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Smart manufacturing

Manufacturing, upgraded

Manufacturing, upgraded

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Smart manufacturing is the epitome of what we at Axcend do. Our expertise in both IT and OT makes us well-suited to digitize and upgrade manufacturing setups.

We cover the gamut of the manufacturing lifecycle: from production to tracking to maintenance. We ensure solutions that are strategically sound and actually used by the shop floor. Importantly, we do all this with an eye on what the future may bring - giving you a solution that meets today's requirements, and tomorrow's challenges.

Our services

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production

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Production is where everything begins, and where the biggest digital gains often lie hidden. We help you reimagine production by integrating the right technologies where they matter most: instruction, collaboration, and insight. All without disrupting what already works.

We can help you with

Digital work instructions

Replace printed SOPs and handwritten logs with clear, guided digital workflows. Our advanced quality digitisation product, eQual, digitises quality checks, and streamlines documentation. This helps operators do the right thing the first time, reduces variation, improves compliance, and enables faster onboarding.

Robotics & cobots
(collaborative robots)

Cobots are meant to work alongside your team, performing repetitive or dangerous tasks with precision and efficiency. This enhances workplace safety and ergonomics - freeing up your team for more productive tasks. True human-machine collaboration!

Sensors & IoT

Get more out of your own data with our sensors and custom IoT solutions. By collecting and analyzing real-time data from production processes, equipment, and assets, our platform enables you to optimize performance, detect anomalies, and drive continuous improvement across your operations.

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Manufacturers looking to replace paper-based instructions with guided digital workflows

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Plants seeking to improve safety, ergonomics, and quality through collaborative automation

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Manufacturers looking to optimize space and material flow

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Operations leaders aiming for real-time insight into equipment and process performance

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material movement

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When materials don’t flow, nothing else can. We optimize intra-plant movement with intelligent automation that adapt to real conditions on your shopfloor. This frees up operators, reduces errors, and creates space for safer, more efficient workflows.

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AGVs (Automated Guided Vehicles)

Experience dependable, path-guided logistics inside your plant. AGVs reduce the need for manual trolleys or forklifts, improving safety in shared spaces, and enabling consistent material supply to workstations. These are ideal for repetitive transport - improving efficiency, safety and reducing downtime.

AMRs (Autonomous Mobile Robots)

The future of material movement! AMRs are smart, dynamic machines that respond to real-time conditions. They offer unmatched flexibility and responsiveness in material handling tasks. They adapt to plant layout changes and real-time traffic conditions. They are ideal for high-mix environments or plants in continuous motion.

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Factories with high-volume, repetitive intra-plant movement

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Enterprises aiming to reduce manual handling and loading errors

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Manufacturers looking to optimize space and material flow

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Plants planning AGV/AMR deployment or scaling

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If you can't see it, you can't optimize it. Our Smart Tracking solutions help you gain end-to-end visibility over your materials, WIP, and finished goods. This reduces losses, improves inventory accuracy, and enables more accurate decision-making.

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Smart track & trace solutions

Gain full visibility and traceability across your supply chain. Whether it's tracking raw materials, work-in-progress, or finished goods, our solution provides real-time insights into the location and status of your assets, ensuring compliance and enabling swift decision-making.

You can implement Smart Tracking on a platform of your choice, or our robust, homegrown framework - MESh.

RTLS (Real-time location systems)

Know where things are, not just what’s missing! Our RTLS solutions offer real-time visibility of assets and personnel. This helps your teams reduce turnaround times, avoid congestion, enhance safety, and make faster routing decisions.

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Manufacturers struggling with inventory mismatches and manual tracking processes

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Plants with high WIP volumes or frequent material movement delays

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Teams needing real-time visibility for better production planning and coordination

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Enterprises aiming for end-to-end traceability from raw material to dispatch

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Our solutions are built on the belief that quality is a continuous commitment, not a one-time checklist activity. We enable early issue detection, reduce human error, and automate inspection with precision. In other words, we build systems that help you deliver consistent, compliant, and high-integrity products at scale. And because no two plants are the same, we offer both ready-to-use platforms and completely customized solutions.

We can help you with

Quality management

Not every plant has the same quality workflow, and a one-size-fits-all solution isn't ideal. We offer highly flexible quality management solutions that can be fully customized to your needs — or rapidly deployed using eQual, our homegrown quality digitization platform. Either way, you get a system that digitizes checks, streamlines documentation, enables early issue escalation, and ensures full compliance — all through a seamless, integrated interface.

Vision systems

We deploy advanced visual inspection systems that handle everything from surface defect detection to dimensional analysis. These systems ensure high-speed, high-accuracy checks with minimal operator involvement — maintaining your quality standards without compromising throughput.

Robotic testing

Repetitive, manual test procedures can become bottlenecks. We design and deploy robotic test systems that automate these tasks, boosting consistency, improving test repeatability, and reducing time-to-market. These are ideal for high-volume product environments where precision and speed are critical.

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Plants needing automated, scalable quality checks to keep pace with production

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Manufacturers in highly regulated industries like pharma, aerospace, or automotive

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Quality teams relying on paper-based forms, visual inspection, or manual documentation

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Enterprises seeking faster resolution of quality issues and stronger audit readiness

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maintenance

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We know good maintenance is the underrated hero of smooth plant operations. Our solutions help teams move beyond breakdown response, and into prediction, prevention, and smarter uptime.

We can help you with

Maintenance management

Our maintenance platform supports everything from preventive scheduling to breakdown response — helping you streamline task allocation, monitor completion, and ensure nothing slips through the (figurative) cracks. Digitizing these workflows brings structure, visibility, and accountability to your maintenance operations - not to mention, extend the lifespan of your valuable assets.

Predictive models

Our predictive maintenance solutions combine real-time equipment data with machine learning algorithms to forecast failures before they happen. This allows your teams to act in advance, avoid costly interruptions, and schedule interventions at the right time.

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Plants looking to reduce unplanned downtime through proactive maintenance

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Teams juggling breakdowns, preventive maintenance, and inspections without a central system

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Enterprises aiming to extend asset life and optimize maintenance costs

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Operations leaders seeking to align maintenance strategy with production goals

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packaging

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As the final step before your product meets the world, packaging needs to be as precise, consistent, and efficient as everything that comes before it. Our solutions help you automate and optimize key packaging processes - to reduce manual labor, improve throughput, and ensure repeatable quality.

We can help you with

Automated box erectors

Streamline box assembly with automated machines that erect cartons with precision. This eliminates time-consuming manual folding and improves consistency across SKUs and shifts.

Robotic packaging

Automate the placement, orientation, or sorting of products within packaging. Our robotic solutions deliver speed and accuracy, especially for repetitive or delicate tasks where human fatigue can affect quality.

Palletizers

Optimize your dispatch process with automated palletizing systems that stack, wrap, and prepare finished goods for transport. These solutions improve space usage, reduce handling errors, and enhance warehouse readiness.

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Manufacturing units looking to automate repetitive end-of-line tasks

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Plants dealing with high SKU complexity or variable packaging requirements

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Teams seeking to reduce dependency on manual labor in packing zones

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Enterprises aiming for higher throughput and dispatch readiness with fewer errors

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insights

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Axcend’s Smart Insights solutions help transform raw industrial data into intelligence that accelerates decision-making. We give your teams clear, real-time dashboards and powerful simulation tools, so they can track what matters, spot trends early, and act. These insights help leadership answer the larger questions, while helping the shop floor optimize for today.

We can help you with

Real-time dashboards

Customizable, role-based dashboards that provide a consolidated view of your operations. Whether you're a shift supervisor or a plant head, you get instant access to the KPIs that matter — enabling faster decisions, smarter prioritization, and better coordination across teams.

Digital twin solutions

Go beyond static data with simulation-driven insight. Digital twinning involves creating virtual replicas of your systems and processes. This allows you to test scenarios, forecast outcomes, and optimize performance — before making changes in the real world.

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Manufacturers seeking unified visibility across lines, shifts, or facilities

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Operations teams bogged down by spreadsheet-based reporting

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CXOs needing real-time metrics to align production with business goals

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Engineers exploring process changes who want data-backed simulation first

WHY AXCEND

The Axcend edge

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We understand the shopfloor

From assembly lines to AGVs, we speak the language of real manufacturing. Our solutions are built with a deep awareness of workflows, operator behavior, and plant realities. In short, we ensure adoption.

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We minimise disruption

We bring digital innovation to the factory without changing what works. We always help you maximize existing CapEx before recommending anything new. We tailor solutions to your maturity, pace and appetite.

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Flexibility of platforms

Our homegrown platforms (like eQual and MESh) are modular and field-tested. But we also build from scratch when the problem needs it. So you enjoy faster rollouts without any compromises.

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Cross-functional by design

Smart Manufacturing isn’t just one system, and neither are we. Our teams span automation, data science, controls, software, and domain experts. So your problems get tackled from every angle.

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Execution you can trust

We don’t stop at the pilot. From design to deployment and support, we work end-to-end. Our systems run in regulated industries, high-throughput plants, and multi-vendor environments. And they last.