Dow, Shell, and Nucor accelerate digital transformation and reliability in manufacturing
Dow, Shell, and Nucor harnessed an alliance between C3 AI and Microsoft to deploy large-scale enterprise AI solutions across global manufacturing operations. The collaboration integrates C3 AI’s suite of enterprise AI software, including Generative AI, with Microsoft Azure, the preferred cloud platform. These manufacturers sought to modernize production optimization, predictive maintenance, supply chain resilience, energy management, and sustainability initiatives. C3 AI and Microsoft provide joint product development, technical integration, and coordinated go-to-market strategies for broad industry adoption. C3 AI applications are made widely available through the Microsoft Commercial Cloud Portal and Azure Marketplace, streamlining enterprise-wide deployments. Dow leverages the alliance to advance its manufacturing sustainability and reliability goals, tying operational reliability to decarbonization efforts. Shell scaled predictive maintenance and equipment monitoring enterprise-wide, enabled by co-innovation between C3 AI and Azure. The joint solutions are used by thousands of devices within global manufacturing for real-time maintenance, energy optimization and supply chain advances. C3 AI and Microsoft hold regular roadmap sessions to refine solution capabilities, based on evolving Azure enhancements and sector needs. The initiative represents one of the biggest manufacturing deployments of integrated generative AI on Azure, impacting productivity and sustainability. Microsoft serves as the cloud provider, with C3 AI as the solution implementer and main partner.
- Organization
- Dow
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Location
- Global
- Published
- November 2024
Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
- Customer
- Dow, Shell, Nucor
- Provider
- Microsoft
- Maturity
- Scaled Production
- Linked source
- c3.ai
Rolled out predictive maintenance, reliability, sourcing optimization, and energy management tools at scale across Dow, Shell, and Nucor
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- 1Predictive maintenance for manufacturing equipment
- 2End-to-end supply chain optimization with enterprise AI
- 3Enterprise-wide energy management and decarbonization AI
- Deployed C3 AI’s enterprise AI applications, including generative AI, on Microsoft Azure for end-to-end scalable deployments.
- Made C3 AI solutions broadly accessible via Microsoft Commercial Cloud Portal and Azure Marketplace.
- Rolled out predictive maintenance, reliability, sourcing optimization, and energy management tools at scale across Dow, Shell, and Nucor.
- Continuous alignment between C3 AI and Microsoft on product roadmaps and integration protocols.
- Joint go-to-market and support approach to drive rapid adoption and customer success.
Sources & evidence2
- Customer explicitly identified
- Deployment status explicitly supported
- Technical implementation details available
- Multiple corroborating sources available
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