Generative AI Simplifies Access to Production and Machine Data
At the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (ipa), the project “Visualization of Production Data as a Generative Interactive Extension” (ViPGeniE) is developing an AI-based solution that allows employees to query production and machine data via chat.
The goal is to enable access to data without specialized expertise and to integrate analytics into day-to-day operations.
The solution combines continuously collected production and sensor data with a digital twin of the manufacturing process. This digital twin provides contextual information so that generative AI can interpret machine statuses, temperature trends, or process metrics and present them in the form of text responses and automatically generated charts. This creates a dialogue between humans and the system in which correlations and causes of errors are analyzed step by step.
To this end, Fraunhofer ipa is developing a flexible system architecture that supports the use of various language models, as well as digital twins for data structuring. An initial demonstrator is planned for the second quarter of 2027. Partners include ads-tec Industrial IT, Data Coffee, and Ulrich.
