Let's face it: industrial organizations are under pressure. Business demands are skyrocketing, operations are getting more complex, and IT teams are sprinting to keep up with tech that changes faster than you can say "digital transformation." Trying to stay current and plan for long-term optimization? It feels almost impossible.
You've likely heard how AI-driven coding assistants promise to cut developer coding time by 50%. This got us thinking: Could we achieve even greater time savings for industrial applications using Cognite Atlas AI™? To explore this potential, we conducted a 24-hour innovation sprint where Cogniters tackled real-world industrial challenges, ranging from data management to workflow optimization. Our goal was to push the boundaries of what's possible and see if we could approach an 80% reduction in development time.
The results were impressive, with our team able to create nine applications in 24 hours, and have significantly shifted our perspective on the future of industrial application development. Now, we see the previously "impossible" task becoming a much more tangible reality.
And the Winners Are...
Streamlining Procurement with AI-Driven Data Extraction
- Challenge: Procurement processes are frequently hampered by the sheer volume of unstructured Purchase Order (PO) documents. Analyzing these documents for compliance, cost control, and efficiency is a significant undertaking, leading to time-consuming manual processing, errors, delayed decisions, and missed opportunities for valuable insights.
- Solution: This team developed a Data Extraction Agent that leverages the industrial knowledge graph to automate the extraction and validation of contextualized unstructured data, streamlining key parts of the procurement process.
- It uses Cognite Atlas AI™ APIs to extract data from unstructured documents (e.g., PDF files) and structure it within a Data Model in Cognite Data Fusion®.
- The solution incorporates QA validation to ensure data accuracy.
- It also provides a Procurement Assistant Agent that leverages Cognite Atlas AI™ to deliver actionable insights.
- Value: By automating data extraction and validation, the Data Extraction Agent reduces manual PO processing time, minimizes errors, accelerates decision-making, and unlocks valuable insights from historical PO data, driving substantial efficiency gains in procurement.
Ensuring Production Continuity Through Proactive Anomaly Detection
- Challenge: In process plants, paired sensors are critical for system reliability. Consistent monitoring of these sensors is essential to maintain production continuity, as deviations between sensor pairs can indicate potential issues. Timely detection and resolution of these issues are crucial to minimize downtime and production losses.
- Solution: Cognite Atlas AI™ powers a full-stack application that provides continuous paired sensor monitoring and proactive issue management.
- It continuously monitors paired sensors and flags potential anomalies.
- The solution includes a Trello-like board for efficient issue tracking and management.
- The Cognite Atlas AI™ agent is scheduled to perform correlation analysis on detected twin sensors and generate notifications for identified anomalies.
- An AI-generated application enables users to investigate detected anomalies.
- The Cognite Atlas AI™ agent automates the creation of SAP notifications for verified anomalies.
- Value: This application streamlines anomaly detection and resolution, empowering businesses to minimize downtime, optimize maintenance operations, and enhance production reliability.
Data Lineage: Enhancing Data Confidence and Accelerating Delivery
- Challenge: For data source owners, data engineers, solution architects, and anyone involved in data-driven decision-making, understanding data lineage and sourcing is essential. They need a clear picture of the entire data pipeline, including data sources, extraction pipelines, transformations, and data location within Cognite Data Fusion®.
- Solution: The Data Lineage Agent leverages Cognite Atlas AI™ to provide Cognite Data Fusion® with meta-awareness, enabling comprehensive data visibility.
- It populates a data model with critical components such as transformations, extraction pipelines, views, and data models.
- It provides Cognite Data Fusion® with awareness of standard data flow.
- This enables Cognite Data Fusion® to effectively answer inquiries regarding data lineage and sourcing.
- Value: The Data Lineage agent enhances confidence in using Cognite Data Fusion® by providing autonomous data navigation and tracking, automates the creation of architecture diagrams and documentation, and accelerates project delivery while maintaining high-quality output.
Cognite Atlas AI™ in Action: Driving Innovation Across Industries
These examples are just the tip of the iceberg. During the innovation sprint, teams used Cognite Atlas AI™ to build a ton of solutions that are changing how we think about industrial applications:
- Offset Well Analysis (OWA) Report Generator: Automates the gathering, analysis, and presentation of well data from various sources, saving Drilling Engineers a massive amount of time.
- Data Engineer Agent: Makes data ingestion into Cognite Data Fusion® easier than ever with natural language, automating complex tasks and lowering the barrier to entry for users.
- Well Operation Planner Agent: Helps production engineers quickly get the critical parameters they need for well operation planning to spend more time optimizing those plans.
- AI-Powered Prioritization for Reliability Engineers: Sifts through mountains of data to highlight the most important work, automates data collection, and streamlines work execution, reducing downtime and boosting production.
- Real-Time Drilling Advice Agents: Monitors drilling data, compares it to plans and best practices, and detects anomalies to provide instant guidance, making drilling safer and more efficient.
- Field Ops Template Builder: Uses Cognite Atlas AI™ to extract data from documents and automatically build templates in Cognite's field ops tool, dramatically reducing manual work and accelerating time-to-value.
By giving users the power to build and deploy AI-driven solutions faster and more efficiently, Cognite Atlas AI™ is unlocking the true potential of industrial data and driving digital transformation across industries. The innovation sprint showed us what's possible with Cognite Atlas AI™, and we're excited to continue to work with our customers to leverage its capabilities to achieve even greater success.