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日本IBM has launched two new AI based solutions for manufacturers in Japan. The focus is productivity and supply chain resilience. The solutions are called IBM Global Integrated View Manufacturing Orchestrator and Orchestrated Robotic Intelligence ON demand, also known as ORION. Both are available in Japan starting today.
Manufacturing Orchestrator is built to deal with production scheduling, which in many factories is still handled manually. That usually means spreadsheets, experience based decisions, and a lot of back and forth. The tool uses AI to look at a large number of constraints at once. Delivery deadlines. Equipment usage. Setup time. Process order. Instead of optimizing one line or one step, it looks across the whole operation. Tens of thousands of tasks can be handled as a single optimization problem.
There is also an AI agent style interface. Planners and managers can adjust conditions or create new schedules using natural language. You do not need to be a scheduling expert to make changes. The idea is to shorten the time it takes to respond to issues and to reduce dependence on a small number of specialists.
こちらもお読みください： ダッソー・システムズとエヌビディア、産業用AIツインズで提携
ORION builds on that scheduling layer and goes deeper into the factory. It is positioned as a one stop automated transport solution. IT systems. OT systems. AI. All connected. ORION was developed through co creation with Lexar Research, Takebishi Corporation, Cuebus Inc., and レッドハット. The system links planning, on site execution, AGVs, robots, and performance feedback into one structure.
When something goes wrong on the floor, ORION is designed to react quickly. Plans can be rescheduled. Transport routes can be adjusted. Feedback from execution flows back into planning. The goal is to reduce the workload on planners and factory managers who are usually forced to make manual adjustments under pressure.
IBM Japan says it plans to continue expanding these solutions. Data driven continuous improvement is a key theme. The company is also looking at overseas deployment and at growing a wider co creation ecosystem around manufacturing AI.
The message from 日本IBM is clear. These tools are not about flashy demos. They are about reducing friction in daily operations and making factories more resilient when things do not go as planned.
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