Artificial Intelligence

Empower Your Workflows with AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a powerful catalyst for innovation and growth in today's digital landscape. From traditional AI applications to cutting-edge Generative AI, whether you're new to AI or looking to enhance your existing capabilities, our tailored services are designed to support you every step of the way. We assist in identifying use cases, developing, and deploying effective AI solutions, ensuring you harness the full potential of both conventional and Generative AI technologies.

Strategy & Roadmapping

We support you in strategically building up the right organization, processes, and competencies to succeed with AI. From selecting the best applications and technologies to using AI competitively to address business challenges, we ensure your AI initiatives lead to lasting success.

⁠Customized AI Solutions

We develop customized AI solutions for you to solve specific business challenges in a viable way for return on investment and support you in integrating these solutions into your processes so that your teams can use them productively.

⁠Team Extension

We provide your teams with skilled specialists to analyze the business and operational potential of your data, validate project cases, and implement projects over the mid- to long-term. Our experts seamlessly integrate into your processes, becoming part of your team while maintaining access to our extensive network of experts and partners for enhanced effectiveness.

Skills Development & Training

We provide practical training programs to strengthen your team's competencies and skills. This ensures they stay at the forefront of technological developments, possible application areas, and implementation know-how in Artificial Intelligence.

Selected AI and Software Solutions at a Glance

1. Chat With Your Dashboard

Chat with your dashboard is an LLM-based AI solution that is seamlessly integrated into production shopfloor dashboards commonly used to evaluate and optimize production performance on a daily basis. It functions as a chatbot and is linked to the displayed data sources. Users can now ask questions about the shown values in natural language without the need for specific know-how for data retrieval. Historical values can also be processed and compared with current ones. All statistical analyses can be carried out, for instance to facilitate troubleshooting or quickly identify bottlenecks.

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2. AI Assistant for Assembly Automation Engineers

Designing a fully automated assembly line is time-consuming and requires a high level of expertise - both about the product to be manufactured and about the individual machines to be selected. With the AI Assistant for Automation Engineers, this process can be simplified and accelerated. Automation engineers first describe their basic specifications and requirements for the assembly line. The user is then guided step by step through all the assembly steps and asked about the requirements for that step. The AI Assistant is able to select the correct machine type for each assembly step.

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3. LabV – AI Assistant for the Laboratory Data Management Platform

LabV - the data management platform for your laboratory - now offers even easier handling of your laboratory data with the AI Assistant. The AI Assistant is seamlessly integrated into the platform and makes it easy to load all relevant data. You can interact with your data using natural language. You can display statistical key figures, calculate correlations and have them explained by the LLM or plot values in an appealing way.

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4. AI-Assisted Derivation of Production Parameters

Setting up an injection molding machine for a new product requires a lot of experience, expertise and time. Time because the correct parameter settings have to be found by means of several simulation runs, provided that all quality parameters are adhered to. With the AI quality prediction solution, AI models can be trained using just a few data points, which can then predict the defined quality parameters. The AI model is significantly faster than a corresponding simulation and thus saves a lot of time in the ramp-up process.

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Projects

Explore our featured projects that showcase how we bring innovative ideas to life with customized AI and software development solutions.

Development of a Comprehensive, Intelligent Solution for Data Management in Laboratories for Quality Assurance and Product Development

Together with the NETZSCH Group, we designed LabV, took a key role in its development, and brought it to market as a product that helps laboratories make better use of their data:

Data aggregation: LabV brings together data from laboratory instruments on a central data management platform. A smart mapper is used to process the different data formats and store them in a homogenized format.
Data integration: The merged data is organized in projects and can be combined with other data sources. This allows project details to be obtained from ERP systems or links to be created between the laboratory data and the associated MES data.
Data analysis: Data can be searched for specifically within the platform and further analysis can be carried out, e.g., by adding statistical evaluations or graphical representation.
Data preparation: Project results can be automatically exported to test reports or comparable forms of documentation using Office templates.
LLM support: With the help of the LabV assistant, further complex searches and analyses can be carried out in the data using natural language instructions. LabV integrates the database with the analysis functions of Wolfram Mathematica and makes it possible to use documents for further research.

Collaboration with a Metalworking Company to Develop a Continuous Monitoring and Maintenance Platform

Within the project, we navigated each phase of the complete development cycle of a professional software product, ensuring a systematic and organized approach:

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Market analysis and business model development: Before software development began, the market was thoroughly analyzed, user needs were identified, and a requirements profile was created which provided a basis for the business model.
Minimum Viable Product (MVP): An MVP was then created as a functional demonstrator, which was validated both at trade shows and through initial customer use.
Market-ready product: Based on feedback, the product was refined in terms of both functionality and user experience to ensure professional marketability.
Ongoing development: Continuous product enhancement is professionally managed, focusing on adding new features and maintaining the technological foundation to ensure easy scalability and maintainability.

Scouting for AI Use Cases and Applications in Specific Industries

In this project, a scouting process was conducted to compile a long list of over 50 relevant AI use cases across four different industries, each briefly described according to defined criteria.

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A particular focus was on data strategies used in other industries, how data is interconnected, and how companies collaborate with upstream and downstream partners along the value chain to create cross-company platforms.

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Six use cases selected by the client were explored in greater depth through deep dives and qualitative interviews.

Development of an LLM-Powered Chat Application that Assists in Answering Requests for Information (RFI) and Requests for Quotation (RFQ)

When RFIs / RFQs need to be filled out, it is a very time-consuming back and forth between different people such as subject matter experts, account managers, and the client themselves. We have developed an LLM-based solution for a medical solutions provider to pre-populate RFIs and RFQs. The entire workflow was streamlined to best integrate the AI application into the process and maximize value.

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Key elements of the project:

Collection of a dataset of previously asked questions and their corresponding answers.
Processing of the data to create an index that allows for searching similar questions and answers.
Integration of new questions from RFIs/RFQs with context retrieved from the index.
Utilization of a pretrained LLM to answer the new questions based on the retrieved context.

As a result, new RFI/RFQ forms can be processed much faster with the help of the LLM-supported app, as the questionnaires can be pre-filled and only require a final review.

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Development of Innovative, Advanced LLM-Based Solutions with Industrial Partners from the Manufacturing Sector

Together with the Hong Kong Industrial Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Centre (FLAIR), we developed the following AI solutions in cooperation with various industry partners:

Chat With Your Dashboard: LLM-based chat application that can answer questions about data visualized on a dashboard. For example: What was the average OEE in the last week? Was there an anomaly for temperature zone 1 in the last hour?
AI-Assisted Derivation of Production Parameters: Web app that allows training of selected models on data from an injection molding process.  Subsequently, the trained models can be employed to predict product quality KPIs from the settings of the injection molding machine.
Maintenance Guidance: LLM-powered application, which has a general understanding of wear components, their failure mode, their causes and the corresponding maintenance and servicing measures to guide and support maintenance personnel.
AI Assistant for Assembly Automation Engineers: LLM-based chat application that helps automation engineers make the right machine and equipment selection when designing a new assembly line.