Aionix
Aionix is a Belgian SaaS platform for Manufacturing Operations Management. It runs planning, production, quality, maintenance and traceability on one shared data layer alongside your existing ERP, with an AI assistant that answers questions about the shop floor.
What is Aionix?
Aionix is a SaaS Manufacturing Operations Management platform published by Aionix BV, a company based in West Flanders, Belgium. It occupies the operational layer between an ERP and the shop floor: what was scheduled, what is actually running, whether it is good, whether the machine will hold, and what can be proven afterwards.
The vendor is careful about the distinction between MOM and MES. A Manufacturing Execution System manages execution on the floor: work orders, parts made, downtime, OEE. That is one of the five processes a MOM platform covers, not the whole of it. At Aionix the MES is the Production module, and the platform is what that module runs on, together with planning and scheduling, quality, maintenance and traceability.
Everything rests on what Aionix calls the Datahub, a shared data layer that every module reads from and writes to. That is the product's central argument: AI in manufacturing rarely fails because of the models, it fails because the data is fragmented. When a measurement already hangs on an order, a machine and a shift, the context an analysis needs is simply there. The homepage advertises nine building blocks on that layer, including Analytics, IIoT, Vision and Onix, the AI assistant that reads floor data, generates analyses and answers questions in plain language.
Aionix runs alongside an existing ERP rather than replacing it, with a two-way connection built around whichever system is already in place, Odoo, SAP or Microsoft Dynamics among them. Accounting and orders stay where they are. The platform is modular by design and sold that way: start with the module that solves the most painful problem on one line, then expand, each addition giving the others more context.
The published customer work is industrial rather than purely software. At Moerman NV, two machine lines went from paper records to real-time OEE between a December 2025 pilot and February 2026. At Depro Profiles, Aionix built an inline vision system inspecting both sides of 40,000 panels a day using a model it trained with the customer's quality department, including camera enclosure and electrical cabinet design.
What it does
- Connect machines, sensors and PLCs so production data is collected automatically and in real time
- Calculate OEE continuously from machine data, broken down into availability, performance and quality
- Plan and reschedule production orders live, including changeover sequencing
- Replace paper work orders with a touchscreen interface on the shop floor
- Record quality inspections inline, automatically linked to batch, shift and machine
- Trigger maintenance from machine data before the breakdown rather than after it
- Ask the built-in AI assistant, Onix, questions about what is happening on the floor
When to use Aionix / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Aionix is the right fit.
When to use Aionix
- Small and mid-sized manufacturers still recording production on paper or in Excel and wanting live figures instead
- Production managers who need OEE measured straight from the machines rather than reconstructed after the shift
- Plants with high product variation and frequent changeovers, where a schedule goes out of date within hours
- Companies that intend to keep their existing ERP and are missing only the execution layer underneath it
- Quality teams that must trace a batch back to machine, operator and raw material when a customer complains
When not to use Aionix
- Buyers who need a published price before talking to anyone: Aionix deliberately publishes none
- Teams expecting to sign up on their own and start the same day, since the only entry point is a demo request
- Developers looking for a public API or technical documentation, neither of which exists
- Anyone needing a mobile app: the shop floor runs on a touchscreen interface, not on iOS or Android
- Organisations whose procurement requires a certified supplier, as no ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certification is claimed
How to use Aionix
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Request a demonstration through the contact form, which is the only entry point into the product
- Agree with the vendor which line and which module to start on, typically where the loss is largest
- Create the organisation account, which runs in the browser with no installation or server needed
- Describe the shop floor: lines, machines and workstations, as a digital blueprint of the site
- Connect machines, sensors and the existing ERP, done together with the Aionix team line by line
- Invite operators, planners and management, each with the role matching what they need to see
- Run the first module in production and let operators record work orders on the touchscreen interface
- Read live OEE, downtime and work order progress from the supervisor platform
- Ask Onix questions about the floor, or let it generate analyses of trends, downtime and deviations
- Add the next module or the next line once the first is embedded, keeping the same data layer
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Five shop-floor processes on one shared data layer instead of a separate tool per department
- Genuinely modular adoption: one module on one line first, expansion at the customer's pace
- Coexists with the ERP by design, with the connection built around the system already in place
- OEE measured from PLC data rather than estimated or reconstructed from paper
- Named, dated customer cases with a named testimonial, unusual at this company size
- Notably honest publishing: the site labels its own screenshots as demo data and its card figures as illustrative
- Hardware competence rare in a SaaS vendor, from camera enclosure design to commissioning on the line
Cons
- No published pricing at all, and no free plan or free trial announced
- No self-service sign-up despite an onboarding described as taking minutes
- No public API and no technical documentation, so no programmatic integration on the customer's own terms
- No security certification claimed, and no hosting country or region ever named
- The privacy policy covers only the website, leaving production data undocumented
- No terms of service or product contract published, only a website disclaimer
- A very young and very small vendor: incorporated in December 2024, three co-founders, first employee being recruited
Pricing & Plans
Aionix publishes no prices. There is no pricing page, no amount and no currency anywhere on the site, and the absence is deliberate rather than an oversight: the vendor states that the figure depends on the customer's machine park and on how many modules are switched on, and its own machine-readable site summary repeats that pricing is not published. Commercially the product is quoted after a demonstration and extended module by module, with the homepage promising to pay as you grow at the pace and budget of an SME, but without a single number attached. No free plan and no free trial are announced. The only things available at no cost are the public OEE calculator and one recorded webinar, neither of which is the product.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Aionix handles your data.
GDPR overview
Aionix is a Belgian company and therefore falls under the GDPR, but the site never claims compliance in so many words. What it does publish is a privacy policy, last updated 4 August 2025, listing the data collected through the website, the purposes, and the data subject rights: access, rectification, erasure, withdrawal of consent, objection, and the right to lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority, which is named and linked. Consent is managed through a cookie banner and can be withdrawn at any time from the footer. The privacy contact is info@aionix.be. No Data Protection Officer is designated, and no Article 27 representative is named or needed, the company being established in the EU. Crucially, the policy addresses website visitors only and says nothing about the production data processed by the platform itself.
Who owns the data?
The published privacy policy covers only the website, not the production data customers entrust to the platform. It explains what Aionix collects through its contact form and analytics, and nothing about ownership of shop-floor measurements, machine data or inspection images. No terms of service, master agreement or product contract is published anywhere on the site; the only legal document online is a disclaimer covering website use and intellectual property in the site's own content. What the customer cases show is that data remains accessible to the customer: at Depro Profiles, every inspected panel's image and classification is stored in the cloud and can be looked up later. Ownership itself is simply never stated.
Reuse rights
No published document grants or restricts the end user's right to reuse data, because no product terms exist. For website data, the stated purposes are narrow: answering form submissions, customer follow-up, marketing and analysis through Google Analytics, and improving the site. Analytics cookies are only set after consent in the banner, and IP addresses are anonymised. Google Analytics is the single third party named, and Aionix states it has a data processing agreement with that provider. Nothing is published about whether production data, quality measurements or vision images may be reused by the vendor, aggregated, or used to train models. That silence should be resolved contractually before signing.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Nothing can be established about where data is hosted, because the site never says. The product is described as SaaS reachable from a browser with no installation or server needed on the customer side, and the Depro Profiles case refers to panel images and classifications stored in the cloud with a searchable archive. Beyond that word, no country, no region and no hosting provider is named anywhere in the published material. No data residency commitment, no EU hosting guarantee and no subprocessor list for the platform is offered. The website itself is served through a content delivery network fronted on Amazon infrastructure, but that describes the marketing site and says nothing about where the platform and its production data run. Any buyer with data residency or sovereignty requirements should treat hosting location as an open question and raise it explicitly during the demonstration, since it cannot be answered from the site.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Aionix.
- No price is published, so the cost of ownership cannot be assessed before entering a sales conversation; settle it early
- The site published address in Rumbeke differs from the registered seat and sole establishment unit recorded at the Belgian register in Staden
- The improvement figures shown on the solution cards are declared illustrative by the vendor itself and are not measured customer results
- Screenshots in the customer cases use demonstration data, which the vendor states explicitly; do not read them as production figures
- The onboarding promises an account ready in minutes, yet no public sign-up exists and machine and ERP connection is done with the vendor
- Real-time OEE dashboards can encourage steering on a single number; the vendor's own material warns that the cause usually sits in another process
- An AI assistant proposing maintenance actions still needs human judgement, and no documentation states how its suggestions are validated
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Moderate, and it depends far more on the machines than on the software. Nothing is installed: the platform runs in a browser. But going live means connecting machines, sensors and the ERP, and Aionix does that with the customer, line by line, not self-service. Setup follows four steps: create the account, describe lines and machines, connect the floor and ERP, then invite the team with roles. Moerman NV went from pilot to production in about three months on two lines. Vision projects go further, involving camera enclosures, electrical cabinets and millimetre alignment: an industrial job, not a configuration.
Deployment
Integrations
Behind Aionix
Social
Resources
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Frequently asked questions
What exactly is a MOM platform, and how is it different from an MES?
Does Aionix replace our ERP?
How much does it cost?
Is there a free trial or a free plan?
Is there a public API?
Is there a mobile app?
How long does it take to go live?
Where is the data hosted?
Is Aionix certified ISO 27001 or SOC 2?
What is Onix?
Should you pick Aionix?
Aionix is a well-delimited product rather than an ambitious one, and that is its strength. It occupies the execution layer between ERP and shop floor without pretending to replace the ERP, and it says so plainly. The technical bet is the shared data layer: the vendor argues that AI in manufacturing fails through fragmented data rather than weak models, and builds every module on one data model accordingly. For a small or mid-sized manufacturer still working from paper and spreadsheets, the modular route in, one module on one line before expanding, is a realistic way to start.
Two reservations deserve weight. The vendor is very young and very small: Aionix BV was incorporated in December 2024, three co-founders run it, and the first employee is being recruited. Three published references, all Belgian, are a thin base for judging its ability to keep pace as customers scale. And the published record has real gaps: no pricing, no product contract or terms of service, no security certification, no hosting country, and a privacy policy that covers only the website rather than the production data a customer would entrust to the platform.
Set against that, the site is unusually honest. It marks its own screenshots as demonstration data, labels the improvement figures on its solution cards as illustrative rather than measured results, and states outright that it does not publish prices and why. That candour makes the missing pieces easier to raise directly. Anyone evaluating Aionix should treat the demonstration as the moment to settle pricing, hosting location, data ownership and contractual terms, since none of them can be established from the website alone.
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