Manufacturing
Revolutionizing manufacturing with Enterprise AI
Increase Throughput, Supply Chain Efficiencies, and Services Revenue
C3.ai helps leading manufacturers rapidly integrate data from enterprise systems, operational sources, sensor networks, and external providers to power machine learning models that generate predictive insights. This addresses important goals such as inventory stock reduction (by as much as 35%), waste elimination due to quality defects (by over 20%), and generating $100s of millions in economic value annually for global manufacturers.
Applications
Reduce inventory holding costs, improve cash flow and supply chain visibility, and increase the productivity of inventory analysts. C3.ai Inventory Optimization applies advanced machine learning to analyze variability in demand, supplier delivery times, quality issues, and product-line disruptions to build real-time recommendations and monitoring, so users can set optimization by confidence level and receive real-time notifications and root-cause analysis. Global manufacturers using C3.ai Inventory Optimization have decreased inventory levels by 35%.
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Aggregate petabyte-scale data from sensors, devices, enterprise systems, and operational systems (e.g., SCADA, OMS, GIS) to generate accurate predictions of asset failure. C3.ai Predictive Maintenance provides planners and operators with comprehensive insight into asset risk, enabling them to maintain higher levels of asset availability, deliver services-based differentiation, and reduce maintenance costs.
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Reduce energy costs and improve building operations through real-time tracking, analytics, and optimization. C3.ai Energy Management uses machine learning techniques to enable accurate forecasting, benchmarking, building optimization, demand response, and anomaly detection to lower costs, improve operations, and meet energy-efficiency goals.
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Ensure the operational health and optimal deployment of IoT sensor devices with machine learning. C3.ai Sensor Health uses advanced AI/machine learning to predict sensor failures and identify sensor and network health issues with a high degree of precision.
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Leverage real-time AI/machine learning to drive operational excellence and improve profitability across sales, marketing, and customer service. C3.ai CRM delivers AI-generated forecasts and scores in real time using insights from internal and external data sets.
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Use Cases
Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization
Access a comprehensive view of global inventory levels across individual lines and factories and entire supply networks. Perform scenario planning and root cause analysis, optimize inventory levels, and manage suppliers comprehensively.
Supply Network Optimization
Address supply network variability by pinpointing issues and streamlining operations across individual supply chains and collective supply networks. Perform scenario planning, improve understanding of supplier performance, and generate recommendations based on live data.
Yield Optimization
Improve throughput and product quality by quickly detecting and mitigating emergent process issues. Apply advanced machine learning techniques to predict downstream product yield issues and pinpoint problematic process steps.
Price Optimization
Aggregate sourcing data into a unified federated image to perform pricing analytics and visualization. Build optimal price estimates for raw materials based on advanced machine learning analysis of previous pricing and expected consumption.
Warranty Optimization
Identify componentry at risk and proactively alert customers to potential issues to increase service satisfaction levels and reduce downtime. Maintain visibility of individual components at factory, distribution, or customer locations.
Profitable BOM
Maintain accurate bill of materials (BOM) pricing and componentry for highly complex products at each stage of engineering, delivery, and after-market. Calculate profitability for design, as-built, and added components for aftermarket stages.
Address use cases with the C3 AI Suite
The C3 AI Suite is a purpose-built platform for developing and operating AI applications that address industry and company-specific use cases. It offers a cohesive, low-code/no-code development environment with a complete and comprehensive set of tools and services to design, build, deploy, and operate advanced, enterprise-scale AI applications.
Case Studies
Optimizing Inventory Levels for a $30B Global Discrete Manufacturer
Enhanced part-level demand forecasting accuracy and dynamic inventory optimization.
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Testimonials
Roshan Shah
VP, Collaboration & Support Center Operations
“I can buy all the parts, put them together, and try to build a computer, or I could go to an Apple Store and have a computer that works on day one. In more than one way, that's what we're seeing from your platform.”
Jim Hannan
EVP, CEO Enterprises
“There’s no question that C3.ai has capabilities we haven’t seen before, with something that gives us a platform to drive enterprise AI.”
3M Developers
Members of the 3M-C3.ai CoE
“When we build these applications with C3.ai, we can pull the data from all these different source systems to shape into exactly the architecture we want that data to be in, and take that data and get creative with it.”
Jennifer Austin
Development & Implementation Leader, Enterprise Operations Digitization and Advanced Analytics Group
“It's really rewarding to see that C3 has listened to us and a lot of the things that we've been requesting or needing to fulfill our business needs, not only were on the roadmap before, but are currently listed for release in the near future.”
Henry Chang
Vice President, 3M Connect
“We’ve been engaged with the C3.ai team to figure out better processes and make user-friendly applications that enable our data scientists to draw insights and conclusions to drive outcomes.”
Brig Knott
VP, E2E Service, Operations & LSS
“We're freeing up between 3% and 5% of our capacity compared to historical performance.”
Annie Milos
Project Manager
“Form a close working relationship, form a COE, and it'll be the most valuable thing that you do.“
Thomas Kremer
Senior Data Engineer
"I’m able to implement a new metric and not have to worry about how I’m going to process data because the system provides the tool to do that."
Philip O’Sullivan
Release Manager, Digitization & Advanced Analytics
"We’ve created applications that have provided considerable insights into how our operations are functioning and we’ve used those insights to reap considerable value out of these applications."
Matthias Roese
“With C3, the important point for us is the type system approach which helps us significantly make use of the application landscape.”
Proven results in weeks, not years
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