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BASF: Guiding plant knowledge
- Company
- BASF
- Country
- Germany
- Adoption stage
- Limited operation
- Source published
- Date basis
- The date the source was published. It can differ from the date adoption started.
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The work problem
The Geismar acetylene plant had to look up the knowledge needed for operations and field service as situations arose. The source explains that plant and engineering teams need access to trustworthy data to make decisions quickly. Training to settle new colleagues into the site was also needed.
Technology and data
BASF's Intermediates division built this assistant at the Geismar acetylene plant in Louisiana in the United States. Digital Hub teams in Ludwigshafen, Germany and Madrid, Spain took part as well. To get answer quality right, it was trained on thousands of documents, safety procedures and materials. Under the name PlantGPT it provides plant-specific knowledge in real time.
Results
BASF explained that with PlantGPT, plant and engineering teams can raise operating efficiency and reach trustworthy data to make decisions quickly. It said it can also be used as a training tool to settle new colleagues in faster and more effectively. The way people used to dig through scattered documents changed into a single question.
Limits and open questions
The source does not give quantitative figures such as the percentage of working time saved or the number of users. Whether it has been extended to other sites is also not confirmed.
Sources
- Putting AI to work: five BASF success storiesbasf.com, Accessed
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