Inspiration
As a manufacturing engineer, I experienced the struggle of not being able to find the knowledge I needed to fix issues and keep the line running. Tribal knowledge is real, there are lots of highly knowledgeable people within industrial organizations that have a lot of knowledge, but there is not a clear and simple way of sharing that with the rest of the company.
What it does
Industrial AI allows people in organizations to easily share and document the knowledge they have about the company's operations and equipment. For example, how to fix a certain issue with a machine, symptoms of problems with certain equipment, machine manuals, maintenance records, and more.
Then other people can ask our platform any question and our AI will look through all the documentation, find the most relevant documents, and bring them up to you along with a nice summarized response. So you can find the knowledge you need instantly instead of spending hours looking through folders while the line is down.
How we built it
We built an agentic system that gets a prompt from the user, processes the prompt to distil the user's intention, performs RAG on the knowledge base to find appropriate sources of information, and then presents these sources to the user such as videos and PDF documents right on the chat.
Challenges we ran into
RAG accuracy on large volumes of data. When scaling to larger volumes of documents and data, RAG accuracy decreases because of the lack of context in the individual chunks that get embedded.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Multimodal search and retrieval. Being able to upload a video of a tutorial on how to troubleshoot something, and then present that video to a user when they ask a related question.
What we learned
We've learned a lot about RAG and AI agentic systems in general. More so about the possibilities of things that we can do and what we can aim to build over time.
What's next for Industrial AI
Build a robust and accurate RAG pipeline for enterprise search for companies in the industrial sector. Become the knowledge management and documentation platform for the industry.
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