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AI Automation for HVAC Equipment & Components.

Harmony digitizes paper braze logs and charge records, streams the test stands live, finds repeat leaks within the shift, and automates compliance reports. One AI-native operating system over everything: your floor, your machines, and the software you already run. No rip-and-replace.

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THE PROCESS

First a digital transformation. Then an AI transformation.

FIG. 01 · THE TWO ARCS

ARC 1 · DIGITAL

ARC 2 · AI

Data engineering is the work.AI is what it unlocks.

THE PHASED ROLLOUT

Three phases of a digital and AI transformation.

PHASE 01

PHASE 1

Lay the Data Foundation · Digitization

Every pen-and-paper record digitized at the station, every software system connected, and all of the data unified into one live layer. The digital transformation starts here.

PHASE 02

PHASE 2

Production & Operations Scale

Factory operations turn proactive: live sensors and machine data, the AI scheduling board, predictive maintenance before failure.

PHASE 03

PHASE 3

AI-Native Operations

Agents across the floor and the back office act on the live layer: quality signals, reports, copilots. Humans approve.

AI USE CASES

Ten ways the AI layer earns its keep.

Index · 10 use cases

U1

Paperwork Digitization

Use case 01 · PEN, PAPER & EXCEL

Problem. Paper braze logs, leak-check sheets, charge records, and test-stand results, transcribed into Excel a day later. Compliance records assembled by hand when the audit asks.

Harmony AI Solution. Captured once at the station and streamed straight from the stands. AI flags out-of-range entries the moment they are written.

U2

Live Machine Data

Use case 02 · LIVE MACHINE DATA

Problem. Pressure decay lives on the INFICON screen, charge weights in a binder, braze line status on the HMI. Nobody sees them next to each other, or next to the serial they belong to.

Harmony AI Solution. Direct PLC and sensor connections, Allen-Bradley/Rockwell, Siemens, Omron, Mitsubishi, any brand, via OPC UA or whatever the machine speaks.

U3

In-Line Quality Intelligence

Use case 03 · IN-LINE QUALITY

Problem. Leak fails get tallied at the stand, but by then a shift of brazed joints carries the same flaw into rework and scrap.

Harmony AI Solution. Every leak and test fail captured live with its cause. ML finds the joints, operators, and alloys behind repeat leaks and signals the braze line upstream within the shift.

U4

RFID + Serial Genealogy

Use case 04 · SERIALIZATION & GENEALOGY

Problem. A warranty claim or a refrigerant audit means rebuilding one unit's history from binders, local test-stand PCs, and Excel. Units disappear from tracking between test and pack.

Harmony AI Solution. Every unit serial tied to its components, braze operators, charge weights, and test results. RFID where units go missing between test and pack.

U5

AI Search Across All Data

Use case 05 · AI SEARCH

Problem. "Which serials got that coil lot?" or "What's the leak-fail trend by braze station?" means a walk, a binder, three phone calls, and an Excel export.

Harmony AI Solution. Answered in seconds with the source shown, across the ERP, test data, and machine data. Idle floor TVs become live AI line boards.

U6

AI Production Scheduling

Use case 06 · AI SCHEDULING

Problem. Cooling-season demand, model mix, component availability, and line changeovers juggled by hand every morning.

Harmony AI Solution. AI production scheduling models the planners' own logic and sequences model mix against seasonal demand. The plan proposes.

U7

Inventory + Shortage Intelligence

Use case 07 · INVENTORY

Problem. Compressors, coils, and valves stock out at assembly. Cycle counts eat weekends.

Harmony AI Solution. An AI-maintained true-stock layer for components. Material-readiness checked before a build releases; count drift flagged before tomorrow's line stops.

U8

Yield Optimization

Use case 08 · YIELD OPTIMIZATION

Problem. Copper scrap and refrigerant overcharge are tallied after the fact, if at all. A drifting charge station gives away product all week.

Harmony AI Solution. Coil, copper, and refrigerant usage tracked live against spec by line and station. Drift shows in an hour, not a quarter.

U9

Predictive Maintenance

Use case 09 · RESOURCE INTELLIGENCE

Problem. Fin presses and braze lines break without warning in peak season, planned maintenance keeps getting postponed, and work orders live on a clipboard.

Harmony AI Solution. Machine memories for braze lines and presses with history, criticality, and live status. ML on live machine data schedules service before failure.

U10

Back-Office AI Automations

Use case 10 · FULL-SCOPE AI AGENTS · FINANCE, SALES, PROCUREMENT, LOGISTICS

Problem. Compliance reporting, warranty claims, and daily production reports rebuilt by hand in Excel, every morning and every audit.

Harmony AI Solution. Full-scope AI agents run the workflows across financial, sales, procurement, and logistics: deductions and AR worked automatically, POs parsed from the inbox, and reports written before the morning meeting.

Scope. Financials, sales, procurement, and logistics automations, in the same platform.

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YOUR LIKELY STACK

The systems and machines we meet on your floor.

SYSTEMS

SAPEpicorInfor CloudSuite Industrial (SyteLine)ExcelCustom appsLocal servers

MACHINES

Fin pressesBraze linesCharge stationsINFICON leak/test standsATEQ leak/test standsRFID infrastructure

You might run any of these. Or none of them. Harmony is software and hardware agnostic, and we connect live machine data from any PLC brand and any software or custom app.

AI AGENTS

Agents that watch, flag, and act. Humans decide.

Leak Pattern Agent

Test Stand Watch

Serial Genealogy Agent

Charge Record Verifier

Braze Quality Cluster

Component Readiness Agent

Compliance Report Writer

AR + Collections Copilot

Morning Report Writer

Custom Agents, built for your floor and back office

THE PATTERN WE SEE

The problems we see on every hvac equipment & components floor, and why they happen.

The ERP, test stands, and charge records never connect

The leak stands log to a local PC nobody opens, charge records live in a binder, and serial history is split across three systems in three formats.

Quality records are written on paper

Braze logs, leak-check sheets, charge records, and run-test sheets are filled in at the station and transcribed into Excel the next day, if at all.

Leak failures are never traced to a cause

By the time fails are tallied at the stand, a full shift of brazed joints carries the same flaw.

Serial history is scattered, so claims take days

Reconstructing one unit's history means binders, local test-stand PCs, and old Excel files.

The back office runs on manual work

POs are typed in from emails, invoices keyed into the ERP, deductions and AR worked from spreadsheets, and reports built by hand before the morning meeting.

THE PILOT

$15–20K. 4–6 weeks. One painful problem.

We pick one specific pain point, send engineers to live in your factory for 4–6 weeks, and solve it. One-time payment, working software by week 3, and no obligation to go further. If you do, you choose the modules that you like.

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QUESTIONS, ANSWERED

Do you replace our ERP?

Additive by default. The AI layer sits on top of what you already run, SAP, Epicor, SyteLine, or anything else, and when a system deserves to be replaced, we replace it. Sometimes we're the layer on top of your MES. Sometimes we are the MES. Software and hardware agnostic.

Can you get live data off our INFICON and ATEQ stands?

Yes. Test stands, charge stations, and braze lines connected via OPC UA, serial output, file drops from the stand PC, or whatever the machine speaks, any brand. Pressure, vacuum, charge weights, and run-test results streamed into the AI layer in real time, tied to serials.

We need serial-level traceability for warranty and refrigerant compliance. Can the platform carry it?

Yes. Every unit serial is tied to its components, braze operators, charge weights, and test results as it moves down the line. Compliance records generate themselves from data captured at the station, and a warranty claim resolves to one serial's full history in seconds.

How does the AI get our data?

Read-only connections, scheduled exports, or on-prem. Security is reviewed together in scoping. Read-only pilots: every agent proposes, a person approves.

Do you work remotely?

No. We always start a pilot in person and on-site, with forward-deployed engineers on your floor. Very rarely do we do anything remotely.

What does it cost after the pilot?

A per-plant annual platform: unlimited seats, no user fees, hardware at cost. The pilot itself is $15-20K over 4-6 weeks against one painful problem, with working software by week 3.

With live test data and a full history behind every serial, warranty claims and audits resolve in minutes, not days.

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