Siemens Insights Hub Production Copilot being tested by The Bad Neustadt Electric Motors Factory (EWN)
The new AI chatbot signals a new chapter in Smart Manufacturing assistance.
What is the Siemens Insights Hub Production Copilot?
The Siemens Insight Hub Production Copilot was designed specifically to meet the needs of the manufacturing industry.
Integrated into Insights Hub, this new chatbot enhances data management and analysis in manufacturing environments. It goes beyond standard dashboards by providing intelligent insights from both uploaded documents and live data from sensors and devices. Users can easily upload documents, and the Insights Hub Production Copilot will offer precise answers and point to relevant information within those documents.
Insights Hub Production Copilot also supports automatic document tagging through the integrated data lake, ensuring the latest information is always available. Additionally, the Production Copilot can interpret error messages, analyze telemetry data, and highlight important trends and patterns, making data analysis more intuitive and actionable.
Watch this introductory video to learn how Insights Hub Production Copilot provides AI data-driven insights for your manufacturing operations.
Early-access testing underway
The Bad Neustadt Electric Motors Factory (EWN) obtained early access to the Siemens Insights Hub Production Copilot. Specialists at EWN are testing the new chatbot in various use cases including:
- Intelligent searches of PDF documents
- Support for evaluating data recorded at various intervals (time-series data), such as data from machine sensors
EWN has been connecting its machines to Insights Hub for years, making the data readily available and reusable. The chatbot is also integrated with the “Visual Flow Creator” app, which helps automate data processing and speeds up workflow development.
“As an Early Access participant, we’re able to test the Copilot in the production environment, give valuable feedback to the development team, offer our own preferences and ideas, and take an active role in the development process.“
– Heiko Dickas, Team Lead Digitalization in Electric Motors Factory Bad Neustadt
Benefits and use cases offered by Insights Hub Production Copilot
The Siemens Insights Hub Production Copilot offers several benefits and use cases for EWN.
- Smart support for manufacturing: It provides skilled workers in production with intelligent assistance. The chatbot supplies fast and precise answers to complex questions and makes it possible to efficiently navigate technical documents and processes.
- Optimization of maintenance and quality assurance: Service teams can quickly navigate machine manuals to find answers to their questions. A test is currently underway to determine whether the chatbot can also be used in the quality department to monitor prototype test reports – for example, for rapidly identifying non-compliant characteristics, such as the diameter of boreholes in a mechanical component.
- Simplification of complex settings: The chatbot serves as a memory aid for uncommon or complex machine settings and provides step-by-step instructions that would otherwise be difficult to remember.
- Data-supported decision-making: By analyzing dashboards, the chatbot will be able to help users to make important decisions – for example, by analyzing and statistically evaluating the time series data gathered from a machine or even by comparing it with different machines.
- Centralized data access: All relevant documents are securely stored in the Integrated Data Lake (IDL), which is one of the storage options in Insights Hub. This ensures fast and easy access to the necessary information.
Early access shows promising efficiency gains
“The first conclusion drawn from Early Access is that many use cases can be implemented with the Siemens Insights Hub Production Copilot and that it can increase efficiency in our factory. Its integration in our ecosystem will enable us to implement these use cases quickly and with little effort,” says Heiko Dickas. “The collaboration between EWN and the development team optimizes functionality for customers and creates a reference that supports colleagues in sales. Every customer as well as other Siemens locations that use Insights Hub can benefit from the Siemens Insights Hub Production Copilot and boost their efficiency”, Dickas concludes.
Want to learn more?
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