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"AI-Powered Production Scheduling for Chemicals"
tl;dr - Poka Labs helps chemical manufacturers automate their production planning and scheduling without the need for spreadsheets or complex implementations. Schedule a demo - www.pokalabs.com
Founded by Malay Shah & Andrew Bass
🎉 Their Story
Malay is a chemical engineer who has worked in chemical plants across 3 continents. He experienced these issues firsthand and saved his prior employers over $100+ million on process improvement and production planning projects.
He met Andrew while they were pursuing their MBA at Harvard Business School. Andrew worked as a software engineer on data infrastructure systems at Meta before working on optimization problems at a seed-stage startup. He also completed a Masters degree at Harvard specializing in ML.
Together, they’re passionate about deploying modern software in the chemical industry.
❌ Problem
Production planning is the “brains” of chemical operations. Yet even today, the $5.6 trillion chemical industry relies on spreadsheets and humans to manage the process.
This leaves plants to constantly fight fires to meet customer orders on time and maximize manufacturing margins. Any change, such as inventory delays, labor shortages, or unexpected maintenance, further stresses operations. Existing systems, such as ERPs, are too rigid in their data inputs to adapt to these types of changes.
✅ Poka Labs Solution: Adaptive Production Planning with AI
Poka Labs integrates with existing information (data historians, emails, PDFs, ERPs, etc) to put chemical production scheduling on autopilot. Their software automates analytics, scheduling, changes, and communication within one platform that anyone can use.
With Poka Labs, chemical plants can:
- Maximize revenue
- Minimize transition costs
- Eliminate messy spreadsheets
- Increase visibility
Learn More
🌐 Visit www.pokalabs.com to learn more.
🤝 If you work in chemical manufacturing, Poka Labs would love to chat! Contact the founders via email.
📤 Share this post! Is there anyone in your network that deals with planning for chemicals? The company founders would love to chat with them.
📧 Copy & paste blurb: A team of Harvard grads created an AI-powered production planning platform designed for the chemical industry. It automates scheduling, changes, and analytics in one platform. Put your plant on autopilot with Poka Labs. Contact via email to see a demo from the founders.
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