Case Study 1:
Description of Problem:
Each of the client’s machines produced text files with more than 10 variables and 32,000 data points for every process. The data could not be imported into a spreadsheet easily for viewing or analysis. Individual data points had to be manually copied and pasted into relevant cells in Excel files, to analyze the data. The manual process takes a few days to complete for each process.
How Gleematic software helps:
Gleematic software can extract information from text files, populate columns with data of relevant variables, and automatically compute top-line summaries such as minimum, maximum, and averages for each variable, in just one minute.
Expected manpower saving per machine process per year = 1.5 full-time employee/ year
Benefits:
- Shorter Time of completion: Gleematic cognitive automation works up to 5 times faster than humans.
- High Accuracy: Almost 100% accurate. There would be no human-errors of missing data, uploading wrongly, or having duplicated files in the archival process.
- FTE Saving: ~3 to 4 FTEs
- Saves precious hours of humans: As the human-users would only have to monitor the robot’s progress, he/she can spend most of his/her time on other more important things.
- Reduced stress on staff: As the staff (humans) need not attend to this mundane and repetitive yet detailed work, they would have less stress and be more motivated to do other value-added jobs.
Description of Client:
Regional headquarters of a global multi-sensor metrology solutions provider. Manufactures a complete range of dimensional and 3D measuring technologies to develop, maintain and qualify production processes.
Industry:
Manufacturing/Instrumentatio
Case Study 2:
Description of Problem:
- The engineers go out to do repair and maintenance of equipment and vehicles and need to generate report of the status of the repair and maintenance.
- The information needs to be entered into SAP system to update about the inventory of the machine-parts, and the types of services delivered.
- A bill will be generated based on the information of the servicing report, to be sent to the end-customer.
How Gleematic software helps:
- The engineers just have to type data into simple Excel files, to be emailed to Gleematic robots.
- Gleematic robot can log on to SAP in the office’s network, and automatically and mimic the humans’ activities for completing the process.
- The speed of Gleematic robot will be about 5 times as fast as humans and will only need human-intervention for handling unexpected situations or errors.
Challenges:
- Web portals and legacy systems are sometimes slow to load and run into errors at times. Various “exception handling” scripts can be set up to address different types of scenarios. For example, Gleematic robots can be set to look out for a certain image to ascertain if the page has loaded. In another scenario, a sub-script can be activated when Gleematic encounters a specific error message.
Benefits:
- Shorter Time of completion: Gleematic cognitive automation works up to 5 times faster than humans.
- High Accuracy: Almost 100% accurate. There would be no human-errors of missing data, uploading wrongly, or having duplicated files in the archival process.
- FTE Saving: ~3 to 4 FTEs
- Saves precious hours of humans: As the human-users would only have to monitor the robot’s progress, he/she can spend most of his/her time on other more important things.
- Reduced stress on staff: As the staff (humans) need not attend to this mundane and repetitive yet detailed work, they would have less stress and be more motivated to do other value-added jobs.
Description of Client:
A company that manufactures and maintains equipment & vehicles.
Industry:
Manufacturing/Engineering
Case Study 3:
Description of Problem:
- The client receives lots of orders from hundreds of customers daily
- They originally have a department to process orders manually (around 5 persons)
- Information about end-customers’ orders need to entered into their ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system to create Sales Orders
- Orders come in different ways:
- Emails of Purchase Orders from large end-customers (Format of PO from the same end-customer is the same every time)
- Email of Order Forms from smaller end-customers (standardized Excel file provided by Client)
- Phone calls, WhatsApp/ SMS messages, free-flow email text orders
How Gleematic software helps:
- Gleematic was trained to recognize and extract data from various formats of Purchase Orders (type-written text, either native PDF files or scans) using A.I. Intelligent Document Extraction.
- Gleematic could also read data from standardized Excel Order Form
- Gleematic could automate opening of emails, downloading of attachments, extracting of data, checking/ validation, and finally enter data into ERP system.
Challenges:
- Converting scans of Purchase Orders into digital data using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) may not get 100% accuracy, as there might be “noise” (such as hand-written marking/ circling), and “dirt” (extra dot from printing)
- To improve accuracy rate of data extraction from scanned documents, larger volumes of data per template (e.g. 100 to 200 pieces) can be fed to Gleematic for re-training.
- Item Descriptions in order forms or Purchase Orders (PO) may differ from the standard terms available in the ERP. To overcome this, text-classification can be used to make intelligent guesses, if there are different ways to describe the same item. For example, end-customer might write “bleach” or “bleaching liquid” in PO but there is only “Sodium hypochlorite” in ERP system. It can be rather time-consuming to do data-cleaning and training of A.I. at the beginning.
Benefits:
- Shorter Time of completion: Gleematic cognitive automation works up to 5 times faster than humans.
- High Accuracy: Almost 100% accurate. There would be no human-errors of missing data, uploading wrongly, or having duplicated files in the archival process.
- FTE Saving: ~3 to 4 FTEs
- Saves precious hours of humans: As the human-users would only have to monitor the robot’s progress, he/she can spend most of his/her time on other more important things.
- Reduced stress on staff: As the staff (humans) need not attend to this mundane and repetitive yet detailed work, they would have less stress and be more motivated to do other value-added jobs.
Description of Client:
A company that manufactures and distributes chemicals.
Industry:
Manufacturing/Chemicals