In the fast-paced and complex world of plant engineering, it is crucial to stay ahead of the curve while having all the data at your fingertips to make the right decisions. This is where our new Engineering Advisor solution comes into play – AUCOTEC's groundbreaking, AI-powered chatbot that will be not just another digital assistant, but an expert for all technical questions with deep knowledge about your engineering project. The basis for the agent development is our Engineering Base software platform, which is the single source of truth data repository of the plant.
The technology behind the “magic”
What exactly does Engineering Advisor do? And more importantly, how does it do it? Put simply, the new agent is first and foremost a tireless, almost omniscient technical advisor that supports engineers with their daily tasks around the clock. It uses the power of semantic search and natural language processing to provide engineers with instant, accurate information and guidance. At its heart is the Engineering Base collaboration platform, which contains the complete structured data model of a plant and additional external unstructured data in a single data repository.
Core capabilities that set Engineering Advisor apart:
- Semantic engineering search capabilities in your complete database: Engineering Advisor understands your data model, the process of a plant and the relations. Gone are the days of trawling through endless objects and links. Engineering Advisor will analyse the complete context for you and will respond to your question either as a chat or as a list of matched items.
- Project creation support: Easily turn your search results into actionable projects by identifying and applying proven solutions from your library of completed projects. Engineering Advisor helps you launch new initiatives based on your results or add the found items into your existing project.
- Detailed system analysis: Do you need a comprehensive breakdown of a plant or system? Engineering Advisor creates a strong basis and starting point for detailed descriptions and analyses. Examples include basic principles for HAZOP or safety analyses.
- Providing a basis for calculation of missing properties of your assets or evaluation of existing values. Making an overall sanity check on your asset or list of assets according to regular ranges of results for every property of your asset.
- Data model evaluation: Make sure your data models comply with industry standards such as IEC or ISO. The AI identifies inconsistencies and suggests improvements so that you are always one step ahead of the compliance curve.
Providing conversational guidance about features of Engineering Base, “speech to text”- ability, generation of pictures based on the input from the data model, analysis of technical pictures in the form of PNG or PDF and many more.
All under the premise: Empower engineers, increase productivity!
Really understanding plant engineering
“Engineering Advisor is therefore a comprehensive technical advisor,” says Pouria Bigvand, Director Products at AUCOTEC. “It offers a wealth of valuable information, but of course the user remains the decision-maker. Our new solution is not intended to replace human expertise, but to enhance it.” By efficiently gathering and analyzing information, Engineering Advisor frees up valuable time for engineers and other users to focus on more important tasks.
What makes Engineering Advisor unique? AUCOTEC goes one step deeper than many other ideas and concepts: The extreme accuracy of Engineering Advisor's answers and results are based on the AI-enabled, structured digital foundation of Engineering Base. In this way, the new “AI expert” ensures that users not only receive fast, but also high-quality answers. Bigvand: “This unique combination with our mature collaboration platform Engineering Base results in an AI solution that is not only intelligent, but also truly understands the complexities of plant engineering.”
The fact remains: Engineering Base seems predestined for a link with AI: open for integration, data-centric across different disciplines and also exceptionally consistent and transparent. AUCOTEC’s AI based Engineering Advisor is a milestone on this journey.
