Agents for production lines: Trusted decisions in real time
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.
* **Minutes, not hours.** When a packaging line trips, every minute counts. A 10-point drop in [OEE](/blog/agents-production-lines-trusted-decisions-real-time#glossary) costs a typical [CPG](/blog/agents-production-lines-trusted-decisions-real-time#glossary) company tens of millions of euros a year. That's not even an hour a shift. Not much room to think; the line manager has to make the recovery call before downstream equipment starves. ProdLine CoPilot reads live state from the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and gives back an in-shift answer, instead of the next morning. * **Unified data core.** Zerobus streams [OT](/blog/agents-production-lines-trusted-decisions-real-time#glossary) telemetry into Delta tables; [MES](/blog/agents-production-lines-trusted-decisions-real-time#glossary), [ERP](/blog/agents-production-lines-trusted-decisions-real-time#glossary), and [LIMS](/blog/agents-production-lines-trusted-decisions-real-time#glossary) join under Unity Catalog. Domain specialists read live plant state and call real solvers (Monte Carlo, [MILP](/blog/agents-production-lines-trusted-decisions-real-time#glossary), Bayesian, Pareto) under the same constraints the planners already use. * **The team stays in charge.** Recommendations come back as draft work orders, holds, and schedule notes. Line manager, quality lead, and maintenance owner approve. Every decision is traceable end to end.