Monday, January 25, 2016

IBM Works With Wi-Next as Artificial Intelligence Comes To Factories


With the help of artificial intelligence,International Business Machines Corporation would help factories perform their functions

The internet of things enterprise Wi-Next would be equipping its IBM analytics to its systems for quality control and constant maintenance.
The systems would be equipped with a number of abilities including some powered by artificial intelligence to let consumer product manufacturers and processing organizations run production lines in a smooth manner despite what is sometimes a swift pace.
The tie up must play a role in helping deliver a very significant benefit pledged by the industrial internet of things; stopping unexpected shutdowns. It also plans to ensure that any product that is rolling off the production line remains the same.
Industrial machineries have had means to converse with each other for several years, but often with limited, proprietary tools. With the help of industrial internet of things, the options to analyze and gather data are increasing.
Wi-Next manufactures software and devices for gathering data from industrial gear, especially in consumer goods and food service industries. For instance sensors working on a bottled war production line could check the amount of time taken for filling a bottle. Wi-Next Wi-Fi node on the floor of the factory would let the sensors send that data to Wi-Next gateway software. The IOT organization could play the role of a bridge between legacy machinery to machinery systems and analytics and modern networking.
Businesses could route those details into ERP systems and conventional databases or send it through APIs to cloud facilities. Then they could conduct an analysis of it, in real time or after the fact for understanding what’s happening in their facilities in a better manner.
The partnership of International Business Machines Corp.  with Wi-Next provides users an opportunity for tapping into powerful analytics capacities in the Blue Mix Cloud platform of IBM, including its quality and predictive maintenance software.
The Corporation’s investments of billions of dollars in advanced analytics are more than the amount of money a startup is capable of bringing in the equation, CEO of Wi-Next Armando Pereira stated.
The AI of the New York based tech giant is capable of learning how machinery behaves in a period of time and make a prediction regarding what adjustments need to be done, Armando stated. Cognitive computation features are capable of sifting through various data points for the detections of quality failures in real time.
Business could employ those tools in IBM cloud or get them integrated with the Wi-Next gateway software on the systems owned by them. The second option is critical as a large number of customers of the California based organization do not want details regarding their operations for leaving the premises, Armando stated.


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