QBC - Quant Before Coffee

Why It Matters

Your data is rich.
Your decisions shouldn’t wait.

Most organisations generate more operational data today than at any point in history. Yet the majority waits — in historian systems, ERP modules, and dashboards — for someone to interpret it.

The Dashboard Trap

Organisations invest heavily in BI tools that nobody acts on. Low adoption, high overhead, and zero measurable business impact. Data is visible — but intelligence is absent.

The Analysis Bottleneck

Every significant decision passes through a manager who must gather data, build context, and make a call — manually. As operations scale, this bottleneck compounds into days of lost time.

The Disconnected Enterprise

ERP, MES, LIMS, and operational platforms run in silos. No unified intelligence layer connects business signals to decisions — and no one owns the gap.

QBC changes that equation. Decisions become faster. Execution becomes automatic. Insights finally translate into real, measurable business outcomes.

Our Practice Areas

Two specialisations.
One intelligence layer.

Agentic AI Solutions

Enterprise Intelligence,
Operationalised

We design and deploy autonomous AI agents — purpose-built around your business processes, data architecture, and decision frameworks. Our agents don’t surface insights and leave the rest to you. They act: raising work orders, quarantining batches, optimising setpoints, and drafting procurement requests — with human approval gates where it matters most.

Best for: Leadership teams looking to accelerate decisions, reduce analysis overhead, and operationalise data-driven action across functions.

Industrial IIoT Consulting

From Sensor
to Strategy

We help manufacturers and industrial operators build the data foundation that makes intelligence possible. From IoT sensor deployment and edge computing to cloud data architecture, MES/ERP integration, and connected shop floor visibility — the infrastructure your AI strategy depends on.

Best for: Plant managers, operations leaders, and digital transformation heads in manufacturing, mining, cement, and process industries.

Most organisations need both. We deliver them as a unified engagement — so your IIoT foundation feeds your AI agents, and your agents make your connected plant truly autonomous.

Platform Capabilities

Six Autonomous Agents.
One Intelligent Operation.

Each agent is tenant-scoped and governed by role-based access controls. Every action is logged for full auditability. High-impact decisions require human authorisation before execution — the speed of autonomous intelligence with the control your operations demand.

Anomaly Detection

Reactive · Real-Time

Monitors data continuously against 3-sigma thresholds, ML anomaly scores, and complex event patterns. Enriches every alert with root cause context before routing.

Autonomous Actions

Classifies and creates alarms
Enriches with root cause analysis
Notifies stakeholders instantly
Logs all actions to audit trail

🔒Gate: Operator approval on HIGH severity events

Predictive Maintenance

Proactive · Event-Driven

Tracks remaining useful life, vibration, and temperature trends. Acts before failures — work orders raised, schedules updated, parts ordered without waiting.

Autonomous Actions

Creates and assigns work orders
Adjusts maintenance schedules
Initiates parts procurement
Updates asset risk scores

🔒Gate: Parts orders above defined spend threshold

Quality Guard

Reactive · Batch

Watches every batch against specification in real time. On SPC breach or out-of-spec result, quarantines and traces root cause before a quality manager opens their screen.

Autonomous Actions

Quarantines non-conforming batches
Traces root cause upstream
Generates full SPC reports
Escalates to QA automatically

🔒Gate: Quarantine confirmation before hold enforced

Process Optimisation

Goal-Seeking · Continuous

Runs continuously against OEE, quality, and throughput targets. When performance drifts or a new recipe loads, runs multi-objective optimisation and proposes validated setpoints.

Autonomous Actions

Runs multi-objective optimisation
Proposes setpoint adjustments
Tracks operator acceptance rates
Feeds outcomes back into model

🔒Gate: All setpoint changes require operator confirmation

Energy Intelligence

Proactive · Demand-Aware

Aligns consumption with tariff windows and carbon targets. Identifies load-shifting opportunities before peak windows, flags waste by asset and zone in real time.

Autonomous Actions

Recommends load-shifting strategies
Identifies energy waste by asset
Generates sustainability reports
Monitors carbon KPI compliance

🔒Gate: Load-shift commands require authorisation

Supply Chain Advisor

Analytical · NL-First

The only agent your team talks to directly. Ask anything — inventory levels, run-out projections, lead times — via natural language against your live operational data.

Autonomous Actions

Answers NL queries via RAG
Projects material run-out
Monitors inventory thresholds
Drafts procurement requests

🔒Gate: All procurement requests require approval

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Tenant-Scoped

Each agent operates exclusively within your data environment. No cross-tenant data access, ever.

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Fully Auditable

Every action, recommendation, and decision logged to a persistent audit trail. Complete traceability from trigger to outcome.

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Human-in-the-Loop

High-impact actions don’t execute without authorisation. You define the thresholds. The agents respect them.

Industries We Serve

Built for the complexity of
industrial operations

Designed for asset-intensive, data-rich environments where the cost of a wrong decision is measured in downtime, waste, and safety risk — not just revenue.

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Mining & Minerals

Multi-site IIoT across active mines and processing plants. Distributed sensor networks to AI-driven production intelligence across India and Southeast Asia.

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Cement & Building Materials

Kiln optimisation, raw material variability management, alternative fuel blending, and autonomous quality control. Significant energy and emissions reduction through GenAI-powered process optimisation.

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Discrete Manufacturing

End-to-end IIoT covering OEE monitoring, predictive maintenance, quality traceability, and connected shop floor management with SAP S/4HANA and MES integration.

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Chemicals & Pharma

Batch quality assurance, SPC monitoring, regulatory traceability, and LIMS integration supported by autonomous Quality Guard agents in real time.

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Energy & Utilities

Demand-aware energy intelligence, carbon reporting automation, and load optimisation aligned to tariff windows and decarbonisation targets.

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Oil, Gas & Resources

Predictive asset health monitoring, anomaly detection on critical rotating equipment, and supply chain intelligence for complex, distributed operations.

Our Approach

From first conversation to
live results — in weeks

We don’t sell platforms. We deliver outcomes. Every engagement begins with your operations, your data maturity, and your most pressing decisions.

Assessment & Strategy

Weeks 1–4

Digital maturity assessment, operational data landscape mapping, and highest-value opportunity identification. KPIs defined — OEE, cycle time, defect rate, equipment uptime — with a task-level execution plan.

Deliverable: Digital maturity report · Prioritised opportunity map · KPI framework · Execution plan

Infrastructure & Data Foundation

Weeks 5–9

IoT sensors deployed on critical assets. Edge computing and secure connectivity established. MES and ERP integrated for real-time data flow. Cloud data lake configured — serverless, multi-tenant, with first-party data ownership throughout.

Deliverable: Live edge-to-cloud pipeline · System integrations · AI-ready data foundation

Intelligence Deployment

Weeks 10–12

AI agents and operational dashboards deployed and validated against live data. Operator training runs in parallel. We don’t go live until your team is confident and data accuracy is confirmed.

Deliverable: Deployed agents · Validated accuracy · Trained teams · Pilot-ready

Pilot & Scale

Weeks 13–20+

One production line piloted, validated, then rolled out enterprise-wide. Weekly operations reviews, monthly leadership scorecards, and a continuous improvement loop. Governance stays active until ROI is measured.

Deliverable: Proven pilot · Enterprise scale-up roadmap · Continuous governance cadence

4–6 wks

First working MVP

20 wks

Pilot completion

<12 mo

Target positive ROI

Proven Impact

Real results.
Basis prior engagements.

30%+

Operational impact as % of production value

Basis prior similar engagements

−80%

Reduction in unplanned downtime

Maintenance-intensive manufacturing operations

8–12%

Working capital released

Through predictive material planning

Improved Productivity

Better planning, material availability, and proactive decision-making. Higher output per labour hour, significantly reduced idle time and production loss.

Lower Operational Costs

Automation, energy optimisation, and leaner workflows deliver direct and compounding savings in labour, energy, and materials.

Optimised Working Capital

Predictive material planning and intelligent stock management release 8–12% of working capital that would otherwise sit as buffer inventory.

Figures based on prior engagements in industrial manufacturing. Actual outcomes depend on operational context and engagement scope.

Why QBC

Deep expertise.
End-to-end ownership.

Most consultants hand you a roadmap and leave. Most vendors hand you a platform and leave. QBC does neither.

“QBC enables organisations to achieve operational excellence, world-class quality, and maximum equipment uptime — through a connected digital architecture that delivers measurable and sustained ROI.”

20+ Years Per Team Member

Deep cross-disciplinary expertise spanning industrial consulting, process engineering, data strategy, AI architecture, and enterprise finance. We understand both the OT environment and the boardroom.

Strategy + Implementation + Monitoring

We define your roadmap, deploy the technology, integrate your data, train your teams, and monitor until results are measurably achieved. One partner. End-to-end accountability.

Custom Solutions, Not Off-the-Shelf

Every engagement designed around your plant, your constraints, your data maturity, and your growth ambitions. We build around your operations — not the other way around.

Fully Connected Architecture

Operations, quality, maintenance, inventory, and finance — all integrated for seamless visibility and decision-making from shop floor to C-suite.

Designed for ROI

Every architecture decision evaluated against its cost profile and expected return. Our engagements target positive ROI within 12 months with measurable milestones at every phase.

Technology Partner

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Lemmata

Palo Alto · Enterprise Intelligence Platform

Lemmata unifies traditional Business Intelligence and AI agents on a single governed data foundation — enabling organisations to move beyond static dashboards by embedding purpose-built AI agents directly within the analytics environment.

Through our partnership, QBC helps organisations design, deploy, and operationalise AI agents aligned with their business processes, data architecture, and strategic objectives.

Continuous Data Analysis

Agents continuously analyse enterprise data, detecting patterns and anomalies across your full data landscape in real time.

Actionable Recommendations

Move from static reporting to dynamic, purpose-built recommendations that support faster, data-driven decisions at every level.

Unified Architecture

Reporting, analytics, and AI intelligence on a single governed foundation — eliminating fragmented analytics workflows entirely.

Reduced Decision Latency

Dramatically reduce the time between a business event and the action taken — across every department and tier of leadership.

The Team

A focused team of
deep specialists

Three co-founders. Collectively bringing 18–20+ years of expertise each, across industrial operations, AI, data engineering, sales, and strategic consulting. Small by design. Accountable by commitment.

Ankit Saboo

Co-Founder · Sales & CX

20+ years specialising in greenfield turnkey projects under BOT format — solving complex industrial challenges in cement, mineral processing, and sustainable energy.

CementMineral ProcessingBOT Projects

Manish Upadhyay

Co-Founder · Analytics & AI

18+ years of expertise in building enterprise-scale AI Ready Data Engineering, Technical Architecture, and AI solutions. Specialises in designing high-performance data pipelines and multi-tenant governance models that bridge the gap between complex industrial telemetry and executive-level insights.

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Sukhdeep Singh Pannu

Co-Founder · Strategy & Product

20+ years in data, analytics, and fintech — leading operations, driving transformation, building analytics teams, and advising startups on strategic growth.

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AI Agents that Act.
Not just inform.

Your data is rich.
Your decisions shouldn’t wait.

Two specialisations.
One intelligence layer.

Six Autonomous Agents.
One Intelligent Operation.

Built for the complexity of
industrial operations

From first conversation to
live results — in weeks

Real results.
Basis prior engagements.

Deep expertise.
End-to-end ownership.

Powered by Lemmata

A focused team of
deep specialists

Ready to move from
insight to action?

AI Agents that Act.Not just inform.

Your data is rich.Your decisions shouldn’t wait.

Two specialisations.One intelligence layer.

Six Autonomous Agents.One Intelligent Operation.

Built for the complexity ofindustrial operations

From first conversation tolive results — in weeks

Real results.Basis prior engagements.

Deep expertise.End-to-end ownership.

Powered by Lemmata

A focused team ofdeep specialists

Ready to move frominsight to action?

AI Agents that Act.
Not just inform.

Your data is rich.
Your decisions shouldn’t wait.

Two specialisations.
One intelligence layer.

Six Autonomous Agents.
One Intelligent Operation.

Built for the complexity of
industrial operations

From first conversation to
live results — in weeks

Real results.
Basis prior engagements.

Deep expertise.
End-to-end ownership.

A focused team of
deep specialists

Ready to move from
insight to action?