The road to Industry 6.0.
Industry 4.0 automated the factory floor. Industry 5.0 brought humans back into the loop. Industry 6.0 will do something neither has done yet — connect the entire value chain into a single adaptive, self-optimising, sustainable network. Here's where we are, where we're going, and the themes driving each step.
Automation & connected devices
The factory floor became instrumented. Machines talked to each other. ERP systems reached further into production. Manufacturing got faster, cheaper, and more consistent — but the data it generated largely sat in silos, and the decisions it informed still ran through spreadsheets and email.
This is the era most manufacturing software was designed for. Point solutions. Module-by-module licensing. One tool for quality, another for suppliers, another for production.
Human–AI collaboration across the programme lifecycle
Industry 5.0 reconnects the automated factory to the people running it. Every workflow becomes AI-assisted — not AI-replaced. The AI drafts the FMEA row, suggests the control plan, flags the supplier risk. The engineer reviews, refines, approves. Quality goes up. Cycle time goes down. Expertise scales.
Unified platform
APQP, Supplier, Factory in one cloud suite. Shared data model. One login.
AI-native workflows
Context-aware AI Coordinator on every screen. Full tool-calling with audit trails.
Standards alignment
IATF · AS9100 · AIAG-VDA APQP · 18-element PPAP. Standards-aligned from day one.
Accessible pricing
From $179/month. First platform SME manufacturers can actually afford.
Cross-organisation intelligence & governance
The next step isn't more features inside one company. It's giving each company a better view of the network it belongs to — and letting AI help every tier of that network make faster, better-informed decisions.
Deeper supplier intelligence
Predictive shortage models. Cross-supplier benchmarking. Recovery playbooks.
Programme-to-plant traceability
From APQP gate approval through to the machine that ran the build. One thread.
Governance & audit automation
SOC 2, IATF, AS9100 evidence collection becomes a by-product of how you work.
Standards-body partnerships
Methodology moats built with AIAG, SAE, ISO, IAQG.
Autonomous, adaptive, sustainable manufacturing networks
Industry 6.0 is not a bigger factory. It's a completely different way of thinking about manufacturing — where the unit of optimisation stops being a single plant and becomes the entire value network. Every OEM, every Tier 1, every supplier, every sub-tier is a node in a live graph. Decisions propagate instantly. Bottlenecks self-heal. Quality events stop cascading.
Network-scale AI coordination
Agents that reason across company boundaries with consent and trust primitives baked in.
Verifiable supplier credentials
DID / VC for supplier qualifications, PPAP submissions, and audit evidence.
Adaptive programme execution
Programmes that reshape themselves in response to supplier signals, not just engineering change orders.
Sustainable by construction
Carbon, energy, and waste become first-class objects in every decision — not an afterthought dashboard.
Note on what we don't publish here
This roadmap is our direction of travel — the themes, the horizons, the category we're building toward. It is intentionally not a feature-by-feature release schedule. The specific algorithms, model architectures, data models, and interface patterns that make our product what it is are our core IP, and we don't telegraph them in advance.
If you're evaluating DevAI Suite for a specific enterprise use case and want a deeper conversation about near-term capabilities on our backlog, book an expert review below — we're happy to have that discussion under NDA.
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