Specialty chemical production scheduling software plans and sequences high-mix batch and continuous production across shared reactors and trains, honouring the constraints that make chemical plants hard: product-to-product changeovers and cleaning, grade transitions, material compatibility and segregation, process-safety windows, and lab-release timing. Bodhee does this as , rebuilding a feasible plan continuously as the plant and the lab change.
Adaptive Scheduling · Specialty Chemicals
Specialty Chemical Production Scheduling
that keeps pace with a high-mix plant.
When a campaign resequences, a changeover runs long, or a reactor frees up early, Bodhee rebuilds a feasible schedule in minutes across production, quality, and maintenance. Built for high-mix batch and continuous specialty chemical plants.
Bodhee is the Adaptive Scheduling product family from Neewee, built for high-mix specialty chemical plants. It rebuilds schedules against live constraints, alongside your ERP, MES, and LIMS.
The challenge
Why scheduling breaks in specialty chemicals.
A high-mix chemical plant runs on constraints most planning tools never model. Each gap costs capacity, effort, and on-time shipments.
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A high-mix book means constant changeovers
Hundreds of products across shared reactors and trains mean relentless product-to-product changeovers and cleaning, and legacy planning treats that lost time as invisible.
02
Campaign sequencing is a manual puzzle
Sequencing campaigns to minimise changeovers, respect grade transitions, and honour material compatibility is done by hand, and it breaks the moment reality shifts.
03
Process-safety and EHS limits box you in
Hazardous-material handling, segregation, and process-safety windows constrain what can run when, but static plans cannot see those limits.
04
Lab results gate release and shipment
A batch waits on lab results before it can move or ship, and the production plan cannot see the lab, so the delay surfaces late.
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Production, QC, and maintenance plan apart
Three functions plan on separate schedules that cannot replan together, so a lab hold or a maintenance window cascades into missed shipments.
How Bodhee solves it
One live schedule across a high-mix plant.
Bodhee holds production, quality, and maintenance on one live model of your site, so an event in one function replans the others automatically.
One live model of the plant.
Production, quality, and maintenance share one live model of your site, so a change in one function replans the others automatically, not at the next planning meeting.
Changeovers and compatibility, honoured by design.
Grade transitions, cleaning, material compatibility, and segregation are modelled as first-class constraints, so campaigns sequence to cut changeovers instead of ignoring them.
Rescheduling in minutes, not shifts.
AI agents watch the floor and the lab, classify events, and invoke the scheduling engine within minutes, so a disruption in one unit does not quietly derail the rest.
What it does for chemical plants
Scheduling built around a high-mix, changeover-heavy plant.
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Campaign and changeover-aware sequencing
High mix, fewer changeovers.
- Sequence campaigns to cut changeover and cleaning
- Honour grade transitions and material compatibility
- Respect segregation and equipment-cleaning status
02
Process-safety and EHS-aware planning
Constraints the plan respects.
- Model hazardous-material and segregation constraints
- Keep process-safety windows on the schedule
- Account for cleaning and containment time
03
Lab-aware replanning
The plan that sees the lab.
- Replan production around lab and release testing
- Sync lab capacity with batch and shipment flow
- Surface release-timing risk before it slips a shipment
04
Cross-functional resynchronisation
One event, one coordinated replan.
- Propagate events across production, quality, and maintenance
- Assess cross-functional impact before committing
- Configurable response modes, from advisory to automatic
Trust & security
Security and traceability you can verify.
Bodhee runs alongside your existing ERP, MES, and LIMS, with the security controls and audit trail your IT and EHS teams expect. ISO 27001 certifies our whole-organisation information-security management system.
ISO/IEC 27001
Certified ISMS, whole-organisation scope
Audit trail
Append-only, write-once history
Access control
RBAC with SSO and SAML
Encryption
At rest and in transit
Data residency
Customer-specified GCP region
GDPR
Supported, DPA on request
Cloud-infrastructure attestations are inherited from Google Cloud Platform, not claimed as our own. Bodhee complements your process-safety and EHS systems; it does not replace them.
Measurable outcomes
What Bodhee delivers in chemical plants.
Ranges observed across process manufacturing deployments. Outcomes vary by plant complexity, data maturity, and integration scope.
0–15 pp
OEE improvement
across process manufacturing deployments
0–25%
Changeover efficiency
from campaign- and changeover-aware sequencing
0–15%
Cross-functional capacity recovery
from synchronised production, QC, and maintenance planning
0–25%
On-time delivery
from more reliable schedule execution
Hours → Minutesrescheduling cycle time−60–80%planner scheduling effort−10–20%wip inventory
Bodhee runs live specialty chemical and process manufacturing production today, across multiple sites and countries. Live deployments, not pilots.
Based on Neewee deployment observations in regulated process manufacturing.
Go deeper
Related to specialty chemical scheduling.
Where Bodhee fits across your plant, and how it deploys.
Bodhee Production SchedulingThe production scheduling engine in depth.Bodhee Quality Control SchedulingSequence the lab so release keeps pace with production.Bodhee Maintenance SchedulingCluster maintenance into the fewest disruptive windows.How Bodhee worksEvent flow and the techniques behind the schedule.Trust CenterSecurity, data integrity, and audit trail.Case studiesOutcomes from real process plants.
Frequently asked questions
Specialty chemical scheduling, answered.
The questions chemical planners, plant heads, and IT teams ask before a pilot.
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Bodhee sequences campaigns to minimise product-to-product changeovers and cleaning, and models that time explicitly so plans stay feasible and shared-reactor capacity stays visible, instead of losing it to hidden hours.
Yes. Grade transitions, material compatibility, and segregation are modelled as first-class constraints, so Bodhee sequences work that can legally and safely run together and avoids transitions that would force extra cleaning or scrap.
Bodhee treats hazardous-material handling, segregation, and process-safety windows as scheduling constraints, so the plan respects them instead of leaving them to be caught on the floor. Bodhee complements your process-safety and EHS systems; it does not replace them.
Bodhee deploys alongside your existing , , , and rather than replacing them. It reads orders, master data, quality results, and equipment status through an event-driven integration layer, and publishes schedules and recommendations back out. It integrates with systems such as SAP and Oracle.
Yes. certifies our whole-organisation information-security management system. Bodhee keeps an append-only audit trail, uses role-based access control with SSO and , and encrypts data at rest and in transit, with customer-specified data residency. Cloud-infrastructure attestations are inherited from Google Cloud Platform, not claimed as our own.
Traditional generates a plan and holds it until the next planning cycle, so it drifts the moment a campaign resequences or a changeover runs long. Bodhee's continuously rebuilds a feasible plan that honours changeover, compatibility, and process-safety constraints, in minutes, not at the next planning meeting.
A typical Bodhee deployment runs 16 to 24 weeks across three phases: assessment and roadmap, plant-specific configuration and integration, then a parallel run into go-live. Bodhee deploys standalone or across production, quality, and maintenance together.
Ready to schedule your chemical plant as one?
A 30-minute tour of Bodhee for specialty chemical production: the engine, the cross-functional layer, and how it fits your ERP, MES, and LIMS.