Ask
Any question, in plain words or by voice.
Answers come from your own manuals and carry the exact page. If the manuals do not cover it, the answer says so.
Your plant already wrote the answers down.
Plant Cortex finds them in seconds, cites the page, and turns every stoppage, permit and near-miss into the next answer.
One pattern, across seven kinds of plant
The same stoppage, with and without the answer.
Plants rarely lack knowledge. They lack the minute where someone can reach it.
Without it
- The alarm sounds. Nobody on shift has seen this code.
- A binder is pulled. It is the manual for a similar machine.
- A call goes to someone off shift. Voicemail.
- A colleague remembers where the right page is.
- The machine runs again. Nothing is written down.
With Plant Cortex
- The alarm sounds. The shift lead asks the phone.
- Causes ranked, each tied to a manual page. The drawing opens.
- The permit is drafted, the part is located, the restart checks are listed.
- The machine runs again. The fix is recorded where the next person will find it.
Illustrative timeline of a typical night, not a measured result. The bars show shape, not data.
How it works
It does not stop at the answer.
Act
Turn the answer into work without retyping.
A permit drafted from the manual, a stoppage logged, a purchase request with its source, a checklist for the restart.
Record
Every event lands in a register that is really used.
Permits, near-misses, stoppages, spares, shift logs and work orders, each with its own lifecycle and a history of who changed what.
Learn
The next question starts further ahead.
Closed fixes become field notes beside the manual. Repeat stoppages surface on their own. The same cause is never rediscovered from zero.
One bad day, from the first alarm to the lesson learned.
A vertical roller mill starts to vibrate and trips. Watch what happens at each step, and what Plant Cortex does and does not do. The mill is generic and the readings are illustrative.
35manuals indexed in the pilot
3,260searchable passages, each with its page
4,075drawing pages found by what they show
9linked modules, one record trail
Counts from the pilot instance as of October 2026. No plant is named and nothing here is a performance claim.
Each industry breaks in its own way.
The pattern is shared. The stories are not. Pick a floor.
Cement & Minerals
Long chains of heavy machines, from many suppliers, where one trip travels downstream.
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Steel & Metals
Heat, cranes and hydraulics, where the margin for a wrong step is thin.
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Power Generation
Outage seasons where dozens of crews work on connected equipment at once.
See this floor
Chemicals & Process
Hazardous service, where the paperwork is part of the safety system.
See this floor
Pulp & Paper
One long machine that is expensive to stop and hard to restart.
See this floor
Mining
Remote sites, rough conditions and connectivity that comes and goes.
See this floor
Bulk Materials Handling
Dozens of similar conveyors, gates and chutes that all look alike.
See this floorEveryone gets a different front door.
Same records underneath. What each person sees first is what they need first.
A question, a form, a QR code. No binders.
Operators get the shortest path. Ask in plain words or by voice, scan the code on the machine, log a stoppage with a few taps, report a near-miss without finding the right person.
- Ask by typing or speaking, in the language you prefer
- Scan a QR code on the machine to land on its own questions
- Run a checklist step by step at the equipment
- Report a near-miss or stoppage, even with no signal on the phone app
From alarm to fix, with the history attached.
Maintenance gets ranked causes for an alarm, each cited to a page, the drawing, the stock and what happened here before. Work orders and preventive plans keep the follow-up from disappearing.
- Breakdown Mode: causes ranked and cited, parts and stock beside them
- Work orders with hours, parts and a required checklist where you want one
- PM plans by calendar or meter, generated on time
- Where-used and alternative parts, reserved against the job
Permits and near-misses that people really use.
Safety gets permits with real approval authority, a near-miss register that is acknowledged by a person, and an audit trail on the records that matter.
- Permits with department approvers, limits and delegation
- Overlap check for work on the same equipment
- Near-miss with anonymous option, routing and photo evidence
- Optional electronic signature, tied to the exact content signed
Plan the work and the parts together.
Planners see the backlog, the plans coming due and the parts each job will need. Stores see reorder points, reservations and the full movement history.
- Backlog and schedule compliance, planned versus reactive
- Parts reserved against work orders, so two jobs cannot count on one spare
- Purchase requests with each line traced to its source and approval limits
- CSV exchange with your ERP for equipment, parts and orders
One view of what needs a decision.
Managers get a Home built from what needs them, a dashboard across the registers, and reports that never guess a number.
- Needs-you inbox with the urgent items first
- Downtime hours and cost where rates are entered by a person
- Which machines keep stopping and whether the fixes held
- A trust report with the real citation rate and logged gaps
- 01
Make up an answer
When the manuals are silent, it says so out loud and logs the gap for review. A citation is checked against the real passage, never taken on the model's word.
- 02
Learn from your data
Nothing you send trains or tunes the model. Each answer retrieves the right passages fresh and hands them over for that question only.
- 03
Guess a number
Costs, rates and savings appear only if a person entered them. Otherwise the cell is blank, never estimated to look good.
- 04
Run your equipment
It reads, advises and records. Protection and control stay with your own systems, where they belong.
Bring us three manuals. See what it answers.
The design-partner pilot is free for sixty days: a handful of your real manuals for one plant. We agree what success means before we start.