Arda's agent works from a product's CAD files to set the assembly order, write the work instructions and lay out the stations, and Anduril says basic work instructions dropped from 10 hours to 15 minutes (company figure). After defense, the first markets named are makers of transformers and electrical equipment for the data center supply chain.
Image: Simon Kadula on Unsplash, logo by Arda Industries, via The Next Web
Customer sites are rebuilt in NVIDIA Isaac Sim so navigation, safety logic and traffic with people and manual forklifts get tested before a truck arrives, and synthetic images raised pallet detection recall by more than 70%. Toyota also targets up to 40% faster time to market; all figures are company figures.
Carbon keeps planning, production, quality and accounting in one Postgres database, from quote to invoice, with lot and serial tracing. An agent can read that one schema through the API or MCP server instead of reconciling four systems that never agree.
For fabrication shops and small manufacturers: one open system an agent can query, from the same company that sells Carbon Cloud.
In the demo, a buyer's agent proposes a safety-stock change and a manager reviews the query, the policy decision and the audit record before it goes through, with rollback for supported changes. It is a reference project on synthetic data, and the README says the approve step alone does not prove a person approved it.
For IT and operations leads deciding how much an agent may touch inventory and planning data: preview, approve, audit and roll back is the pattern to ask for.
