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Automotive & Manufacturing
Kestra connects the shop floor,
the dealer, and the connected fleet.
Automakers and suppliers use Kestra to orchestrate quality, warranty, recall, engineering release, and telemetry workflows across MES, SAP, PLM, dealer DMS, and connected-vehicle stacks. Without ripping anything out. With IATF-grade audit evidence.
quality-ncr-response 1.5s
✓ defect_event kafka.Trigger station #7
✓ open_ncr jdbc.postgresql.Query NCR #91244
✓ fetch_plm core.http.Request part + supplier
✓ engineering_signoff core.flow.Pause Approved
✓ notify_supplier email.MailSend sent
✓ publish_audit aws.s3.Upload archived
Used by automotive, mobility, and manufacturing teams 
Any system. Any workflow. Any control model.
Plant event, quality defect, warranty claim, supplier feed, engineering release, or vehicle telemetry. The orchestration job is the same: connect systems, route exceptions, trigger actions, capture evidence.
TRIGGER
Plant / MES / shop-floor event
API / webhook / dealer portal
Telemetry / connected-vehicle
Quality defect / NCR raised
Supplier EDI / file drop
Schedule / release / recall
INGEST
SAP / Oracle / mainframe
MES / SCADA / Ignition / PLC
Teamcenter / Catia / PLM
Dealer DMS / aftersales CRM
Snowflake / BigQuery / lakehouse
S3 / ADLS / GCS / SFTP / MQ
PROCESS
Quality rules & validations
dbt / SQL / Python / R / Spark
Exception & NCR handling
OCR / LLM document review
Engineering / quality approval
Vault / secret & IP controls
ACT
Update MES / ERP / PLM
Create NCR / case / recall
Notify supplier / dealer
Trigger warranty / campaign
Generate report / audit package
Update downstream platforms
Each step is a declarative YAML task. Change the source system, workflow step, or destination without rebuilding the whole process.
Every critical workflow in automotive and manufacturing.
Manufacturing and quality, warranty and aftersales, engineering and supplier, data and platform operations. One engine runs them all.
Manufacturing & Quality Operations
Plant, MES & Shop-Floor Orchestration
Coordinate workflows across MES, SCADA, PLCs, and ERP. Orchestrate shift handovers, changeovers, OEE pipelines, and plant-to-cloud data flows with lineage and replay.
Quality, NCR & Non-Conformance
Capture quality events, open non-conformance reports, route to engineering and suppliers, coordinate 8D responses, and close the loop with signed evidence.
Predictive Maintenance & Telemetry
Stream sensor and telemetry data, apply anomaly models, open work orders, and sync with CMMS and maintenance crews. Reduce downtime without replacing MES.
Warranty, Recall & Aftersales
Warranty Claims & Campaigns
Ingest dealer warranty claims, validate against policy, route exceptions, pay dealers, and aggregate reporting. Full audit trail, replayable years later.
Recall & Service Campaign Coordination
Launch recall campaigns across dealers, track completions, coordinate parts dispatch, notify customers, and produce regulator-ready evidence.
Connected Vehicle & Telematics
Ingest vehicle telemetry, trigger OTA rollouts, route diagnostic events, and feed downstream analytics and service platforms. One flow for a million cars.
Engineering, Release & Change
Engineering Release & PLM Workflows
Coordinate ECO/ECN approvals across Teamcenter, Catia, and downstream MES/ERP. Enforce four-eyes engineering sign-off and capture release evidence.
Supplier Coordination & Procurement
Orchestrate supplier onboarding, EDI exchanges, PO-to-invoice cycles, dispute handling, and performance reporting across tier-N supply networks.
Dealer, Distributor & Aftersales Ops
Sync data across DMS, dealer portals, and aftersales CRMs. Coordinate parts, service, and customer workflows across thousands of independent dealers.
Data, AI & Platform Operations
Operational Data & Lakehouse Workflows
Move and transform plant, vehicle, and aftersales data into lakehouse layers using dbt, SQL, Python, Spark. Keep operations and analytics in one system.
AI-Assisted Quality, Diagnostics & Review
Orchestrate OCR, computer vision, and LLM extraction on quality reports, diagnostic data, and warranty evidence. Keep humans in the loop on every decision.
Cybersecurity & Platform Automation
Automate certificate management, OT/IT segmentation checks, vulnerability scans, and incident response across plants, dealers, and connected fleets.
-40%in integration downtime
+100workflows across dealers
1control plane for aftersales
Enterprise-Grade Orchestration from Plant to Cloud.
Plant, Edge & Cloud Deployment
Self-hosted on plant networks, in a VPC, or fully air-gapped. Run workers next to OT systems and keep sensitive IP and telemetry inside your perimeter.Immutable, Replayable Execution
Every flow is YAML in Git. Every execution frozen in time. Replay any recall, warranty batch, or engineering release years later with the exact code and inputs.Engineering & Quality Approval Gates
Pause any workflow pending engineering, quality, or compliance sign-off. Enforce dual control on ECO/ECN promotions, recalls, and production rollouts.RBAC & Multi-Plant Isolation
Namespace-scoped RBAC with SSO/SAML/SCIM. Every plant, brand, or supplier owns its secrets and runtime on a shared platform. Zero blast radius across sites.Audit Logs & OT-Safe Observability
Every execution, user action, and resource change recorded. Stream logs to Splunk, Elastic, Datadog, or your preferred SIEM for ISO and IATF evidence.Blueprints for automotive and manufacturing.
Production workflows, from quality response to OTA rollout. Copy the YAML. Wire it to your stack. Ship it through your CI.
Quality & NCR response
Warranty claim pipeline
Telemetry & OTA rollout
A defect on the line becomes a routed, auditable NCR, automatically.
A quality event fires a webhook. Kestra opens an NCR, pulls context from MES and PLM, notifies engineering, pauses for sign-off, and closes the loop across ERP and supplier systems. Full audit trail for IATF.
Dealer warranty claims, validated and paid without a spreadsheet.
A dealer submits a warranty claim. Kestra validates against policy and VIN history, pauses for warranty-ops review on high-value claims, triggers dealer payment, and publishes aggregate reporting.
Stream vehicle telemetry, trigger staged OTA campaigns, prove every rollout.
Consume telemetry from a Kafka topic, detect target fleets, pause for engineering approval, roll out staged OTA updates via partner APIs, and ship signed audit bundles for safety teams.
Ready for Production?
Managed or self-hosted, your choice.
Kestra Cloud
Fully managed. Zero maintenance.
Deploy instantly, scale automatically, pay only for what you use.
- Everything in Open Source
- Fully Managed Platform, zero ops
- Automatic Scaling
- SOC 2 Type II Certified
- Built-in Security & Governance
- Fast Onboarding, Pay-as-you-scale
Enterprise Edition
Self-host with enterprise governance.
Critical environments, compliance requirements, air-gapped or hybrid.
- Everything in Open Source
- SSO / SAML & Fine-Grained RBAC
- Audit Logs & Multi-Tenancy
- Air-Gapped & On-Prem Deployment
- Dedicated Customer Success Program
- SLA-Backed Enterprise Support
Integrates with the systems automotive teams already rely on.
Connect MES, SCADA, PLM, ERP, dealer DMS, supplier EDI feeds, telemetry platforms, data stacks, and security controls through 1300+ plugins. Or build the exact integration your environment requires.
One platform for automotive and manufacturing.
Connect plants, PLM, dealers, and connected vehicles to the tools your teams already use. Add lineage, approvals, and audit-ready execution across quality, warranty, recall, engineering, supplier, and telemetry workflows.
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