Akron – November 10, 2026 -- Harmoni's HAL, the Harmoni AI Lieutenant, has been named a CES Innovation Awards 2027 Honoree in the Enterprise Tech category, the company announced. Harmoni says customers of its underlying Factory Orchestration system gain more than 200 productive hours per operator per year.
HAL answers operators' questions using live production context
HAL runs on Harmoni's live orchestration layer. It draws on the job, part, machine, operator and production status behind each question. Operators can ask by multilingual voice or text, including through an illuminated push-to-talk control on the Harmoni device.
HAL executes tasks, including changes to machine code
The software acts as well as answers. It can clock operators into jobs, open maintenance requests, and propose and make changes to machine code.
"The factory floor has been last in line for every major technology shift of the past thirty years," said David Caputo, co-founder of Harmoni.
Factory Orchestration connects people, machines and production data
HAL builds on Harmoni's Factory Orchestration system. The system links people, machines, systems, processes and production data in a shared operating model.
Harmoni will demo HAL at a live work center at CES 2027
Harmoni will show HAL at Booth #10520 in the LVCC North Hall. Attendees will watch a job run at a real work center, with routine steps automated and quality checked in process. An operator will then put a production question to HAL and get an answer from the same live context, without searching or switching systems.