Agentive A.I. sitting on the sideline waiting to strike a goal
Chilean mining company worked with several large technology providers to develop best-in-class capabilities to improve employee safety and productivity. Major gains were achieved allowing them reduce risks while keeping their heavy assets functioning above industry standards while reducing overall lead times in their maintenance and procurement teams.
-Background-
Large mining company invested in developing A.I. assistants for three areas in their operations - supply chain, procurement, equipment management. Technology teams had completed extensive updates in their data estate to ensure governance and privacy levels met international standards. Knowledge workers were using the new capabilities while ensuring that enhancements were made in future update releases. Leadership wanted to increase their ability to deploy agentive A.I. to reduce equipment down time for maintenance since production levels were reducing week over week causing major shocks to revenue.
-Methods -
Walker Stevenson met with the executives in a one day workshop where we gathered critical strategies relegated to mine production and revenue targets. Then we completed a comprehensive review across the technology estate specific to data and A.I. capabilities - Agents / Assistants. Working with our strategize partner IBM we analyzed the data estate for improvements that would increase adoption of orchestration capabilities to manage the A.I. agents deployed by the client in Supply Chain and Procurement.
-Results -
The technology assessment confirmed that A.I. agent orchestration was the critical capability needed to build out agentive functionality across their existing platforms. Additional data elements were also added to the existing architecture from key operational area that captured production cycle counts to ensure accurate measurement in daily output volumes.
-Conclusion-
Executives were given a clear update on the technology capabilities assessment and investment needs to accomplish the build. Financial investments were presented to the the advisory board for approvals which were quickly signed off on allowing Management to begin the work.