Manufacturing & AI
Optimize production processes, improve supply chain management, and increase safety with AI technologies that keep your team on the cutting edge. Your factory of the future is driven by AI that helps you:
Predict equipment failures with insights customized for your unique environment, operators, and workloads.
Reduce downtime and increase productivity with just-in-time maintenance scheduling.
Improve product quality with more accurate defect detection.
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Projected increase in manufacturing productivity by 2035 with AI¹
Projected cost savings in Manufacturing by implementing AI²
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Reduction in defect rates with Vision AI³
AI by the Numbers
Top Benefits of AI
The manufacturing industry is rapidly transforming with the adoption of Industry 4.0 and the application of smart manufacturing technologies designed to optimize productivity, reduce costs, and support business growth. Faced with multiple industry headwinds, higher operational costs, and workforce challenges, today’s manufacturing organizations are adopting data orchestration, automation, and artificial intelligence technologies to remain competitive and achieve their strategic goals.
Augment your workforce with AI, enabling them to focus on higher-value tasks and make more informed decisions. Applying AI to manufacturing processes offloads human tasks better suited to technology, helping you boost productivity, increase job satisfaction, and support a more engaged workforce.
Workforce Productivity
AI-powered vision systems and inspection technologies can detect defects in supplier-delivered materials, documentation, and manufactured products with high accuracy and speed, ensuring only high-quality products reach customers. Reduce waste, improve customer satisfaction, and enhance brand reputation with the right AI solutions.
Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction
Utilize AI to analyze vast quantities of supply chain data in real time, delivering the insights you need to optimize inventory levels, assess historical supplier quality, reduce transportation costs, and improve delivery times. Reduce supply chain risk, maintain lean inventories, enhance overall supply chain efficiency, and predict and react to demand fluctuations more effectively.
Supply Chain Optimization
Reduce costs and improve profitability with AI solutions that enable more timely, accurate predictive maintenance, quality control, process optimization, and supply chain management.
Cost Control
Manufacturing Technology Workshop
Artificial intelligence is changing every aspect of manufacturing, from product design, production, quality, smart products, and even how we empower employees with efficient access to knowledge. The Helix Manufacturing Workshop works closely with your company's diverse leadership to share the realm of possibilities, understand your business goals, articulate highly proven and value-driven use cases, and identify potential proof of concepts to help jumpstart and accelerate your AI adoption.
Data Acquisition and Orchestration
Manufacturers are data-rich, but often struggle to unlock and leverage its full value. Leading with a “no device left behind” strategy, Helix helps connect industrial IoT (IIoT), Commercial IoT, Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Factories, Building Management, Logistics, and Embedded Products across the value stream to set the foundation for trusted corporate data usage by artificial intelligence.
Manufacturing Domain LLMs
Whether augmenting skills gaps or creating a more efficient workforce, the use of domain-specific language models can be designed and tailored to your organization's needs. Helix combines its service expertise of data acquisition, corporate applications and repositories, security and governance, LLMs and RAGs, and domain expertise to help deploy highly productive language models that drive meaningful results for your business.
Supply Chain Optimization
Helix can help you reduce supply chain risk, maintain lean inventories, respond to demand fluctuations more effectively, and enhance overall supply chain efficiency. With the support of supply chain artificial intelligence—Supply Chain and Partner Visibility, Supply Chain Twins, and Supply Chain Simulation—you can take your organization to the next level of flexibility and reliability by assessing and responding to market conditions in real-time.
Quality Management
Artificial intelligence is changing how manufacturing companies approach quality management. With data analysis, pattern recognition, and anomaly detection, you can significantly enhance your quality control processes and manufacture products with exceptional consistency and reliability.
Predictive and Prescriptive Maintenance
AI unlocks the ability to provide real-time visibility into machine status and health, helping your organization improve operational equipment effectiveness, proactively alert maintenance teams and services of potential issues, and predict machine failure. With prescriptive maintenance, you can leverage artificial intelligence to enhance machine availability and utilization, optimize planned maintenance activities, and minimize impact on operations based on historical machine performance, real-time status, and maintenance scheduling.
Manufacturing AI Solutions
Helix understands the importance of executing successful initiatives that balance the need to harness data to create value for our customers while building bridges between today’s short-term challenges and tomorrow’s strategic objectives. For these reasons, our teams are equipped to tackle a mixture of highly feasible and value-added use cases vs the creation of sophisticated models designed to support a business challenge unique to your business.
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Industrial Data Orchestration
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Predictive Maintenance
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Camera Vision, Visual Inspection, and Workplace Safety
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Workforce Management and Productivity with Generative A.I.
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Supplier Documents and Records Management
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Supply Chain Visual Insight, Digital Twins, Simulation and Optimization
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Production Digital Twins, Simulation, and Line Optimization
Use Case Driven Methodology
Let's Build Together
CNXN Helix and Manufacturing Practice understand OT and IT technology, have deep domain expertise, and can stitch together a strategic roadmap that combines your organization’s unique corporate objectives, existing infrastructure investments, and integrates prioritized use cases to help your business adopt AI with a purpose and impact.
For more information about CNXN Helix Center for Applied AI in Manufacturing, contact your Helix Pro account rep or drop us a line at AI@Connection.com
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Manufacturing Partners
We Have You Covered
On top of our core AI foundation partners, Helix has an extensive network of hardware, software and service partners to help provide you with a truly tailored solution.
Sources: (3) Accenture. (2020, October 29). "How AI is changing quality control in manufacturing". https://www.accenture.com/us-en/case-studies/technology/airbus
Why Helix?
Streamline Your AI Journey with a partner who understands your industry inside out. Helix provides specialized industry expertise, tailored AI solutions, and advisory services to help you realize your vision. Our consultancy, backed by proven use cases and domain knowledge, empowers you to address unique challenges and seize opportunities with artificial intelligence. Together with our strategic partners, we'll develop a roadmap aligned with your objectives, integrating prioritized use cases for impactful AI adoption across your business.
AI expertise. At the speed of next.
While our Helix team offers tailored advisory services to guide you through the intricacies of custom AI integration and optimization, our Connection Embedded AI solutions and services deliver instant access to the next-generation devices your workforce needs to unleash the productivity benefits of AI. Leverage the power of all-new silicon—engineered specifically for AI workloads—with CPU, GPU, and NPU architectures suited to your application stack, users, and workflow. Rely on our expertise and deep partner relationships to identify, integrate, and optimize the technology you need to access advanced AI models at the edge, reducing reliance on cloud or remote server connections and equipping your team for success with embedded, on‑device AI.