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MTEK is Revolutionizing Manufacturing with No-Code MES and AI Innovations

EMS@C-LEVEL · 4 Jul 2024 · 19m

AI in practice: 2 real uses of AI described

What this episode covers

Matthias Andersson, founder and CEO of MTEK Industry AB, discusses his company's MBrain, a no-code Manufacturing Execution System (MES) recognized by ABI Research as an Innovation Leader. He explains how MBrain’s rapid deployment and configurability allow customers, such as a heat pump manufacturer in Poland, to achieve zero defects within 100 days. Andersson highlights a strategic partnership with Microsoft to leverage Microsoft Fabric for AI-driven manufacturing intelligence, contrasting modern capabilities with his early experiences deploying neural networks at Nokia in the 1990s.

AI in practice

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Running the companyMicrosoft Fabricfive minutes

MTEK integrated its system with Microsoft Fabric to enable natural language querying of manufacturing data, allowing engineers to get answers to critical operational questions in minutes rather than days.

“After we got access to it , we made the integrations to it and was certain I can't name the features that will be released . We were able to get our system through a prompting to answer three , four , five of the most important questions that any manufacturing engineer would ask themselves every morning…”

Speaker 2 · Hear it at 8:19

Running the companyeight hours to less than three seconds

MTEK activated internal AI tools for its developers, which reduced the time required for certain programming tasks from eight hours to less than three seconds.

“I had one of my most senior uh programmers coming running to me jumping up and down when we activated our AI tools internally for developers and he said what usually took me eight hours I now do in less than three seconds…”

Speaker 2 · Hear it at 14:27

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Companies
MTEK Industry AB, Microsoft, Nokia, Koh Young, Global Electronics Association
Products
MBrain, Microsoft Fabric
Also
ABI Research

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