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.

Key Capabilities

Interpretable AI Insights

• Leverage an interpretability framework that provides visibility into major cost drivers and production bottlenecks
• Review AI-generated alerts with robust evidence packages and explainability

Optimal manufacturing and distribution schedules

• Account for constraints that change over time
• Provide visibility into major cost drivers and production bottlenecks
• Create a single unified view of the manufacturing and distribution operations

AI-based change order predictions

• Predict and plan for change orders using AI techniques that predict likelihood of change
• Model each order-line characteristic (e.g., historical changes in orders and order-lines by customer, customer purchasing behavior) and its evolution over time

Elastic solver for scheduling

• Schedule manufacturing or logistics operation using an elastic solver
• Minimize production costs, inventory costs, and staffing costs
• Maximize high-margin product throughput by deploying resources at the right time, in the right order, at the right capacity

Scenario analyses

• Analyze what-if scenarios to assess the impact of planning, production, and distribution modifications on throughput, cost, and profit
• Configure alerts and recommendations specific to customer, products, orders, and facilities
• Tune the machine learning models to accommodate operations complexity

Enterprise-wide collaboration

• Align sales, marketing, planning, and manufacturing activities behind one planning and scheduling suite
• Use bidirectional integration with existing systems of record

Benefits for Application Users

Production Scheduler

Deliver accurate production requirements to schedule engineers based on AI-based production schedules.

Scheduling Engineer

Generate optimal process schedules, meet customer demand, and minimize waste while accounting for all operational constraints.

Production Manager

Set and meet realistic production facility objectives for maximum throughput and minimum cost.