A digital transformation of how parts are quoted, made, traced, and shipped — built from the ground up at AMW.
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.
The standard global manufacturers use. Future-proof and built for scale beyond a single site.
Traceability, melt-source verification, control-of-changes baked in — not added later.
An on-floor copilot that reads certs, drafts CoCs, and answers in natural language.
Heat-number-match enforced at receipt: mill cert + distributor cert tied together before a lot can move to Available. Mismatch = automatic Quarantine, not an email thread.
06 / 25SO header + lines, customer PO, requested date, material definition + revision lookup. Release to production triggers Work Order generation against the routing — no double-keying into a separate ERP.
08 / 25Live work-order queue across the floor. Setups, due dates, machine load and operator assignment in one view. The plant manager's "where is everything?" question, answered before they ask.
09 / 25Sample plan, gauge results, AS9102 FAI characteristics, pass/fail per attribute. Inspector signs once and the FAI form, the PPAP elements, and the lot's audit row all populate together.
11 / 25Nonconformance routed through Material Review Board with full disposition workflow. Customer Concession requests for AS9100 8.7.2 — formal, time-stamped, hash-chained — never an email thread.
12 / 25Pack list + CoC + DFARS / Section 232 evidence rendered from the live MES data, signed at ship, archived in the audit log. The CoC the customer receives is the same data the auditor sees.
13 / 25Up to 10mm wire. Light-duty workhorse for small nuts and locknut blanks.
Up to 14mm. Mid-range capacity for most commercial inch and metric programs.
Up to 19mm. Heavy-duty headed parts for OEM and structural applications.
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.
The view at a 19B6 or 14B6 setup: active job, lot identity, tooling assignments, run hours, scrap counter, and the next op already loaded. Built for shop-floor screens — not desk monitors.
16 / 25One screen showing all 8 tappers feeding closing and nylon-insert ops. Cycle time, tap life remaining, downtime reasons captured at the source — the data layer that makes honest yield analytics possible.
17 / 25Live status across AS9100, DFARS, NIST 800-171, ASTM F1470 — pass/fail rollups by clause, flagged exceptions, and the audit-log links that prove every claim. Audit-ready every day, not the night before.
19 / 25Every AI action — cert OCR, CoC draft, parameter suggestion — listed with its AgentExecutionTrace, promotion wave (1/2/3), reviewer, and audit signature. Wave 3 promotion stays Jeff's sole-Owner call.
21 / 25Genealogy, routing, FAI, tooling, telemetry, audit, AI copilot. AS9100 / DFARS / NIST live from day one.
Customer portal for status, certs, FAI/PPAP. Supplier portal with EDI/ASN. Mobile shop floor.
Postgres migration. CNC and Swiss Screw onto the platform. IATF 16949 / CMMC / ITAR readiness.
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.