How can SAS® Viya® for manufacturing improve your business?
SAS Viya makes AI practical and powerful. With transparent governance, compliance and interoperability built in, you can innovate confidently while controlling costs and mitigating risk.
How can you deliver better decisions from data?
When volatility and cost pressures demand agility, SAS Viya delivers AI that drives action. It unifies fragmented data and applies governed, explainable models, so insights are trustworthy and timely. By combining predictive maintenance, precise forecasting and risk-aware optimization, SAS helps you anticipate disruptions, allocate resources intelligently and protect margins. Every data-driven decision strengthens your bottom line and keeps production moving.
How do we improve quality while lowering costs?
Viya enables you to detect anomalies and predict and prevent potential failure to reduce or avoid costs from poor quality.
How do we ensure operational teams can see issues and act quickly?
AI, streaming analytics and machine learning deliver best-case recommendations that minimize risk.
How can we improve productivity and operational efficiency?
Optimize process set points with transparent insights. Viya enables you to see how to run assets at maximum efficiency.
What changes do we need to make to meet my production goals?
Increase yield and throughput by analyzing data in real time for a deeper process understanding.
How can we reduce energy usage and costs?
Tune process setpoints using prebuilt ML models and visualizations to save on energy costs.
How can we shift from being reactive to proactive?
Run automated AI models in real time and get predictive alerts on maintenance issues.
Improve business performance with SAS Viya
We can now see in almost real time how much time we lose in a day. If that number increases during the day, we can immediately adjust the production planning of our other orders. Of course, the system will let us know within 15 minutes whether it was the right decision." Peter Wijers ICT and BI Manager Euramax
Premium coil coater Euramax uses SAS Viya to attain transparency in production planning and prevent production delays.
The nature of the company’s products means that orders often change. With SAS, the impact of a change is immediately calculated within the order so that employees can respond to changes in a timely manner and make informed decisions. Euramax accurately predicts what it will produce in the coming week and has even more control over its planning.
The facts speak for themselves
After identifying the performance benefits and cloud savings of SAS Viya, independent research firm The Futurum Group performed a second study on productivity. This is what we call a win-win for your data and AI teams:
Productivity Study
4.6x
MORE PRODUCTIVE
Data and AI teams saw increased productivity and decreased complexity in achieving the complete data and AI life cycle in SAS Viya. Read the summary.
Performance Study
30x
FASTER
That’s how much SAS Viya, on average, outpaced other platforms in the computation time of data and AI tasks. This translated into an 86% cloud cost savings.
Read the summary.
What are the benefits of SAS Viya?
With our data and AI platform, you can understand what’s happening with your data now, predict how to pivot seamlessly and make progress faster.
Elevate everyone
Viya provides a single platform for all user types – from data scientists to business analysts to IT. Use the language you choose or take advantage of the no-code, drag-and-drop interface.
Innovate faster
Our end-to-end platform enables seamless movements across the entire analytics life cycle. Use AI-driven automation across data wrangling and exploration and accelerate model deployment with AutoML.
Get results you can trust
Viya provides embedded model interpretability and fairness and bias monitoring. With robust governance and transparent insights, make decisions you can trust and verify at any scale.
Gain analytics tailored to you
Whether you manage a small manufacturing facility or a large enterprise, Viya integrates seamlessly across cloud-native or cloud-agnostic environments with complete portability.
SAS Viya and generative AI
GenAI meets industrial-strength innovation. SAS Viya amplifies GenAI to help you solve costly challenges, generate realistic synthetic data, optimize warehouse operations and upskill your workforce. With built-in governance and compliance, you innovate boldly, without sacrificing security or trust.
SAS Viya enables you to govern the use of large language models (LLMs) and confidently integrate their output as part of your business process. Transform LLMs into trusted decisions while protecting your customers’ data and maintaining regulatory compliance.
Viya makes it easy by providing a conversational experience with data and AI, featuring industry-specialized intelligent assistants and a low-code/no-code approach to generating synthetic data.
SAS Viya and AI agents
SAS Viya provides a unified, decision-driven platform for designing and deploying AI agents at scale.
SAS Viya empowers AI agents to sense, decide and act with confidence. Its powerful analytics engine and cloud-native architecture enable organizations to build intelligent agents that respond to real-time data, adapt to changing conditions and execute complex tasks autonomously.
Beyond simple automation, Viya creates smart, reliable systems that enhance human productivity. The platform combines advanced analytics with language models to guide agent behavior while maintaining human oversight and control. Built-in transparency features ensure compliance and accountability, even in highly regulated industries. With Viya, using AI agents becomes not only possible but trustworthy, flexible and adaptable.
How can SAS Viya transform your manufacturing business?
SAS Viya turns uncertainty into confidence and keeps your plant one step ahead. It simplifies complex data and turns it into trustworthy insights you can act on right now.
Deliver higher quality and maximize uptime to keep production moving and innovations on track, while ensuring worker safety.
- Detect anomalies early with automated alerts that prevent costly quality failures.
- Run predictive models to proactively schedule maintenance and increase workplace safety.
- Use GenAI with RAG via SAS Retrieval Agent Manager (RAM) to deliver context‑rich guidance that reduces downtime.
Optimize processes and reduce costs to protect margins and accelerate growth.
- Monitor and optimize workflows in real time to eliminate bottlenecks.
- Customize maintenance schedules to actual needs for lower costs.
- Deploy on-the-job copilots that boost frontline productivity and bridge skills gaps.
Accelerate innovation and time-to-market for competitive advantage.
- Design repeatable, trustworthy AI-powered processes that scale.
- Forecast new product performance with precision.
- Leverage agentic AI, computer vision and GenAI to speed innovation.
Gain visibility and control with unified data and governance.
- Clean and govern data from multiple sources – ERPs, CRMs and data lakes.
- Consolidate quality metrics across people, places and processes.
- Access AI models to calculate optimal production settings.
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Frequently asked questions
What is SAS Viya for manufacturing?
SAS Viya for manufacturing is a cloud-native data and AI platform that provides real-time analytics, machine learning and GenAI capabilities to optimize production quality, asset uptime and process efficiency.
What deployment options does SAS Viya support for manufacturing?
SAS Viya integrates across cloud-native or cloud-agnostic environments with complete portability. It works for small manufacturing facilities and large enterprises, supporting both SAS-managed and self-managed deployments.
How does SAS Viya detect quality issues in manufacturing?
Viya detects anomalies through AI and streaming analytics that analyze data in real time. It predicts and prevents potential failures by identifying patterns that indicate poor quality before they result in costs.
Can SAS Viya optimize manufacturing process parameters?
SAS Viya optimizes manufacturing processes by analyzing real-time sensor and production data to identify the optimal settings for each asset and production run. This increases yield and throughput by providing a deeper understanding of how to run assets at maximum efficiency.
What are AI agents in manufacturing, and how does SAS Viya support them?
AI agents in manufacturing are autonomous software systems that sense real-time production data, make decisions and execute actions without requiring manual intervention. SAS Viya enables AI agents to sense, decide and act autonomously by responding to real-time data and adapting to changing conditions. The platform maintains human oversight while built-in transparency features ensure compliance and accountability in manufacturing operations.
How does SAS Viya improve production planning?
Viya processes production data in real time to calculate the impact of order changes immediately. This enables informed, timely decisions and accurate predictions of production output.
What results have manufacturers achieved with SAS Viya?
Manufacturers using SAS Viya have reported significant operational improvements: Georgia-Pacific achieved a 10% OEE improvement and saved $8M+ through AI-powered upskilling, Lockheed Martin saved 2,000 maintenance downtime hours in six months, and SSAB reduced unplanned events by 80%. These results span quality, uptime, safety and cost reduction across discrete and process manufacturing.