The corporation runs several plants where quality depended on manual visual inspection, maintenance was largely reactive, work instructions lived on paper, and safety oversight relied on spot checks. Earlier AI attempts were disconnected proofs-of-concept. The brief was explicit: not a chatbot, but a real production platform running several specialised models where they create value, served at the edge for sub-second decisions, monitored for drift, and integrated into MES, SCADA and maintenance systems with humans in the loop.\n