Tx-Rails — General Manufacturing Pricing Sheet
The auditable underlay for General Manufacturing — primary producers, tier-1/2/3 suppliers, OEMs, contract manufacturers, EaaS (equipment-as-a-service) providers, recall-reserve insurers, regulators, customer auditors. Cryptographic continuous audit + plant-floor provenance + multi-tier supplier-network co-attestation, sitting underneath your existing PLC / SCADA / MES / historian / batch-record / LIMS / ERP / TQM / supplier-portal systems. We don’t replace any of them — we bind to them via a published integration mode and produce tamper-evident, jurisdiction-independent records of everything they emit. See iiot-manufacturing.md and smart-contracts-manufacturing.md for the full underlay positioning.
Why a separate sheet from aviation? Aviation has its own pricing sheet (aviation-pricing-sheet.md) because it sits at the highest tier of regulatory burden (Part-145 / Annex-13 / cyber-supply-chain rules + decades-of-retention obligations). General manufacturing — food + beverage, automotive (non-aerospace), industrial machinery, chemicals, consumer products, electronics — has a different risk profile, different regulators, and a smaller absolute regulatory floor. Pricing reflects that.
What you get
Three integrated capabilities, one platform:
- Continuous cryptographic audit infrastructure
Every batch record, every quality deviation, every calibration event, every Scope-3 emissions data point, every supplier-of-record signoff committed to a Byzantine-fault-tolerant ledger and Merkle-anchored to the Hedera public DLT. Continuous evidence stream answers the question “prove this happened, prove it wasn’t tampered with, prove the timeline is real” — the foundational claim under every regulatory audit, customer audit, and recall investigation.
Aligned with: ISO 9001 (process); ISO 14001 (environmental); ISO 22000 (food safety); ISO 45001 (OH&S); IEC 61511 (functional safety); ISO 17025 (calibration traceability); GS1 / GHS labeling; REACH / RoHS / WEEE; OEKO-TEX (textiles); GFSI / SQF / BRC / IFS (food); RBA (electronics responsible-business); EU CSRD + ESRS sustainability reporting; FDA 21 CFR Part 11 (regulated industries); customer-audit standards (IATF 16949 automotive; AS9100 aerospace — see aviation sheet). - Multi-tier supplier-network attestation with smart-contract-equivalents
Self-executing supplier-payment milestones (PO matched to delivery + quality + emissions evidence), Equipment-as-a-Service (EaaS) runtime billing co-signed by both parties, multi-party recall execution (OEM + tier-1 + tier-2 + insurer + regulator), Scope-3 emissions attestation flowing up the supply chain. Unlimited data capacity (database-backed, not on-chain). Your existing MES / ERP / supplier-portal feeds events via change-data-capture or atomic dual-write. - Regulator, customer-auditor & insurer-grade evidence pipeline
Live data access for product-safety regulators (TGA / FDA / EU EFSA / NMI); customer-audit-grade evidence packs (automotive OEM tier-up supplier audits, FMCG customer audits, retailer-mandated Scope-3 audits); insurer-grade telemetry for product-liability + business-interruption + recall-cost coverage.
What we sell — and what we don’t
What we don’t sell at any price: full transaction-front-end replacement. We don’t build your MES, your SCADA HMI, your batch-record system, your historian-viewer, your supplier-portal, your shop-floor terminal, your maintenance-management app. Your operational screens stay put — they’re decades of plant-engineering investment. If you need a new screen, your engineering team builds it against our published SDK with our reference connectors.
What we do sell falls into two groups:
A. Operator utilities (bundled — Items 2 + 4 in the pricing table)
- Evidence-retrieval portal — your quality + compliance team pulls cryptographic proofs in response to customer-auditor, regulator, insurer, or recall-investigator questions. Generates evidence packs in formats acceptable to your major customer’s tier-up audit programme, regulator inspections, product-liability claim responses, and Scope-3 verification under CSRD / SBTi.
- Compliance-officer dashboard — live view of ISO 9001 deviation closure status, ISO 14001 environmental-incident tracking, calibration-due aging, ISO 17025 traceability, customer-mandated quality-metric trends, Scope-3 emissions data freshness.
- Trust-management UI — operator-side controls for your enterprise PKI: certificate issuance for plant managers / quality engineers / calibration-lab operators / customer audit reps, revocation, partner-org onboarding (tier-2/3 suppliers, calibration labs, certifying bodies), kill-switch.
B. Multi-tier supplier-network attestation UI (optional — Item 5 in the pricing table)
Thin signature surface for external counterparties — tier-2/3 suppliers, contract manufacturers, calibration labs, certifying bodies, customer-side quality engineers (when the customer wants to co-sign incoming-quality data), insurer surveyors, recall coordinators. This is explicitly in scope for us to develop, distinct from the “no MES replacement” line above.
What it does:
– DID / certificate-based authentication
– Per-tenant queue of pending attestations (FAI / PPAP signoffs, ISO 17025 calibration-cert acknowledgements, Scope-3 emissions signoffs, recall-batch-receipt confirmations, EaaS runtime acknowledgements, milestone-payment co-signs)
– Sign + submit with cryptographic proof landing in the BFT mesh
– Multi-tenant via entnum — each supplier sees only their own queue
What it explicitly is NOT:
– A supplier-catalog / sourcing / RFQ / contract-management replacement
– A supplier CRM
– A MES / batch-record system
When you’d buy this: multi-tier supply networks where your existing supplier portal can’t carry M-of-N co-signature; food + beverage with informal grower cooperatives; consumer-products with extensive tier-3 supply tails subject to Scope-3 + Modern Slavery requirements.
Pricing — five line items, four budget homes (Item 5 optional)
| # | Item | Type | Indicative price (AUD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One-off integration & onboarding — integration-mode selection, wiring against your MES / SCADA / historian / batch-record / LIMS / ERP / supplier-portal systems, certificate-authority setup, UAT, launch | One-off CapEx — capitalisable over 3–5 years | A$130,000 – A$300,000 |
| 2 | One-off operator-UI configuration — evidence-retrieval portal skinned to your brand; customer-audit + regulator-export templates (ISO 9001 / 14001 / 22000 evidence packs, CSRD / ESRS Scope-3 submission packs, customer-tier-up audit packs); compliance-officer dashboard customised; SSO with your IdP | One-off CapEx — capitalisable over 3–5 years | A$70,000 – A$140,000 |
| 3 | Annual support & maintenance (security patches, OS/library upgrades, business-hours help desk with on-call escalation, 99.5% uptime SLA, integration-mode adjustments, operator-UI updates for new customer-audit / regulator templates) | OpEx — renewable annually | A$95,000 / year |
| 4 | Tx-Rails platform access — BFT infrastructure, audit attestation, Hedera anchoring, dual-DC redundancy, regulator + customer-audit pipeline. Includes the three operator utilities. Tiered by pyramid count — see range governance below. | OpEx — annual platform subscription, pyramid-tiered | A$100,000 – A$2,500,000 / year |
| 5 | Multi-tier supplier-network attestation UI (optional) — thin signature surface for tier-2/3 suppliers, calibration labs, certifying bodies, customer-side QEs, recall coordinators. NOT a MES / supplier-management replacement. | One-off CapEx — capitalisable over 3–5 years | A$80,000 – A$200,000 |
| Year 1 total (Tier-3 example: 2–3 pyramids, Items 1+2 mid-points, Item 5 excluded) | A$655,000 | ||
| Year 1 total with Item 5 mid-point | A$795,000 | ||
| Year 2+ ongoing (Tier-3 example) | A$355,000 / year |
Item 4 — pyramid-tier pricing:
| Tier | Customer profile | Pyramid count | Annual platform fee (Item 4) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 4 | Single-site manufacturer, tier-3 commodity supplier, single-line contract manufacturer — Shape 3 single pyramid or pilot | 1 | A$100,000 |
| Tier 3 | Multi-line single-site or focused multi-site manufacturer (food + beverage regional, automotive tier-2, industrial-machinery mid-tier) — 2–3 pyramids (Shape 2 small cluster) | 2–3 | A$260,000 |
| Tier 2 | Multi-site Tier-1 OEM (automotive primary OEM, FMCG primary, industrial-machinery primary) — Shape 2 grouped (4–7 pyramids covering ops + supply chain + customer-audit + sustainability) | 4–7 | A$700,000 |
| Tier 1 | Multi-jurisdiction global OEM, global FMCG primary (Nestlé / P&G / Unilever / Mars), automotive global primary (Toyota / VW / GM tier) — Shape 1 sovereign or Shape 2 full | 8+ | A$1,800,000+ |
Item 1 — what governs the range:
– A$130k floor — hash-only attestation (Mode A): your MES / ERP commits as normal; we receive only content hashes.
– A$300k ceiling — atomic dual-write (Mode B): MES / ERP and Tx-Rails commit in the same transaction.
– Most operators land mid-range with change-data-capture observation (Mode C) at ~A$180–230k.
Item 5 — what governs the range:
– A$80k floor — single-flow attestation kiosk (e.g. just calibration-certificate co-sign), single supplier role.
– A$200k ceiling — multi-flow hub (FAI/PPAP + calibration + Scope-3 + recall + EaaS runtime + milestone payment), multiple supplier role tiers, DID auth, deep brand alignment.
Payback and ROI
For a Tier-3 mid-tier multi-line manufacturer with ~A$500M annual revenue and ~A$120M in directly counterparty-touching flow (supplier purchases, customer-of-record audits, calibration-lab contracts, recall-reserve management).
| Annual benefit | Conservative | Realistic |
|---|---|---|
| Audit IT-controls displacement (external auditor + customer-tier-up audit + ISO certification audit) | A$100,000 | A$300,000 |
| Supplier-payment reconciliation & dispute overhead reduction (PO/delivery/quality matching, deduction disputes, Scope-3 data-quality queries) | A$200,000 | A$700,000 |
| Reduced exposure to recall costs (faster batch isolation, fewer category-wide recalls, lower stock write-off) + product-liability claim defense costs | A$200,000 | A$1,200,000 |
| Insurance-premium reduction tied to telemetry-backed risk evidence (product liability, recall coverage, business-interruption, cyber-supply-chain) | A$150,000 | A$500,000 |
| Regulatory + customer-mandated compliance evidence (ISO 9001/14001 audit-prep, CSRD/ESRS Scope-3 submission, customer-tier-up audit-prep) | A$150,000 | A$500,000 |
| Customer-of-record retention via demonstrably-superior provenance (FMCG customers, automotive OEMs increasingly differentiate suppliers on provable Scope-3 + traceability; market-share retention value) | A$150,000 | A$700,000 |
| Total annual value delivered | A$950,000 | A$3,900,000 |
| Tx-Rails Year 2+ cost (Tier-3 example) | A$355,000 | A$355,000 |
| Net annual return | A$595,000 | A$3,545,000 |
| ROI multiple | 2.7× | 11.0× |
Pilot terms — non-binding, parallel-run, zero operational risk
- 3 months running Tx-Rails alongside your existing systems. No production switchover.
- Mode A (hash-only) integration with one chosen federation (typically
tx-rails-manufacturing-quality,tx-rails-manufacturing-calibration, ortx-rails-manufacturing-scope3-emissions) for the pilot. - Walk-away clause: if at month 3 the metrics don’t meet agreed targets, the engagement ends.
- Customer-of-record pre-validation: before signing, we’ll meet with your principal customer’s supplier-audit team to confirm evidence-pack acceptability for their tier-up audit programme.
- Data ownership: cryptographic exports are open-format, re-readable indefinitely.
Why now
- EU CSRD + ESRS Scope-3 reporting — first reporting cycle 2025, customer-mandated Scope-3 data flows up multi-tier supply networks; cryptographic provenance becomes a differentiator.
- Customer-tier-up audit intensification — automotive (IATF 16949), FMCG (GFSI / SQF), electronics (RBA) audit programs deepening; cryptographic evidence reduces audit-cycle cost.
- Product-liability + recall insurance market hardening — telemetry-backed evidence increasingly demanded by underwriters; lower premiums for verifiable evidence chains.
- Modern Slavery + Forced Labor regulations — Modern Slavery Act 2018 (AU + UK), US UFLPA, EU CSDDD — auditable tier-2/3 supplier evidence becomes mandatory.
- Industry 4.0 + IIoT investment — manufacturers already capturing the underlying data; Tx-Rails adds the audit-trail layer to existing investment, not a parallel data collection.
Next steps
- 30-minute discovery call with your Plant Director + Head of Quality + CFO.
- Letter of Intent — non-binding, signals pilot interest.
- Pilot kick-off within 8 weeks of LOI.
Contact: John Olsen · john@itotchaincloud.com.au · +61 490 114 879
Reference data sources: ISO 9001 / 14001 / 22000 / 45001 / 17025 audit-cycle cost benchmarks; CSRD + ESRS implementation studies (CDP, GRI Standards); IATF 16949 + AIAG audit-cycle data; GFSI / SQF / BRC / IFS audit-cost benchmarks; product-liability insurance market loss-development triangles; recall-cost benchmarks (Stericycle Recall Index); Australian National Measurement Institute calibration traceability cost studies. Full citations available on request.
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