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Connecting manufacturing intelligence across the industrial ecosystem

AI is only as valuable as the expertise it can access. Learn how any.site connects manufacturing intelligence across people, systems, and organizations.


The expertise needed to solve most machine issues already exists across the industrial ecosystem. Yet it remains fragmented across machine builders, operators, suppliers, service organizations, and multiple systems.

When a problem occurs, the right knowledge is often difficult to find. As a result, companies face longer troubleshooting cycles, unplanned downtime, and a continued dependence on individual experts.

AI can help solve problems faster. But AI is only as valuable as the expertise it can access.

The Industrial AI challenge

Industrial companies are investing heavily in AI, and the number of available applications continues to grow.

Introducing more AI tools does not solve the fundamental challenge: making existing manufacturing expertise available where and when it is needed. Trusted AI solutions in an intuitive, shopfloor-centered user experience do. 

 

The opportunity lies in connecting AI – and people – with the knowledge that already exists across the industrial ecosystem.

 

How to connect existing expertise

Manufacturing Intelligence is distributed across machine manufacturers, machine users, service organizations, technology partners, and other participants in the industrial ecosystem.

How can companies make this expertise accessible across organizational and technology boundaries – while maintaining control of their knowledge and data?

This is where any.site comes in.

any.site is an AI-powered network that connects manufacturing intelligence. Positioned at the interface of Industrial AI, it connects industrial expertise with the growing ecosystem of AI applications and enterprise software. This enables organizations to leverage both existing and future AI applications while maintaining ownership of their knowledge and data.

As a result, industrial users can access relevant expertise directly within the existing workflows and shopfloor tools they already use. Trustworthy AI bots require context from various data sources, distributed throughout the production system of a manufacturer or within your suppliers and partners. A direct connection between machine operators shopfloor and service experts of the machine OEM can reduce the downtime of a machine drastically.

 

What connected expertise enables

For machine builders

For operators &
maintenance teams
 Scale service expertise across the installed base  Access your in-house maintenance know-how across your production network and connect it OEM and supplier expertise faster 
Reduce support effort Improve first-time-fix-rate at the machine 24/7. 
Create new digital service opportunities Reduce unplanned downtime

Many machine problems have already been solved before. The competitive advantage lies in making that expertise available exactly when and where it is needed.

The future of Industrial AI depends on connecting AI with the expertise, context, and intelligence that already exists across the industrial ecosystem.

 

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