Harmony AI
MANUFACTURING · OUTDOOR & CONSUMER PRODUCTS · HUNTING EQUIPMENT

AI Automation for Hunting Equipment.

Harmony digitizes paper travelers and count sheets, connects CNC cells, proof stands, and optics test benches, schedules production with AI, and answers any trace request in seconds. One AI-native operating system over everything: your floor, your machines, and the software you already run. No rip-and-replace.

Mossberg, America's oldest family-owned firearms maker, runs with Harmony AI on the floor.

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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

Thirteen ways the AI layer earns its keep.

PAPERSTATION TABLETLIVECAPTURED ONCE · SAME SHIFT
U1

Paperwork Digitization

Use case 01 · PEN, PAPER & EXCEL

Problem. Paper travelers, scrap tickets, and hourly count sheets feed a morning clipboard walk that feeds a whiteboard. Planners rebuild Excel priority lists from scratch every morning.

Harmony AI Solution. Captured once on tablets, by station, by line, by hour. AI flags out-of-range entries as they are written.

ANY PLCLIVEONE SCREENSTREAMED IN REAL TIME
U2

Live Machine Data

Use case 02 · LIVE MACHINE DATA

Problem. Cycle counts live on the HMI, coating line status on a clipboard, proof results in a binder. Nobody sees them next to each other, or next to the schedule.

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

01020304DEFECT FOUNDSIGNAL SENT UPSTREAM, SAME SHIFTFIXED AT THE START OF THE LINE
U3

In-Line Quality Intelligence

Use case 03 · IN-LINE QUALITY

Problem. Coating flaws, machining rejects, and failed proofs surface at the end of the line, after machining, coating, and assembly have already been paid for.

Harmony AI Solution. Every reject captured at the station with its cause: part family, lot, machine, shift, hour.

STATIONREPAIRRFID TAGLAST KNOWN LOCATION · GENEALOGY
U4

RFID + Serial Genealogy

Use case 04 · RFID & SERIALIZATION

Problem. A receiver pulled to rework goes dark, and a duplicate gets machined. Serial history is scattered across travelers, Access, and binders, and a trace request means days of digging.

Harmony AI Solution. RFID at rework benches, refinish loops, and staging gives every receiver, barrel, and stock a live last-known location before a duplicate is machined.

ASK ANYTHINGAI SEARCHALL SYSTEMSANSWER + SOURCES CITEDSECONDS, NOT PHONE CALLS
U5

AI Search Across All Data

Use case 05 · AI SEARCH

Problem. "Which lots fed the serials in that trace request?" or "What's driving second-shift rework on the coating line?" means a records pull, three phone calls, and a day of Excel.

Harmony AI Solution. Natural-language AI search across the ERP, travelers, proof data, machine data, and inboxes, answered in seconds with the source shown.

THE PLAN PROPOSESPLANNER APPROVESCONSTRAINTS MODELED, NEVER GUESSED
U6

AI Production Scheduling

Use case 06 · AI SCHEDULING

Problem. Finished-goods scheduling juggled by hand against rolling demand, allocation across plants argued in meetings, attainment measured against a frozen weekly plan that is out of date by midweek.

Harmony AI Solution. AI production scheduling models the planners' own logic, finished goods against rolling demand, allocation across plants, live attainment against the plan. The AI proposes.

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U7

Inventory + Shortage Intelligence

Use case 07 · INVENTORY

Problem. Phantom components, shortages discovered at assembly, WIP invisible between plants, cycle counts that eat weekends.

Harmony AI Solution. An AI-maintained true-stock layer: true-shortage screens instead of phantom ones, WIP visible across plants, material-readiness before an order releases, count drift flagged before it becomes tomorrow's shortage.

MATERIAL INLOSSLIVE, BY LOTA BAD LOT SHOWS IN AN HOUR
U8

Yield Optimization

Use case 08 · YIELD OPTIMIZATION

Problem. Machining and finishing yield tallied on paper after the fact. A bad lot of bar stock or a drifting coating batch runs for weeks before anyone connects the losses.

Harmony AI Solution. Live yield by part family, machine, and lot. ML flags the bar stock, the coating batch, or the tooling behind the losses within the shift, not at month end.

MACHINEPM WINDOWBEFOREFAILURESERVICE SCHEDULED BY ML
U9

Predictive Maintenance

Use case 09 · RESOURCE INTELLIGENCE

Problem. Machines break by surprise, PM windows get bulldozed by the schedule, work orders vanish into a clipboard.

Harmony AI Solution. Machine memories with history, criticality, and live status. Protected PM windows only the owner can move.

CAPTUREDUNIFIEDACTED ONONE LIVE LAYER, HUMANS DECIDE
U10

AI Workflow Automation

Use case 10 · FINAL INSPECTION APP

Problem. Final inspection writes pass/fail on the traveler, labels are typed by hand, rework gets walked back with a verbal explanation, and incoming-part defect rates are a running argument with suppliers.

Harmony AI Solution. Pass/fail captured with serial and production order at the bench, label printing on the spot, color-coded rework routing.

AI AGENTEVENT INACTION OUTWATCHESALERTSHUMANS APPROVE EVERY ACTION
U11

Supply Chain Sync

Use case 11 · SUPPLY CHAIN SYNC

Problem. Component-level demand between plants reconciled by email, shortage meetings that run for hours on hunches, cross-border permit paperwork eating whole afternoons.

Harmony AI Solution. Component-level demand synced between plants so a shortage meeting starts from the system, not the hunt. Hours of cross-border permit paperwork automated by AI document processing.

INVOICESPOSREPORTSAI AGENT, WORKINGAPPROVEDFINANCE · SALES · PROCUREMENT · LOGISTICS
U12

Back-Office AI Automations

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

Problem. Permits, transfer paperwork, daily reports, and compliance records assembled by hand, the same repetitive admin consuming a full workweek's worth of hours across the office.

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
Microsoft Dynamics 365EpicorInfor CloudSuite Industrial (SyteLine)IFSDomo / Power BI-style dashboardsHomegrown Access and ExcelCustom appsLocal servers
MACHINES
Haas CNCMazakDMG MoriTornosCerakote-style coating linesTest and proof standsLaser markersRFID infrastructureOptics assembly benchesCollimation + zero test stations

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.

Serial Genealogy Agent
Proof-Test Watch
Coating Rework Agent
Priority List Builder
Cross-Plant Shortage Agent
Trace Request Agent
Warranty Claim Triage
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 hunting equipment floor, and why they happen.

Every plant keeps its own records

One plant runs Dynamics, another runs SyteLine, proof results live in a binder, the serial log in Access, and the schedule in Excel.

Production is tracked on paper

Every order rides a paper traveler, scrap tickets pile up at the machining cells, and hourly counts feed a morning clipboard walk and a whiteboard.

The schedule is rebuilt by hand every morning

Planners rebuild Excel priority lists from scratch every morning because the weekly plan is frozen while demand keeps moving.

Defects are found at final inspection

Coating flaws, machining rejects, and failed proofs only surface at the end of the line, after machining, coating, and assembly are already paid for.

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.

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QUESTIONS, ANSWERED
We are serialized and regulated. Can the AI layer handle traceability?

Yes. Serial genealogy, operator, station, proof result, component lots, is built as the work happens and answerable by AI search for any audit, warranty claim, or trace request. Records stay in your systems; the AI layer makes them answerable in seconds. Baseline first, then measure. Estimates are labeled as estimates.

Can you get live data off our CNC cells, coating lines, and test stands?

Yes. Direct PLC and sensor connections, Allen-Bradley/Rockwell, Siemens, Omron, Mitsubishi, or any other brand, via OPC UA or whatever the machine speaks, streamed into the AI layer in real time. Haas, Mazak, DMG Mori, Tornos, coating lines, proof stands, laser markers. Software and hardware agnostic.

Do you replace our ERP?

Additive by default. The AI layer sits on top of what you already run, 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. Dynamics, Epicor, SyteLine, IFS, Access, Excel: we meet the stack where it is.

How does the AI get our data?

Read-only connections, scheduled exports, or on-prem. Security is reviewed together in scoping, which matters in this industry. 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 runs 4-6 weeks against one painful problem, with working software by week 3. Growth, not cuts.

Trace any serial and see every plant live, within weeks.