Manufacturing teams don’t struggle with planning because they lack data. They struggle because the moment the plan meets the real world, something always moves.

Season 1 of AI Afterhours, Signals & Noise, is about how organizations cut through noise, find the signals that matter, and turn them into better decisions.

Episode 5: Optimizing Production & Inventory closes out the manufacturing arc, with host Sean Fleming joined by Shashank Punuru, founder of Dovient, Harsha Varun, Lead AI Architect at AZTRA, and Varun Vemula, CEO of AZTRA, back after stepping away for his executive MBA.

Shashank opens by flipping the script. Episode 4: Manufacturing with Dovient focused on maintenance, but he makes the case that maintenance is usually the second thing a plant solves, not the  ...