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Beverage manufacturer Nitto Beverage introduces the AI x SaaS production scheduler “Optimum Works” for production planning that determines the optimal manufacturing order
Aiming to reduce the burden on planners and eliminate the dependence of individual people on production planning DX in response to rapidly fluctuating production volumes
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Representative Director and CEO: Asato Uchimura, hereinafter referred to as “Skydisc”), which supports DX in the domestic manufacturing industry, is a subsidiary of Nitto Beverage Co., Ltd., which manufactures and sells beverages mainly through OEM production. Headquarters: Shimoshinkawa-gun, Toyama Prefecture, Representative Director and President: Kuniaki Okano (hereinafter referred to as “Nitto Beverage”) has launched “Optimum Works,” an AI x SaaS production scheduler for the manufacturing industry, with the aim of reducing the burden of production planning work and eliminating the need for individual workers. We would like to inform you that we have introduced.
With this introduction, Nitto Beverage aims to reduce the workload associated with daily plan changes, standardize production planning based on the optimal manufacturing order, and build a system that enables stable and efficient manufacturing.
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■Challenges in introducing tools to production planning work In recent years, production planning in the manufacturing industry has become more complex due to the trend toward high-mix, low-volume production. In the manufacturing process, manufacturing conditions differ for each product, making it increasingly important to create production plans that take into account many conditions that cannot be taken into account by the human mind.
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https://saiteki.works/■Nitto Beverage Co., Ltd. Company Profile
Company name: Nitto Beverage Co., Ltd.
Head office location: 500 Hirayanagi, Asahi-cho, Shimoshinkawa-gun, Toyama Prefecture
Representative: Kuniaki Okano, Representative Director and President Established: May 20, 1997
Business content: Soft drink manufacturing industry
Number of employees: 79 (as of the end of March 2022)
Company website: https://nitto-beverage.com/
■Skydisc Co., Ltd. Company Profile
Since our founding in 2013, we have worked on 550 projects (*2) with approximately 272 customers, mainly in the manufacturing industry. We believe that our mission is to return the knowledge and know-how we have gained to the world as services and products. With the mission of “making manufacturing more creative,” we will take on the challenge of promoting DX using AI.
Head office location: Akasaka Prime Building 4F, 2-3-6 Maizuru, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Representative: Representative Director and CEO Asato Uchimura Established: October 1, 2013
Business content: DX support using AI
Company website: https://skydisc.jp/
*1 Survey regarding the introduction of tools into production planning…Conducted among 352 manufacturing industry workers (period: October 2021 to June 2022). Regarding the status of introducing a production scheduler, over 60% of respondents said they have not yet introduced it (35.2% have not introduced it or are not considering it, 27.6% are considering introducing it). Approximately 40% of companies encountered issues before and after introducing it (18.5% did not introduce it or had considered it in the past but gave up; 17.3% already introduced it and had operational issues). Only 1.4% of respondents answered that they had “installed it and are operating it successfully.”
*2 Results from founding to end of June 2023. Including PoC project More details about this release:
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