AI knowledge base for plastics technology and injection mouldingwhen someone at the machine asks for the old setup sheet.

Photograph or scan them and upload — one at a time or the whole folder at once. The system suggests article number, machine and date, provided they’re on the sheet. How well the handwritten values are read is the point to check in the demo — bring a few real sheets from the shift. Where a number is crossed out and a new one written above it, a person still decides which one applies; the answer names the sheet as the source. A person also confirms the document type, because that determines who sees the sheet later.

That’s what the document type is for. A first article inspection report under VDA Volume 2 and a PPAP submission are two different types, each with its own visibility and its own assignment to article, mould and customer. The system suggests which type it is; a person confirms it. After that you can ask which version was last approved for this customer and which drawing index it was based on; the answer names the source. Whether your sampling documents separate cleanly, you check in the demo with one customer of each kind.

The system can gather the sources for article, mould and batch — sampling, dimensional report, batch record for the granulate, the setup sheets for the affected orders — and create a draft from them as a Word, Excel or PDF file, on request as an email draft to the customer. Nothing is sent on its own. If the system can’t find something, that goes into the draft as an open point. Root cause analysis and the 8D report stay with your quality department; how useful the draft is, you see in the demo with a closed complaint.

Only if it exists as a file or export. Nothing is changed or tapped on the control, and curves aren’t analysed either — a knowledge base isn’t a process monitoring system. Whatever comes out of proALPHA or a process recording at your company as an evaluation can be brought in via a scheduled export, encrypted and only over outgoing connections. Whether that’s possible with your version and licence, we check before we start, before any effort is incurred.

You set that via roles and document types. For the machine, setup sheet, work instruction, inspection plan and the defect patterns from the mould file are usually enough; customer prices, calculations, mould costs and sampling agreements stay out. An external toolmaker gets a separate role that you withdraw once the mould is back. If someone asks about something they aren’t cleared for, they don’t get the content.