AMP · Autonomous Manufacturing Platform
AMP is MARX8's manufacturing platform — a single system that plans, executes and learns from production. Work orders, real-time OEE, quality, inventory and BOM automation, predictive maintenance and an AI copilot, all connected to your machines.
What AMP does
AMP replaces the patchwork of spreadsheets, whiteboards and disconnected tools with a single real-time system — from the moment a job is planned to the intelligence that comes back out.
Release, schedule and track every job — tied to the machine, the part and its bill of materials from the start.
Live machine status, downtime and OEE — availability, performance and quality — the moment it happens.
Inspections tied to the exact work order and machine. Defects route to rework or escalation — with full genealogy.
Complete a work order and AMP auto-consumes raw material and books finished goods — no manual stock entry.
AMP scores failure risk per machine from live signals and history — so you fix the line before it stops you.
Every signal rolls up into exec dashboards, predictive insight and an AI copilot that writes the next best action.
How it connects
The power of AMP is that nothing is an island. A single work order ripples through the whole plant automatically — complete a job and AMP consumes raw material, books finished goods, flags low stock for reorder, and updates OEE and predictive risk. No re-keying, no gaps.
The landscape
"ERP", "MES", "smart factory", "autonomous factory" — these aren't competing products, they're a maturity ladder. Here's what each layer actually does, and where AMP sits today.
Runs the business side: finance, procurement, sales orders, materials planning and headcount. ERP knows what to make and the money around it — the enterprise system of record. What it can't see is what's actually happening on the machines, minute to minute.
Manufacturing Execution System — runs the shop floor in real time: work orders, machine status, OEE, downtime, quality and traceability. MES is the bridge between the ERP's plan and the physical line, the layer that knows what every machine is doing right now. This is AMP's core.
Manufacturing Operations Management — a wider umbrella than MES: production, quality, maintenance, inventory and labour coordinated as one operation. MES is the execution engine inside MOM. AMP already spans quality, maintenance, inventory and escalations, so it reaches into MOM territory.
The Industry 4.0 baseline: every machine, sensor and system connected and streaming data through IIoT, edge and cloud. You can see everything live — but people still make the calls. AMP's real-time, PLC-connected data layer puts a factory here.
The factory doesn't just show data, it acts on it. AI schedules, reroutes, scores risk and triggers responses with minimal human input — decisions move from dashboards into the system itself. AMP's predictive risk, automatic escalations and AI recommendations are the first steps up this rung.
The plant learns from its own history and improves continuously — models that sharpen with every batch, predicting quality and failures before they happen and tuning the line itself. This is where AMP's data foundation is built to go next.
The end state: production runs with the lights off — robotics, automated cells and software running the line end-to-end, with little or no one on the floor. The destination the whole ladder points toward.
AMP starts as a best-in-class MES / MOM and is engineered to climb — from connected, to autonomous, to cognitive. SMEs can start capturing value today and grow into the future without ripping out and replacing. That's the whole point of the name: Autonomous Manufacturing Platform.
Tell us about your machines and what you track today. We'll show you AMP running with real factory data — and map the fastest path from spreadsheets to a live, connected operation.