Cognitive Server
USE-03· Manufacturing

Your know-how doesn't go to the cloud

Vision, MES and shop-floor traceability without sending IP to a third-party cloud.

EU AI ActIATF 16949ISO 9001REACH/RoHS

Data never leaves the perimeter

Inference over sensitive data with no third-party egress.

DATAQUERYINFERENCEORCHESTRATORAUDIT LEDGERDECISION + AUDIT LOG× NO THIRD-PARTY EGRESS× NO THIRD-PARTY EGRESS
Fig — Client perimeter · data never leaves

Product anatomy

Seven pieces, one principle: data enters, is processed and is recorded — but never leaves.

COMP · 01

Sovereign Appliance

Certified hardware inside your datacenter. The compute boundary is physical.

COMP · 02

Local Inference Engine

Optimised models running on the appliance — no external calls.

COMP · 03

Data Orchestrator

Lineage, retrieval and context composition over internal sources.

COMP · 04

Secure Connectors

Integration with core, ERP, EHR or SCADA via signed channels.

COMP · 05

Governance & Policy Layer

RBAC, usage policy and guardrails enforced before every inference.

COMP · 06

Audit Ledger

Signed, immutable chain of every query, decision and artefact.

COMP · 07

Explainability Layer

Citations, weights and applied rules attached to every model output.

Practical example

In-line visual inspection.

  1. 01

    Capture

    Shopfloor cameras stream images to the on-premise appliance.

  2. 02

    Detection

    The model identifies defects and links them to MES.

  3. 03

    Action

    Part rejected, lot flagged, alert routed to the responsible operator.

  4. 04

    Record

    Signed event: part · lot · machine · operator · shift.

  5. 05

    Latency <50ms

    Decision returned to the PLC in under 50 ms — line never stops.

Regulatory map

Norm · What it requires · How we respond.

EU AI Act
Safety and quality control systems may qualify as high-risk.
Technical documentation and reproducible logs; configurable human-in-the-loop.
IATF 16949
Part-supplier-process traceability in automotive.
Trace ID linking visual inspection to lot, machine and operator.
ISO 9001
Non-conformance control, corrective actions, audit.
Automatic detection + corrective action flow with signed record.
REACH/RoHS
Substance and material traceability.
Auditable BOM lineage; alerts when restricted materials are introduced.

EU AI Act timeline: obligations confirmed for Dec 2027 / Aug 2028.

Outcomes

What changes when data does not move.

-50%
unplanned downtime
100%
traceable lots
+15%
yield
-35%
scrap rate

Compliance at a glance

Frameworks covered by design.

Coverage is not an optional module — it is a direct consequence of the Cognitive Server architecture.

  • EU AI Act
    Covered by design
  • IATF 16949
    Covered by design
  • ISO 9001
    Covered by design
  • REACH/RoHS
    Covered by design

Frequently asked

What sector teams ask us.

Next step

Let’s look at what this means inside your perimeter.

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