Melbourne-based manufacturing software company OFS launches Mayvn AI, a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence platform set to streamline communication between executives and operational teams.
OFS has designed Mayvn AI to increase system visibility and transparency at manufacturing facilities to help executives and workers proactively address issues. The company hopes the platform will eventually bolster the appeal of a facility, attract capital investment and deliver a return on investment (ROI).
Actionable and high-visibility data
Mayvn AI has been successfully trialled with key Australian and global manufacturers, including Tootsie Roll Industries and Australian brands nudie Foods and Nu-Pure.Tootsie Roll Industries’ manufacturing systems manager Eric Bader praises Mayvn AI’s predictive maintenance capabilities.
“Mayvn AI validates and quickly gives us data to be able to demonstrate the impact of issues,” he says.
Bader attributes the delivery of succinct and actionable data as the reason for the high uptake of Mayvn AI amongst Tootsie Roll Industries’ chief operating officers, vice presidents and factory workers.
“The speed at which it can give us concrete, actionable data and its prompting suggestions to dive deeper into that have been particularly useful,” he says. “It also supports our wider vision to leverage data mining and analysis to improve our operations.”
nudie Foods head of operations Ben Wentworth-Perry echoes Bader’s praise for Mayvn AI.
“From the moment we started using Mayvn AI, it felt like having a world-class data or process engineer available 24/7,” he says. “It has already transformed how we analyse operational performance, uncovering valuable insights we might have otherwise missed.”
OFS CEO James Magee
Mayvn AI allows executives to unlock people-centric aspects of job
OFS CEO James Magee says a pesky hierarchy of priorities familiar to manufacturing executives and a harmful disconnect between leaders and factory workers ultimately inspired the creation of Mayvn AI.
He has observed many time-poor executives struggling to allocate time and energy, often defaulting to focusing on strategy development instead of spending time on the factory floor.
“The reality is that most manufacturing executives don’t have adequate visibility over what’s happening in their factories,” he says.
“Many don’t spend as much time as they’d like visiting factories, and when they do, they are seldom armed with the necessary information to have meaningful conversations with the people responsible for running them.”
Magee says with the assistance of Mayvn AI, an executive only needs to take three minutes before a factory visit to discover the important and topical areas of discussion for a particular facility.
“They can ask Mayvn AI for three things they should talk to the site manager about based on last month’s performance,” he explains. “They can then ask Mayvn for the name of the operator running line one and what has been bothering them over the last 30 days.”
Magee says Mayvn AI’s insights will empower executives to have meaningful and accurate trouble-shooting conversations with their factory workers and remain on top of issues.
“Engagement starts at the very top. Mayvn AI takes it to the next level, as the executive can ask how much the faulty flow wrapper is costing the business, whether there is a return on investment for replacing it, and highlight the capital investment needed.”
Australia’s sustainability goals nurtured
OFS envisages its AI innovation accelerating the Australian government’s Future Made in Australia plan to increase domestic manufacturing across areas of renewable energy, industrial innovation and technology.
Magee says the realisation of Future Made in Australia is reliant on technological innovation and streamlined communication between leaders and workers running production lines.
“Reinvigorating a globally competitive industry can’t happen without modern technologies and complete alignment between the boardroom and the manufacturing floor,” he says.
OFS is turning its attention globally, launching Mayvn AI in the United Kingdom and Asia Pacific and opening a Latin American headquarters in Argentina later this year.
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