Industry Trends
AI Production Scheduling: Capacity Gains and Real ROI of APS in Manufacturing
Most small and mid-sized factories still schedule with Excel and a veteran's intuition, sliding into idle machines, rush-order chaos and missed deliveries. Using Deloitte's survey and real cases from vendors like PlanetTogether, this article quantifies the on-time delivery, utilization, inventory and ROI ranges of AI scheduling—and the three traps that sink nearly half of deployments.