With a strong focus on growing its international business, machine learning solutions provider DataProphet has signed a partnership with leading metallic parts enhancement company Norican Group to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in the foundry industry. This came after a successful partnership with local automotive castings provider Atlantis Foundries.
“Atlantis Foundries faced challenges with complex interrelationships between process variables, as well as a high cost of scrap. This makes traditional process control methodologies uncompetitive,” says DataProphet chief technology officer Dr Michael Grant.
Grant says that DataProphet started working with Atlantis in 2017. DataProphet’s PRESCRIBE solution, now known as Monitizer | PRESCRIBE in the foundry market, was used to improve Atlantis’ processes.
Monitizer | PRESCRIBE is a deep learning solution that provides operational parameter set-point prescriptions across the manufacturing process to reduce product scrap that is produced.
“Monitizer | PRESCRIBE halved the scrap rate in the first month of deployment at Atlantis Foundries and achieves a 0.1% external scrap rate on an ongoing basis,” confirms Grant.
He notes that as Atlantis Foundries continued to grow and benefit from this partnership, “DataProphet started to appear on the radar of many international foundries and other manufacturers”.
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