Intel and FPT collaborate to advance AI-driven autonomous factories

The collaboration brings together Intel’s advanced factory simulation and AI optimization technologies with FPT’s digital manufacturing platforms to improve throughput, reduce bottlenecks, and accelerate the transition toward autonomous factory operations.

FPT and Intel are partnering strategically to offer an end-to-end AI-driven factory optimization solution, which can reduce bottlenecks, accelerate decision-making and improve downtime recovery. The collaboration brings together Intel’s high-speed simulation and digital twin technology with FPT’s data platforms and system integration expertise.

The manufacturing industry continues to be challenged with complex data-intensive operations, especially when it comes to predicting disruptions, optimizing production flows and leveraging real-time data. While modern manufacturing facilities have embraced automation, having a closed-loop factory intelligence is still lacking. This is where FPT believes its partnership with Intel can enable simulation, real-time data, and AI to continuously optimize performance.

According to Paul Schneider, Principal Engineer and Director at Intel Corporation, manufacturing is one of the most complex environments in the world, and optimizing it requires more than isolated tools; it requires a connected, intelligent system.

“By collaborating with FPT, we’re able to extend the reach of Intel’s factory optimisation technologies and help manufacturers operationalise AI-driven insights at scale,” he said.

Taking a deeper look at the strategic partnership and integration of technologies, Intel Automated Factory Solutions (AFS), including Intel Factory Pathfinder and Intel Factory Recon, will allow manufacturers to gain a dynamic, end-to-end view of factory operations. FPT complements these capabilities with its digital manufacturing platforms, FleziOps (MOM+), FleziQMS (Quality Management Suite), and FleziUDP (Unified Data Platform), which integrate data across MES, ERP, and shop-floor systems to create a unified operational data layer. This foundation enables seamless deployment of Intel’s AI-driven optimisation tools within live production environments.

Manufacturers will be empowered to run thousands of AI-driven simulations to identify optimal production strategies, detect and resolve bottlenecks before they impact production, improve scheduling and material flow across complex production lines as well as visualize and analyze factory operations through real-time digital twins.

For Hoan Nguyen, FPT Software SEVP and FPT Americas CEO, FPT Corporation, manufacturing has reached a turning point where AI is not just augmenting operations but actively orchestrating them.

“At FPT, we see a growing demand for smarter, more adaptive manufacturing systems that can respond to real-time conditions. By combining Intel’s expertise with our AI-first solutions and global delivery capability, we are helping manufacturers achieve new levels of operational agility and efficiency,” Nguyen said.

With digital transformation projects deployed to more than 150 companies in manufacturing, FPT has been able to convert production lines into smart factories with enhanced supply chain resilience. This expertise is backed by end-to-end AI-enabled solutions delivered by an AI-augmented workforce of over 25,000 globally certified engineers.

Through its global delivery model across more than 30 countries and territories, FPT enables companies to scale these outcomes across their operations worldwide, thereby enhancing time to value and cost efficiency.