CASE 04·Auto parts · Precision stamping

FINE BLANKING & TOOL × Intellicon Solutions

Start where the process is standard but tedious
treat AI as infrastructure
not a short-term project

30+ yearsOf precision stamping and brake disc expertise

Hours→minutesReport compilation

Largest in TaiwanManufacturer of stamped parts

Before the rollout

FINE BLANKING & TOOL CO., LTD. (FBT, 4535) is the largest manufacturer of stamped parts in Taiwan and among the top three makers of motorcycle brake discs worldwide, with customers across Europe, the Americas and Asia. Its technology and market position both lead, yet it shares the pain points common to manufacturing: large volumes of repetitive data handling, and integration across systems that eats time.

Routine as this administrative work looks, it accumulates into a hidden cost to the efficiency of the organization. Management decisions lacked timely data behind them, and it kept talented people from higher-value innovation.

Goals

Solve the repetitive data handling and the time lost integrating systems
Lower the error rate and the time cost of comparing things by hand
Build an AI SOP that keeps improving and can be copied across departments
Free up staff time for supplier relationships and process improvement
Make AI a core driver of growth

What Intellicon Solutions did

FBT worked with Intellicon Solutions, starting with the tasks that were standard but tedious, that needed manual comparison across different kinds of record, and that were slow and error-prone when done by hand:

01Focus on pain points: improve the highly repetitive, standardized tasks first
02No-code development: the platform itself needs no programming, so staff in every department picked it up quickly
03Cross-functional work: AI Agents built across front-, middle- and back-office functions
04Developing people: an internal AI team and development training, growing the ability to keep improving without outside help

Use cases: AI in the critical processes

Inventory management: automated data analysis replaces the slow work of comparing and looking things up
Purchasing reconciliation: far less time spent reconciling, with better accuracy and efficiency
Labor hour management: improves how staff hours are counted and analyzed
Sales and production: the early rollout covered production management and back-office work, and the range keeps expanding

Results

A leap in efficiency: compiling reports that used to take hours now takes minutes
Building assets: know-how turned into an AI SOP, a permanent digital asset for the company
Shifting value: the time saved goes into strategic work such as improving supplier relationships
Quick proof: the team saw that generative AI genuinely applies to daily work and produces real benefit
Sparking innovation: development was simple and fast enough to prompt more ideas for internal applications

What the management team says

“The technical and market position FBT has built in precision stamping and brake discs is the result of more than 30 years. Now, with competition in global manufacturing intensifying, FBT will raise its operating efficiency across the board by bringing in AI Agents. AI is not only a tool for efficiency; it is a chance to redefine how we manage, how we decide and how we innovate. We want AI to reach into every critical process and we want data to drive the decisions of the company. That is what it takes to stay ahead in international markets.”

— 吳宗明, President, FBT

What the partner says

“What makes the FBT case valuable is not how many AI Agents they deployed but that they treat AI as long-term infrastructure rather than a short-term project. Taiwan has enormous depth in manufacturing, and when a manufacturer that looks traditional is willing to put resources into mapping its processes, structuring its knowledge and building an AI SOP, AI becomes an asset that keeps improving.”

— Claudia Chen, COO, Intellicon Solutions

What’s next

For FBT this is only the start of a digital transformation. The company already plans to extend AI into more use cases, improving efficiency in more departments and production lines and strengthening the resilience and responsiveness of its management against shifts in global geopolitics.

Through its own practice, FBT has mapped out a workable path for manufacturing in Taiwan. The opportunity is there; what industry needs is new thinking and new tools to reinterpret its core strengths.

From here FBT will keep treating AI as company infrastructure. When a need appears, the matching Agent can be built within hours and adjusted as the process changes, which turns lower costs and higher efficiency into something sustained.