Amazon develops machine learning tools
25/03/2021
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc has announced Amazon Monitron, Amazon Lookout for Equipment, the AWS Panorama Appliance, the AWS Panorama SDK and Amazon Lookout for Vision. Together, these five new machine learning services have been introduced to assist industrial and manufacturing customers to embed intelligence in their production processes in order to improve operational efficiency, quality control, security and workplace safety.The services combine sophisticated machine learning, sensor analysis and computer vision capabilities to address common technical challenges faced by industrial customers and represent what is claimed to be the most comprehensive suite of cloud-to-edge industrial machine learning services available.
More than 100,000 customers are using AWS for machine learning and customers of all sizes and across all industries are using AWS services to make machine learning core to their business strategy.
Companies are increasingly looking to add machine learning capabilities to industrial environments, such as manufacturing facilities, fulfilment centres and food processing plants. For these customers, data has become the connective tissue that holds their complex industrial systems together. Industrial systems typically have numerous interdependent processes that operate with small tolerances for error and even minor issues can have major ramifications. Being able to analyse data relating to the equipment operating in their facilities helps customers address this challenge, with many customers embracing services like AWS IoT SiteWise as a way to collect data and generate real-time performance metrics from their industrial equipment. As customers have begun to use the cloud to collect and analyse industrial data, they have also asked for new ways to incorporate machine learning to help make sense of the data and further drive operational efficiency. In some cases, customers want to use machine learning to help them realise the promise of predictive maintenance to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. In other cases, customers running in disconnected or latency-sensitive environments want to use computer vision at the edge to spot product defects and improve workplace safety. With these evolving needs and opportunities, industrial companies have asked AWS to help them leverage the cloud, the industrial edge and machine learning together to get even more value from the vast amounts of data being generated by their equipment.
