Knowledge capture for metal working

Who is your Uwe?

The one everybody calls. Even on holiday. And the one retiring in 2027. Ten minutes at our booth at AMB, and you see how his knowledge stays.

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Two colleagues at a CNC machining centre, calling up a work instruction via QR code
The problem

Three situations every production manager knows.

01

The order comes back. The knowledge does not.

Last time round, someone worked out which clamping and which feed rate work on this part. That is in no manual, it is on a note in his drawer. Now the order is back and the next person starts from scratch.

02

Your most experienced setter leaves. So does his knowledge.

Retirement, job change, turnover. Fifteen years of machine knowledge sits in no system. It just walks out the door.

03

New colleagues need months before they can work on their own.

Onboarding happens by watching and asking, because the knowledge is not in the system. It sits with the two or three people who have been around for years.

Customer story

This is what it looks like when knowledge stays in the plant.

The obvious objection

“He could just write it down.”

He won’t.

Documentation is work nobody does voluntarily, and in shift operations it is the first thing to go. Explaining something takes 90 seconds. Writing it down takes 40 minutes. So we let him explain, and we turn that into the work instruction.

And it is written down nowhere.

You can upload your manuals. Every tool can do that today. But they do not describe how your machine actually runs. That knowledge has to come out of his head before any system can search it. That is exactly our job.

At our booth

What happens in 10 minutes at our booth.

  1. 01
    You talk, we ask.Ten minutes about your production: where knowledge sits with single individuals today, what a stoppage costs you, how long onboarding takes.
  2. 02
    You see the result.Our AI assesses your situation. Based on your machines, your shift model and your processes, we work out the potential a knowledge platform could unlock for you.
  3. 03
    You take your assessment with you.A PDF with your own figures, your critical topics and an estimate of what is possible on your first machines within four weeks. Free of charge and independent of any offer.
Work instruction on a shop floor tablet
What you contribute

What you put in. Deliberately little.

Around 2 hours from two or three of your people

While production runs. They explain what they do anyway, we record it. Nobody sits down to write.

Production and shift lead at the start and at the end

At the kick-off and at the closing call. In between there is nothing for them to do.

One document location, shared in advance

No sorting needed. No project team, no approval loop, no preparation. We do the heavy lifting, you give access and a few hours.

Who it is for

For metal working companies with their own maintenance team, running multiple shifts.

  • A mixed machine park, including older equipment with its own quirks
  • Critical knowledge sits with single individuals today
  • We usually talk to the managing director, production or maintenance lead
  • New evidence requirements from audits, medical technology or defence work
Trusted in production

For our technicians this is a real advantage. Right after a repair, they record what they did. From then on it is there for the whole team, ready to call up at any time.

Answered up front

The three questions that always come.

What happens to our data after the test?

You decide: full export or deletion within 14 days. We confirm deletion in writing. All content belongs to you and stays exportable.

What does our IT have to do?

Access via browser and app. No installation, no interference with your systems. A document location is optional. We bring the DPA and the hosting overview along unasked.

Are we tied into anything?

No. A self-contained service at a fixed price. After week four it ends by itself, even if you do nothing.

Results at other customers

What other plants have achieved.

−13 %unplanned downtime · Frankfurter Brauhaus
Brewery, maintenance and production in shift operation
+24 %faster onboarding · DMV Stainless Steel
Stainless steel tubes, around 80 people in production, two shifts
−17 %
less scrap · Voith
Turbo couplings, Crailsheim plant, 150+ employees

Results from other KNOWRON projects, each with its own starting point. Not a promise for your plant, but the order of magnitude we have seen so far.

AMB starter package

Knowledge capture kick-off

Start small. Know in four weeks whether it holds.

  • One day on site in your production
  • Four weeks of real operation in one area with up to 10 machines
  • 45 minute closing call, then your decision
1.490 €Fixed price. No contract term, no automatic renewal. included
All prices excl. VAT.
Offer valid until 30.09.2026. Six kick-off slots, all in Q4 2026.Book a slot at our booth