Industry · 03
Manufacturing
Operations, supply and quality—
turned into delivered EBITDA
Industrial, process and discrete manufacturers moving from islanded analytics to AI-native operations across plant, supply chain and quality.
WHERE THE EBITDA LIVES
AI is the new Lean.
The plants that move ahead this decade do so by running AI inside operations, planning, asset performance and quality—under the engineering disciplines that already make plants safe.
+5–8%
OEE improvement
–20%
unplanned downtime
90 d
to first plant-floor win
How we work
Where the value lives in Operations, supply and quality
01
Operations & throughput
AI inside scheduling, line balancing, energy and yield. Run with operations leaders, not on slides.
02
Supply & planning
Demand sensing, S&OP and tier-N supply visibility—operating-grade, not pilot-grade.
03
Quality & asset performance
Vision, anomaly detection and predictive maintenance—wired into engineering and EHS, not bolted on.
SIGNALS
What is moving in Operations, supply and quality, this quarter
updated continuously by the Institute
AI in S&OP
What changes when planning runs as continuous AI optimisation.
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Vision QC at scale
Patterns that hold up under audit and shift change.
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AI Act for industrial systems
High-risk classification and what it means on the plant floor.
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Capital case 2026
AI as a line item next to capex.
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BEGIN HERE
A 90-day Acceleration, shaped to this sector
From kick-off to scaled, measured AI delivery in one quarter.