economical run?

Why a general tool can’t answer these

Every one of them needs your cost model, your contracts and your activity data. A public AI tool has none of those, so it can only give you the shape of an answer.

Where the work is

What actually moves the number in manufacturing

01

Profitability

By customer, product and site, with changeover and handling counted properly.

02

Input costs

Raw material and freight movement traced to the accounts that carry it.

03

Pricing

Increases built from published movement, without exposing what anything costs you.

04

Plant performance

Yield, utilisation and downtime read against the commercial result.

05

Suppliers and tenders

Negotiation preparation and tender drafting from what you have already written.

06

ERP and item masters

Migrations and item master clean-up that do not stall the cutover.

In practice

A question with the detail left in

This is what asking HeyMi looks like once it holds your business context. The length of the question is the point.

Data Mi usually starts here

  • Item and product master
  • Customer master
  • BOM and routing data
  • ERP migration
HeyMi — your businessSydney, Australia

Here is our last twelve months of P&L by product category, customer and site. Analyse it and identify where we could improve profitability.

FY26 P&L.xlsxCustomer masterSite cost model
1Three customers grew revenue and reduced contribution. All three moved to smaller, more frequent orders.
2Site B carries 2.4× the changeover hours of Site A on comparable volume.
3Freight recovery on the eastern lanes has fallen from 91% to 78% since the March rate change.

Answered from your data. Nothing left Australia.

Two ways in

Start with whichever problem is louder

Most businesses in this sector come to us for one of these. They are independent, so there is no wrong order.

HeyMi

Your business’s private AI.

AI your people can use on the company’s own numbers, contracts and documents. It runs on our servers in Australia, so nobody has to decide whether a question is safe to ask.

  • Analyse. Compare. Draft. Review. Forecast. Solve.
  • Works with your P&L, contracts, tenders and board papers
  • Nothing you put in trains anybody else’s model
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Data Mi

Better data. Ready for what’s next.

We clean, match and reshape business data, then turn that work into a process that runs again next month. You keep the process.

  • Clean. Map. Transform. Validate. Repeat.
  • ERP, TMS and WMS migrations that do not stall on data
  • The monthly file somebody rebuilds by hand, automated
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Talk to us

Talk to someone who has run one of these

Mattingly's people have sat in the operating seats in this sector. The first conversation is about your business, not our software.