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Ontology-based AX

From ERP data reconciliationto tracing the causein one workflow

A food-manufacturing PoC validated the flow from tracing profit changes to compiling the report

See what it costs
DARVIS-P · exampleMaterial price is 12.5% above the quote basis

Where is the difference?

  • 118 analyses closed
  • 5 patents
  • Exhibiting at CES 2026

118 = analyses run since 2022 (161 in total) that were closed as completed

See AX cases in manufacturing, logistics and the public sector
Plant managerFlagged the moment cost moves unlike usual, with cause and evidence

Why the response is slow when data is everywhere

  1. 01Every system names the same item differently
  2. 02Reconciling them takes people’s hours
  3. 03Why it drifted lives only in one person’s head

The ontology reconciles the names and the AI finds and flags the cause, so people spend their time only on the call.

This is how far the AI goes

  • Connects ERP, MES and spreadsheets read-only and joins them into one map
  • Reconciles items that each system spells differently, automatically
  • Ask about cost, inventory or quality in plain language; answers come as tables and charts
  • Flags anomalies against company criteria, with candidate causes, amounts and evidence
  • Drafts the action and sends it to Slack or email. Approve or hold stays with people
See what the AI does, hands-on
  1. Read only

    Existing systems

    • ERP
    • MES
    • Spreadsheets
    • Documents
  2. Ontology

    The company's own standard

    • Field names
    • Reference values
    • Relationships
  3. AI

    Anomaly, cause, amount, evidence

    • Deviation detection
    • Candidate causes
    • Amount by cause
    • Evidence line
  4. Person

    Proposal and approval

    • Proposal drafted
    • Approved
    • Held
  5. Evidence ledger

    Decision and outcome, kept

    • Evidence
    • Approval history
    • Outcome
Nothing is written back. People make the call, and every decision is kept with its evidence.

By industry

What we work on, industry by industry

The more layers of systems a company has, the better this fits — not because the data is missing, but because joining it is still left to people.

Cost, equipment and documents each sit in a different system. Joining them into a reason is still left to people.

  • Flags cost moving unlike usual and lets you act without waiting for the close
  • Slices equipment signals by work order and joins them to quality records
  • Finds documents scattered across systems with a single question

Published cases

Where did the change from the usual range begin? Three anomalies this morning

DARVIS-PFictional Manufacturer · Plant 1
As of 2026-06-13 07:00 · ERP · MES read-onlyRead-onlyFictional data
Anomalies

Month to date · 1 – 13 Jun

Only signals outside the usual range come up. Other items can be reviewed when needed.

CompanyFictional ManufacturerPlantPlant 1Period2026-06 to dateBasisUsual range · last 12 weeks

Where the anomaly appears

Cost+4.3%pFrozen-food cost ratio
MarginUsual range
Inventory19.5 daysCentre B · SKU-118
YieldUsual range
DefectsUsual range
DeliveryUsual range
3 anomalies · click a row to go down to the cause
DetectedSignalWhereUsual → nowNext lock-inStatus
13 JunCost ratio +4.3%pFrozen food · material S-04264.1%68.4%Quote 25 Jun D-12Check cause ›
12 JunInventory 19.5 daysCentre B · SKU-1184–7 days19.5 daysDisposal 20 Jun D-7Review transfer ›
10 JunPurchase price +15.2%S-042 · supplier KLast-month avg+15.2%Order 18 Jun D-5Alternative quote ›

All seven industries in one table. Select a row to switch the tab above.

IndustryData inBasis for joiningOutputRole (before → after)
Cost, equipment, documents (ERP, MES)Work orderCost-anomaly alerts, equipment signals joined to quality recordsCost owner: month-end spreadsheet matching → confirming causes, approving actions
Regulations and guidelinesClauseAnswers with their supporting clauseOfficer: answering the same enquiry again → checking the clause, ruling on exceptions
Closed-network internal materialClearance levelAnswers traceable to their sourceMaintainer: searching manuals → deciding within clearance, recording it
Drawings and documentsProject and drawingSafety and quality standards with their basisDesign and site lead: comparing drawings and specs → reviewing the gap, approving
Instrument dataHistory of standard changesAudit evidence traced to the original recordQA: collecting records → ruling on deviations, answering audits
Internal databasesLedger items and calculation stepsRead-only query resultsPlanning: writing data requests → verifying results, deciding
Voyage, inventory and settlement dataDecision criteria and change historyA record of when and why a call changedOperations: matching settlements and stock by hand → approving exceptions, recording

What to compare it with

How it differs from Excel, BI and rule-based alerts

This lays out how far each of the four approaches goes for the same anomaly. Either way, the judgment is made by a person.

A table comparing manual Excel, BI dashboards, rule-based alerts and DFINITE from anomaly detection through action plans
ItemManual ExcelBI dashboardRule-based alertDFINITE
When the anomaly is knownAfter the month closes, once someone checks it by handWhen someone opens the dashboard and noticesWhen a preset condition is triggeredItems outside the company standard are picked out and flagged
Matching item names (across ERP, MES, spreadsheets)By hand, every monthOnce by hand at model design, redone when it changesBy hand, for every conditionThe ontology matches them
Finding the causeBy handA decomposition tool exists, interpretation is by handNoneAI proposes cause candidates, a person confirms
Whether an amount is attachedCalculated by handShown as a chart, amount per cause is by handNoneAn amount for every cause
EvidenceInside the fileDrill-downThe condition expressionAn evidence line for every answer · decisions kept in the evidence ledger
Action plan and approvalOrganized by handNeeds a separate automation tool connectedAlert onlyProposes an action; approval or hold stays with a person
BI also has cause-exploration and automation-linking features. The difference is the effort a person spends designing and maintaining them, and who is left redoing the match when an item changes.

Customers we work with

From manufacturing to public sector, finance and defense — industries of every kind work with DFINITE

LG Innotek
Sambo Motors
Lotte Wellfood
THN
Woojin Industrial
Tara TPS
Taehyang
Hyundai LNG Shipping
Kolon Global
ITCEN ENTEC
Korean Industrial Health Association
KCB
SH Seoul Housing & Communities
Korea Women’s Human Rights Institute
Seoul Foundation of Women & Family

The record so far

The companies we’ve worked with, and what we sell today

Analyses closed

Field data from manufacturing, finance and the public sector

118analyses
See all cases

First rollout

One plant · one product family

4~6weeks

Start now and the first alert lands at the first month-end after 4 to 6 weeks.

Cost root-cause analysis

Ask each teamTrace in one flow
Before · manual
  1. Check monthly report
  2. Request data from each team
  3. Gather and reconcile
  4. Guess the cause
  5. Report
After · linked
  1. Detect the shift
  2. Auto-decompose the cause
  3. Ask follow-up in plain language
  4. Report compiled automatically

Food-manufacturing PoC workflow comparison, not measured time savings.

Cases

Analyses we actually ran on the factory floor

Commercial printing

Measured across every order, on direct cost alone. The data already existed; it just arrived after the decision was made

Electronic components30–50 employees
Analysis axis
Unit cost by item
Output
Candidate causes with evidence
Automotive parts50–100 employees
Analysis axis
Input cost by process
Output
Variance broken down by contribution
Food100–200 employees
Analysis axis
Margin by product family
Output
Loss-making segments identified

Cases describe the analysis scope and workflow, without unpublished customer metrics. Published case studies may identify the customer.

Who does what

Who keys in the data? — Nobody

What the customer prepares

  • One read-only connection to ERP, MES and cost sheets
  • 2–3 interviews — the words and rules the company runs on
  • The last 3–6 months of close data

Nothing new to key in. We read the systems you already have.

What DFINITE does automatically

  • Joins scattered tables and documents into one data map
  • Learns the usual range and catches the moment it drifts
  • Packages cause, amount and evidence into an alert

What people check

  • Whether the flagged item is real
  • Which action to take — quote, purchase, reallocate
  • Recording the decision and its outcome

People execute and approve. The system proposes and records.

Public funding

How public funding can cut what a rollout costs you

Based on Korean smart-factory funding programmes
Rollout costVaries by programmePublic fundingVaries by programmeYour contributionVaries by programme

The chart shows the structure only. The funded share and whether you are selected depend on each programme’s notice and review.

Which programmes apply

Manufacturing AI Innovation, Manufacturing Smart Service, the AI Voucher, the S Voucher and the Data Voucher.

We help, at no charge

From writing the application to handling the review, we prepare it with you.

How the review runs

Review periods differ by programme notice. You can start it in parallel with the product kickoff.

First rollout scopeOne plant · one product family
Time to kickoff4–6 weeks
Find the programme that fits your company

Guardrails

AI drafts, a person approves, and the decision is kept in the ledger

Four layers. Each answers one of the questions IT asks first: how it attaches, whether data leaves, who executes, what is kept. Same order as the ontology path shown in the demo.

  1. 01Connect

    Attached read-only

    Existing systems untouched

    • ERP, MES, WMS and documents unchanged
    • Nothing written back
    • On-premise or air-gapped install
    • TLS 1.3 in transit
  2. 02Standard

    The company sets the standard

    Ontology and access scope

    • Field names, reference values and relations set by the company
    • Access scoped by role (RBAC)
    • Company SSO (SAML 2.0, OIDC)
    • Identifiers masked, aggregates only
  3. 03Decide

    AI drafts the action; a person approves

    Nothing runs before approval

    • AI: anomaly, cause, amount, evidence, proposed action
    • Person: approve or hold
    • Not executed until pressed
    • No auto-execution, no prediction claims
  4. 04Record

    Kept in the evidence ledger

    Traceable in an audit

    • Evidence, approvals, holds and outcomes in one ledger
    • Who decided what, when, on which evidence
    • AES-256 at rest
    • Data returned immediately at contract end

We have passed a government security review and design against ISO 27001 controls. The formal names and scope of regulations and certifications are confirmed in the technical review material.

What each industry checks first

IndustryFirst questionGuardrail that answers it
Public sector · defenseDoes anything leave the network; can visibility be split by clearanceAir-gapped on-premise install, clearance-scoped visibility, a passed government security review
FinanceAre personal identifiers exposed to the AIIdentifiers masked, aggregates only, read-only, role-scoped access, generated SQL visible
Pharma · constructionCan an audit trace back to the original recordChange history, trace to the original record, clause and page citations, evidence ledger
Manufacturing · logisticsDoes it touch ERP or MES; who executesRead-only connection, nothing written back, execution only after approval, SSO

We will write up the integration structure, the data flow and the security controls and send it over, and set up a review meeting with an engineer if you want one.

Next step

Your data is already enough. Now bring decisions forward and cut the loss

If another month went by without knowing where profit leaked, next month you can hear first. It starts with one early signal, and decision criteria accumulate with use. Start on the path that matches your role.

Plant manager · cost owner✓ Read-only connection · starts in 4–6 weeks
IT lead✓ No changes · on-premise · ISO 27001 controls
Public-sector lead✓ Programme guidance · we apply with you

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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