Harmony AI
MANUFACTURING · FOOD & BEVERAGE · BEVERAGE & BOTTLING

AI Automation for Beverage & Bottling.

Harmony digitizes paper line checks and blend sheets, streams the fillers live, sequences flavor changeovers with AI, and catches giveaway and rejects in real time. One AI-native operating system over everything: your floor, your machines, and the software you already run. No rip-and-replace.

THE PROCESS

First a digital transformation. Then an AI transformation.

FIG. 01 · THE TWO ARCSARC 1 · THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONARC 2 · THE AI TRANSFORMATIONCLIPBOARDS & PAPEREXCEL & TRACKERSERP & SOFTWAREPLCS & MACHINESDIGITIZECONNECTUNIFYFORWARD-DEPLOYED ENGINEERSON YOUR FLOOR · IN PERSON · IN WEEKSHARMONY AI PLATFORMONE LIVE DATA LAYERERP · PLCS · SENSORS · SCALESQUALITY · INBOXES · DOCS · SPREADSHEETSNO MES? THIS BECOMES THE MESAI SEARCH · SOURCES CITEDAI AGENTS · HUMANS APPROVEAI PRODUCTION SCHEDULINGBACK-OFFICE AUTOMATIONS
ARC 1 · DIGITALTHE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONCLIPBOARDSEXCELERP + SOFTWAREMACHINES (PLCS)DIGITIZE · CONNECT · UNIFYONE LIVE DATA LAYEREVERY RECORD, SYSTEM, AND MACHINEBUILT ON-SITE, IN PERSON
ARC 2 · AITHE AI TRANSFORMATIONONE LIVE DATA LAYERTHE FOUNDATIONAI SEARCHANSWERS WITH SOURCES CITEDAI AGENTSPROPOSE · A PERSON APPROVESAI PRODUCTION SCHEDULINGTHE PLAN PROPOSES, PLANNER APPROVESBACK-OFFICE AI AUTOMATIONSFINANCE · SALES · PROCUREMENT · LOGISTICSAI ON TOP OF THE FOUNDATION
Data engineering is the work.AI is what it unlocks.
THE PHASED ROLLOUT

Three phases of a digital and AI transformation.

PHASE 01PAPEREXCELCAPTUREDONE LIVEDATALAYEREVERY PAPER POINT DIGITIZED · MACHINES CONNECTED
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 02SENSORS LIVEAI SCHEDULE BOARDPM BEFORE FAILUREPROACTIVE OPERATIONS AT SCALE
PHASE 2

Production & Operations Scale

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

PHASE 03LIVE DATALAYERAGENTAGENTAGENTHUMANS APPROVEAGENTS ACT ON THE LIVE LAYER
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

Twelve ways the AI layer earns its keep.

PAPERSTATION TABLETLIVECAPTURED ONCE · SAME SHIFT
U1

Paperwork Digitization

Use case 01 · PEN, PAPER & EXCEL

Problem. Blend sheets, line check sheets, changeover checklists, and downtime notebooks, filled in by hand and keyed into Excel a day later, or never read at all.

Harmony AI Solution. Captured once at the line on tablets. AI flags an out-of-range brix or torque entry the moment it is written, and the data is live before the shift ends.

ANY PLCLIVEONE SCREENSTREAMED IN REAL TIME
U2

Live Machine Data

Use case 02 · LIVE MACHINE DATA

Problem. Speeds live on the HMI, counts in the historian, rejects on a tally sheet at the end of the line. Nobody sees them side by side while the run is still on.

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

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U3

In-Line Quality Intelligence

Use case 03 · IN-LINE QUALITY

Problem. Fill levels, cap torque, and seam checks sampled on paper a few times a shift. A drifting head runs for hours, and the rework is a pallet deep before anyone sees the trend.

Harmony AI Solution. Checks stream live per head. ML anomaly detection flags the drift within minutes and signals the filler upstream, so the fix happens before a pallet of rework exists.

ASK ANYTHINGAI SEARCHALL SYSTEMSANSWER + SOURCES CITEDSECONDS, NOT PHONE CALLS
U4

AI Search Across All Data

Use case 04 · AI SEARCH

Problem. "Which batches fed that run?" or "Why did line 3 rejects spike last night?" means a walk to the line, three phone calls, and an export from the historian.

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

THE PLAN PROPOSESPLANNER APPROVESCONSTRAINTS MODELED, NEVER GUESSED
U5

AI Production Scheduling

Use case 05 · AI SCHEDULING

Problem. Flavor and SKU sequence set by hand every morning. A rush order breaks a light-to-dark run and the line pays for it in washouts.

Harmony AI Solution. AI production scheduling sequences flavors, sizes, and SKUs to minimize washouts and size changes, and re-sequences when orders move. The plan proposes.

MATERIAL INLOSSLIVE, BY LOTA BAD LOT SHOWS IN AN HOUR
U6

Yield Optimization

Use case 06 · GIVEAWAY & SYRUP YIELD

Problem. Fill giveaway hides inside shift averages, and syrup loss is reconciled at month end, long after the runs that caused it.

Harmony AI Solution. Giveaway tracked live per head and per run, syrup yield by batch and by line. The head running heavy shows up in an hour, not at month end.

TRUE OEE, LIVEPLC FEED
U7

Oee + Downtime

Use case 07 · OEE & DOWNTIME

Problem. Downtime lives in a notebook as "misc" and "labeler." The same minor stops eat the shift every day and never make it into a Pareto anyone trusts.

Harmony AI Solution. Causes coded at the machine in seconds, OEE computed live per line. ML clusters the entries and shows the few real drivers behind the lost cases.

STATIONREPAIRRFID TAGLAST KNOWN LOCATION · GENEALOGY
U8

RFID + Serial Genealogy

Use case 08 · LOT TRACEABILITY

Problem. A trace means pulling blend sheets, fill logs, and shipping records by hand, and a mock recall consumes the quality team for days.

Harmony AI Solution. Batch to fill run to pallet to customer, one-up and one-back, in seconds. A mock recall becomes a query with the sources shown.

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U9

Inventory + Shortage Intelligence

Use case 09 · INVENTORY

Problem. Cans, PET, caps, and labels counted on faith. The shortage is discovered when the line stops, and the truck gets expedited at a premium.

Harmony AI Solution. An AI-maintained true-stock layer for cans, preforms, caps, and labels. The shortage is flagged days before the line would stop.

CAPTUREDUNIFIEDACTED ONONE LIVE LAYER, HUMANS DECIDE
U10

AI Workflow Automation

Use case 10 · CHANGEOVER ANALYTICS

Problem. Changeover time is a guess in the schedule, and the sequence the fastest crew figured out retires with them.

Harmony AI Solution. Washout and size-change time measured live from the machines. ML finds the patterns behind the fastest crews and turns them into the plant standard.

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U11

Quality Records

Use case 11 · QUALITY RECORDS

Problem. Quality records live on paper in binders. An audit means a week of pulling, copying, and hoping nothing is missing.

Harmony AI Solution. Pressure, brix, and cap torque logged automatically from the line, time-stamped and tied to the batch. Audit-ready on demand, no binder hunt.

INVOICESPOSREPORTSAI AGENT, WORKINGAPPROVEDFINANCE · SALES · PROCUREMENT · LOGISTICS
U12

Back-Office AI Automations

Use case 12 · FULL-SCOPE AI AGENTS · FINANCE, SALES, PROCUREMENT, LOGISTICS

Problem. Retailer deductions pile up in inboxes for weeks, and supervisors rebuild the same daily reports in Excel every morning.

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
SAPMicrosoft Dynamics 365InforIgnitionAVEVA historiansExcelCustom appsLocal servers
MACHINES
Krones fillersKHS fillersSidel fillersAngelus seamersFerrum seamersP.E. LabellersMettler-Toledo checkweighersOcme palletizersColumbia palletizers

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.

Every agent proposes. A person approves. That line never moves.

AI AGENTS

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

Fill-Level Watch
Seam-Check Watch
Changeover Sequencer
Syrup Yield Tracker
Giveaway Watch
Lot Trace Agent
AR + Collections Copilot
Retailer Deduction Agent
Morning Report Writer
Custom Agents, built for your floor and back office
THE PATTERN WE SEE

The problems we see on every beverage & bottling floor, and why they happen.

The ERP, the historian, and the line never connect

The ERP holds the orders, the historian holds the tags, quality lives in a binder, and the same SKU is named three ways in three systems.

Line data lives on clipboards, so it arrives a shift late

Blend sheets, line check sheets, changeover checklists, and downtime notebooks are filled in by hand.

Rejects are counted at the pallet, so drift runs all shift

Fill levels, cap torque, and seam checks are sampled on paper a few times a shift.

Changeover knowledge lives in a few crews' heads

Nobody measures washouts or size changes, so the schedule buries the line in avoidable changeovers, and the sequence the fastest crew figured out is written down nowhere.

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.

ON-SITE, IN PERSON · SOFTWARE + HARDWARE AGNOSTIC · READ-ONLY PILOTS · US-HOSTED OR ON-PREM · HUMANS APPROVE EVERY ACTION

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.

FIRST CALLSECOND CALLCHOOSE PILOTDATA ACCESS FROM ITON-SITEBUILDTESTROIREVIEW
QUESTIONS, ANSWERED
Do you replace our ERP or our line systems?

Additive by default. The AI layer sits on top of what you already run, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Infor, Ignition, AVEVA historians, 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.

Can you get live data off our Krones, KHS, or Sidel lines?

Yes. Direct PLC and sensor connections, Allen-Bradley/Rockwell, Siemens, Omron, Mitsubishi, or any other brand, via OPC UA or whatever the machine speaks. Fillers, seamers, labelers, checkweighers, and palletizers streamed into the AI layer in real time. Software and hardware agnostic.

Can this survive a mock recall?

That is the point of the traceability layer. Batch to fill run to pallet to customer, one-up and one-back, answered in seconds with sources shown. Pressure, brix, and torque records are logged automatically and tied to the batch, so the paperwork exists before the auditor asks.

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.

Harmony AI puts blend, fill, and pack on one live layer, so the drifting head gets fixed before the pallet exists.