AI as an innovation driver

Innovations drive progress, but they also bring challenges. The subject of this interview is artificial intelligence in the Heraeus Group. It is already being used in a wide range of areas and promises significant added value for the company and our customers. AI expert and developer Srinesh Shenoi explains how it works.

AI has already established itself at Heraeus in many ways: With the Heraeus AI Assistant, generative AI is available to employees as an smart tool. The two OpCos Heraeus Conamic and Heraeus Comvance use classical AI for the quality assurance of quartz glass - one of the most important Heraeus products. Heraeus Comvance also uses AI to support efficient packing of its quartz glass furnaces.

The wide range of possible applications needs to be planned, developed and supported. The Heraeus Digital Hub not only takes on the role of developer and driver in many important projects, but also supports Heraeus as a whole in implementing the digital transformation.

In this interview, Data Scientist Srinesh Shenoi, a member of the Heraeus Digital Hub, explains the role of AI in the company's day-to-day operations. He discusses the different areas of application of AI at Heraeus and shows how AI is influencing production processes in the industry.

Interview with a data scientist

Srinesh Shenoi puts AI concepts into practice. He programs and works on a wide variety of projects across the company, always with the aim of using AI to improve everyday working life.

AI as a packing specialist: a hot topic at Heraeus Comvance

Artificial intelligence (AI) can demonstrate its capabilities as an "all-knowing genius" as in ChatGPT, but also in very specific applications. As one of the industrial pioneers, Heraeus is already taking advantage of both. After the first two parts of this series focused on the Heraeus AI Assistant and AI systems for defect detection in quartz glass, this time the focus is on the hot contents of a quartz glass kiln.

AI-generated image of closely spaced, glowing bronze cylinders in an open kiln.

„Find the fault“: Heraeus and AI in quartz glass production

The applications of artificial intelligence (AI) are as diverse as the opinions about it. But there is no doubt that AI can help in many ways. While others are still testing, Heraeus is already using AI. In the first part of this series, we introduced the Heraeus AI Assistant. This time, we will look at the benefits of AI for one of Heraeus' most important products: Quartz glass.

Three quartz glass cylinders lie on a special wooden tray with indentations to prevent the cylinders from rolling away

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