Automoción
Run at Rate. Catch the Escape. Keep Every Supplier Approved.
Production, quality, maintenance and supplier compliance on one operating system, for Tier 1 and Tier 2 automotive suppliers.
Nulogy's Manufacturing Operating System connects what your presses and lines produce, what your quality team verifies, and what your suppliers send you. Book a demo and we will show you the Manufacturing Operating System running on your kind of lines.
The Problem With Buying by Category
In Automotive, a Defect Never Stays in One Department
When software gets bought by category, you end up with a QMS here, an OEE tool there and a supplier portal somewhere else. Then a single escape touches all three, and the answer lives in none of them.
You have to contain it now, in your plant, in transit and at the OEM. When the inspection record and the production record live in different systems, containment starts with a hunt for which shift ran it, on which press, from which material lot.
Your customer expects you to know before those parts reach your line. When supplier documents live in an inbox, you find out at incoming inspection, or worse, at your customer's dock.
This is a delivery problem before it is a maintenance problem. If nobody sees the stop until the end-of-shift report, the schedule catches up with it at the shipping dock, and overtime pays for it.
They want the control plan, the audit results, the training records and the open corrective actions, by line and by part number. Pulling that out of four systems turns into somebody's whole project.
One operating system is not a software preference. In automotive it is the path a defect already travels. The software should follow the same path.
A Day at an Automotive Supplier
Six Moments in a Supplier's Day
This is not a method or a sequence of steps. These are six ordinary moments in a Tier 1 or Tier 2 plant, and the Nulogy product that covers each one.
Start of Shift: The Presses Are Running
The first shift starts the presses and the count begins. Smart Factory connects to old and new machines through a PLC connection, a Banner wireless sensor or an Advantech gateway, so the count comes off the equipment instead of a paper sheet. OEE, downtime and scrap show up live by line and by shift, and scoreboards on the floor show the crew the same numbers the plant manager sees.
Mid-Morning: The Part Has To Pass
Quality runs line checks on whatever device is at hand, with photos and timestamps instead of a clipboard. When a check fails, the issue moves to CAPA or 8D, linked to the product and batch it came from. Review and release happen with e-signature and an audit trail, and Quality & Compliance tracks FPY, PPM and closures as the work happens.
Late Morning: A Press Stops
Smart Factory alerts the moment a line stops, so the stop is seen when it happens, not on the end-of-shift report. H&T Waterbury, a precision components manufacturer, found its micro stoppage problem was bigger than the team anticipated, then cut micro stoppages by 71%. Nulogy Maintenance triggers work from machine condition and usage signals, keeps machine data, downtime tracking and work orders in one system, and prioritizes work by production impact.
In an automotive plant, a quality escape, a late shipment and a down press can all start from the same event. The software should not split them up.
Afternoon: The Supplier Has To Be Approved
A new sub-tier supplier has to be approved before its parts reach your line. Supplier Compliance runs supplier onboarding, approvals and risk assessments, tracks supplier performance, and gives suppliers a portal for their documents and corrective actions, so supplier quality is not working from an inbox. Autoliv, the world's largest automotive safety supplier, governs more than 3,000 suppliers through Nulogy, with supplier qualification and scorecards under IATF 16949 and VDA 6.3.
End of Shift: The Count Has To Be Right
When production counts come off the machine instead of a clipboard, the end-of-shift number is the number the machines recorded. Ice Industries, an automotive and HVAC stamper with five plants in the US and Mexico, reached 100% inventory accuracy on its physical count, accurate to the part and to the pound of steel, and eliminated $100K of inventory write-offs in a single cycle.
Any Time: The OEM Is on the Phone
How is my order running, what happened with that lot, and what are you doing about it. Smart Factory shows what ran on each line and shift. Quality & Compliance links each issue and corrective action to the product and batch, and keeps audit-ready records across sites. The answer comes from the record, not from an afternoon of exports.
Six moments, four products, one Manufacturing Operating System. Start with the moment that costs you the most and add the others as you need them.
Nulogy Intelligence
Nora Answers Questions About Your Lines
Nora is the AI assistant built into Smart Factory and Maintenance. For automotive suppliers running Smart Factory on press and assembly lines, Nora answers in plain English from what actually happened: counts, downtime, scrap and maintenance history, not a report somebody compiled at the end of the week.
Start Where You Are
Where You Sit in the Supply Chain
Some automotive suppliers run their own lines. Some manage a supply base underneath them. Many do both. The operating system is the same; the first module is not.
We Make the Parts
Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers stamping, molding, machining and assembling components for OEM programs, judged on PPM, run at rate and on-time delivery.
- Smart Factory: live OEE, downtime and scrap by line and shift
- Quality & Compliance: line checks, issues to CAPA or 8D
- Maintenance: work triggered by machine condition and usage
- Supplier Compliance: sub-tier supplier approvals and documents
We Manage a Global Supply Base
Supplier quality and procurement teams governing hundreds or thousands of suppliers across regions, held to IATF 16949 and every customer's specific requirements.
- Supplier Compliance: onboarding, approvals and risk assessments
- Supplier Compliance: performance tracking and supplier corrective actions
- Supplier Compliance: a supplier portal for documents
- Quality & Compliance: specs, documents, issues and supplier performance
Stamping and forming metal? Metal stamping and fabrication shops run on coil, dies and press uptime, and the page for them goes deeper on all three.
See Metal Stamping & Fabrication →Prueba
What Nulogy Has Done in Automotive and Precision Plants
Fewer Micro-Stoppages
H&T Waterbury, a precision components manufacturer, found its micro stoppage problem was bigger than the team anticipated, then cut micro stoppages by 71% and eliminated nine hours of weekly downtime.
Smart Factory · Precision components
Inventory Write-Offs Eliminated
Ice Industries, an automotive and HVAC stamper with five plants in the US and Mexico, eliminated $100K of inventory write-offs in a single cycle and reached 100% accuracy on its physical count.
Smart Factory · Maintenance · Automotive and HVAC stamping
Suppliers Governed Through Nulogy
Autoliv, the world's largest automotive safety supplier, governs more than 3,000 suppliers through Nulogy, with supplier qualification and scorecards under IATF 16949 and VDA 6.3.
Quality & Compliance · Automotive safety supply
«La "fábrica inteligente" nos da la sensación de que hemos pasado de los años 80 a los 2020. Estamos a años luz de donde estábamos antes».
Daniel Rhodus, Quality Manager, Lincoln ManufacturingStandards and Requirements
The Standards Your Quality Work Answers To
Automotive suppliers are held to IATF 16949 and to each customer's own requirements. Quality & Compliance keeps the specs, documents, checks, issues and supplier performance behind that work in one workspace, with e-signature, audit trail and audit-ready records across sites.
Questions We Get
Before You Book Anything
We already have an ERP and an MES. Where does Nulogy fit?
Closer to the press than the ERP reaches. The ERP owns orders, BOMs and financials; the ERP does not see a press micro-stopping since the start of shift or a supplier approval that lapsed. Smart Factory, Quality & Compliance and Supplier Compliance cover what ran, what was checked and what your suppliers sent, and we will walk through how they sit alongside your ERP and MES on the demo.
Our presses are decades old. Can you still get data off them?
Yes. Smart Factory connects to old and new machines through a direct PLC connection, a Banner wireless sensor or an Advantech gateway. Bring a list of your oldest equipment to the demo and we will talk through how Smart Factory connects to each machine.
Will our suppliers actually use the portal?
That is the right question to ask of any supplier portal. Supplier Compliance gives suppliers one portal for their documents and corrective actions, and Autoliv governs more than 3,000 suppliers through Nulogy. Bring your hardest sub-tier supplier to the demo and we will walk through what onboarding them looks like.
Does Quality & Compliance replace our IATF 16949 quality system?
Quality & Compliance covers quality work an IATF 16949 system relies on: specs and document control, line checks with evidence, issues to CAPA or 8D linked to product and batch, review and release with e-signature and audit trail, and supplier performance. Whether Quality & Compliance becomes your system of record or feeds one is a decision we make with you.
Do we have to buy everything at once?
No. Start with the product that covers your most expensive problem and add the others as you need them. Ice Industries uses Smart Factory and Maintenance together. On the production side, most Smart Factory customers see a 10 to 20% OEE increase in their first year.
What about environment, health and safety?
Nulogy EHS covers incident reporting, audits, asset checks and hazard management. Ask about Nulogy EHS on the demo if safety is on your list.
Bring Us Your Hardest Press
Tell us what is costing you the most right now: the overtime to make rate, the supplier paperwork, the escape your customer just flagged. We will show you what the Manufacturing Operating System does about it, and what the Manufacturing Operating System does not.