Georgia Pacific on AWS

For nearly a century, Georgia-Pacific has manufactured and distributed paper products, packaging, and lumber. The company uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies to optimize operations and increase efficiencies.

Overview

As a large-scale manufacturing operation with more than 150 facilities, Georgia Pacific (a Koch Industries Company) stays a leader by maximizing productivity, implementing predictive maintenance, and ensuring the highest product quality.

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Georgia-Pacific optimizes operator efficiency using generative AI on AWS

To create a central source of information, Georgia-Pacific turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the power of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to create a chatbot to respond to operators’ questions. Georgia Pacific calls this chatbot ChatGP internally. With this vast, accessible repository of company knowledge, all Georgia-Pacific employees can get quick answers to complex queries that are accurately tailored to their processes.

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Georgia-Pacific improved resiliency with AWS Enterprise Support

Carlos Wiley, enterprise architect at Georgia Pacific (A Koch Company), discusses the importance of preventing application downtime for the organization and the end customer. Georgia Pacific builds on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and uses AWS Enterprise Support capabilities and tools to increase speed, optimize costs, and improve resiliency.

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How Georgia-Pacific improved their resilience posture at scale using AWS Resilience Hub

Georgia-Pacific transitioned their Disaster Recovery (DR) processes from largely a manual effort to a more automated one, improving their application resiliency at scale in AWS using AWS Resilience Hub.

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About Georgia Pacific

Founded in 1927 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia-Pacific is one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of pulp and paper products worldwide. The company started in a single building in Augusta, Georgia, and now has more than 150 Georgia-Pacific locations globally. Its brands include Angel Soft, Dixie Insulair, Vanity Fair, Brawny, Sparkle, and more.