What Manufacturing Faces Today
Global manufacturers are fighting three major battles: a skilled workforce retiring faster than it can be replaced, with 1.9 million jobs projected to go unfilled by 2033; unplanned downtime and quality losses costing the world’s largest manufacturers an estimated $1.4 trillion a year; and decades of plant data trapped across disconnected IT and OT systems, leaving teams to search and reason their way to every decision instead of acting on one. These pressures, compounded by trade uncertainty, rising cyber risk, and regulatory demands, are forcing manufacturers to find new ways to stay competitive.
Create New Value from What You Already Own
Founded in 1996, EAC brings deep experience in engineering, manufacturing, and the digital thread, connecting people, processes, and platforms to create new value from existing factories: launch products faster, increase throughput, protect quality, reduce downtime, improve supply chain responsiveness, and expand workforce capability.
Move from Ambition to Production
EAC drives AI vision into measurable results, starting with readiness and strategy services that align leaders on priorities and high-value use cases, then starter projects that integrate AI with enterprise and factory systems and support deployment, governance, and adoption. Each initiative starts with a defined baseline, so customers prove value early and scale with confidence.
Put Expert Knowledge to Work
With OpsMate AI, manufacturers can build a continuously improving Factory Brain that connects operational data, documents, real-time events, and expert knowledge, giving frontline teams trusted guidance, accelerating troubleshooting, and enabling governed digital workers to complete approved workflows. Through our partnerships with Microsoft, PTC, and OpsMate AI, and deep experience with PTC’s ThingWorx and Kepware, EAC helps manufacturers close the loop between engineering and manufacturing.
Measure What Matters
OpsMate AI customer outcomes include a 20–50% improvement in skilled-labor productivity, a 20–40% reduction in mean time to repair, and recovery of up to 50% of time spent on non-value-added work. One customer reported $3.8 million in annual value per plant while another cut troubleshooting time from 20 minutes down to 2 minutes.
Start with Your Highest-Value Opportunity
Whether your next step is an AI roadmap, a critical workflow, connecting engineering and factory data, or scaling a proven use case globally, EAC brings the domain knowledge and experience to move it forward. Meet EAC at the IMTS Industrial AI Conference on September 16, and visit us all week at Booth 236422, North Building, Level 3, McCormick Place.
Learn more at https://eacpds.com/ai and reach out to start a conversation.
