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Field data from manufacturing, finance and the public sector
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Decision AI for the enterprise
Why cost, inventory or equipment moved —you’ll know beforethe loss is locked in.
What changed, by how much, and why — with evidence, in one answer
Plant managerCost drivers explained by comparison, contribution and evidence
Month-end Cost Explain puts the cause, the amount and the evidence of a cost change on one screen — it moves the cause from after the decision to before it.
Why did material cost at plant 2 go up last month?
- Cause
- A higher main-material price and a yield drop on line 2 account for most of the increase
- Amount
- Material cost +25.0M KRW
- Evidence
- 12 purchase vouchersMES batch logPublished FX rate
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| Month-end Cost Explain | Excel, as you do today | BI tools | ChatGPT | Systems integration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Explains cost variance | Recalculated by hand every close | Sorts historical data | General-purpose Q&A | Improves existing systems |
| Time to value | 4–6 weeks | Every month, again | 3–6 months | Immediate | 3–6 months |
| Existing systems | No changes, no redeployment | Not applicable | Changes required | Not applicable | Rework required |
| Built for manufacturing | ✓ | Depends on the person | ✗ | ✗ | Partly |
| Cost | Low | People’s time | Medium | Low | High |
ChatGPT answers instantly, but without knowing what your company’s numbers mean. DARVIS first learns the words and rules your company runs on (the ontology), then explains cost on top of that.
Month-end Cost Explain is the cost-explanation product that runs on the DARVIS platform.
1-minute fit check for your plant — no contact detailsCustomers we work with
From manufacturing to public sector, finance and defense — industries of every kind work with DFINITE
By industry
What we work on, industry by industry
The more layers of systems a company has, the better this fits — not because the data is missing, but because joining it is still left to people.
Cost, equipment and documents each sit in a different system. Joining them into a reason is still left to people.
- Explains why cost moved, in time for the month-end close
- Slices equipment signals by work order and joins them to quality records
- Finds documents scattered across systems with a single question
Published cases
- Large food manufacturerRebuilt 13,701 orders one by one to point at the loss-making stretchesRead the case
- System semiconductorValidated in two weeks against 109 real questionsRead the case
- Automotive partsMaterial planning verified in real timeRead the case
- Electronic componentsThree AI agents taken through a full PoCRead the case
The record so far
The companies we’ve worked with, and what we sell today
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First rollout
One plant · one product family · one month-end close
4~6weeks
Start now and you get your first answer at the month-end after next.
How the platform is built
Meet DARVIS
- 01
Name the question
Interviews on the floor decide what this month-end close has to explain.
- 02
Map the data
Scattered ERP, MES and sensor data joined into a single map.
- 03
Agent workflow
A question in plain language comes back as an exact table or chart.
- 04
Deliver the answer
Month-end findings arrive in Slack or email.
- 05
Operate and extend
We plan to widen the scope of analysis as usage tells us where to go.
Public funding
How public funding can cut what a rollout costs you
Based on Korean smart-factory funding programmes
The chart shows the structure only. The funded share and whether you are selected depend on each programme’s notice and review.
Which programmes apply
Manufacturing AI Innovation, Manufacturing Smart Service, the AI Voucher, the S Voucher and the Data Voucher.
We help, at no charge
From writing the application to handling the review, we prepare it with you.
How the review runs
Review periods differ by programme notice. You can start it in parallel with a Month-end Cost Explain kickoff.
First rollout scopeOne plant · one product family
Time to kickoff4–6 weeks
Security and trust
Every customer’s data stays protected
Your ERP and MES stay untouched
DARVIS connects to your existing systems read-only.
An on-premise install keeps your data under your control.
Everything encrypted
TLS 1.3 in transit · AES-256 at rest · RBAC for access.
Transit, storage and access are each controlled separately.
The controls we design to
Your data is returned immediately when a contract ends.
We have passed a government security review and designed against ISO 27001 controls.
Cases
Analyses we actually ran on the factory floor
Large food manufacturer
Measured across every order — the data already existed; it just arrived after the decision was made
Electronic components30–50 employees
- Analysis axis
- Unit cost by item
- Output
- Candidate causes with evidence
Automotive parts50–100 employees
- Analysis axis
- Input cost by process
- Output
- Variance broken down by contribution
Food100–200 employees
- Analysis axis
- Margin by product family
- Output
- Loss-making segments identified
Company names are anonymised — only industry and size are shown. We list the scope and the outputs only; performance figures are published once attribution has been checked.
Technical review
What IT asks first, answered first
It attaches read-only
Your ERP and MES are untouched. Nothing is written back to the source systems, so there is no redeployment and no change to the screens your people already use.
It can sit on-premise
A configuration that keeps your data inside your own network is supported. A plant with air-gap requirements can be reviewed on the same structure.
TLS 1.3 · AES-256 · SSO/RBAC
TLS 1.3 in transit and AES-256 at rest. SSO and role-based access control integrate, and we have passed a government security review.
We will write up the integration structure, the data flow and the security controls and send it over — and set up a review meeting with an engineer if you want one.
Next step
Start on the path that matches your role
If this close ended with no cause found either, you can start before the next one. It starts with one cost explanation, and decision criteria accumulate with use.
Plant manager · cost owner✓ Read-only connection · starts in 4–6 weeks
IT lead✓ No changes · on-premise · ISO 27001 controls
Public-sector lead✓ Programme guidance · we apply with you
Are you an owner or executive who needs to see where the profit leaks first?
FAQ
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