Generative AI in CONNECT with Industrial AI Assistant

Posted: October 01, 2024

As industrial systems grow more complex, teams spend too much time hunting for the right information across disconnected data sources. Introducing Industrial AI Assistant, an industrial generative AI assistant for use alongside CONNECT data and applications. This question-and-answer assistant, purpose-built for industry, allows users to quickly find information by asking a digital intellect natural-language queries through a chat interface. The assistant is designed to interpret these natural-language questions and return accurate, source-linked answers drawn from trusted industrial data.

Learn more about industrial generative AI with our guide.

Industrial AI Assistant was built for industrial—not general purpose—use cases, making it effective for operators, data scientists, and executives seeking greater insights into their data. Furthermore, Industrial AI Assistant is never trained using customer data. It processes your information stored in CONNECT in the background and requires minimal pre-configuration to get started. This ensures users receive accurate, context-aware responses without compromising data privacy or requiring complex setup.

What are the key capabilities of the Industrial AI Assistant?

• Natural-language querying across industrial data sources
• Retrieval of process values, summaries, dashboards, trends, and documents
• Role-based permission awareness and secure data access
• Source-linked citations that support traceability and auditability
• Minimal configuration required for deployment in CONNECT

These capabilities allow teams to work faster with greater confidence in the accuracy and traceability of their insights.

Using the Industrial AI Assistant in CONNECT

Accessing Industrial AI Assistant is as easy as logging into CONNECT, launching visualization, and beginning your conversation with the assistant in the right pane.

Because Industrial AI Assistant anticipates your intended meaning—rather than the exact keyword—to search for associated information across all available data sources, you can ask it questions using natural language.

• Query for specific or summarized process data, events, or saved content related to an identified asset, tag, or content name. For example:
  • What are the bearing and nacelle temperatures for GE07?
  • Which bearing has the highest temperature?
  • Was the temperature for my bearing higher this week or last week?
  • Did any stoppage events occur at the Hornsea Wind Farm in the last 24 hours?
  • Do I have a dashboard on utilization?
  • Do I have a trend for GE01 output?

This capability helps users access operational context quickly without manual searching.

• Query documents and 1D, 2D, and 3D engineering data. For example:
  • Does the document provide guidance on maintenance activities for high bearing temperature?
  • Do we have a 3D model for the Hornsea Wind Farm?
  • What schematics do we have for GE07?

By unifying engineering and operational data, the assistant reduces time spent navigating multiple applications.

Data security, permissions, and built-in guardrails

Industrial AI Assistant includes precautions that protect your data and validate what information it returns. The assistant uses the current user’s profile to restrict results to what they have permission to see. Guardrails have also been implemented to help prevent users from asking inappropriate questions. In addition, citations will show the source of the data and which values were considered when answering a question. These safeguards ensure accuracy, transparency, and responsible use of AI within industrial environments.

How the Industrial AI Assistant differs from general-purpose AI tools

• Built for industrial data structures and asset context—not public web data sets
• Uses CONNECT’s unified data model and application ecosystem for authoritative answers
• Respects strict role-based permissions and never trains on customer data
• Returns transparent, source-linked citations operators can trust

Why Industrial AI Assistant matters

This new capability enhances the value of CONNECT by simplifying the complexities of navigating and interpreting industrial data.

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