About Harmoni

The future of American manufacturing depends on helping existing factories do more with the people, equipment and knowledge they already have. Harmoni connects people, machines and systems to coordinate work in real time, right where production happens.

Two paths to the same problem

Harmoni was founded in 2023 by David Caputo and Adam Ellis. They came to manufacturing from different directions, but saw the same gap: the systems were there, but nothing coordinated them. Operators were left to bridge the gaps by hand.

David, an electrical engineer by training, spent years financing industrial companies before founding RVE Partners, which acquires and operates aerospace and defense manufacturers. He still chairs one of those companies today. Running those factories, he saw operators lining up at time clocks and ERP terminals to clock in, start their shifts and select programs, then spending time confirming they had the right work instructions.

Adam spent nearly two decades in ERP consulting, helping hundreds of manufacturers modernize their operations. The consulting company he co-founded in 2002 grew to a 24-person development team and served more than 900 customers across North America. He saw how enterprise systems could improve a business, and how much work remained to connect them to the realities of daily production.

Built around the operator

David and Adam founded Harmoni to bring the factory’s people, machines and systems together at the point of production. Their goal is simple: let skilled people do skilled work.

Harmoni pioneered factory orchestration, a new category of industrial technology that coordinates people, machines, systems and engineering requirements in real time. The platform brings automation, process control and factory-floor observability together.

Purpose-built command centers are installed at machines and workstations and paired with cloud software. RFID helps identify operators and assigned jobs. The right program and approved work instructions appear at the machine, while engineering controls changes and keeps current versions in front of operators. Operators can propose improvements from the workcenter, with engineering review before an update becomes the new standard.

Harmoni also gives operators a direct way to contact the front office or maintenance when an issue arises. Managers can see machine and production performance as it happens, investigate issues and make faster, fact-based decisions. Harmoni works with manufacturers’ existing machines and ERP and MES systems.

Intelligence grounded in production

HAL, the Harmoni AI Lieutenant, runs on top of Harmoni’s Factory Orchestration platform. Data from people, machines, production orders, ERP and MES transactions, engineering changes and quality records is already connected and in context.

That matters because AI is only as useful as the operational context it can reason over. Supervisors, engineers and plant leaders can ask which jobs are behind schedule, why a machine is running below target or which operators are qualified to run a machine. HAL provides answers grounded in live production data. At the workcenter, it guides operators within the job they are already running.

Helping manufacturers do more

Harmoni serves precision manufacturers across industries including aerospace and defense, metal fabrication, industrial equipment, medical devices, energy and contract manufacturing.

We believe strengthening American manufacturing starts with helping factories work better every day: less wasted time, fewer errors and more room for skilled people to focus on valuable work.