The AI-powered MES for small manufacturers.
Production, quality, and maintenance in one platform.
One system for the shop floor: digital work instructions, tablet kiosks, quality holds and CAPA, preventive maintenance, and live dashboards. AI is built into every workflow, not bolted on. Operators are always free.
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M-250-260513-1024Line A throughput dropped 18% after 2pm. Likely cause: Station 3 jam-cycle on M-250. Want me to open a downtime ticket?
Not one AI feature.
AI across the entire OS.
Most "AI" in industrial software is a chatbot bolted onto a single screen. Ignite Lean weaves it into every workflow — production, quality, and maintenance — so the same AI that helps you triage a non-conformance also helps plan the PM and find the bottleneck.
Production
- AI ops assistant — ask what's slowing a line and it points you to the bottleneck station.
- Reads your time studies + build telemetry to answer cycle-time and variance questions.
- Finite line scheduling — uses your MTM time-study seconds to compute capacity and forward-schedule every order. Drag to override, Sparky suggests a sequence when you ask.
- Conversational ops — ask "what's slowing Line A?" on any device, any role.
Quality
- AI NC triage — suggests a defect category and CAPA template, drafts the root-cause for you.
- AI complaint summarization — drafts a structured NC from a customer email in seconds.
- AI audit assistant — answers "show me last quarter's CAPAs by reason category" instantly.
Maintenance
- AI failure-pattern analysis — ask it to spot patterns like "this bearing fails every ~60 days" in your work orders.
- Helps tune PM intervals from your downtime history, not a manual's stale recommendation.
- AI work-order writer — operator says "loud noise from press 5," AI drafts the WO for one-tap confirm.
- Chart narration — Sparky reads your SPC, OEE, downtime Pareto, and maintenance charts and tells you in one line what's actually going on.
One AI conversational layer over the whole platform. Ask anything, anywhere — the kiosk, the dashboard, the audit page. Same AI, same context.
The same OS, from the kiosk to the dashboard.
Operator-first kiosk.
Glove-friendly. Big tap targets. Photos beside every step. Operators see what they're building, AI summarizes what went wrong, and quality holds open at the source.
Live maintenance dashboard.
MTBF, MTTR, PM compliance, WO backlog — all live, all drillable, AI explaining the trend. No spreadsheet, no month-end reconciliation.
| Operator | Body StampingBS-1 | Paint BoothPB-2 | Frame WeldFW-1 | Wiring HarnessWH-3 | DashboardDSH-1 | Engine DropED-2 | Wheel AssemblyWHL-1 | Final QCQC-1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maria Sanchez | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| James Chen | 3 | 3 | 4 | — | 2 | 3 | — | — |
| Tyrese Williams | 4 | 2 | — | 4 | — | — | 3 | — |
| Anita Patel | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 2 | — | — | 1 |
| Brett Kowalski | 3 | — | 3 | — | — | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Sofia Rivera | 3 | 4 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Marcus Johnson | 2 | 2 | — | 2 | 3 | — | — | — |
| Kelly Park | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — |
| Devon Tate | 3 | — | — | 3 | — | 3 | — | 3 |
| Lisa Nakamura | — | — | 2 | 2 | 2 | — | 2 | — |
| Carlos Mendez | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | 4 |
| Hannah Schmidt | 2 | 3 | — | — | — | 2 | — | — |
| Robert Daniels | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — |
| Priya Iyer | 3 | 3 | 3 | — | 3 | — | — | 3 |
| Tomas Lindholm | 2 | — | 2 | 2 | — | 2 | — | 2 |
Training matrix that actually moves.
Skills × people × stations. WI revisions auto-trigger re-training. AI suggests the right operator for the next build based on the qualification matrix.
Three category-leading tools.
One operating system.
Every SMB shop ends up duct-taping the same three tools together. Ignite Lean is the first platform to do all three jobs — natively connected, one AI, one audit log.
- Tulip ~$10K/seat/yr × 30 = $300K
- Greenlight Guru ~$30K/yr flat
- MaintainX ~$100/user/mo × 30 × 12 = $36K
- 28 paid seats × $44/mo (10+ volume tier)
- First 2 admin seats included
- All 70 operators free, unlimited
Same workflows. One platform. One bill.
Comparison uses published list prices as of September 2026 and assumes 5 management seats. Your numbers will vary.
One price. Everything included.
No "Quality tier add-on." No "CMMS upcharge." The whole OS, every module, every AI feature — same price.
- Production · Quality · Maintenance · Engineering
- Operators always free, unlimited
- AI across every workflow
- Row-level security · audit log · SOC 2 in progress
- Open API · ERP / WMS / accounting integrations
- No setup fees · No annual lock-in
Run your shop on AI today.
Stop reading about it. Spin up an org, swipe through the kiosk, ask the AI what's slowing your line.
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