MicrosoftExpandedProductionEvidence: Medium50/100

Sight Machine unlocks plant-wide analytics with automated data labeling for manufacturers

Sight Machine, in partnership with NVIDIA and Microsoft, developed Blueprint, a high-speed automated data labeling tool that helps manufacturers leverage all of their plant data for analytics. Traditionally, manual data labeling was so time- and resource-intensive that most manufacturers could only use about 1% of available plant data, limiting analytical insights and data-driven decisions. Blueprint automates the mapping of plant data tags to assets, vastly improving data contextualization and processing speed. This enables manufacturers to prepare and analyze 100x more data, uncover insights to optimize operations, and rapidly improve throughput, quality, and sustainability. Sight Machine's extensive experience in digitizing manufacturing is combined with NVIDIA’s AI hardware/software platform and Microsoft Azure AI/ML capabilities to deliver a scalable, GPU-accelerated solution. The platform helps manufacturers eliminate costly, error-prone manual labeling, accelerates analytics-driven improvement initiatives, and provides actionable insights to drive operational excellence. Blueprint is positioned as a key digital transformation accelerator for manufacturers seeking to unlock greater value from plant data, improve inter-team collaboration, and achieve continuous productivity improvements.

Organization
Sight Machine
Published
October 2022

Reported outcomes

100x

quantified impactAutomation & deflection

Strategic outcomes

New product / capabilityAutomated plant data labeling for analyticsScale & capacityPrepared vastly more plant data for analyticsNew product / capabilityUnlocked contextual analysis of plant dataSpeed & agilityAccelerated operational insight generation
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Normalized claim

Quantified impact: 100 x increase

sightmachine.comOct 11, 2022Press releaseInferred claimMedium evidence strength

Manufacturers can now prepare up to 100x more data for analytics, compared to previous manual methods.

Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
Customer
Sight Machine
Provider
Microsoft
Maturity
Production
Linked source
sightmachine.com

The platform helps manufacturers eliminate costly, error-prone manual labeling, accelerates analytics-driven improvement initiatives, and provides actionable insights to drive operational excellence

Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity supported

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  • 1Automated data labeling for manufacturing analytics
  • 2Plant-wide data contextualization and mapping
  • 3Edge-to-cloud AI analytics in manufacturing
  • Manual data labeling limited to ~1% of available plant data, creating massive missed opportunities for analytics and optimization.
  • Existing processes required significant time and subject matter expertise, with data tags being nearly unintelligible and hard to contextualize.
  • Manufacturers faced barriers in unlocking the full value of plant data for improving throughput, quality, and sustainability.
  • Developed Blueprint for high-speed, automated labeling that maps data tags to plant assets and provides context to plant data.
  • Combined Sight Machine’s software expertise with NVIDIA's GPU-accelerated AI platform and Microsoft Azure AI/ML infrastructure.
  • Enabled scalable processing and contextual analysis of vastly larger quantities of manufacturing data, from edge to cloud.
  • Manufacturers can now prepare up to 100x more data for analytics, compared to previous manual methods.
  • Improved throughput, quality, and sustainability by unlocking data-driven operational insights.
  • Accelerated the timeline for uncovering and acting on analytic insights, making the digital transformation of manufacturing more achievable.
Architecture

Sight Machine Blueprint integrates AI-powered automated data labeling and mapping of plant tags to assets, significantly accelerating contextualization and preparation of plant data for analytics. The solution runs on NVIDIA's AI platform for rapid AI pipeline deployment and leverages Microsoft Azure AI and ML for cloud-scale machine learning and data management. The offering enables seamless edge-to-cloud processing of manufacturing data, unlocking the ability to analyze all available plant data.

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Evidence: Medium50/100Evidence strength
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  • Deployment status explicitly supported
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Type: Press ReleasePublished: Oct 11, 2022Publisher: sightmachine.comEvidence: VendorConfidence: Medium

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