Industry & maintenance
AI for industry.
Find the right procedure.
Equipment references, manuals and maintenance reports are often spread across several folders. Initial IA helps teams locate the relevant document, identify its version and prepare information for a qualified person to check.
For maintenance, production, methods and technical support teams.
Equipment and procedures.
Find what applies on site.
The useful starting point is an equipment family with reliable references and approved documentation. Link field names to the equipment directory, distinguish active versions from withdrawn ones and make ambiguous references visible.
01Find the right manual and revision
Equipment has several field names and two manuals are circulating in the workshop.
Match a field name or equipment identifier to its documented model and variant. Retrieve the referenced procedure and show its revision and status.
The technician confirms the actual equipment and the applicable approved procedure.
02Retrieve previous maintenance records
The same symptom returns, but previous interventions are spread across several reports.
Find reports associated with the equipment and prepare a summary of recorded symptoms and work, with dates and sources. Separate observations from proposed explanations.
The qualified team assesses the situation and decides what investigation or intervention is appropriate.
03Prepare order information
A customer order uses an abbreviated reference or a unit that differs from the catalogue.
Compare references, quantities and units in incoming documents with an authorised catalogue. Flag abbreviated references and mismatched units before proposing an entry.
Staff confirm the product, variant and quantity before approving the order.
The right document for the right equipment.
Illustrative example: a technician searches for the reference manual associated with a pump identified in the equipment directory.
Available excerpts
- 1
Equipment directory
Record P-17
P-17 corresponds to model PX-200, variant B. Field name: transfer pump 2.
- 2
Document register
Model PX-200 · variant B
Reference manual: N-PX200-B, revision 02. Revision 01 has been withdrawn from the active collection.
Which reference manual is associated with pump P-17?
- Equipment identified
- Pump P-17 is associated with model PX-200, variant B, in the supplied directory.[1]
- Manual to consult
- The register identifies N-PX200-B, revision 02. Revision 01 is marked as withdrawn.[2]
Confirm the identifier on the equipment and open the complete manual. This answer identifies a document; it provides no intervention instructions.
- 01
Identify the equipment
- 02
Match the model and variant
- 03
Retrieve the reference revision
- 04
Check against the actual equipment
A retrieved manual is not an instruction to intervene. Existing safety procedures, authorisations and technical checks remain necessary.
Choose one equipment family.
Test realistic questions on a controlled collection. Include similar references, withdrawn procedures and unanswered questions to determine where the assistant can be used.
- Correct model and variant matches
- Correct document revisions
- Search time including verification
What to prepare
- 01
A verified equipment directory and its field names.
- 02
Approved manuals with revision and withdrawal status.
- 03
Technical reviewers and a set of known-answer questions.
A tool to try.
Evidence to decide.
A document assistant for one equipment family, a set of field questions and a record of retrieved sources. Tests include similar references, withdrawn procedures and questions without a documented answer.
Keep the scope to cases where the correct variant and version are retrieved. An ambiguous reference should prompt a clarification from the technician.
From the business need
to the right tool.
The sector provides context. Each service sets out the project scope, deliverables and deployment conditions.
Before
you start.
01Can the assistant use our existing manuals?+
That can be the starting scope. Check readability, references and revision status first. Scanned documents, tables and diagrams need their own retrieval checks.
02What happens when several equipment variants match?+
The response should show the ambiguity and request an identifier or clarification. Test this explicitly with similar references before deployment.
03Can the assistant run in our environment?+
Hosting and operation are scoped around your constraints: access, network, equipment, data and maintenance responsibilities. The deployment choice follows that assessment.
Which document takes
too long to find?
Start with an equipment family, the questions technicians ask and the documents they may use. We can define what to test and who will validate the answers.
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