Agentic FabriqRestrict agents by plant, production line, product, supplier, and engineering program.
Industrial boundaries become access boundaries — an agent for one line, plant, or program ends exactly there.
SOLUTIONS / Manufacturing
Connect AI agents to industrial workflows without expanding operational risk
Govern agents connecting engineering, production, quality, maintenance, and supply-chain systems.
01 / IDENTITY02 / POLICY03 / AUDIT
01 / THE CONTEXTShift by shift,
Shift by shift,
inside the plant’s controls.
Manufacturing agents may access product designs, supplier records, production schedules, quality systems, maintenance platforms, and operational technology. A mistaken action can affect not only data but physical production, worker safety, and product quality.
02 / IN PRACTICE
Autonomy, with accountability.
HOW FAR ONE ENGINEER’S AGENT GETS DOWN THE PLANTIllustrative · maintenance-agent, acting for a plant engineer
- Plant 02 · AshfordThe plant this engineer is assigned to
- Line 3 · assemblyWithin the assignment
- PRESS-114allowedService history read, the next preventive work order drafted
ERPNext - WELD-207allowedYesterday’s inspection findings pulled into the same job
SafetyCulture - LINE-3 controllerheldChange a production settingERPNextRELEASED BY THE PLANT ENGINEER
- Line 5 · packagingblockedNot on this engineer’s assignment — the agent can see that it exists and nothing inside it
- Plant 07 · BrazosblockedA restricted plant. No grant, no route, no call — the request stops at the boundary rather than at the machine
Example hierarchy. The plants, lines, assets and release rights are the ones you set.
03 / WHAT CHANGES
Control, in the details.
Separate read access to operational data from authority to change equipment or schedules.
Telemetry and schedules are readable without any path to altering setpoints, recipes, or sequences.
Keep safety-critical, quality-critical and production-impacting actions out of every grant.
Actions that can stop a line, affect quality or endanger people are not in the tool list an agent receives, so they stay with qualified staff.
Protect intellectual property and export-controlled design information.
Design and process data carries its classification, and access follows program authorization — including export-control rules.
Bound supplier-facing agents to the relevant vendor and purchase relationship.
Supplier communication stays inside the purchase order and vendor relationship it concerns, and it goes out as the buyer the agent acts for — never beyond that person’s authority.
Trace a production or quality action back through the full agent workflow.
Quality investigations walk the complete chain — alert, analysis, action, verdict — in one record.
THREE LAYERS. ONE DECISION.
The boundary travels with the work.
Explore the context attached to every request.
What is this agent allowed to do?
maintenance-agent has a defined purpose and a bounded set of tools.
Whose authority travels with it?
The request acts for plant engineer, using that person’s permissions.
Where does the action land?
The policy applies to the requested action within Plant systems, before the tool executes.
04 / WAYS TO PUT IT TO WORK
Built for your real workflows.
01Predictive maintenance
Maintenance agents read sensor data and open work orders; changes to equipment remain with technicians.
Identify→Authorize→Record
02Quality investigation
Investigation agents assemble the production history around a defect without the ability to alter the records they analyze.
Identify→Authorize→Record
03Production planning
Planning agents propose schedules within their plant and line scope; committing a change is not an action they hold, so a planner does it.
Identify→Authorize→Record
04Supplier onboarding
Onboarding agents collect documents and draft records; activation and payment terms are not actions they hold, so procurement sets both.
Identify→Authorize→Record
05Engineering knowledge retrieval
Retrieval runs within the requester’s program authorization, keeping export-controlled designs contained.
Identify→Authorize→Record
06Work-instruction assistance
Assistants answer from released, current instructions — never drafts or superseded revisions.
Identify→Authorize→Record
QUESTIONS
A closer look.
Does this touch our OT systems directly?+
No. Fabriq drops in in front of the IT and OT systems agents call — nothing about the equipment or platforms changes. Read access and change authority are separated per request, so analytics never quietly becomes control.
Can an agent change equipment settings?+
Not unless you grant it that. Read access to operational data is a separate action from changing a setting, and safety-, quality- and production-impacting actions can be left out of every agent’s grant — in which case they never appear in a tool list at all.
What does the record show after a change?+
Who asked, which agent acted, what it touched, and the verdict — one trail across engineering, planning, and quality systems.
Can access follow each engineer’s program authorization?+
Yes — per user. An engineer’s agent reaches the designs and process data of the programs that engineer is authorized for, including export-control boundaries, and an out-of-authorization retrieval fails at the access layer and is logged.
How do agents reach internal systems safely?+
Over an outbound-only encrypted tunnel — no inbound ports to open — with OpenAPI import for internal APIs and read-only guardrails for Postgres.
Can we stop an agent immediately?+
Yes — disable it org-wide and its next call fails closed; sessions are visible live and revocable now, not at token expiry.