Plataine Unveils AI Agents for Long-Term Strategic Planning, Helping Manufacturers Scale for Growth

New Agentic-AI and Planning technology enables manufacturers to simulate at-scale sales and production scenarios supporting Able-to-Promise, Capable-to-Deliver and CAPEX investment decisions.

ATLANTA, Sept. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CAMX 2026 -- Plataine, a leading provider of AI Agents for advanced manufacturing, today announced new AI Agents for Long-Term Production Planning that enable manufacturers to scale for growth by simulating future production scenarios, improving the ability to deliver, and validating the impact of additional resources on production outputs before making critical sales, delivery commitments and investment decisions.

Unveiled at CAMX 2026, the new capabilities extend Plataine's AI Agents beyond short term scheduling, giving manufacturers a powerful way to evaluate how their operations will perform months and years into the future, ensuring they effectively meet customer ramp-up expectations.

Manufacturers are frequently faced with major decisions: do we have the capacity to commit to new contracts? Should another machine be purchased? Are additional shifts or new hires required? Will new tooling remove a future bottleneck? Can the factory accommodate an expected increase in demand? And if additional resources are added, where will they deliver the greatest return?

Traditionally, answering these questions relies heavily on spreadsheets, historical averages and numerous assumptions. However, in complex manufacturing environments, adding capacity in one area does not necessarily increase overall throughput. A constraint may simply move elsewhere in the production process.

Plataine's AI agents model these decisions against the real operational constraints of the factory in full detail, avoiding dependency on general assumptions. These agents run in either attended or unattended modes with controlled autonomy to continuously assess both tactical and strategic scenarios. This includes addition or changes to machines, tooling, workforce, materials, routings, process dependencies and production demand.

Manufacturers can create and compare multiple scenarios, including:

• Confirming Ability to Deliver in support of OEM ramp up or winning new contracts
• Increasing production capacity to meet forecasted demand
• Adding machines, workstations or production lines
• Introducing additional tooling or molds
• Adding shifts or workforce resources
• Evaluating the impact of planned equipment downtime
• Identifying future bottlenecks before they affect production
• Assessing whether existing resources can support new programs
• Comparing alternative investment and capacity strategies

Rather than looking at individual resources in isolation, Plataine evaluates the effect of each scenario across the entire production environment.

For example, manufacturers considering the purchase of an additional machine can simulate the future state of production and the impact on production KPIs. Plataine can then show whether the additional resource meaningfully increases throughput, improves delivery performance and whether another part of the production process will become a new bottleneck.

This gives planning and management teams greater confidence in customer commitments and RFP responses, helping improve customer relationships through greater accuracy and transparency. It also enables capital expenditure and resource decisions to be validated against their expected operational impact, rather than relying on assumptions.

From Reactive Scheduling to Proactive Decision-Making

Plataine connects long-term strategic planning with short-term production scheduling, enabling manufacturers to simulate future demand, capacity and resource scenarios using the same real-world constraints that govern daily production. This allows teams across operations, finance, procurement and management to identify risks and future bottlenecks, assess resource and capital needs, and evaluate where additional machines, tooling, shifts or workforce will have the greatest impact before making procurement decisions or committing to major investments. For aerospace, composites, automotive suppliers, electronics and other advanced manufacturing industries, where resources such as autoclaves, tooling and skilled labor can involve significant costs and long lead times, this early visibility is especially valuable.

"Advanced manufacturers are making multi-million-dollar decisions today based on what they expect their factories will need months or even years from now," said Avner Ben-Bassat, President and CEO of Plataine. "Our long-term planning AI Agents give them the ability to test those decisions before committing the investment. Instead of asking whether they need more capacity, manufacturers can understand exactly where additional machines, tooling, people or shifts will make the greatest impact, and where they won't. This brings a new level of intelligence and confidence to strategic manufacturing decisions."

Plataine is demonstrating its AI-powered Production Planning and Scheduling solutions at CAMX 2026, September 22–24 in Atlanta, Georgia, Booth J48.

About Plataine

Plataine is the pioneer of Industrial AI Agents for advanced manufacturing. Moving beyond passive software and static dashboards, Plataine deploys specialized, intelligent AI Agents that serve as expert digital assistants empowering production teams to make optimal, real-time decisions that eliminate bottlenecks, reduce waste, and protect delivery commitments. Plataine's proprietary, patent-protected Agentic framework is trusted by leading manufacturers globally, including MRAS (an ST Engineering company), IAI, Triumph, Aciturri, Kineco, Kanfit, and Multi-ply. Plataine partners with SAP, Microsoft, The AMRC with Boeing (Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre), CTC GmbH (an Airbus Company), and the NCC (UK National Composites Centre). Together with its global network, Plataine is delivering the "Factory of the Future" today, embedding deep manufacturing domain expertise natively within an enterprise-grade, ISO 27001 certified platform. To learn more about how Plataine's AI Agents optimize the world's manufacturing floors, visit www.plataine.com.

SOURCE Plataine, Inc.