Mosbach, August, 1st 2023 – Artificial intelligence (AI) in the Smart Factory does not have to be complicated or expensive: With MPDV's new AI Suite, manufacturing companies can easily leverage AI methods in order to fully exploit their data.
Reaching the goal with little effort
All applications of the new AI Suite can be deployed and used without cost-intensive AI project — out of the box, so to speak. This easy deployment is possible thanks to the existing semantic data basis shared by all IT solutions from MPDV. There is no need for a data scientist. Manufacturing companies can gain insights about their production within a very short time.
The AI Suite currently includes eight standard applications. They provide features to automatically plan production and personnel deployment, as well as analyze and predict default times, scrap and machine utilization:
- AI Planning: Reduce production costs and increase on-time delivery with perfect planning.
- AI Workforce Planning: Deploy available personnel capacities based on their qualifications in the best possible way.
- AI-based Production Time Prediction: Determine realistic default values and thus improve planning results.
- AI-based Scrap Analysis: Detect and understand reasons that lead to scrap.
- AI-based Capacity Utilization Analysis: Analyze fluctuating utilization rates of machines.
- AI-based Setup Rate Analysis: Identify factors influencing the setup rate of machines.
- AI-based Resource Performance Account Analysis: Analyze resource performance accounts systematically.
- Predictive Quality: Predict quality of products.
Why artificial intelligence?
Everybody is talking about artificial intelligence (AI), which is already an integral part of our everyday lives in many areas, such as language assistants, translation tools, and navigation systems. AI also offers enormous opportunities in the Smart Factory by optimizing production, increasing productivity, and improving sustainability.
While today AI is mainly used by a few larger companies in complex and costly projects, MPDV's AI Suite provides a wide range of standard applications. MPDV offers applications that allow manufacturing companies, even small and medium-sized ones, to get started with little preparation and no major effort. The data that is required is usually available in the Manufacturing Integration Platform (MIP).
The AI-based applications of the AI Suite enhance the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) HYDRA X and also the Advanced Planning and Scheduling System (APS) FEDRA.