Case Study: a large steel manufacturer improves production efficiency with C3 AI

a leading enterprise ai software provider cuts steel scheduling time by 99% with C3.ai

The customer, a large steel manufacturer, faced significant challenges in planning and scheduling its production cycles. The manual, time-intensive process took up to five days and resulted in sub-optimal schedules that created excess inventory and failed to fully meet customer demand. The manufacturer engaged C3.ai to implement its C3 AI Production Schedule Optimization application to address these issues.

C3.ai configured its application to unify data from seven disparate sources and built an AI optimization algorithm that considered over 300 variables. This solution reduced planning and scheduling time from 5-7 days to just one hour, a 99% reduction. The AI-driven schedule also increased net production by approximately 1%, yielding over 1,000 additional tons of finished goods and creating a potential annual economic benefit of $4 million across three mills for the steel manufacturer.