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Production monitoring: drift seen before the scrap

Process drift shows up in the readings before it shows on the parts. Your agent tracks the data from your sensors and your checks, compares each reading with the ranges you have set and alerts as soon as a trend moves away, with the measurements that document it. Hosted in France: your process data and your machine settings stay with you. The production manager decides on any intervention.

Hosted in France Process data protected GDPR & AI Act: governed deployment Human oversight

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Production monitoring · hosted in France
Where do the parameters on line 2 stand?
Readings within the ranges set across all the check points, bar one.
One trend has been moving away from the target value since the start of the shift: the successive measurements are provided.
The range set and the deviation observed are shown side by side.
🔗 Sourced · sensor readings and the ranges set
Should we stop the line?
I provide the measurements, the trend and the applicable range so the decision can be taken quickly.
Stopping a line, adjusting a machine or setting a batch aside commit production and safety: those decisions belong to the manager.
✎ Support · measurements provided, operations decision
Local inference · no data outside the EU
Readings hosted in France
Sovereign by designLocal inference or hosting in France
GDPR & AI Act: governed deploymentTraceability & human oversight
TurnkeyDesigned, installed and operated for you
The production manager decidesThe agent prepares, never rules
✦ In brief

A Blue Lemon Agent monitoring agent tracks your sensor readings and checks, compares them with the ranges you have set and alerts as soon as a trend moves away, backed by the successive measurements. Stopping a line or adjusting a machine remains a production decision. It runs on local inference or is hosted in France: your process data stays with you, architecture designed to reduce exposure to extraterritorial legislation, location alone not being enough to guarantee immunity.

100%
hosted in France in the target architecture
0
transfer outside the EU in the target architecture
6
monitoring uses ready to deploy
0
decision taken without human approval

These figures describe our offer, not results measured at a client. How large the gain is on your number of lines and check points tracked is confirmed by a pilot.

The context

What does an AI agent bring to your production monitoring?

A trend spotted in the readings leaves time to adjust; found on the parts, it leaves a batch to deal with.

! The issue

Quality in production shows in the trend of the readings as much as in their instantaneous value. Following that trend across every check point, shift after shift, calls for continuous attention. The agent keeps it up and documents every signal with the successive measurements and the applicable range.

Our answer

The production manager has documented signals, across every check point and not just the most closely watched. Stopping a line, adjusting a machine or setting a batch aside commit production, safety and sometimes the product's conformity: those decisions stay human. Local inference or an isolated resource hosted in France: your process data and your machine settings do not leave the company.

The decisive point

Your process data and your machine settings: sovereignty & compliance

Your process data and your machine settings are industrial know-how. Here is how the architecture of our agents protects them.

Local inference

The agent can run on a machine belonging to your organisation: no process data and no machine setting leaves the network.

Hosting in France

Otherwise, a dedicated and isolated resource hosted in France, under French law — your production lines and your readings: processing and access within the European Union targeted by the architecture.

Reduced extraterritorial exposure

For your process data and your machine settings, the architecture aims to reduce exposure to the Cloud Act and FISA 702; being located in France or in the European Union does not, on its own, guarantee immunity.

Isolated resource

No pooling: an environment strictly dedicated to your industrial site and its control ranges.

Every alert tied to its measurements

Successive measurements, the range set and the deviation observed are kept for every alert; encryption, role-based access and logging that can be used in a quality audit.

AI Act: governed deployment

The agent is strictly in support; no line is stopped, no adjustment is applied and no batch is set aside automatically; traceability and human oversight from end to end.

What depends on the architecture chosen These points are not general guarantees: they are settled deployment by deployment, in the quotation.

  • The applicable location is that of the architecture set out in the quotation and verified before commissioning.
  • Local execution is announced only for the configuration explicitly described and accepted in the quotation.
  • The applicable isolation depends on the deployment mode set out in the quotation; no dedicated isolation is presumed.
  • Roles and permissions are configured and accepted for the identities and systems actually connected.
  • The events logged, their content, their retention period and who may access them are defined for the deployment chosen.
For processes covered by a patent, an approval or a manufacturing secret, SecNumCloud and reinforced hosting are options depending on your requirements. A single architecture is designed to answer both the GDPR and extraterritorial exposure. Designed for deployment in line with the GDPR and the AI Act, after the processing, roles and context-specific risks have been assessed.
Demonstration

See the agent at work

5 real situations, taken from those that come up most often. Pick one: the exchange unfolds as it would in your organisation.

A scripted demonstration. These exchanges show how the agent behaves — its sources, its refusals, what it leaves to your teams. Nothing is sent from this page, no model is queried here, and the matters named are fictional. That is precisely what we promise your data.
The behaviours shown here — monitoring, automation rules, routing and reminders — are configured with you during deployment, from your tools, your rules and your thresholds.
The architecture points named in these exchanges — location, local execution, isolation, encryption, role-based access, logging — are not a guarantee attached to the demonstration: they are those of the architecture set out in your quotation, and verified before commissioning.

The company in this demonstration

Fictional company

Polvane — technical plastic injection moulding, one production site

Sector
Technical plastic injection moulding — parts for the automotive and appliance industries
Headcount
210 staff, including 12 quality technicians and 6 setters
Customers served
34 European industrial customers, including 3 car manufacturers
Volume
4 injection presses, 128 control points, 2.4 million parts a month — around 1,250 parts an hour per press
Tools in place
Shop-floor supervision, production MES, maintenance CMMS, control laboratory and three binders of manual readings — the agent plugs into them, nothing is replaced
Who decides
The production manager signs every setting change and every line stop; the quality manager rules on the fate of a batch
Room for improvement
Trend watching takes 60 % of a quality technician's time and covers only 22 of the 128 points; scrap runs at 1.9 %, or €86,600 a month; a drift is spotted 4 h 20 after its first sign on average

Polvane runs three shifts, seven days a week on two of its four presses. Its readings already exist — sensors, laboratory, binders — but nobody has time to read them all. The agent runs on local inference on a machine at the plant and plugs into the shop-floor supervision, the MES, the CMMS and the laboratory: it reads every point, compares it with the ranges written by the quality department and documents each signal with its readings. The exchanges below cover one quarter, from the reopening of the history to the review.

This company, its figures and the exchanges that follow were invented for the demonstration. They illustrate a common situation; they describe no real client.

Production supervision · hosted in France
I read your last 18 months of readings overnight — 41 million measurements across 128 control points — and found your 41 real drifts in them. Thirty-five of those announced themselves in the figures well before they showed on the parts.
A drift is a run of measurements moving steadily away from the target while staying, at first, inside the permitted range. That moment is exactly the one you can recover with a setting change, without scrapping anything.
The gap I measured, and it is the gap that decides the gain: your drifts were spotted 4 h 20 after their first sign on average. At 1,250 parts an hour, that is 5,400 parts already made by the time the decision is taken.
What the same history gives with continuous reading: the 35 announced drifts flagged themselves after 11 minutes on average, or 230 parts. Twenty-three times fewer parts involved, on exactly the same readings.
And here is where it plays out: 29 of the 41 drifts appeared on the 106 points nobody had time to follow, not on the 22 your technicians watch closely. It is not your sensitive points that cost you, it is the others.
What I suggest: that your production manager pick three past drifts he knows by heart, and that I show him what my readings would have displayed, hour by hour. You judge on cases you lived through, not on a promise. 18-months-of-readings_41-drifts-replayed.pdf4 h 20 → 11 minutes, 5,400 parts → 230
⛓ Sourced · shop-floor supervision, MES, control laboratory — 18 months, 41 million readings, 41 confirmed drifts
What exactly do you track? We don't have the same sensors everywhere, and some of it is still on paper.
All 128 points, with no exception — including the 41 that existed only in your binders. They have been in since the 6th, and they have already brought in two drifts.
Where each measurement comes from:
· 74 points from the shop-floor supervision — temperatures, pressures, cycle times, clamping force. Read every 90 seconds.
· 13 points from the laboratory — dimensions, mass, mechanical tests. One to four times a shift according to the control planthe document that states which point is measured, how often and by whom.
· 41 points read by hand — material moisture, appearance, visual inspection. Entered on the shift terminal instead of the binder, and the technician spends 4 minutes a shift on it instead of 15.
What taking the binders on immediately returned: material moisture on press 2 had been recorded for eleven months without ever being compared with anything. Replayed across those eleven months, it explains 2 of the 41 drifts — the ones whose cause had stayed “undetermined” in your file.
What you do not change: your sensors, your controllers, your MES and your CMMS stay in place. I read, I replace nothing, and no control point is added to your control plan unless you have written it.
What I suggest: that the 41 manual points move to the shift terminal on all four presses. Eleven minutes returned per shift per technician, or 46 hours a month across your three shifts — and above all, a measurement that becomes comparable instead of sleeping in a binder. 128-control-points_sources-and-frequencies.pdf74 from controllers, 13 laboratory, 41 taken from binders
⛓ Sourced · shop-floor supervision, laboratory, manual reading binders taken on across 11 months
In concrete terms, what is that worth to us?
On your own figures: €86,600 of scrap a month, of which €53,700 comes from slow drifts — the ones visible in the readings before they are visible on the parts.
Scrap is parts that are made and then thrown away because they fail inspection. Your fully loaded cost is €1.90 a part, materials, machine and labour included.
The calculation, line by line, and it is yours:
· 2.4 million parts a month, 1.9 % scrap: 45,600 parts.
· At €1.90 a part: €86,600 a month, €1.04 m a year.
· 62 % of those parts come from a slow drift, according to the reason written on your own scrap tickets: €53,700 a month.
What 11 minutes instead of 4 h 20 shifts on that share: each drift caught early involves 230 parts instead of 5,400. Across the 27 slow drifts of a year, that is the difference between 146,000 parts exposed and 6,200.
And the gain does not stop at the scrap bin: a drift caught at 11 minutes is corrected by a setting change on a running press. Caught at 4 h 20, it has already triggered a batch sort — and your scrap tickets carry 11 hours of sorting a month, done by operators who should be producing.
What I suggest: start with the two presses that run seven days a week, because they are the ones producing during the hours when nobody reads the readings. Approve the scope and I hand you the first trend statement tomorrow morning. cost-of-scrap_what-slow-drifts-weigh.pdf€86,600/month, of which €53,700 from slow drifts
⛓ Sourced · scrap tickets, MES, fully loaded part cost supplied by management accounting
Local inference · no data outside the EU

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Use cases

What does the agent actually do?

One agent, several monitoring points. All these uses work in support, subject to your approval.

Included in your agent The 3 capabilities essential to this promise are included, at no extra cost.
From 508 € excl. VAT / month

Tracking the readings

Gathers the data from sensors and checks across your lines.

Drift alerts

Flags the trends that move away from the ranges you have set.

Documenting the signals

Keeps the measurements, the range and the deviation for every alert issued.

Controls and safeguards These 3 controls are built into the agent: they frame what it does, whatever plan you pick. They are not chosen and are not added to your order.
Human validation, exceptions and escalation Status, safe closure and audit trail Explain alerts, scenarios and operational trade-offs
What the agent must be connected to These 2 connections are required for the agent to work. They concern your information system and are scoped during the audit.
Connect ERP/WMS/MES/IoT without creating double entry Honour constraints, statuses, approvals and error recovery

Need to go further?

These agents handle a different business process, with their own owner and their own price. They are added to this one.

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The gain

How many check points can a team follow continuously?

By taking on the watching of trends, the effort shifts towards adjusting and improving the process. How large the gain is depends on your volume and remains to be confirmed by a pilot.

Watching the trends
Today · done by hand
Trends tracked continuously
Comparing with the ranges set
Today · done by hand
Automatic comparison
Documenting a signal
Today · done by hand
Signal documented
Indicative figures, not contractual, to be confirmed by a pilot on your number of lines and check points tracked. Stopping a line, adjusting a machine or setting a batch aside commit production and safety: those decisions belong to the production manager.
How it works

The stages of your AI agent project

1

Audit & scoping

15 minutes to target the use case with the best return.

2

Quote or direct sign-up

A catalogue offer is bought online; a specific need gets a costed quote.

3

Design

We design the agent and its guardrails.

4

Integration & testing

We connect your tools to the agent, which is itself hosted in France.

5

Rollout

Going live and training your team.

6

Operation

Continuous supervision and improvement.

Pricing

One package, one agent

A quality monitoring agent (readings, drift, documentation), installed and operated for you.

Agility

Setup + controlled subscription

6,480 € excl. VAT setup
then 508 € excl. VAT/month — you invest at installation and pay a reduced subscription. Ideal for keeping the cost under control over time.
  • Installation, configuration and training for your teams
  • Operation, human oversight, updates and support
  • Sovereign hosting in France, a dedicated and isolated resource
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The simplest Serenity

All inclusive, no setup fee

863 € excl. VAT /month
all inclusive, immediate start. No upfront investment: a single subscription. Ideal for starting quickly and simply.
  • Setup included (installation, configuration, training)
  • Operation, human oversight, updates and support
  • Sovereign hosting in France, managed end to end
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100% Sovereign

On site, you own it

10,070 € excl. VAT setup
then 700 € excl. VAT/month · + hardware from 2,491 € (one-off purchase, in addition) — a sovereign computer installed on your premises, maintained remotely. Models run locally, your data returned at the end of the contract. 36-month commitment.
  • Hardware installed on your premises (you own it)
  • French / European AI models run locally
  • Secure remote maintenance (Pro support included)
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Not included in the packages: AI consumption (model tokens), re-invoiced at real cost with no margin, and tracked in real time in your client area. Maintenance and supervision subscription for an initial term of 12 months for the Agility package, 24 months for the Serenity package and 36 months for the 100% Sovereign package, renewable; support levels (SLA 72 h / 24 h / 4 h) optional. Bespoke development, additional integrations or exceptional volumes are quoted separately. Support Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm. Prices exclude VAT.
AI model: none of the AI models offered currently carries a fixed surcharge. When the selected model carries a cost, that cost is shown when you choose it, before you order, and re-invoiced at the cost incurred, with no mark-up; usage is billed at the publisher's price. Publishers' prices are published in US dollars: the amount re-invoiced is the amount in euros actually borne by Blue Lemon Agent on the publisher's invoice, at that invoice's exchange rate, with no commission or mark-up.
Included components and additional components Components included in the base offer: the Blue Lemon Agent software foundation, the AI models listed in the order journey, the standard channels (Microsoft Teams, Slack, WhatsApp Business, email, website chat, calendars, Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace, file storage, market VoIP telephony, professional social-media pages and accounts, Google Business Profile), hosting in France for the package chosen, backups, supervision, updates and support. If adapting the AI agent to your constraints, your needs or your requests requires other paid components — a third-party publisher's software licence, paid API access to one of your applications, hosting of health data, for which French law requires an HDS-certified host (art. L. 1111-8 of the French Public Health Code), SecNumCloud-qualified hosting, a speech synthesis service, particular hardware —, they are offered to you as an option or on quotation and re-invoiced at the cost incurred; nothing is committed without your written agreement. Where the artificial intelligence model you choose entails an additional cost, that cost is shown to you before you order and re-invoiced to you at the cost incurred, with no margin.
What to expect
Go-live 2 to 3 weeks
Agent designed, channels connected, team trained.
Steady state 4 to 7 weeks
After a few weeks of real use, once the agent's behaviour matches what you expect. Indicative estimate, adjusted to the options you keep. It is not a delivery commitment.
Our commitment

Four guarantees that matter to your production

Your industrial know-how stays with youLocal inference or an isolated resource hosted in France; no process data entrusted to a third party, no data used to train a model.
Data in France, under French lawYour process data and your machine settings: minimisation and location in France, architecture designed to reduce exposure to extraterritorial legislation, location alone not being enough to guarantee immunity.
The production manager keeps the decisionThe agent produces documented drift alerts, which can be checked and altered; no approval is automated.
Human oversight & traceabilityOn your number of lines and check points tracked: systematic logging and tracking, in line with the AI Act.
Frequently asked questions

Your questions, our answers

Does the agent act on the machines?
No. It reads the readings and flags drift. Adjusting a machine or stopping a line commits production and safety: those acts stay human.
How are the ranges set?
By you, check point by check point. The agent applies them as they stand and shows the range used with every alert.
How is a trend spotted?
By comparing the successive measurements over the period with the target value. The measurements the alert rests on are always provided.
Can the alerts be used in a quality audit?
Yes: the measurements, the range set and the deviation observed are kept for every alert, which makes it possible to reconstruct the situation afterwards.
Is our process data protected?
Yes. The agent is hosted in France, on local inference or an isolated resource, with the deployment objective of processing and access operated within the European Union and an architecture designed to reduce exposure to extraterritorial legislation, location alone not being enough to guarantee immunity. Your settings are not used to train a third-party model.
How long does it take to deploy this agent?
A few months as a rule, depending on the number of lines, check points and the nature of your reading systems, after a free audit then phases of design, integration and testing.
Let's talk

Let's size up the potential on your lines

15 minutes to frame your check points and your ranges — hosted in France, supervised, with no commitment.