Harnessing generative AI in manufacturing
Generative AI is transforming industries. Many manufacturers are exploring its potential, with some testing pilots.
Generative AI offers a competitive edge. Most IT leaders see value in using business data to enhance AI models, but few have the needed data architecture. Crescent Technology brings cloud-based AI to unlock transformative potential.
Generative AI delivers transformative results from office to factory floor.
With generative AI, manufacturers can:
Boost shop floor productivity
Use machine data and records for faster issue diagnosis and resolution.
Speed up worker training
Capture expert knowledge for training content to onboard new workers.
Enhance product engineering
Create, test, and refine designs, develop prototypes, and accelerate market delivery.
Challenges of adopting generative AI
Key challenges in adopting generative AI include:
- Scaling from pilot to production
- Selecting high-performing foundation models
- Enhancing models with proprietary data
- Protecting and controlling data sharing
- Training staff on new technology
Explore use cases to see how Crescent Technology can drive competitive advantages with generative AI.
Key Terms
Artificial Intelligence (AI):Computer science field solving cognitive tasks like learning and image recognition.
Machine Learning (ML):Algorithms using patterns for tasks without explicit instructions. Subset of AI.
Large Language Model (LLM):ML model trained on vast data to generate text, images, and more.
Generative AI:AI creating new content like text, images, and music using pretrained models.
Foundation Model (FM):Pretrained ML model with vast data, powering generative AI applications.
GENERATIVE AI JOURNEY
Starting your generative AI journey
Adopting generative AI requires a clear strategy. These steps ensure a strong start:
Define objectives
Focus on goals like faster onboarding, better machine uptime, or improved quality to guide progress.
Identify use cases
Use best practices to pinpoint where generative AI fits before implementation.
Select foundation models
Choose between existing models or custom builds, as each offers unique advantages.
Crescent Technology enables manufacturers to reinvent products and processes with generative AI.
Collaborate with experts
Partner with Crescent Technology to focus on goals while leveraging their AI expertise and innovation.
AI applications in manufacturing
Explore how AI can enhance product engineering, production, and workforce training.
Product Engineering
Explore optimized design options and generate synthetic data for simulations.
Production
Accelerate production issue remediation and optimize operational efficiency.
Worker Training and Productivity
Guide the use of manufacturing machinery with generative AI-powered chatbots.
Develop better designs faster
Manufacturers face challenges with on-premises equipment, remote access, and innovation. Generative AI enables rapid exploration of design options, minimizing cost, materials, and production time.
Design potential
Combining AI with high-performance computing, generative AI uncovers innovative product designs.
Dataset analysis
Generative AI quickly analyzes large datasets to improve products, speed manufacturing, and accelerate market delivery. It creates synthetic datasets for simulations, reducing physical prototypes.
Crescent Technology’s generative AI model generates functional 3D objects from 2D images or text, applicable in architecture and product design.
Senior VP, Design & Manufacturing Software
“Generative AI, powered by Crescent Technology, provides real-time insights and best practices, empowering operators to make optimal decisions.”
VP – Digital Transformation
Crescent Technology’s generative AI chatbot guides operators with troubleshooting, reducing resolution time from hours to minutes and minimizing escalations.
Minimize downtime, optimize production
Effective data strategies boost manufacturing productivity, quality, and machine availability.
Crescent Technology’s Industrial Data Fabric unifies data types for scalable, secure access to high-quality datasets, enabling digital transformation and generative AI adoption for improved quality, maintenance, and processes.
Generative AI speeds issue resolution with troubleshooting steps, optimizes machine productivity with data-driven recommendations, and enhances quality using synthetic image data for computer vision models.
Enhance worker productivity
Onboard workers faster
Generative AI chatbots provide 24/7 support, answering questions on complex machine settings to optimize production. They generate knowledge bases with FAQs, best practices, and troubleshooting, fostering continuous learning. For machine issues, AI suggests repairs and maintenance, reducing downtime and escalations.
Crescent Technology’s generative AI creates synthetic image datasets to train ML models, reducing false rejects in manufacturing by over 50%.
Crescent Technology enables rapid innovation with generative AI, powering a Technician AI Assistant that uses technical documentation to speed field service.
CIO
Transform with generative AI on Crescent Technology
Crescent Technology drives manufacturing productivity with generative AI:
1. Build scalable AI applications
Crescent Technology’s managed service offers access to powerful foundation models (FMs) with secure, scalable infrastructure for generative AI and ML workloads.
4. Flexible scalability
Explore and deploy diverse FMs via Crescent Technology’s ML hub, with continuous model additions for long-term flexibility.
Crescent Technology innovates across the generative AI stack, offering tools for coding, model access, and infrastructure to train and run large language models (LLMs).
2. Leverage valuable data
Crescent Technology connects enterprise data to answer questions, summarize trends, and enable data-driven dialogue.
3. Focus on innovation
Crescent Technology’s tools, like real-time code suggestions and data visualization, help developers and business users innovate faster.
5. Build custom FMs
Crescent Technology provides managed infrastructure to build, train, and deploy custom ML models, streamlining the ML lifecycle.
With top-tier security, diverse FMs, and cost-effective infrastructure, Crescent Technology accelerates generative AI to boost productivity and transform operations.
Next steps
From aiding machine maintenance to improving new product designs and more, generative AI is delivering transformative results.
Crescent Technology helps manufacturers leverage the power of this technology, improving production, optimizing supply chain management, and creating better products faster. For manufacturing organizations looking to innovate beyond the competition, the time to adopt generative AI is now.
Industrial Data with Generative AI
Manufacturers must act fast, turning OT and IT data into insights to stay competitive.
They need precision to improve designs, optimize production, reduce downtime, and address worker shortages.
Generative AI provides rapid recommendations to transform manufacturing, enhance engineering, and improve equipment effectiveness.
Driving innovation with generative AI
Modern manufacturers face intense pressure to do more faster, with less cost and waste. Generative AI can help bridge the gap—but first, manufacturers must access, unify, and migrate industrial data to the cloud
Gain insights with industrial data
Generative AI on Crescent Technology, paired with a data strategy, offers secure, high-performance infrastructure and leading foundation models to drive innovation and business value for manufacturers.
Crescent Technology’s generative AI model creates functional 3D objects from 2D images or text, enabling innovative designs for architecture and product applications.
VP for Design & Manufacturing Software
Leading generative AI use cases
Transform manufacturing operations.
Develop new and improved designs faster
Run simulations with synthetic data, uncover innovative designs, and engineer and improve products faster.
Improve OEE
Speed production with reliable production adjustment recommendations and improve machine availability with suggested repair procedures and maintenance actions.
Enhance worker training and productivity
Provide operating and repair guidance on complex machinery around the clock, automatically maintain a knowledge base with frequently asked questions, and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Crescent Technology’s generative AI optimizes inventory and supply chain for manufacturing efficiency.
Data Engineering & Analytics Expert