AI-Driven Management of Dynamic Manufacturing Environments
C3 AI Production Schedule Optimization helps meet customer demand with maximum operational efficiency and minimal production costs by generating optimal manufacturing schedules via an elastic solver. The application provides powerful scenario planning capabilities with full visibility into downstream impact and is applicable to a wide range of manufacturing processes across discrete, process, batch, and other manufacturing types.
Demonstrated Benefits
20-50%
Increase in demand
forecast accuracy
10-20%
Improvement in OTIF
planning and scheduling
performance
5-15%
Decrease in scheduling costs
Next Generation AI-Based Planning and Scheduling
Key Issues
C3 AI Production Schedule Optimization Solution
Aggregate and inaccurate demand forecasting
AI-based demand forecasting that leverages all relevant historical data
Poor On-Time-In-Full (OTIF) performance caused by inadequate task-resource timing and allocation
Holistic optimization of all manufacturing and distribution schedules
Frequent change orders causing schedule disruptions
AI-powered predictions of customer order modifications
Costly transitions and inventory levels caused by suboptimal schedules
Elastic solver that fully optimizes schedules across millions of variables and constraints
Hard-to-maintain and rigid Linear Programming solutions requiring heavy manual interventions
No-code multiproduct, multipurpose ”what-if” planning and scheduling analyses for different time horizons
Multiple tools, multiple parties, inefficient collaboration
A unified and integrated application to streamline collaboration
Successful Deployments
Optimize Production Schedules and Decrease Manufacturing Costs
C3 AI team worked closely with the polypropylene plant managers and subject matter experts to understand the business and manufacturing processes and related data.
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