Arch Systems

Manufacturing expertise sitting with a handful of engineers. Site-built tools that don't travel. Dashboards that flag problems but don't fix them. That was HARMAN's challenge before it partnered with Arch Systems to deploy the Arch Factory Intelligence Platform, starting with a lighthouse site in Suzhou, China. Since then, HARMAN Automotive has scaled those wins to four manufacturing sites: ~30% growth in total placements, a 37% improvement in Defects Per Million Units, and 6 to 8 points of OEE gained. The initiative is a finalist for the 2026 Automotive News PACE Award. Hear more from HARMAN's Don Barnes, VP of Automotive Manufacturing Excellence, at Automotive News Congress on September 29. Read the full case study: https://lnkd.in/eKCenQvy

Three years ago, the industry was still figuring out what to make of ChatGPT. Meanwhile, Arch Systems and HARMAN International were already laying out the principles of agentic AI systems for manufacturing. That work just got recognized. Arch Systems and HARMAN are finalists for the 2026 Automotive News PACE Award for their joint work scaling factory intelligence with agentic AI. It started with one lighthouse deployment at HARMAN’s Suzhou, China facility. Real-time machine and production data got connected to prioritized alerts, guided workflows, and role-based actions, the kind of thing that used to depend on a handful of experienced operators knowing what to look for. That approach is now standardized and rolling out across additional HARMAN sites. The results so far: • 30% growth in total placements across four sites • 37% improvement in Defects Per Million Units (DPMU) • 6 to 8 percentage-point improvement in Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) No new production lines added. Just more out of the capacity HARMAN already had. Full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/eqzvTt9V #manufacturingai #factoryintelligence #agenticai

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