AI for manufacturers

Your best people shouldn't be your only system.

Your operation already runs on hard-won knowledge — pricing logic, setup procedures, supplier relationships, quality workarounds. Right now, most of it lives in people's heads. Working Memory helps you put it to work across your whole operation.

You've heard AI will change everything. But nobody's told you where to start in a business like yours.

01

Quoting takes too long and depends on one person

Your most experienced estimator carries pricing logic, job history, and customer context in their head. When they're busy, quotes are slow. When they leave, that knowledge goes with them.

02

Critical knowledge walks out the door

Setup procedures, machine quirks, quality workarounds, supplier preferences — decades of operational intelligence stored nowhere except in the minds of long-tenured staff.

03

You can't see what's happening until it's too late

Production runs on a mix of ERP, Excel, whiteboards, and verbal updates. By the time you know a delivery is at risk, you've already missed it.

04

Admin keeps you working until 10pm

Compliance documentation, quality records, customer communication, supplier coordination — necessary work that doesn't create value but consumes your evenings.

05

AI advice isn't built for the shop floor

Every consultant talks about "digital transformation." None of them have walked a production floor, watched a shift changeover, or understood why your team is sceptical about another new system.

06

You need results, not a strategy deck

You don't have six months or six figures for a consulting engagement. You need someone who can identify the highest-value opportunity and get it working — fast.

How we work

Practical AI, built around your operation

We don't start with technology. We start with your business — your workflows, your constraints, your people. Then we find where AI removes the friction that's costing you time and margin.

01

Walk the floor

We spend time in your operation — watching, listening, asking questions. Not in a boardroom. On the floor, where the work happens.

02

Find the constraint

Every operation has 2-3 points where time, knowledge, or visibility creates the biggest drag on performance. We identify them precisely.

03

Design the solution

Practical AI applications using tools that exist today. Not custom software that takes months — working solutions that your team will actually use.

04

Get it working

We implement alongside your team, test against real work, and make sure it sticks. If it doesn't save time or money, we haven't finished.

AI Opportunity Audit

A half-day on-site engagement designed to cut through the noise and show you exactly where AI will make the biggest difference to your margins and operations.

What you get
A prioritised report identifying your top 3 AI opportunities, ranked by ROI, with a recommended approach for each
How it works
4 hours on-site: floor walk, workflow observation, and interviews with your key people
Turnaround
Full report delivered within 5 business days
Investment
$2,750 + GST
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Why Working Memory

Built on 14 years inside operations

14yr
Experience across corporate innovation, operational transformation, and technology adoption in large organisations
Operations
Deep background in process design, workflow redesign, and making technology work for people on the floor — not just in the boardroom
Local
Based in Geelong, working with manufacturers across Geelong and Western Melbourne

Cam Birrell

Founder, Working Memory

I've spent 14 years inside large organisations — leading innovation strategy, designing operational change, and figuring out how technology actually gets adopted by real teams doing real work. I've led robotics pilots, redesigned store operations, and built capability programs from scratch. Working Memory exists because I saw the same pattern everywhere: businesses don't fail at choosing technology. They fail at connecting it to the work. That's what I fix.