Nov 17, 2026 — 8:00 – 9:00 AM PT
Claude for Manufacturing: Put Your Plant’s Know-How to Work
Manufacturing is where AI has to prove it’s useful and trustworthy, because the stakes are physical.
This one-hour technical session covers where that’s heading, what works today, and how to start. Get a first look at the Model Hardware Standard, a research preview where plant equipment tells Claude what it can do and what it must never do. Hear what plant teams and partners already run on Claude, in the systems they own. Then see how your own team can start: Claude drafts the quote, the NCR, and the morning report from your plant’s records, and your experts make the call.
What you’ll learn
Where manufacturing is heading: what the Model Hardware Standard is, how a plant’s equipment can tell Claude what it can do and what it must never do, where the research preview stands, and how to apply.
What works today: the plant work teams and partners already run on Claude, from quotes and NCRs to the morning report, in the ERP, CAD, and document systems they own.
How to start: what Claude drafts from the records your plant already keeps, from the quote to the NCR to the morning report, how your team adapts that work to its own forms and procedures, and how to judge it on a process you already measure.
Who stays in charge: your quality, estimating, and plant teams approve quotes, NCRs, and reports before they go anywhere, and nothing writes to production control or a system of record on its own.