AI for Canadian manufacturers

1. 01

   Procedure Q&A

   lockout/tagout sequences, startup and shutdown checklists, changeover steps, answered with the section they came from.

2. 02

   Maintenance history

   paste in work orders and fault logs, then ask what failed before and what fixed it.

3. 03

   Quality standards

   the customer’s specification, the drawing notes, the inspection criteria, all searchable in plain language.

4. 04

   Corrective actions

   a first draft of a nonconformance note or an 8D summary from the facts a supervisor types in.

5. 05

   Shift handover

   a short written summary of what happened, what is open and what the next shift should watch.

Most plant documentation is paper that was scanned once, fifteen years ago, and never made searchable. Digby reads PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets and images directly, and a scanned page is read from the page image rather than failing on an empty text layer.

That means the twenty-year-old binder and the photo of the laminated procedure card on the wall are both usable inputs — you do not need a digitisation project first, and you can tell staff to photograph the sheet rather than retype it.

Ask in English, get English; ask in French, get French. For plants in Quebec or with bilingual crews, one knowledge base serves both: the procedure is uploaded once and the same question works in either language.

Written procedures can be drafted in one language and reviewed in the other, which is often how a bilingual safety document actually gets produced.

Conversations, uploaded files and memory are stored in Canada (Montréal, Canada Central) and processed by models on Canadian-located GPU hardware. Your documents are never used to train or fine-tune AI models — a supplier drawing or a customer specification does not become somebody else’s training data.

If a customer contract requires that drawings never leave your network, self-hosted Digby runs the whole stack on your own server with your own model endpoints.

1. 01

   One line, one binder

   digitise nothing, just upload the procedures for the line that asks the most questions.

2. 02

   One shift of questions

   let supervisors use it for a week and keep the questions that were worth answering.

3. 03

   One controlled document rule

   the project answers from the version you uploaded, so name files with their revision and review dates.

4. 04

   Review before publishing

   anything that becomes a controlled document goes through your existing approval process, unchanged.