Background
A Zhongshan electronics manufacturer scheduled production by hand through senior planners. Scheduling was slow, quality depended on individual experience, and with orders, equipment, materials, processes and QC data spread across departmental Excel files nobody could find a global optimum — capacity went to waste.
Solution
- Data platform: a central platform integrating sales, inventory, production and logistics data into one real-time source.
- Human–AI collaboration: the AI employee reads the full data flow and generates schedules that outperform manual plans; planners can review and adjust.
- Smart efficiency: algorithmic decisions replace redundant manual work, raising equipment utilisation, cutting changeover time and improving order fulfilment.
Results
| Metric | Result | | --- | --- | | Capacity efficiency | +27% | | Annual operating cost | -40% | | Scheduling | Manual experience → AI-generated with human override |
A lighter, faster production system with far less operating slack.
* Case data comes from clients served by our technology partner, Shenzhen UMI Intelligence, and is anonymised. Results vary by company and execution.