Anthropic launches Claude for Manufacturing, a plugin with 17 skills and four connectors

Anthropic says Claude for Manufacturing is a plugin with 17 skills covering sales, quality, operations, supply chain, design and setup. Examples it gives include drafting a quote from a customer's request and cost comparisons on similar jobs, documenting a failed inspection and drafting the corrective action report, ranking likely causes of a machine breakdown from sensor exports and repair notes, preparing requests for quotes and comparing the bids, and compiling production reports.

• Connectors: Autodesk Fusion, Infor, Microsoft 365 and Oracle NetSuite. For systems without a connector, teams can save regular exports to Microsoft 365 and Claude works from those files.
• Infor: the Infor connector looks up records. Infor is releasing its own plugin that lets teams make changes in Infor from Claude, following the user's Infor permissions.
• Review: Anthropic says skills end with a person's review before work reaches a customer or supplier, and that Claude can link figures and claims back to the underlying data and documents.
• Equipment: the plugin does not operate equipment. Anthropic says it is developing the Model Hardware Standard, a research preview that gives programmable equipment a standard way to describe its measurements, settings and safety limits.

The plugin is for Team and Enterprise plans. Anthropic plans to add manufacturing skills over time and is holding a technical webinar on November 17.