01
Files, not data
Program data sits in spreadsheets and network folders. The current revision is whichever file the last person opened.
Engineering platform for automotive suppliers
Every engineering tool. One system. One AI layer.
One data model across the program lifecycle, from acquisition to EOP. A special characteristic entered once in the FMEA reaches the control plan, the work instruction and the SPC chart — without anyone retyping it.
01 — Today
The program data exists. It just doesn’t connect.
02
One characteristic, typed four times
An SC defined in the FMEA is retyped into the control plan, the work instruction and the SPC setup. Every copy drifts on its own schedule.
03
Know-how leaves with people
Lessons learned live in the heads of three senior engineers and in mail threads no one can search.
04
The audit becomes archaeology
Two weeks before the IATF audit the team reconstructs evidence from mailboxes instead of pulling it from a system.
02 — Digital thread
Define a characteristic once. It travels the whole lifecycle.
Characteristic SC-118 · bore Ø24.5 H7 is declared in the process FMEA. Every station downstream reads the same record.
RFQ
upstream
TFC
upstream
FMEA
SC-118 defined
Control Plan
inherited
Work Instructions
inherited
SPC
inherited
R@R
inherited
PPAP
inherited
SOP
inherited
8D
inherited
One data model, not twelve integrations. That is the difference between a platform and a set of modules behind a shared login.
03 — Tools
Your workbench
Available
R@R Tool
Verifies production capability at the required takt time and produces the run-at-rate evidence PPAP asks for.
Launch
Coming soon
RFQ / Acquisition
Structured quote intake with cost breakdown, feasibility flags and extracted customer requirements.
Purchasing
Coming soon
FMEA
AIAG-VDA process FMEA where SC/CC assignment carries downstream instead of being retyped.
Quality
Coming soon
APQP / Programs
Program plan, gates and deliverables across the five APQP phases, with owners and dates.
Project Management
Coming soon
Purchasing
Sourcing, quote comparison and cost analysis against your historical part data.
Purchasing
Coming soon
Control Plan
Control plan generated from the FMEA: characteristics, methods, sample sizes, reaction plans.
Quality
Coming soon
SPC
Capability and stability monitoring per characteristic, fed straight from the control plan.
Quality
Coming soon
8D / Complaints
Problem solving linked back to the FMEA line and control that let the defect through.
Quality
Coming soon
PPAP
PPAP file assembly with completeness checks against the submission level the customer asked for.
Launch
Available
Pulse
Hour-by-hour production reporting: what the line actually made against what it was meant to make, with OEE, downtime and scrap behind every shortfall.
Production Planning
Coming soon
CSR Navigator
Customer-specific requirements parsed, versioned and mapped to your internal procedures.
Purchasing
Coming soon
IATF 16949 Audit
Internal audit planning and evidence collection mapped to IATF 16949 clauses.
Quality
12 tools, one session. Access is granted per organization by your ForgeWorkspace administrator.
04 — Forge Copilot
The AI proposes and alarms. The engineer decides.
Copilot reads your program data — retrieval over your tenant only — and works inside the tools you already use. It never approves a document, closes a finding or releases a part.
- Tenant-isolated retrieval. Your data is indexed for your organization only, never pooled into a shared model.
- EU data residency. Storage and inference stay inside the European Union.
- Human in the loop, always. Every suggestion is accepted, edited or rejected by a named user.
- Full audit trail. Source records, model version, timestamp and the person who decided — retained per suggestion.
Acquisition
Price anomaly in a quote
Flags quoted positions that deviate from the historical cost structure of comparable parts, with the comparison set attached to the finding.
Development
Failure modes proposed for review
Suggests failure modes and causes from the AIAG-VDA structure and your own historical FMEAs. The engineer accepts, edits or rejects each line.
Acquisition
Non-standard CSR requirement
Reads the RFQ documentation and marks requirements that deviate from the customer's own standard CSR set, before you commit to them.
05 — Roles
Who works here
Quality Engineer
One characteristic, defined once, propagating into the control plan, the work instruction and SPC.
Program Manager
Every gate, deliverable and open risk for the program in one view, without collecting status by email.
Purchasing Engineer
Supplier quotes compared against historical cost structure before the negotiation, not after it.
Management
Program health and launch risk read directly from the system, not from a status deck.