I recently heard a story about “unlinked coils”. These are coils that are produced but that are not assigned to a production order in the ERP. This means the are not assigned to a sales order either. As a result...

Two barriers that obstruct the implementation of AI in manufacturing are:

Just getting the data to end users does not produce results.

Microsoft Excel has long been used by both managers and engineers for quick data analysis. Entire dashboards have been built with this tool and discussed daily in production meetings. The convenience of scrolling through the data and the ease of...

If you’ve spent any time on the internet lately, you would have heard about [OpenAI’s ChatGPT language model]. If you haven’t done so yet, you can try it out yourself here.

Companies in manufacturing or any other other sector, that were early adopters of machine learning and AI, usually started their digital transformation journey by hiring a team of data scientists. To their disappointment, projects took a lot longer than expected....

In manufacturing plants there is a multitude of systems that generate useful data. Process data produced by factory machines consists of time series and is generally saved in so called data historians (like OSIsoft’s PI system). Data about the completion...