DataProphet appoints Haser Consulting as a Channel Partner for the US automotive manufacturing and assembly industry, to introduce DataProphet’s OMNI product, an AI-powered plant optimization solution, to the industry.
Prior to founding Haser consulting, Bill Haser was vice president and chief information officer with Tenneco, a $9.3 billion global manufacturing company. In this role, Bill had responsibility for the company’s global information technology operations. Bill led several iterations of IT transformations, most recently adopting a bimodal IT organization to position Tenneco to become a more digital company. Initial results of this transformation included significant improvements in the company’s capabilities for analytics, engineering program management, supply chain planning, customer understanding, and manufacturing planning.
DataProphet, a leading global AI and Machine Learning specialist company, with offices and channel partners in the USA, Brazil, Europe and South Africa, uses Artificial Intelligence in their OMNI solution, to extract value from historical data to reduce variance in quality in manufacturing.
“Often in manufacturing plants, an innately human combination of experience and gut-feel guide operators in their decisions when they can’t process an understanding of the intricate and complex interdependencies of the process in real-time. OMNI was built from state-of-the-art Machine Learning models to ensure they continuously make the best decisions for the current plant state while being mindful of the processes up and downstream of them,” says DataProphet’s CEO & co-founder, Frans Cronje.
The DataProphet team begin by unifying often disparate sources of data to provide operators and engineers alike with a unified view of production and quality data for the product, often for the first time in the history of the plant. Upon ingesting the data, the OMNI solution-an expert system creates a learnt digital twin of the plant and can inductively discover the entire process from hundreds of man-years’ worth of institutional knowledge embedded in the data.
In this practical application of AI and machine learning, the optimum operating paradigms are identified from the historical data and then prescribes actions based on the current operating characteristics of the plant. These prescriptions are provided within the context of a systemwide view which is cognizant of upstream and downstream processes. OMNI, therefore, prescribes parameter settings to operators before the fluctuations in the process flow reach their areas of responsibility, ensuring the optimum parameter settings across the plant.
The result is a reduction in variation and improved plant metrics through optimized and unified operations. DataProphet has successfully installed OMNI in foundries, automotive manufacturing & assembly plants, long steel mills and ore beneficiation/mineral processing plants globally, reducing the cost of non-quality by more than 50%. We look forward to collaborating with Haser Consulting in further introducing our solutions to the automotive manufacturing and assembly industry in the US.
“I’m excited to be working with DataProphet. Their ability to create real documentable value for customers in a short time period with minimal client investment creates a compelling business case, ” said Bill Haser, president of Haser Consulting.
