Smart Manufacturing

Sight Machine Inc. and Siemens AG recently announced a partnership bringing manufacturing AI to on-premises automation networks. Sight Machine’s Manufacturing Data Platform is an end-to-end software system for collecting, contextualizing, and analyzing all types of manufacturing data to improve production. It enables manufacturers to unlock the power of industrial data to increase profitability, productivity, and sustainability.

With each captured workpiece, the extended system reports rejects ‘inline’ and constantly optimizes its recognition, independently of adjustments in the milling process. The self-learning defect detection opens up new potential in manufacturing to save time and money in quality assurance.

Festo is setting new standards in process optimization on the shopfloor: By using AI and other smart software solutions, Festo enables its customers to achieve maximum flexibility and increased efficiency in their production processes.

Increasingly, smart factories are made up of connected machines that generate large amounts of data. This opens the door for artificial intelligence-driven analysis and new opportunities for insights on improving supply chains, processes, the customer experience, product quality and more.