The line, on SAP.
On the shop floor, decisions happen by the minute. Joule agents sit between the planning system and the line, reading the schedule, the work order, the quality signal, and the asset health, then handing the supervisor the next call.
SAP validated our first 20 Joule agents in early 2026. The library keeps growing. Below are the agents that land in manufacturing, plus concepts our agent factory can build next. See the full catalog
What each agent does on its own
Triages open maintenance notifications and drafts work orders with full history context.
Helps techs plan their day with open work orders by priority and spare parts.
Surfaces material exceptions that hit production scheduling, with the action proposed per cluster.
Reads open process or production orders, confirmations, material availability, and capacity load, then ranks by SLA risk and drafts the shift handover.
Reads the QM notification, defect codes, batch genealogy, and recent process changes, pulls similar past notifications, and proposes the disposition.
Decomposes OEE into availability, performance, and quality losses per line per shift and names the biggest contributor in plain language.
Scores remaining useful life per asset from sensor and maintenance history, then proposes a maintenance window that fits the production schedule.
Traces forward and backward from any batch through receipts, blends, packs, and ships, then drafts the recall communication.
Reads the schedule and the setup matrix between products and proposes a resequencing that cuts total changeover time.
Reads the engineering BOM, routing, and standard work and drafts step-by-step operator instructions with images and safety call-outs.
01
4-7 months
Replace paper and 90s-era screens with Fiori apps designed in the AppHaus with the operators who will use them.
See a case study02
3-5 months
Get OEE and quality signals out of the line and into S/4HANA without ripping out the existing MES.
03
8-12 weeks
One asset class, one line, one outcome. Prove the agent and the data path before scaling across the plant.
Curated for Manufacturing work. The tags on each card show the SAP capabilities we used to deliver the outcome.
Manufacturing
SAP DMS
Mindset replaced Entegris's aging AS/400 plant system with a 24-app, 100% custom SAPUI5 suite on ruggedized Android tablets, and carried that UX through acquisition integrations, from CMC Materials across 8 plants to a paperless plant in Taiwan.
SAP Fiori Design Thinking
Chemicals
SAP Fiori
Mindset delivered a Design Thinking-led SAP Fiori production forecasting app for the ink manufacturer in 9 weeks. Within one year, the ink manufacturer measured a 350% ROI. Within 6 quarters, the app was running at 100+ locations for 120+ users.
SAP Fiori S/4HANA Design Thinking
Manufacturing
CO
After a critical SAP BW failure left Finance fielding requests across the business, Mindset built a ground-up Datasphere and SAC platform for Johnson Health Tech, delivering 10+ production models across Finance, Sales, and Supply Chain and getting the first self-service wave live in under two months.
Data & Analytics S/4HANA
Consumer and Retail
Central Finance (cFIN)
Years embedded. Dozens of apps, platforms, and analytics. One product team that kept shipping.
SAP Fiori S/4HANA
Food and Agriculture
SAP Cloud Platform
A Design Brainstorming session followed by four weeks of focused development delivered a working offline-capable Fiori app on Android, proving that plant-floor transactions could queue locally and post to SAP when connectivity returned, without losing data or stopping the line.
SAP Fiori SAP BTP Design Thinking
Chemicals
SAP BTP
Mindset delivered reporting and analytics enablement followed by variant configuration for a specialty manufacturer running SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, then stayed on as an advisory partner through 2026.
SAP BTP S/4HANA
Last updated May 2026
2026
SAPs cloud-native shop-floor execution layer reaches general availability with tighter S/4HANA and Joule integration. The pattern we have been deploying since the early adopter wave.
Sapphire 2026
Enterprise-scale agentic development on SAP-managed infra. Production, quality, and maintenance are the early use cases.
2026 release wave
Tightened with PM master data and SAP IoT. The right place for predictive reliability agents to live.
GA 2026
Production telemetry, quality signal, and finance impact on one governed plane via SAP-managed Databricks.
The manufacturing work doesn't run alone. It sits on BTP, on a clean data layer, and increasingly under Joule agents. Same architecture as the rest of the SAP work we do.
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Clean Core
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Sr. Delivery Analyst
Joule & Agents
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Product Innovation & Experience-Driven Transformation
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