Abbott Metal Werks  ·  Sales Meeting 2026

The Most Advanced MES
in the Fastener Industry

A digital transformation of how parts are quoted, made, traced, and shipped — built from the ground up at AMW.

Internal  ·  Sales Enablement  ·  April 2026
The State of the Industry

Most fastener shops run 1990s software for 2026 customers.

Typical competitor floor

  • Paper travelers walking with each lot
  • QuickBooks or a 20-year-old ERP
  • Excel for quoting and costing
  • Cert PDFs scanned and emailed by hand
  • Tooling life tracked in a notebook

What it costs the customer

  • Days, not minutes, for a status update
  • FAI / PPAP packages at the last second
  • Recall scope = "every lot we shipped"
  • DFARS evidence held together with email
  • Zero real-time machine visibility
02 / 15State of the Industry
Our Answer

A Manufacturing Execution System built for the next decade.

An MES is the system of record for everything between a sales order and a shipped part — routing, materials, machines, tooling, quality, compliance, and the audit trail behind all of it.

AMW's MES is purpose-built for cold-headed nuts, locknuts, Swiss screw, and CNC fasteners — not bolted onto a generic ERP.

22
Major modules
681
Engineering tickets
30
Epics in v1.0
100%
Audit coverage
03 / 15The AMW MES
The System at a Glance

From sales order to shipped part — one digital thread.

01Sales Order
02Scheduling
03Material Lifecycle
04Heading / Tapping
05Outside Processing
06Quality & FAI
07Shipping & CoCs
Foundation

ISA-95 data model

The standard global manufacturers use. Future-proof and built for scale beyond a single site.

Compliance

AS9100 / DFARS / NIST

Traceability, melt-source verification, control-of-changes baked in — not added later.

Intelligence

AI augmentation layer

An on-floor copilot that reads certs, drafts CoCs, and answers in natural language.

04 / 15Architecture
Feature 01

Material genealogy from melt to shipped part.

What it does

  • Mill cert + distributor cert with heat-number match
  • MaterialSublot splits for partial coil consumption
  • Lot identity preserved through plating & heat treat
  • Recall scope answered in seconds

What sales can say

  • "We can show you which mill made your steel."
  • "DFARS evidence is automatic — not a fire drill."
  • "Recall scope is precise, not blanket."
DFARS 7008/7009/7012 AS9100D 8.5.2.1
05 / 15Material Genealogy
Feature 02

Digital production routing — paper travelers retire.

What changes on the floor

  • Operators see the next op, not a smudged sheet
  • Setups, run hours, downtime captured at the source
  • Tooling assignments validated before run-start
  • WIP location visible from any browser

What it unlocks

  • Real-time order status — no phone call
  • Shorter setup-to-first-good-part
  • Honest scrap and yield data, by machine
  • The data foundation analytics depends on
06 / 15Digital Routing
Feature 03

Quality, FAI, PPAP — assembled live, not after the fact.

What the system does

  • AS9102 First Article forms from the live data model
  • PPAP packages compiled from production data
  • Customer Concession workflow for AS9100 8.7.2
  • CoCs rendered on demand, signed, audited

Why customers care

  • FAI / PPAP with first shipment, not weeks later
  • Concessions handled formally, not via email
  • Aerospace-grade discipline on every nut
AS9102 AS9100 8.7.2 PPAP-ready
07 / 15Quality & Compliance
Feature 04

Tooling lifecycle with tuned tool lives — not guesses.

What we track

  • Every ToolInstance referenced in lot genealogy
  • Tuned tool-life curves per part / material / machine
  • Predictive replacement before in-process failure
  • New-vs-existing tooling cost basis

Why it matters commercially

  • Quoting accuracy — tooling cost is data, not a fudge
  • Repeat orders priced honestly & quickly
  • Customer-paid tooling amortized transparently
  • Fewer "tool went down" surprises mid-run
08 / 15Tooling Lifecycle
Feature 05

The AMW machine fleet — instrumented and observable.

Header

10B5

Up to 10mm wire. Light-duty workhorse for small nuts and locknut blanks.

Header

14B6

Up to 14mm. Mid-range capacity for most commercial inch and metric programs.

Header

19B6

Up to 19mm. Heavy-duty headed parts for OEM and structural applications.

Parts Former

19B_PF

Multi-station forming up to 21mm wire — premium parts, premium margins.

Plus 8 tappers feeding closing and nylon-insert ops — every machine logging cycles, downtime, and tool wear into the same MES the quoting engine reads from.

09 / 15Machine Fleet
Feature 06

Append-only audit log — the foundation no competitor has.

What's logged automatically

  • Every state transition (Sales / Production / NCR)
  • Actor, role, timestamp, before / after values
  • SHA-256 hash chain — tampering is visible
  • AI-originated changes carry a Composite Signature

Standards we map to

  • AS9100 8.5.6 — control of changes
  • AS9100D 8.5.2.1 — identification & traceability
  • NIST SP 800-171 — controlled unclassified info
  • DFARS 252.225-7008/7009/7012
  • ASTM F1470 — fastener verification testing
10 / 15Audit & Compliance
Feature 07 — The Differentiator

An AI copilot embedded directly in the MES.

What the copilot does

  • OCRs and validates supplier certs, auto-quarantines mismatches
  • Drafts CoCs, FAI summaries, shipping packets
  • Answers natural-language questions on order status
  • Flags genealogy gaps before they hit the customer

How it stays safe

  • Phased AI promotion gates (Wave 3 = Jeff's call)
  • Every AI action carries an AgentExecutionTrace
  • AS9100 8.5.6 applies to AI parameter updates
  • NIST SP 800-171 SMS / paging restrictions enforced
11 / 15AI Augmentation
The Moat

Why no competitor catches up to this in three years.

Industry standard
AMW MES
Off-the-shelf ERP modified for "manufacturing"
Purpose-built MES, ISA-95 native, built for cold heading
Compliance retrofitted as audit-prep paperwork
AS9100 / DFARS / NIST wired into every workflow
AI = a sales demo, no governance, no audit
AI under formal promotion gates & signed audit chain
Genealogy reconstructed under audit pressure
Heat-number-match captured at receipt, traced to ship
Quote / floor / quality / shipping all separate
One digital thread, one audit log, one source of truth
12 / 15The Competitive Moat
For the Sales Team

What you can promise — and have us back you.

TraceabilityEvery part traced from mill heat number to packed carton. Genealogy report on request.
FAI / PPAP on first shipmentAS9102 packages produced from live data — not assembled the night before.
DFARS & Section 232 evidenceDomestic melt verification built into receiving, not chased after a Form 29.
Real-time order statusProduction Order state visible the moment it changes. Status calls become status links.
Honest tooling economicsExisting-tooling pricing reflects real tool life — quotes are defensible.
Audit-ready, every dayAppend-only, hash-chained log. Always on. Not prepped for a visit.
13 / 15Sales Talking Points
Roadmap

v1.0 is the start, not the destination.

Wave A — v1.0

Build baseline (in flight)

Genealogy, routing, FAI, tooling, telemetry, audit, AI copilot. AS9100 / DFARS / NIST live from day one.

Wave B — v1.3.5

Customer-facing surfaces

Customer portal for status, certs, FAI/PPAP. Supplier portal with EDI/ASN. Mobile shop floor.

Wave C — v2.0

Multi-site & certs

Postgres migration. CNC and Swiss Screw onto the platform. IATF 16949 / CMMC / ITAR readiness.

v1.37
PRD baseline locked
7
Wave A capabilities
681
Tickets / 30 epics
2026
Sprint 1 in flight
14 / 15Roadmap
Why we win

Most shops run someone else's playbook.
AMW wrote its own.

78 years of fastener expertise plus a purpose-built MES plus an AI augmentation layer no competitor can buy off the shelf. This is the moat. This is the pitch. Go sell it.

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