Agents for production lines: Trusted decisions in real time
Summary
Agents like ProdLine CoPilot analyze live plant state from the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to turn line-manager recovery decisions from a next-morning report into an in-shift answer. Zerobus streams OT telemetry into Delta tables alongside MES, ERP, and LIMS under Unity Catalog, so domain specialists can run real solvers against planners' existing constraints while recommendations stay as draft work orders and holds pending human approval.
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