Industries — Manufacturing
Process parameters, CAD, yields, and failure data are trade secrets — and trade-secret law only protects what you protect. Optimus brings AI to the shop floor without exposing proprietary process data to any external service.
Why sovereign
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Trade-secret protection depends on demonstrating reasonable measures to keep information secret. Routing process data through external AI services is difficult to reconcile with that standard.
02
Plants segment operational technology from the internet by design — IEC 62443 formalizes it. An appliance that lives inside the OT boundary brings AI to the machines without opening a path back out.
03
If you supply the DIB, CUI and export-control duties reach your drawings and process specs. On-prem AI keeps CMMC scope — and ITAR exposure — from exploding.
The pain point — compliance
Manufacturing's most valuable data isn't customer PII — it's the process itself: parameters, tolerances, yield curves, supplier terms. Once that data enters an external model pipeline, the disclosure cannot be undone. Keeping AI processing on-site preserves both the secrecy and its legal protection.
The regimes in play
DTSA / Trade Secret Law
Protection contingent on reasonable secrecy measures — including how AI tools handle your data.
IEC 62443 / OT Security
Zone-and-conduit segmentation for industrial networks that external AI calls would puncture.
CMMC / NIST 800-171
CUI controls for defense suppliers, flowed down through the supply chain.
Export Controls (ITAR/EAR)
Technical data for controlled articles restricted to controlled systems and persons.
What cloud AI puts at stake
Optimus removes this exposure entirely: no external calls, no subprocessors, no egress — the full AI stack runs inside the controls you already operate.
Use cases
Every workload below runs on the appliance, against your documents and systems, with full logs — no internet connection required.
Put every manual, maintenance log, and tribal-knowledge note behind a natural-language interface at the line — fully offline.
Summarize sensor trends and maintenance history into prioritized work orders before the line goes down.
Drive 8D and CAPA investigations with AI that reads your defect data, process parameters, and past investigations.
Screen supplier certs, compliance declarations, and contracts against your requirements — REACH, RoHS, conflict minerals and beyond.
Search decades of design decisions, test reports, and ECOs so engineers stop re-solving solved problems.
Draft procedures from process data, keep them versioned, and turn shift logs into structured handovers.
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