# DriveX Smart Production Planning: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/drivex-smart-production-planning/
Covers: Oct. 2, 2026
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: Newsprint, "DriveX Smart Production Planning: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/drivex-smart-production-planning/, updated 2026-11-11

> DriveX Smart Production Planning is on the AI manufacturing operations software map. We record 1 dated launch or event for it. The latest is dated Oct. 2, 2026.

"生産計画AIスケジューラ「スマート生産計画」" (Smart Production Planning, an AI production planning scheduler). It connects to ERP and Excel as they are and builds plans that balance load and meet due dates, without changing how the floor works. Production planners at Japanese manufacturers buy it. Source: [drivex.co.jp](https://drivex.co.jp/).

## Facts

- Site: [drivex.co.jp](https://drivex.co.jp/)
- Founded: [2022](https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-drivex-smart-production-planning)
- Category: Production scheduling
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The AI manufacturing operations software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-drivex-smart-production-planning)

"生産計画AIスケジューラ「スマート生産計画」" (Smart Production Planning, an AI production planning scheduler). It connects to ERP and Excel as they are and builds plans that balance load and meet due dates, without changing how the floor works. Production planners at Japanese manufacturers buy it. Source: [drivex.co.jp](https://drivex.co.jp/).

- Category: Production scheduling
- Price: not published; sales-led
- AI capabilities: AI scheduling
- Scale: No disclosed scale (Early-stage round of about US$1.15M from business companies and individual investors, no institutional lead named)
- Founded: 2022

Sources: [drivex.co.jp](https://drivex.co.jp/) and [dealroom.co](https://dealroom.co/news/158470-japans-drivex-raises-950k-to-bring-ai-to-factory-production-planning/).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### DriveX raises early-stage round for Smart Production Planning

Funding round, Oct. 2, 2026. DriveX raised US$1.15M (roughly $950,000 in the same article) in an early-stage round from business companies and individual investors to build out its AI production planning tool and factory deployment support.

Source: [Dealroom News](https://dealroom.co/news/158470-japans-drivex-raises-950k-to-bring-ai-to-factory-production-planning/). From [the AI manufacturing operations software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-drivex-smart-production-planning).

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology