Industry Technology Applications
AI for Manufacturing
Gain unprecedented artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to remain competitive in a complex global market.
Business Challenges
In manufacturing, you're under pressure to continuously improve quality while reducing costs and increasing productivity. You also strive to right-size inventory and boost profitability while driving year-over-year cost improvements. Finding new ways to extract value from the deluge of sensor and IoT data would enable you to move from a reactive to a proactive approach to minimizing unplanned downtime, reducing scrap and rework, and developing innovative new revenue streams.
Managing the unexpected is a constant challenge. Traditional approaches – Six Sigma, line-level reporting, MES systems – are no longer sufficient for gaining insights from data to improve decision making. Finding new ways to harness the value of industrial data is essential to enabling modern manufacturers to manage today's data volume, velocity and variety.
How AI Can Help
Advances in AI enable us to automate complicated tasks and find useful signals in data that was previously too large or complex to tackle. From quality and equipment performance, to supply chain and spare parts optimization, to service improvements and monetization of IoT data, AI techniques can unlock new insights across the spectrum of manufacturing data, enabling you to:
- Find early indicators of potential quality issues. AI capabilities go far beyond what simple rule-based systems can do, continuously learning to automatically detect patterns in data that a human would likely never see.
- Avoid costly scrap and rework. Use image recognition to identify flaws during the manufacturing process so you can address them promptly.
- Identify areas for improvement. Text analytics, including natural language processing, lets you link customer sentiment, service comments and other written records to quality and production variables to identify areas for improvement.
- Improve yield. Apply deep learning in industrial operations to optimize product composition and production techniques, combining audio, video, text and other data at efficiency levels that were previously unimaginable.
Why choose SAS for AI solutions?
As the leader in advanced analytics, SAS understands that a carefully designed and well-implemented analytics strategy enables manufacturers to meet their production and profitability goals more efficiently and effectively. It’s not just about getting the technology right; it’s about using data to manage complexity, reduce risk, improve margins and even create new sources of revenue.
That's why we embedded AI capabilities in our software – from our powerful analytics platform to solutions that help manufacturers confidently detect, resolve, predict and prevent quality and reliability issues. SAS simplifies data integration from diverse systems, extracts deeper insights from data to drive productivity improvements, and can be deployed wherever and whenever you need the insights in your operations – on-machine or across the enterprise.
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AI Solutions for Manufacturing
- SAS® Asset Performance AnalyticsHarness M2M and sensor data to boost uptime, performance and productivity while lowering maintenance costs and reducing your risk of revenue loss.
- SAS® Event Stream ProcessingGunakan pembelajaran mesin dan analitik streaming untuk mengungkap wawasan di edge dan membuat keputusan cerdas secara waktu nyata di cloud.
- SAS® Field Quality AnalyticsDetect emerging issues and perform root-cause analysis to improve product quality and brand reputation.
- SAS® Forecast ServerMenghasilkan banyak perkiraan dengan cepat dan otomatis untuk meningkatkan perencanaan dan pengambilan keputusan.
- SAS/OR®Mengoptimalkan proses bisnis dan mengatasi tantangan dengan metode operations research yang ditingkatkan.
- SAS® Production Quality AnalyticsGain a holistic view of quality across the enterprise and throughout the entire supply chain.
- SAS® Quality Analytic SuiteIdentify issues earlier, find root causes faster and greatly reduce costs associated with recalls and brand reputation erosion.
- SAS® Text MinerTemukan topik dan pola dalam seluruh kumpulan dokumen dengan menambang sumber data yang tidak terstruktur menggunakan teknik supervised, semisupervised dan unsupervised.
- SAS® Visual Penambangan Data and Pembelajaran MesinDukung proses penambangan data dan pembelajaran mesin end-to-end dengan antarmuka visual dan pemrograman yang komprehensif untuk pengguna dari semua tingkat keahlian.
- SAS® Visual ForecastingBuat perkiraan tepercaya dalam jumlah besar, dengan cepat dan otomatis, menggunakan rangkaian waktu dan teknik pembelajaran mesin.
- Analitik Teks Visual SAS®Membuat skala dari tindakan manusia dalam membaca, mengatur, dan mengekstraksi informasi yang berguna dari volume data text yang sangat besar.