Posted by Mumbai: o9 Solutions and operaize have partnered to offer an integrated solution for advanced scheduling and sequencing solvers into the o9 planning platform.
operaize GmbH is a SaaS company specializing in solving complex manufacturing scheduling and sequencing challenges in various industries. , the premier AI-powered Integrated Planning and Operations Platform provider; and
The partnership between o9 Solutions and operaize enables customers to develop plans for different time horizons across complex supply chains in the o9’s integrated planning platform.
And benefiting the customers from the operaize’s best-in-class solvers to improve capacity utilisations and OEE, delivering concrete results in operating margin of manufacturing companies.
“o9 Solutions and operaize are two best-of-breed solutions that will be tightly integrated to transform the planning and execution of manufacturing planning, scheduling and sequencing to drive higher ROI for our joint customers” said Chakri Gottemukkala, CEO – o9 Solutions.
Both o9 Solutions and operaize are cloud-based, AI-powered enterprise software providers that solve complementary problems for numerous Fortune 500 clients.
This tie-up leverages the most innovative solvers in the manufacturing domain and o9 supply chain planning solution to enable customers to improve operating margins, OEE, product availability, faster response to market changes impacting manufacturing.
The integrated solution, with connection to MES, IoT, LIMS systems, additionally brings full overview of shop floor operations into one unique platform.
“Our next gen AI proactively detects potential disruptions and autonomously and expediently determines solutions to manage the production chain,” said Alexander Kouril, one of the two founders and MD of operaize.
“Thanks to cognitive operations, we have enabled a leading process industry company in Germany to increase plant efficiency by up to 35%,” added Christoph Lieth, his co-founder and co-MD.
The close partnership between o9 Solutions and operaize, according to Kouril will allow global manufacturing clients to be offered completely new forms of integrated planning.
“We have had intensive discussions with suppliers of AI-based planning procedures and were able to establish that o9 is by far the leading, most innovative supplier of an integrated planning approach and the efficiency increases achieved by the customer bear witness to this,” stated Kouril.
The partnership is a natural consequence of a strong market pull towards digitisation and adoption of AI in manufacturing and logistics. This is reflected by the recent funding and unicorn valuation of o9 Solutions and the investment of Fraunhofer Technologie-Transfer Fonds (FTTF) into operaize.
FTTF provides early-stage venture capital for startups supported by the Fraunhofer Institute. operaize joins a select group of innovators of Industry 4.0, applying scientific breakthroughs in Machine Learning and AI algorithms to complex problems in production environments.