DCX - AI Manufacturing Suite

Ask anything about your plant

Which orders are at risk and why, where the bottleneck will be, what will be short next week, OEE and downtime root causes, scrap and throughput, which products make or lose money, supplier lead-time risk and OTIF. Open the assistant from the role centre, from Tell Me, or in context on a production order, work centre, BOM, routing, planning worksheet, item, sales order or vendor card, where "this order" resolves automatically.

Plan further ahead

AI Demand Forecasting learns each make-item's sales history and picks the best method per item, Seasonal, Trend or Moving Average, with a confidence percentage and a plain-words explanation on every line; a manual override always wins. The AI Run Planning Worksheet walks the projected balance period by period and suggests runs rounded to your order modifiers, then Create Orders turns make items into firm planned production orders with BOM and routing exploded, and buy items into requisition lines.

Schedule, level and promise

The Visual Schedule Board gives one lane per work centre and one bar per routing operation; drag a bar and the app shows the old and new due date and recalculates the routing before applying it. Capacity Planning buckets load against available capacity with overloads in red, bottleneck analysis and what-if extra-shift modelling. The Capable-to-Promise check explodes every BOM level, checks transfers, short components and routing capacity, gives a verdict, the earliest realistic date and its assumptions, then raises the supply needed to hit it in one confirmed step.

Run the shop floor

The Production Terminal is touch-friendly and barcode-ready: labour sessions, output and scrap, consumption, and downtime with a reason. The Shop Floor Assistant turns a typed or dictated sentence such as "Machine 100 down 30 minutes bearing failure" into the right posting after confirmation. That capture feeds the OEE dashboard, Availability, Performance, Quality and OEE per work centre and plant total, and downtime root-cause analysis, all reconciling to the same numbers.

Always-on alerts and intelligence

Eight detectors grade what they find by severity: late orders, orders due but unreleased, material shortages, capacity overloads, scrap spikes, aged WIP, late subcontract lines and make-items with no BOM or routing. Alongside them sit AI Recommendations, supplier risk scores, supplier OTIF benchmarked against a frozen committed date, predictive maintenance with maintenance orders and checklists, and AI Cost Estimates that become a linked sales quote.

A complete Production Planner workspace

The Production Planner (AI) role centre headlines OEE, late orders and the current bottleneck, with eighteen KPI cues, open alert and recommendation lists, one-click access to every AI tool and an optional Power BI report pack whose measures mirror the app's own logic.

Safe by design

The AI prepares the work and shows exactly what it will do. Releases, postings, reschedules, purchases and master-data changes always require human confirmation, and every action, including every declined action, is written to the AI Agent Log. Low-risk routines can be scheduled through the Job Queue, confirmed once when you set them up.

Fits alongside your existing process

Every functional area can be switched on or off per company. Quality stays in DCX Process Suite and engineering change orders in DCX Product Lifecycle Management, so there is one process, not two, and when either is installed the assistant works straight into it.

Requires your own Microsoft Azure OpenAI resource with a deployed chat model, and DCX - Licence Management. Supported edition: Premium edition of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.