Litmus provides the data intelligence platform to quickly collect, normalize and analyze high volumes of live data from industrial assets and make it available to OT and IT systems via edge-to-enterprise integration. The ProcessMiner program uses machine learning and sensor data to model, predict and prescribe process control recommendations for product quality improvement purposes.

Together, the ProcessMiner and Litmus platforms symbiotically help manufacturers looking to transform their operations using a fully automated data-driven approach to achieve Industry 4.0 and SMART Factory objectives, including autonomous manufacturing for business operations.

“Litmus offers something to our customers that is mission-critical. As customers invest in technology to improve product quality, reduce scrap rates and improve yield, secure access to the incoming data has to be accurate and normalized to ensure the integrity of our predictions and recommendations downstream. Litmus solves that problem for us.” —Karim Pourak, CEO and Co-founder, ProcessMiner

“Process improvement is one of the primary goals for our customers and partnering with ProcessMiner allows us to give them an even stronger offering with cutting-edge AI technology. We provide the intelligence at the edge, and the power of ProcessMiner’s AI will go a long way toward driving measurable ROI for customers looking to further predict quality and make actionable recommendations for manufacturing processes.” —John Younes, co-founder and COO, Litmus.

Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to ProcessMiner’s AI platform to take advantage of the scalability, reliability and agility of Microsoft Azure to drive application development and shape business strategies.

Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to ProcessMiner’s AI platform to take advantage of the scalability, reliability and agility of Microsoft Azure to drive application development and shape business strategies.

ProcessMiner, an Artificial Intelligence platform for manufacturing, announced its platform is live in the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace. Based in Atlanta GA, ProcessMiner delivers real-time systems monitoring, predictive analytics, and recommendation solutions for manufacturers.

Continuous manufacturing processes are highly complex, and the ProcessMiner platform combines the strengths of data science and machine learning to help improve product quality. Defects, errors, scrap-rates and subgrade products are expensive to any manufacturing operations and ProcessMiner’s turn-key platform identifies and helps fix underlying causes of product quality degradation. Any manufacturer with continuous improvement goals can benefit from the information ProcessMiner delivers its operators through highly intuitive user-interfaces. Among the system’s benefits is a lower cost of operations through energy savings and reductions in raw materials. Additionally, Product Quality improvement lessens waste and improves product margins and production throughput.

Microsoft Azure is a cloud platform created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft managed data centers. Commonly referred to as Cloud Computing it provides users and customers software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) services and supports many different programming language tools and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software systems. This allows customers who are interested in using ProcessMiner’s software the ability to procure the software directly in the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace.

“We are very excited about growing our operating reach with acceptance into the Azure Marketplace,” said Karim Pourak, Co-founder and CEO of ProcessMiner. “Historically, we’ve come across interested manufacturing companies looking to deploy our software for their business, but they were hamstrung because our operating environment was limited to one cloud services provider”. Pourak added, “Now that our platform is hosted with multiple cloud service providers, we’ve lifted that restriction allowing us to scale more rapidly.” he continued “Thanks to the marketing features of Azure, we expect to broaden our awareness to manufacturers shopping for Artificial Intelligence.”

“The Microsoft Commercial Marketplace lets customers worldwide discover, try, purchase and deploy software solutions that are certified and optimized to run on Azure”, said Diego Tamburini, Principal Industry Manager for Manufacturing, at Microsoft Corp. “The Microsoft Commercial Marketplace helps solutions like ProcessMiner reach more customers and markets.”

The Connected Manufacturing Leaders Summit in Berlin brings together Ops tech and Info tech from some of the world’s biggest manufacturers; all of them on the quest for Industry 4.0.

Manufacturing Global was in the audience to hear a panel discussion packed with insight on “Connecting the ‘purpose’ to the data.”

ProcessMiner CEO, Karim Pourak, Moderated an Expert Panel

Moderator Karim Pourak, CEO, ProcessMiner introduced an expert panel featuring John Vermeer, Director Digital & Smart Factory, Philips, Jens Schmidt, Global Technology Director, Dow Chemical, Damodar Hedge, Director Digital Operations Excellence & Digital Supply Chain, Coca-Cola and Tony Lewis, Global Product Manager – Digital Services, Solenis.

The panel considered a question at the heart of digital transformation for manufacturers: “How can you best define your business goals to gather the right data and make forward-thinking decisions?”

Addressing the rise of digital from the factory floor to the boardroom…

The Connected Manufacturing panel reflected on the role of the Chief Digital Officer and what makes a good CDO.

“It’s a tremendous help if that person understands the manufacturing process and can map the digital part to what’s actually happening on the shop floor with the workflow,” said Schmidt. “It’s beneficial if that person isn’t purely from manufacturing and trying to learn digital stuff; you need to find someone with a solid grounding in the digital world and at the same time understand the challenges of the factory world. The difficulty comes in managing expectations while keeping up with what’s happening in the marketplace.”

Expanding on the need to manage the expectations of shareholders and investors, Hegde noted that digital is an area where managers aspiring to be CDOs will end up getting a new job title every quarter based on the idea that “if you want to get something done give it to someone who is busy”. He added that a big part of the Chief Digital Officer role is involving all areas of the business in your decision making, so it’s important that they are sitting at the table rather than reporting into a CIO or Head of Finance.

“It should be someone who can translate buzz words into something useful,” advised Vermeer. “They need to be realistic about what can be achieved.”

“They need to manage how the company moves forward because people respond to progress. The most important thing for a CDO is to get a budget and the chance to set some approvals and statements in your company,” said an IoT professional who commented from the audience. “You can be a super good networker but if you don’t have the power and the due diligence to go and change something, you’ve just got a title because your company wanted to show its was doing something about Industry 4.0 but wasn’t that serious about it.” She argued that there was no point in occupying a role that could commission debt with no power to change anything. “If your serious about having a CDO in your company, give them the power and the budget to enable them to make the changes we’re all serious about.”

Panel Will Feature Perspectives from Industry Leaders on Data in Manufacturing

ProcessMiner™ CEO Karim Pourak will host a panel discussion on the future of data in manufacturing during the Connected Manufacturing Leaders Summit 2020, the company announced. The Summit will take place on January 29-30 in Berlin, Germany.

Pourak will be moderating “Connecting Data to a Purpose: How Can You Gather the Right Data in Support of Your Business Goals and Make Forward-Thinking Decisions?” on January 29 from 9:40-10:20 a.m. local time. Karim’s leadership of ProcessMiner™, a cutting-edge AI platform designed to help optimize manufacturing processes, puts him at the forefront of these issues.

“Today’s manufacturers have a wealth of data and tools at their fingertips, but figuring out how to leverage them to drive innovation and competitiveness is the challenge,” said Pourak, who has over 25 years of experience in product design, software development and commercialization. “The Connected Manufacturing Leaders Summit is known for its thought leadership on these issues, and I look forward to engaging in conversation with some of the most forward-thinking companies in this space.”

The panel will feature a number of high-profile executives from industry-leading industries on this topic, including:

Pourak will lead a discussion around key challenges, opportunities and solutions when leveraging data and technology in manufacturing optimization. Featured topics include collecting and analyzing data to drive measurable results, continuous change and competitive edge. Additionally, the panelists will focus on emerging areas such as purposeful data, use of real-time data, and AI and machine learning throughout manufacturing operations. Attendees will also have the opportunity to participate through interactive polling during the session.

To register for this panel and for more information, please visit the conference website.

About ProcessMiner

ProcessMiner Inc. is an Artificial Intelligence firm based in Atlanta that delivers SaaS-powered real-time predictive analytics, optimization, and actionable recommendations that address Product Quality challenges in complex manufacturing processes. The platform reduces variability, increases productivity and drives process improvement. For more information about ProcessMiner, please visit https://www.processminer.com.

Venture Atlanta is expected to draw a sold-out crowd of over 1,000 technology entrepreneurs, premier investors and key executives from across the country. The event will take place at Southern Exchange @ 200 Peachtree. Atlanta- based independent investment management firm, Invesco, is this year’s premier sponsor with Cherry Bekaert, Nelson Mullins and SunTrust as additional headline sponsors. Techstars will help kick off the conference on October 14 with Techstars Atlanta 2019 Demo Day in partnership with Cox Enterprises.

“Our team is excited to showcase at Venture Atlanta this year. We’ve built an AI platform that is revolutionizing the manufacturing industry and improving the quality of products while reducing energy and resources.” – Karim Pourak, CEO of ProcessMiner