AI Solutions for Manufacturing

AI, quantum techniques and other Big Compute^TM could unlock new efficiencies across the value chain in manufacturing: from the design stage to factory operations and the supply chain. According to McKinsey, quantum technology could add over $500B in value by 2035 for the automotive sector alone.

Featured Use Case

Plant Scheduling Optimization with BMW & MIT

Challenge

Approach

Every manufacturer operating on a global scale is faced with a difficult optimization problem: how do they schedule their workers to achieve production targets while minimizing labor costs? This is a hard problem due to the wide range of possible configurations and the high number of constraints, including varying production rates between shops, a discrete set of shift schedules, and the need to prevent overflows and shortages in the buffers between steps in the manufacturing process.

Use Cases

Applications for Manufacturing

Design

Factory Operations

Supply Chain and Logistics

Design

Factory Operations

Supply Chain and Logistics

Key Challenges

Analyzing complex models with many objectives for desired product functionalities
Designing more aero- or fluid-dynamic structures
Assessing which raw materials to use, balancing qualities such as costs, strength-to-weight ratios, flexibility, and/or resilience

Zapata Solutions

Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation

Model computational fluid dynamics for new designs with enhanced accuracy using quantum simulation.

Product Design Process Optimization

Build design process optimization models capable of balancing multiple objectives for product functionalities with safety, reliability and cost, and solve it with GEO.

Key Challenges

Reducing downtime and waste in the manufacturing process
Timing maintenance of robotics and other factory machinery
Developing more accurate and precise quality control strategies

Zapata Solutions

Manufacturing Process Optimization

Optimize the scheduling of machine processes and employee shifts using quantum or quantum-inspired techniques.

Factory Floor Automation

Leverage GEO to optimize the timing of automated processes on the factory floor.

Predictive Maintenance

Apply variational quantum classifier algorithm or other classical or quantum classifiers to proactively predict when machines will need maintenance.

Quality Control

Generate synthetic data with generative models to better train anomaly detection algorithms for quality control processes.

Key Challenges

Reducing costs and delivery times in the supply chain
Minimizing carbon emissions
Selecting suppliers and vendors
Reducing inventory stock-outs

Zapata Solutions

Supply Chain Optimization

Apply GEO to optimize transportation networks to reduce costs and delivery times and select suppliers and vendors optimized for product quality and demand coverage.

Distribution Route Optimization

Leverage quantum or quantum-inspired techniques to optimize distribution routes to reduce fuel costs and delivery times.

Inventory Optimization

Optimize the stocking of raw materials and components for manufacturing as well as the stocking of finished products in distribution warehouses using GEO.

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Orquestra^® Benefits for Manufacturing

Orchestration Across Environments

Leverage the heterogenous compute resources best suited for your tasks, without getting locked into any one hardware platform. Deploy across hybrid backends at enterprise scale.

Data Management & Velocity

Store, retrieve, and analyze large datasets. Streamline data management from ingestion to export to accelerate data velocity.

Open Framework

Keep what works now. Integrate existing and future solutions with a framework optimized for extensibility, interoperability, and innovation.

Workflow Development and Deployment

One unified platform to go from research to development to deployment with extensible, scalable, modular workflows.

AI Solutions for Manufacturing

Plant Scheduling Optimization with BMW & MIT

Challenge

Approach

Applications for Manufacturing

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Orquestra® Benefits for Manufacturing

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Orquestra^® Benefits for Manufacturing