Microsoft Nomination
What is the business/industrial problem they are solving?
As the world’s largest brick maker, Weinerberger needed to reduce energy usage, carbon footprint and CO2 certificate spending while maintaining quality and yield.
Who are the targeted customers?
The main market for Wienerberger’s bricks and roof tiles is single family homes.
Please provide evidence of how the nominated company demonstrates contribution to ROI generation and fast time-to-market in Artificial Intelligence from the adoption of IoT solutions.
Wienerberger took the guesswork out of making improvements by combining and analyzing IoT and process data from across the production process, using prebuilt analytic models to predict specific energy consumption and making sense of variable impacts. SAS’ Energy Cost Optimization on Microsoft Azure delivers Wienerberger optimized insights that have driven an energy cost savings of 10%.
Demonstrate how nominated company contributes to the effective adoption and advancement of IoT solutions by enhancing sustainability in Artificial Intelligence practices.
Wienerberger found a way to seamlessly integrate AI solutions in their established manufacturing process. They took AI developments out of the lab and put them to real use on the shopfloor. Using insights from complex machine learning models, operations can make better decisions, reduce the CO2 footprint, and decrease costs of goods sold using SAS Energy Cost Optimization on Microsoft Azure.
How has the nominated company demonstrated an ability to scale its services/offerings in a cost-effective manner to meet the needs of its customers?
Wienerberger runs its operations in 200 plants globally. The use case was designed from the beginning to be easy to redeploy to new sites.
What is the analytics applied?
Unsupervised models for variable reduction, super-vised predictive models to analyze the root causes for variations in the energy consumption, mathematical solvers to provide the best possible parameter settings. Solution deployed on Microsoft Azure.
