JapanChemicals and materials2022 – ongoingNippon Shokubai
AI production scheduling for super absorbent polymer lines
Nippon Shokubai cut the time to draw up production plans to one-tenth with AI scheduling
Problem
A skilled planner needed about a week to draw up a three-month schedule for super absorbent polymer production. The work depended on experienced staff.
Approach
Nippon Shokubai built an AI optimization simulation with ALGO ARTIS. It sets the production plan and the line changeovers between products. After full verification, regular operation began in October 2022, and the company planned to extend it to other products.
Results
Takeaway
Planning time fell to a fraction of the manual effort. Fewer changeovers were reported, with no figure given.
Categories
- Industry
- Chemicals and materials
- Business function
- Production and quality
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Optimization
- Adoption
- Partner co-development
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
Reports Nippon Shokubai's start of AI-based production planning at its super absorbent polymer plant, built with ALGO ARTIS. It gives the one-tenth planning time and fewer line changeovers; it also mentions a schedule that took about a week now taking 30 minutes, without saying whether that is the same measure.
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