Case Study: a major industrial manufacturer in Europe achieves automated digital twin and BOM generation with C3.ai

Major Industrial Manufacturer in Europe cuts BOM creation time to 4 weeks with C3.ai

The customer, a major industrial manufacturer in Europe, sought to improve service-level agreements for its installed equipment base through the use of asset digital twins. The first step, creating accurate digital bills of materials (BOMs), was historically a slow and expensive manual process costing over $100 million annually. The manufacturer engaged C3.ai to find a scalable, automated solution to parse complex engineering diagrams.

C3.ai built an application for digital BOM generation using machine learning and deep learning pipelines in just four weeks. This solution, later productized as C3 AI Digital Twin, automated the parsing of engineering drawings with 100% accuracy achievable when combined with specialist review. The project resulted in projected cost savings of $20 million per year for the manufacturer.