Capability catalog
Manufacturing capabilities your agents can use
HiggX provides the building blocks for agentic manufacturing. This catalog is organized by what an agent needs to do, not by the products that implement it.
Grounded in real manufacturing relationships
Developed through more than a decade of manufacturing quotation experience with Quotation Factory.
How to read this catalog
- 01
Capability
What the agent can get done, in manufacturing terms.
- 02
Surface
How the agent reaches it (API, CLI commands, agent skills, or events) and which HiggX product delivers it today.
- 03
Authority
Whose identity the request carries, and who decides what that identity may do.
- 04
Evidence
What record the action leaves for people and systems to inspect.
Capabilities
These are catalog categories, not separate products.
- Explore Quotation Factory CLI
Engineering Intelligence
Interpret CAD models, drawings, and manufacturing requirements.
- What your agent can do
- Upload STEP, DXF, PDF, and other engineering files to a project
- Analyze drawings and capture manufacturing requirements
- Detect purchasing parts and assign materials
- Build and maintain bills of materials
- How agents access it
- Live API discovery
- Multipart CAD and drawing uploads
- Structured JSON results
- Skills
HiggX CLI for Quotation Factory: live API discovery, multipart uploads for CAD files and drawings, structured JSON results. Skills cover geometry uploads, drawing analysis, and purchasing-part detection.
- Authority & evidence
Every request carries an authenticated identity, and Quotation Factory decides what that identity may do. Results come back as structured JSON that the agent and a person can inspect.
- Example
- Create a quotation project
- Upload a STEP model and a PDF drawing
- Run drawing analysis
- Read the captured requirements as JSON
- Explore Quotation Factory CLI
Manufacturing Planning
Determine operations, resources, and production routes.
- What your agent can do
- Add working steps and configure production routes
- Work with machines, resources, estimators, and nesting data
- Inspect production readiness for a project
- How agents access it
- Skills
- Companion server
- Shared workspace, project, and BOM-item context
HiggX CLI for Quotation Factory. Skills cover material assignment and production steps. The companion server keeps the active workspace, project, and BOM-item context, so a planner and an agent work from the same view.
- Authority & evidence
The CLI uses Quotation Factory’s existing authorization model and creates no path around it. Write operations can be dry-run against the API schema before they are sent.
- Example
- Add working steps for a BOM item
- Configure a production route
- Dry-run each write first
- Show the result to a planner for review
- Explore Quotation Factory CLI
Cost & Time Estimation
Calculate materials, operations, and costs.
- What your agent can do
- Determine materials, operations, and costs for a project
- Inspect calculation results and project status
- Configure pricing, financial, and production settings
- How agents access it
- Live discovery
- Parameters and response schema
- Skills
HiggX CLI for Quotation Factory. The agent finds the right endpoint through live discovery, reads its parameters and response schema, and a skill explains the order of operations.
- Authority & evidence
An agent can only perform operations the API exposes and its identity is allowed to use. Each result is structured, so the numbers behind a quote can be checked.
- Example
- Inspect calculation results
- Check production readiness
- Missing input? Hand control to an estimator
- Explore Quotation Factory CLI
Commercial Operations
Manage RFQs, quotations, and customer orders.
- What your agent can do
- Create and manage quotation projects
- Manage customers, suppliers, contacts, and commercial terms
- Prepare quotation documents and coordinate requests for quotation
- Configure delivery settings
- How agents access it
- Skills
- Batch execution
HiggX CLI for Quotation Factory. Skills cover supplier management, quotations, delivery, and financial configuration. Batch execution handles related operations together.
- Authority & evidence
People sign in through the browser; agents and unattended processes use an access token. Both routes lead to the same authorization model in Quotation Factory.
- Example
- Take an incoming RFQ
- Set up the project and customer terms
- Prepare the quotation document
- Route the quote to a person for approval
- Explore SignalMesh
Supply Chain Integration
Exchange standard documents and coordinate suppliers across company boundaries.
Matching events
- RFQ Sent
- RFQ Received
- Quotation Response Sent
- Quotation Received
- What your agent can do
- Exchange RFQs and quotation responses as UBL documents
- Track matching events
- Publish operational events and subscribe to authorized supplier events over MQTT
- Communicate over SCSN, among other channels
- How agents access it
- UBL documents
- SCSN
- MQTT adapter
- Unified Namespace
HiggX SignalMesh: UBL documents, SCSN, and an MQTT-based adapter organized by Unified Namespace principles.
- Authority & evidence
Coordinated subscriptions control which events are shared, with which parties, and when access begins or ends. Each event is tied to its party, transaction, and commitment.
- Example
- Send an RFQ to a supplier
- RFQ Sent, RFQ Received, and Quotation Received arrive
- One connected transaction updates, not separate inboxes
- Explore Edge Connector
Shopfloor Connectivity
Interact with supported on-premise and factory systems.
Unified Namespace events
- New order
- Changed article
- Completed operation
- Machine-state change
- What your agent can do
- Trigger on-premise workflows involving ERP and CAM
- Request and process manufacturability checks
- Synchronize articles, address books, and operational data
- Respond to Unified Namespace events
- How agents access it
- Quotation Factory command
- API call
- File event
- Schedule
- Unified Namespace topic
- Workflow Studio
HiggX Edge Connector. A process can start from a Quotation Factory command, an API call, a file event, a schedule, or a Unified Namespace topic. Workflows are built, tested, and published in Workflow Studio.
- Authority & evidence
Only supported commands are executed at the edge. Every run leaves a traceable record: runtime inputs and outputs, an event journal, and any blocked or failed activities.
- Example
- Publish a manufacturability request to the local Unified Namespace
- The Edge Connector triggers the matching CAM workflow
- The result is published back
- Explore Transaction Center
Transaction Intelligence
Monitor expectations, commitments, and exceptions from RFQ to payment.
Inbox conditions
- Waiting
- Action required
- At risk
- Exception
- Completed
- What your agent can do
- Read the business inbox by condition
- Follow a transaction from RFQ through order, delivery, invoice, and payment
- Take part in managed exception recovery (detect, preserve evidence, assess, assign, resolve, close)
- Contribute events within scoped authority
- How agents access it
- Transaction Center
- Expectation Management System
HiggX Transaction Center, applying the Expectation Management System.
- Authority & evidence
Agents act through explicit identity, scoped authority, applicable policy, and an observable history. Every assessment can be explained from its source expectation, supporting events, and policy.
- Example
- A supplier response is late; the expectation moves to “at risk”
- The agent gathers the evidence and proposes a mitigation
- A person takes on the exception and closes it
- The resolution history is kept
A real agent workflow
From customer request to ready-to-send quotation.
Receive an RFQ
Process customer requirements and engineering files.
Understand the parts
Interpret geometry, drawings, materials, and tolerances.
Plan and calculate
Configure production steps, estimate costs, and determine feasible processes.
Coordinate suppliers
Request external services and evaluate responses.
Prepare the quotation
Build a defensible quote and route it for approval where needed.
Each step uses accessible manufacturing capabilities, while HiggX maintains identity, context, authority, and evidence.
What every capability shares
Routine work can be delegated. Exceptions, ambiguity, and high-impact decisions go to accountable people.
Identity
Each action carries a stable identity for the person, system, or agent behind it.
Bounded authority
Agents act within scoped, revocable authority; the platform that owns the data decides what is allowed.
Context
People and agents work from the same operational context, so nobody rebuilds the transaction from scratch.
Evidence
Every action records who acted, for whom, under what authority, and with what result.
Frequently asked questions
Start with one workflow
Most teams start with RFQ to quotation. Connect an agent through the CLI, load the manufacturing skills, and review every action in the shared context.