Seagate Wins Manufacturing Leadership Award from a Jury of Its Peers
2022年4月1日 - 12:00AM
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The National Association of Manufacturers
honored Seagate for a solution democratizing AI on factory floors
that can offer up to 300% return on investment.
Seagate Technology likes to keep its factories smart.
Today, the company received an award for an achievement in smart
manufacturing from a group of its manufacturing peers—a national
association of manufacturers with 14,000 company members.
Seagate Technology Holdings plc (NASDAQ: STX), a world leader in
data storage solutions, won a 2022 Manufacturing Leadership Award
for its outstanding innovation from the Manufacturing Leadership
Council (MLC) at the National Association of Manufacturers
(NAM).
The winning project provides a powerful foundation for
high-volume AI analytics in the factory. Dubbed OPICA—Optical
Inspection with Centralized Analysis—the novel strategy supports
analytics at the factory edge. It is a no-code application of deep
learning that identifies defects that can occur during production,
and prevents them from escaping downstream.
“The judges who evaluated this entry noted that it pushes the
envelope on inspection and demonstrated an advanced use of
technology with strong, proven results,” said Penelope Brown, MLC’s
senior content director.
Built with inclusivity in mind, the award-winning solution
democratizes AI on the factory floor. It does it in at least three
ways:
- It uses AI as an augmentation of human work, not its
replacement: factory floor operators whose functions were taken
over by AI were freed up to move to higher-functioning roles, with
none of them leaving the company.
- It offers a no-code neural network training and validation
solution, which makes it accessible to non-coders.
- Its development brought together people across various skill
sets—engineers, data scientists, and computer scientists.
“Computer vision challenges are common in manufacturing,” said
Gary Kunkel, an engineering director who helped develop Seagate’s
solution. “Historically, solutions would be developed by
specialized resources such as computer vision engineers. Early on
it became apparent that with deep learning techniques we could
develop no-code tools to train neural networks to identify defects
and features in images. This allowed for democratized development
and an exponential growth of solutions. Instead of 1 or 2 people
that could solve these problems, the numbers grew to 10s and could
enable 100s of people to solve these types of problems.”
Expertise in development of mathematical computer vision
algorithms is no longer a requirement. Specialists who work in
preventing defects can take images of their processes and devices,
mark them up, and use the no-code software (graphical user
interface) to train the model to identify contamination. The
distributed knowledge opens the door to easy scalability.
Built using scalable and modular data engineering technologies
such as Docker containers, Kubernetes container orchestration,
RabbitMQ data messaging, edge line servers, human-in-the-loop model
management dashboards, and high-speed Seagate storage, OPICA
handles 3 million multi-class deep learning inferences per day.
“I’m proud of our cross-functional team’s collaborative
ingenuity,” said Jeffrey Nygaard, Seagate’s executive vice
president of operations and technology. “It will easily be scaled
to handle 12+ million images per day with the plug-and-play
addition of computational resources such as GPUs and servers.”
Applying the solution has a ROI of up to 300%. That is because,
thanks to this application, inspection accuracy improved by at
least 20%—and only 7 automated machines are needed to do the work
of 150 operators using manual microscopes to inspect millions of
parts daily.
“Seagate Technology is part of a high-performing contingent of
award winners that serve as an example of what’s possible in
manufacturing’s emerging digital era,” said MLC’s Penelope
Brown.
The Seagate team will be recognized at the MLC's Summit’s Awards
Gala on June 29, 2022, at the JW Marriott in Marco Island,
Florida.
About Seagate Technology
Seagate Technology crafts the datasphere, helping to maximize
humanity’s potential by innovating world-class,
precision-engineered data storage and management solutions with a
focus on sustainable partnerships. A global technology leader for
more than 40 years, the company has shipped over three billion
terabytes of data capacity. Learn more about Seagate by visiting
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