Mitsubishi Electric MELSOFT MaiLab data science tool

Mitsubishi Electric has announced MELSOFT MaiLab, a data science tool that uses the company’s Maisart AI technology to enable non-specialists to more easily analyse and diagnose factory data such as current and pressure values for intuitive, high-level management of production operations.

In recent years, manufacturers are increasing the use of various data from the factory floor to further enhance productivity, which is stimulating needs for data collection and visualisation as well as advanced analysis and diagnosis. On the other hand, a number of factory operations like production management and equipment maintenance still need to be handled by human workers, making tasks such as equipment adjustments and consumables-replacement timing, etc dependent on the experience of skilled workers. The lack of such skilled workers, however, is becoming a critical issue for manufacturers when they try to promote advanced data analysis and diagnosis.

MELSOFT MaiLab is designed to enable non-specialists to perform expert-level factory-data analysis and intuitive production management. It utilises AI technologies like deep learning and other statistical methods to automatically learn how skilled workers evaluate operations, which enable this tool to be handled more easily without requiring any special knowledge of factory operations. After the automatic learning process, the analysis and diagnosis results will be fed back from MELSOFT MaiLab for adjusting equipment parameters, which helps manufacturers automatically improve their operations and further increase productivity.