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METAPHACTORY FOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING

metaphactory supports customers in their digitalization strategy towards intelligent engineering and manufacturing by allowing them to extend data silos with domain-specific models, connect individual data islands, and analyze the integrated data, thus transforming passive data into new, smart knowledge. It generates business value by significantly increasing transparency, reducing redundancy, improving internal processes, and reducing the time required to find and analyze information and reach smart business decisions.

Flexible self-service data access for domain experts

  • Unified data hub for information distributed across multiple, heterogeneous data sources, regardless of data type or format
  • Domain experts leverage domain ontologies and intelligent query construction mechanisms (SPARQL) to access and analyze data in the knowledge graph

Configurations generation to meet customer requirements

  • Improved management of data across multiple subject matters incl. product configuration and operating & maintenance data, error information, and customer data
  • Integrated design process across all components and technologies, thus helping create constraint systems and design flexible solutions on demand

Assurance of product information integrity

  • Reduced efforts for data management by consolidating and connecting product knowledge, and providing high-quality data on product relations for customer-facing applications
  • Guaranteed consistency of information across tools - data integrity dashboard based on expert-defined rules to derive and quality-check product relations and identify data quality issues

Understand and mitigate financial risks

  • Highly agile analysis of risks by combining internal and external data, and leveraging search and analysis interfaces to support arbitrary information needs
  • Improved transparency over customer, partner and competitor data through a unified view over complex networks of comapny relations

Collaboration across various business units and hierarchies

  • Unify corporate data silos to provide transparency over informal communities, as well as formal organizational hierarchies
  • Information on people, projects and organizations is stored in the knowledge graph and makes finding experts easy

Prescriptive advice for complex rule frameworks

  • Time spent on understanding and following processes is reduced by integrating rules, regulations and restrictions in the knowledge graph
  • Non-conformance costs caused by process violations are reduced by automatically providing contextualized information and descriptive advice for various scenarios
 
CASE STUDY: TURBINE SPARE PARTS MANAGEMENT AT SIEMENS ENERGY
Turbine Spare Parts Management at Siemens Energy

SMART AND TARGETED MAINTENANCE OF SPARE PARTS OF LARGE GAS TURBINES

  • Shorter time to market of the business solution through rapid application development
  • Efficient identification and management of spare parts, resulting in higher productivity and yearly time savings of up to 1,500 hours in the first year already
  • Increased business user and customer satisfaction

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"Siemens Energy significantly reduces manual effort for spare parts management of large gas turbines with metaphactory and Amazon Neptune"

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CASE STUDY: SMART MANUFACTURING AT SIEMENS
Turbine Spare Parts Management at Siemens Energy

SMART MANUFACTURING PLANNING AND SMART MANUFACTURING EXECUTION

  • Manufacturing Knowledge Graph to capture heterogeneous data sources and expert knowledge
  • AI-based knowledge graph application to automate the allocation of suitable production equipment
  • Reduced number of plans human manufacturing planners need to review from approx. 1,400 to just 40
  • Feasible and affordable realization of low-volume orders

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"Smart Manufacturing at Siemens with metaphactory Knowledge Graph Platform"

 
CASE STUDY: MATERIALS SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE GRAPH AT BOSCH
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Aiming to support engineers in developing and introducing new materials for production, Bosch is building a knowledge graph that exposes material science knowledge and supplies high-quality answers about existing materials in a timely manner.

In a recent paper presented at the ISWC 2019 Industry Track, Bosch describes how the knowledge graph integrates information stored across multiple sources, and how metaphactory is used to satisfy complex query needs through a user-friendly interface for standard keyword search and semantic-based faceted search.

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CASE STUDY: INDUSTRIAL KNOWLEDGE GRAPH AT SIEMENS
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Intelligent Engineering & Manufacturing

Leveraging semantic technologies and the metaphactory platform, the Industrial Knowledge Graph has become an integral element in Siemens' strategy towards intelligent engineering and manufacturing. It powers various business use cases, including gas turbine maintenance, building automation, risk management, factory monitoring, and internal R&D management. 

To learn more about Siemens's Industrial Knowledge Graph, have a look at the following material:

Have a look at our joint session with Siemens from AWS re:Invent 2017

 
USE CASE: INDUSTRIAL CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

Powered by metaphactory & RDFox

Smart Solutions for Identifying Compatible Components

This knowledge graph-based application for configuration management developed on top of metaphactory and RDFox allows support engineers, product managers, technical planners, or technical maintenance specialists to:

  • Quickly evaluate hundreds of components such as motors, gears, switches, power supplies and controllers, and their individual characteristics.
  • Determine compatibility and find configuration solutions that solve very specific customer needs or maintenance requests, while staying within a predefined budget.

Replace time-consuming and error-prone manual processes with fast and intelligent recommendations



Find configuration solutions


Reuse existing components


Stay within budget


Ensure compliance with standards


Find data you need without IT help

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