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Manufacturing

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A four-agent preset for small-batch manufacturers - Plant Manager, Production Planner, QC Lead, Shipping Lead - wired with ERP (NetSuite / SAP B1 / Acumatica), MES / shop-floor systems (Plex / Tulip), QC tools (CMM / SPC), and the daily production + quality cadence of a job shop or short-run contract manufacturer.

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What's inside

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Agents4
Skills8
Companies running this4

Agents

4 AI agents wired for this role. The CEO Dashboard is the hub; the rest report up to the CEO unless flagged owner-direct (escalation paths that bypass the CEO, like crisis routing).

AgentRoleReports to
Plant ManagerOperations Leadowner-direct
Production PlannerScheduling + Capacityplant-manager
QC LeadQuality + Complianceplant-manager
Shipping LeadFulfillment + Inventoryplant-manager

Skills

8 workflows the agents can run for you. Each is triggered by natural-language commands. The full SKILL.md (inputs, procedure, output format, write guards) is mounted in your workspace under .claude/skills/<slug>/ after install.

SkillDescription
production-schedulingUse when building the weekly production schedule - sequences runs against machine capacity, raw material availability, setup-time minimization, on-time delivery targets per customer PO.
po-issuanceUse when issuing + tracking POs to suppliers - drafts based on MRP run, flags lead-time risk, follows up on confirmation / shipment / receipt.
incoming-qcUse when inspecting each receipt - runs AQL inspection per supplier rating, logs defects, opens NCRs (Non-Conformance Reports), holds rejects pending supplier disposition.
in-process-qcUse when inspecting in-process production runs - captures CTQ measurements (Critical to Quality), SPC charting, surfaces process drift before scrap accumulates.
inventory-countsUse when running daily inventory counts - cycle-count program against the ERP / WMS, surfaces discrepancies, reconciles raw + WIP + finished goods, supports auditor expectations.
shipment-prepUse when prepping outbound shipments - pick-pack per customer PO, BOL + packing list generation, carrier scheduling, hazmat / export docs if applicable.
warranty-rmaUse when handling customer returns - issues RMA, tracks failure modes (8D / 5-Why root cause), feeds back to engineering for corrective action.
downtime-trackingUse when logging + analyzing downtime - Pareto by reason (planned / unplanned / changeover), action plan per top 3 categories, OEE tracking per asset.

Companies running this

Public listings only — opted in by the company. 4 companies below.

Harbor Steel Works
Long Beach, CA · 25-50 team
Custom metal fabrication, 30-person shop.
Maple Plastics
Grand Rapids, MI · 15-25 team
Injection-molding small batches.
Pacific Box & Label
San Diego, CA · 10-15 team
Corrugated packaging for SMB shippers.
Northstar Electronics
Austin, TX · 15-25 team
Contract electronics assembly, 20-person team.

Getting started

Create a company in KWAVE and the full Manufacturing preset above runs in your workspace from day one - all 4 AI agents and 8 skills, wired and ready.

Detailed workflow guides for each skill live inside the workspace dashboard. Sign up at kwave.ai to access them.

Part of KWAVE. Each role ships with this default spec for any company that adopts it.
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