Ghent, Belgium – 01/09/2026 – Ansomat, a specialist in Operator Guidance Technology and smart assembly solutions, has launched the new Ansomat Management System, a centralized platform designed to reduce the engineering time and complexity involved in creating, managing and deploying digital work instructions across manufacturing operations. Digital work instructions have already demonstrated their value on the shopfloor. Academic research into digital operator guidance has shown significant improvements in task completion time, error reduction and operator independence compared with traditional instructions. But as manufacturers scale digital work instructions across more products, workstations and production sites, a new challenge emerges: the time and engineering effort required to create, maintain and deploy those instructions. The new Ansomat Management System is designed specifically to address that bottleneck.

From production efficiency to engineering efficiency

Ansomat’s Operator Guidance technology has traditionally focused on the production environment: guiding operators step by step, connecting instructions with tools and technologies such as tightening systems and machine vision, and applying poka-yoke principles to verify that critical production steps are performed correctly.

The new Management System extends that philosophy beyond the operator and onto the engineer’s desk.

Instead of building and maintaining instructions individually at each workstation, process and manufacturing engineers can now create, edit, approve, version and deploy digital work instructions centrally from their desk.

Once created, instructions can be reused and deployed across multiple workstations or production sites, significantly reducing repetitive engineering work and making changes faster to implement.

“For years, our focus has been on helping operators perform complex assembly processes correctly the first time,” said An-Sofie Van Parys, Ansomat. “But when we looked at the complete workflow, we saw another major opportunity: the amount of engineering time required to create and maintain those instructions.”

“With the new Ansomat Management System, we are bringing the same philosophy of efficiency and error prevention to engineering. Our goal is simple: make creating and deploying digital work instructions much faster, without compromising the level of process control required on the shopfloor.”

Making digital work instructions easier to create

At the heart of the new platform is a visual, drag-and-drop instruction editor designed to make creating digital work instructions intuitive for engineers.

Rather than programming directly at an individual production station, engineers can build instructions remotely in a familiar visual environment. Instructions can then be versioned, reviewed, approved and deployed centrally.

This separation between instruction engineering and shopfloor execution allows manufacturers to standardize how instructions are created while reducing dependence on individual machines or production stations.

Changes to products or processes can also be managed centrally, helping engineering teams respond faster to new variants, continuous improvement initiatives and changing production requirements.

Scaling from one workstation to multiple factories

The challenge becomes even greater as manufacturers expand operator guidance beyond individual pilot projects.

What may be manageable for a handful of workstations can become increasingly complex when hundreds of instructions, product variants, connected tools and multiple production locations are involved.

The Ansomat Management System provides a central environment from which manufacturers can manage this growing ecosystem.

Instructions can be reused across stations and sites, while collaboration and approval workflows allow engineering, production and quality teams to work from the same controlled source.

Secure browser-based access also enables engineers to manage instructions remotely without being physically present at the production workstation.

Maintaining quality control on the shopfloor

While the new platform focuses strongly on engineering efficiency, Ansomat’s underlying Operator Guidance technology continues to provide process control during production.

Interactive digital work instructions guide operators through each assembly step while connected technologies — including tightening systems, vision systems, RTLS and other production devices — can validate whether critical actions have been performed correctly.

This creates a closed loop between what engineering defines and what production executes.

Operator actions and production data can be recorded centrally, providing traceability and enabling manufacturers to monitor process performance through centralized reporting and KPI dashboards.

For individual products, production records can also provide a digital “birth certificate”, supporting the traceability and quality requirements commonly found in sectors such as automotive and aerospace.

Research demonstrates the potential of digital operator guidance

The launch comes as academic research continues to quantify the potential impact of digital work instructions on manufacturing performance.

Research highlighted by Ansomat found that projection-based digital work instructions resulted in 16–20% faster task completion, 46–60% fewer errors and 69–83% fewer requests for assistance in the studied assembly environment.

The findings reinforce the value of delivering the right information to operators at the right moment. Ansomat believes the next challenge is making this technology practical to create, maintain and scale from an engineering perspective.

“The benefits of digital operator guidance on the shopfloor are becoming increasingly clear,” Van Parys added. “The question for manufacturers is shifting from ‘Why should we digitalize our work instructions?’ to ‘How do we manage hundreds or thousands of digital instructions efficiently?’ That is exactly the problem we designed the Management System to solve.”

See the Ansomat Management System at ABISS

Ansomat will demonstrate the new Management System at ABISS taking place 8th of October at Kortrijk Expo

Visitors can experience how an engineer creates and deploys a digital work instruction and how that same instruction interacts with the operator and connected production tools on the shopfloor.

Meet Ansomat at ABISS – Booth 16

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About Ansomat

Ansomat develops Operator Guidance Technology and smart assembly solutions that help manufacturers make manual production processes more reliable, efficient and traceable.

Its technology combines interactive digital work instructions with connected production tools and technologies such as tightening systems, machine vision, RTLS and other smart devices. This enables manufacturers to guide operators step by step while applying poka-yoke principles and quality control throughout the assembly process.

With the Ansomat Management System, the company extends this approach to engineering, providing a centralized environment for creating, managing and deploying digital work instructions across workstations and production sites.

Founded in 1996 by John Van Parys, Ansomat combines more than 30 years of industrial assembly expertise with software development and system integration. The family-owned company is today led by second generation Mathieu and An-Sofie Van Parys, and works with manufacturers ranging from SMEs to international industrial groups across automotive, aerospace, defence, electronics and general manufacturing.

Ansomat: ansomat.co
More about the Ansomat Management System: Management System
Research on digital work instructions: Proven Impact of Digital Work Instructions