Manufacturing
What Technspire builds for manufacturing and automotive teams: intelligent document processing on Azure Document Intelligence, hybrid search over technical documentation with Azure AI Search (formerly Azure Cognitive Search), quality-management compliance pipelines, and M365 Copilot rollouts. This page describes our offerings; talk to us about applying them in your organisation.
reference architecture, not a client story
Manufacturing organisations accumulate decades of technical documentation across formats: scanned work instructions, CAD exports, supplier specifications, quality audit reports, certification records. The volumes are large, the formats heterogeneous, and the consumers are both humans and downstream automation. AI workloads on Azure can make that content searchable and machine-readable without replacing the systems of record.
Technspire builds the kind of document and search workloads that respect the regulatory perimeter manufacturers operate inside: ISO 9001, IATF 16949 for automotive Tier 1, AS9100 for aerospace, ISO 13485 for medical devices, plus the EU AI Act's staged obligations: Annex III high-risk requirements apply from 2 December 2027, and requirements for AI embedded in regulated products under Annex I follow from 2 August 2028.
Document pipelines from intake to structured handoff: invoices, purchase orders, bills of lading, certificates of conformity, quality reports. Azure Document Intelligence for layout extraction, custom entity recognition for part numbers and material codes, and structured delivery into your ERP, MES, or PLM.
Stack: Azure Document Intelligence, Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, custom skills via WebApi for domain logic.
Hybrid keyword and vector search across decades of engineering documentation, work instructions, and supplier specifications. Multi-language support for European production sites, applicability filters that respect platform and revision scope, and semantic ranking that handles technical vocabulary correctly.
Stack: Azure AI Search (formerly Azure Cognitive Search), Azure OpenAI embeddings, Azure Storage with immutability policies, language-aware analyzers.
Controlled-document workflows that satisfy ISO 9001, IATF 16949, AS9100, and ISO 13485: approval orchestration, immutable retention, supersession tracking, and audit trails reconstructible for any auditor question.
Stack: Azure Blob Storage with WORM, Durable Functions for approval orchestration, Entra-backed access control, Application Insights for audit trail.
Internal copilots that answer engineering questions grounded in the organisation's technical documentation. Citations on every answer, applicability scoping per vehicle platform or product line, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints for safety-critical guidance.
Stack: Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search hybrid retrieval, semantic ranker, Foundry IQ where applicable, telemetry through Application Insights.
Every workload accounts for the standards manufacturing operates under: ISO 9001 quality management, IATF 16949 for automotive supply chain, AS9100 for aerospace, ISO 13485 for medical devices, NIS2 cybersecurity obligations, and the EU AI Act's high-risk provisions, where Annex III obligations apply from 2 December 2027 and Annex I product-embedded requirements from 2 August 2028. We provide Annex IV technical documentation, Article 12 logging schemas, and human-oversight design records the auditor expects.
For Swedish manufacturers, deployments target Azure Sweden Central by default, keeping customer data inside the residency commitment most enterprise procurement now requires.
Discovery (2–4 weeks). Architecture review, integration mapping for the document and ERP/MES systems the workload touches, EU AI Act risk classification, and a scoped proposal with named engineers and a fixed first-deliverable date.
First vertical slice (4–8 weeks). One working slice, intake to output, in production or staging. Real telemetry, a real evaluation set, and a real handover plan from day one.
Sustained delivery. Iterative expansion of the slice into the full workload, with the manufacturer's internal team progressively taking ownership. Documentation, evaluation suites, and on-call runbooks land alongside the code.
Short conversations are free. Bring an architecture question, a procurement decision you are weighing, or a compliance scenario you want a second opinion on.