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In ninety days, XPeng's G6 rolled off a Melaka line, MG started assembling the MGS5 a few bays over, and BYD's plant stalled in negotiation. The OEMs get the headlines. The Tier-1 and Tier-2 plants underneath get the variance.
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Six weeks ago, Siemens, NVIDIA, and ABB turned agentic manufacturing into a product roadmap. We watched from a stamping plant in Klang. Here's what the announcements validated, and the part they don't reach.
Dashboards report. Decisions act. The gap between them is where Tier-1 and Tier-2 plants quietly burn their best engineering hours.
Three plants. Three different MES vendors. The same Monday meeting. Here's what an agentic decision layer actually changes when it lands on the floor.
Every plant we visit runs OEE meetings. Almost no plant we visit thinks they're effective. Here's why we're betting agents will eat them.
A working note on how we ground LLM reasoning in MES events, historian signals, and SOPs, without hallucinating actions onto your line.
Why a deep-tech startup chose Tier-1/Tier-2 Malaysian automotive plants as the first customers, and what we believe that lets us build that a Bay Area founder couldn't.
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