AI for technology

AI that captures expertise and lightens the load on your shop floor

In technology and industry, the knowledge sits in the heads of a few skilled people and too much time goes into quotes, work orders and admin. We deploy AI to secure that knowledge and take over the repetitive work, so your people can get back to the real job.

AI for technology

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Who it is for

For technical service providers, manufacturers, high-tech and installers with more work than hands.

The order book is full, but the brake is not in the machines: it is in people, knowledge and paperwork. As experienced specialists retire, valuable knowledge leaks away and too much time gets bogged down in manual searching, calculating and re-typing.

  1. The knowledge sits in heads, not in the system

    At many technical companies, a handful of seniors know exactly how an installation or machine behaves and what can go wrong. When they retire, that know-how leaves with them and a junior engineer is left without an answer.

  2. Quotes and work preparation cost too many hours

    Calculating, compiling material lists and drawing up quotes still happens largely by hand, with information scattered across Excel, email, drawings and paper work orders. As a result, quotes pile up and valuable engineering and work-preparation time is lost.

  3. Fragmented project information and difficult handovers

    Drawings, specifications, emails and changes sit in different places, so at every handover between calculation, work preparation and the shop floor, information is gathered together again. That costs time and leads to failure costs on site or in the hall.

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InnoWorks team

Tijn Meijerink & Twan van Heijden

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How we work in technology & industry. In three steps.

We start with your processes, not with a tool. First we pinpoint where the gains are, then we build in short iterations, then we make sure the team actually uses it.

Explore and sharpen the opportunities
Build and iterate
Roll out and support
  1. 1 Explore and sharpen the opportunities
  2. 2 Build and iterate
  3. 3 Roll out and support

Cases ·Techniek & industrie

What we already built in techniek & industrie.

No demos or slides, but working AI in production at companies in your sector. See what is live and what it delivers.

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What you get out of it

What AI delivers: less searching, faster quotes and secured knowledge.

No hype, just concrete use cases that join your existing processes and systems within weeks.

Knowledge capture

Your specialists' experience always at hand

We bundle your drawings, manuals, fault history and project files into an AIOS that your whole team can query in plain language. A junior engineer or work planner gets the answer that otherwise only lived in a senior's head, with a source reference attached. Capturing becomes part of the work instead of extra admin.

Searchable technical knowledge base Knowledge always at hand
Quote and work preparation

From request to draft quote in a fraction of the time

An AI agent reads incoming requests, specifications and tender documents, recognises the right components and, based on your prices and earlier calculations, drafts a quote and material list. Your work planner reviews and sends, instead of assembling everything from scratch. Expertise stays in the lead, the AI does the groundwork.

AI drafting a quote and material list Faster quotes
Admin and integrations

Taking the repetitive paperwork off your hands

With custom AI software we connect your separate systems, so work orders, time tracking, purchasing and post-calculation automatically land in the right place. Repetitive re-typing between email, planning and your ERP disappears and the engineer on site keeps more time for the work. We start with your biggest bottleneck and expand from there.

Work orders and admin processed automatically Less paperwork

What it costs

One workshop or an ongoing track.

From a hands-on training for your team to building concrete solutions: we agree on scope and a fixed fee up front.

Frequently asked questions

Questions you probably have too.

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How do you start with AI in a technical or industrial company?

Do not start with a tool, but with your biggest bottleneck: which process now costs the most time or money and is repetitive, such as quotes, work preparation, fault handling or admin. Innoworks maps that in an AI audit and delivers a prioritised opportunity report within 14 days with the expected ROI per opportunity. After that we first build the use case with the clearest gain, so you see results quickly before scaling further.

Is my company data safe if I deploy AI?

Yes, provided you set it up properly. Most data leaks do not happen through hackers but because employees paste sensitive information into free public tools. We work with shielded, business environments in which your drawings, calculations and production knowledge are not used to train models, and we record which data may and may not be shared. That way you keep control over your trade secrets and stay GDPR compliant.

Can AI capture the knowledge of departing or retiring specialists?

Yes. With an AIOS you capture drawings, manuals, fault history and the experience of seniors in a searchable knowledge base that the rest of the team can query in plain language. A junior then gets the answer that otherwise only lived in someone's head, including a reference to the source. The key is that capturing stays low-effort and becomes part of daily work, rather than feeling like extra admin.

Can AI speed up quotes and work preparation without me losing control?

Yes. An AI agent does the groundwork: reading requests and specifications, recognising the right components and, based on your prices, drafting a quote and material list. Your work planner or estimator always does the final check and decides what goes out the door. Expertise stays in the lead; AI only removes the manual searching and typing.

How long does it take before an AI solution is up and running?

An AI audit delivers a prioritised opportunity report within 14 days. A first working AI agent is usually live within 2 to 4 weeks in a scoped process. We deliberately work small and concrete: first measurable results on your biggest bottleneck, then scaling up to more processes.

Is AI worthwhile for a small technical company or only for large factories?

The gain is especially large for the SMB segment, because that is where you feel the shortage and knowledge loss the hardest and where every hour of a specialist is scarce. You do not have to start big: one well-chosen use case around quotes, work orders or knowledge capture can already save hours a week. We deliberately choose the opportunity where the ROI is clearest, so the investment pays for itself quickly and you then expand deliberately.

You can feel it has to change,
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