Palantir Technologies is expanding its partnership with WesTrac, a world-leading Caterpillar dealer and leading provider of heavy mobile equipment and aftermarket services in Australia, to deploy the Foundry operating system across WesTrac’s core operations.
Through a partnership that began in 2021, Palantir’s Foundry system is currently being used to help increase the throughput of WesTrac’s Component Rebuild Centre at its headquarters in Perth, Western Australia.
The new multi-year agreement to expand their partnership will deploy the system to WesTrac’s Tomago facility in New South Wales.
Foundry is designed to help workshop planners and supervisors improve task scheduling decisions, manage upcoming part constraints, and increase labour efficiency through proactive alerting on task performance and schedule adherence.
WesTrac’s Inventory Management teams will use Foundry to identify deficits in available inventory that may block workshop progress, enabling the team to make more proactive ordering decisions.
“In the current technology-rich era, WesTrac has a strong focus on incorporating enhanced data-driven decisions across our business as we look to drive our own digital transformation and improve delivery of Cat products in Australia,” said WesTrac CEO Jarvas Croome.
“As we expand the scope of Foundry, including to new applications like AI solutions, we expect uptake of Palantir’s products to increase,” Croome said.
Ashwin Rajan, head of commercial for Australia at Palantir, said Foundry now serves as the Digital Twin for Westrac’s core operations to deliver tangible business benefits.
“The suite of software in Foundry help front-line Component Rebuild Centre & Inventory Teams improve overall efficiency and customer delivery. For example, in just the last 6 months, Foundry has identified a significant number of constrained parts blocking work order progress and suggested remediation strategies to ensure continued operations,” Rajan said.
In addition to Foundry, WesTrac is planning to look into AI solutions leveraging a suite of software, including Palantir’s new artificial intelligence platform.
