AI use cases for Manufacturing & Production
8 documented implementations
Cohu uses embedded AI to flag supply chain exceptions across a unified cloud platform
Cohu, a global semiconductor equipment company, unified finance, HR, and supply chain on Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications after multiple acquisitions left it with fragmented systems. Embedded AI supports real-time reporting across work orders and procurement and flags supply chain exceptions, while Oracle Fusion Cloud Product Lifecycle Management reviews product data for completeness and identifies process bottlenecks affecting launches.
Cohu· United StatesOracle Fusion Cloud Applications · Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain and Manufacturing · Oracle Fusion Cloud Product Lifecycle Management +4Milwaukee Tool uses predictive maintenance to flag failure risks and cut unplanned downtime
Milwaukee Tool connected manufacturing and maintenance on Oracle Fusion Cloud with IoT-driven condition monitoring. Predictive maintenance capabilities flag failure risks and generate recommended work orders aligned to changeovers and micro-stops, letting teams schedule maintenance proactively rather than reactively, improving asset reliability and first-pass yield.
Milwaukee Tool· United StatesOracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Execution · Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain and Manufacturing · Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing +2Litoplas grows production with Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications
Litoplas, a Colombia-based flexible packaging manufacturer, extended its Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP deployment with Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain and Manufacturing to connect operations across countries. The company increased production by 40% and improved inventory accuracy. Litoplas is now starting to use AI capabilities built into Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications for supplier questions, supplier knowledge chat, and purchase order summaries, with plans to apply AI to production sequencing, supply chain prediction, and accelerated access to operational insights.
Corning Accelerates Innovation with GenAI
Corning, a global leader in glass and ceramics, leverages the Databricks Data + AI Platform to improve manufacturing processes and product quality with advanced analytics and machine learning. Corning uses GenAI-powered chatbots and the Databricks Agent Framework to make hundreds of thousands of internal documents instantly accessible, with MLflow and model serving accelerating data scientist workflows by weeks or months.
CorningDatabricks · MLflow · Delta Sharing
HP Indigo Boosts Manufacturing Yield and Traceability with Databricks and Unity Catalog
HP Indigo migrated more than 3,500 data volumes (~10 terabytes) of disparate ERP, manufacturing and field data, previously tracked manually across spreadsheets and legacy systems, onto Databricks and Unity Catalog. Unity Catalog's built-in data lineage reduced consumable traceability time from two to three days down to about one hour. HP Indigo also built a prediction model on Databricks to optimize manufacturing parameters for one of its parts, increasing yield from 60% to 92%. Databricks AI/BI Genie provides natural-language, self-service data access for business users, replacing ad hoc requests to technical teams.
Martur Fompak International Boosts Throughput and Efficiency with Intelligent Robotics Enabled by Joule and Embodied AI
Martur Fompak International, a global automotive seating and interior systems manufacturer, deployed an autonomous intralogistics model using SAP's Joule solution and embodied AI capabilities, partnering with UK-based robotics company Humanoid. Built on SAP S/4HANA and SAP Extended Warehouse Management, the system gives humanoid robots and autonomous mobile robots real-time knowledge of tasks, storage locations, sequencing and production priorities, letting them identify, transport and deliver materials to the production line while continuously confirming actions back into SAP systems. The company has 400 daily production line feeds with 100% SAP software-driven decision making. Early results show increased throughput and fewer errors, with a future target of up to five times greater work efficiency for mass production. Martur Fompak International was named sole winner in the AI Excellence category at the 2026 SAP Innovation Awards.
Husqvarna Group Boosts Operational Efficiency with Azure Adaptive Cloud
Swedish manufacturer Husqvarna Group deployed Azure Arc, Azure IoT Operations, and Azure OpenAI Service to unify its fragmented public cloud, hybrid, and on-premises factory infrastructure and enable real-time data insights across its global manufacturing network. The rollout achieved 98% faster data deployment and 50% lower infrastructure imaging costs. Using Azure OpenAI Service, the company also built Factory Companion, an AI chatbot that gives factory teams instant troubleshooting guidance based on historical maintenance data and machine documentation, moving maintenance from reactive toward predictive.
Husqvarna Group· SwedenAzure Arc · Azure IoT Operations · Azure OpenAI Service +2Roche scales NVIDIA AI factories globally to accelerate drug discovery, diagnostics and manufacturing
Roche is deploying more than 3,500 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments in the U.S. and Europe, expanding an existing collaboration to turn AI and accelerated computing into a core operating capability across its pharmaceutical and diagnostics businesses. AI is central to Genentech's Lab-in-the-Loop drug discovery strategy, where nearly 90% of eligible small-molecule programs integrate AI; in one program a degrader molecule for oncology was designed 25% faster, and in another AI helped deliver a backup drug candidate in seven months instead of more than two years. Roche is also using NVIDIA Omniverse to build digital twins of manufacturing sites, including its new GLP-1 facility in North Carolina, uses NVIDIA Parabricks software to enable insights across vast datasets, is evaluating the BioNeMo platform for molecular design and chemistry innovation, and uses NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails to ensure safe and reliable healthcare-grade AI.
RocheNVIDIA Blackwell · NVIDIA BioNeMo · NVIDIA Omniverse +2