Faster, more flexible and more efficient manufacturing processes - these are pressing requirements in today's industry. In order to increase overall efficiency in production, optimization potential must first be made visible. "The key to this is analyzing the performance of the entire shop floor and related processes. Our 'Manufacturing Analytics Control' product family offers comprehensive data analytics options for this, both in real-time and based on historical data. This provides a clear insight into current and past performance, especially for critical machines and processes," explains Peter Bollinger, CEO of iTAC Software AG.
"Manufacturing Analytics Control" can be used to complement the Manufacturing Operations Management system iTAC.MOM.Suite, which is designed to plan, control and monitor production processes in real-time. However, it can also be implemented as a stand-alone solution.
The iTAC.MOM.Suite is designed to be modular and scalable and can be seamlessly integrated into companies' digital platform strategies thanks to its openness. The comprehensive platform's microservices architecture makes it possible to provide functionalities according to individual demands. The existing functionalities for traceability, production planning and control are gradually being expanded to include new applications, including AI and low-code tools.
AI increases industrial value creation
In addition to intelligent analysis, iTAC also focuses on efficient interaction between human and machine. The company has integrated an AI chatbot as a plugin for the Workbench. The multimodal language model is able to understand the technical documentation based on specific data stored by iTAC and provide appropriate, technically-savvy answers to questions. It can also recommend the right API for a particular use case and even generate script code for a use case based on the API documentation and input. In addition, the tool offers translation capabilities for over 140 languages.
"Users can chat with the system and ask questions about specific functionalities or interfaces, for example. If an answer does not fully resolve the issue, further details can be called up. Among other things, we have stored all the iTAC.MOM.Suite manuals on which the information is based. And the system has the ability to understand and generate code itself. In this way, artificial intelligence helps to significantly increase industrial value creation," explains Peter Bollinger.
iTAC thus combines artificial intelligence with a holistic production management system - always in compliance with the highest safety criteria and guidelines.
The company offers solutions for all industries across the entire production chain. These range from simulation including production planning with the solutions of iTAC subsidiary DUALIS to Manufacturing Analytics Control. Together with ANT Sp.zo.o, a company that has been part of the Dürr Group since summer 2023, the challenges of high-volume production environments, such as in the food and cosmetics industries, i.e. in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector, can also be overcome. The industrial software specialist's solutions are also used in the pharmaceutical industry, where they help to increase efficiency in the production of medicines, vaccines and food supplements.
Together with DUALIS and ANT Sp.zo.o, iTAC will be presenting combined software solutions at HANNOVER MESSE, which will be demonstrated at the joint booth (Hall 15/Booth F13). They provide answers to current challenges in times of digitalization in the industry.
