Operational Intelligence for Manufacturing - Shopfloor Assistant

Digital Shopfloor Ecosystem

From Industrial Data to Operational Intelligence
Every industrial company owns more operational data than ever before.
Yet operators still solve problems exactly as they did ten years ago.
The competitive advantage is no longer collecting industrial data.
It is transforming that data into operational intelligence.
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Manufacturing Challenge
The Hidden Cost of Fragmented Operations

Manufacturers have invested in connected systems and advanced analytics, improving visibility across industrial operations. Yet when a production issue occurs, information remains distributed across applications, technical documents and historical records. The challenge is connecting data, knowledge and actions quickly enough to support confident operational decisions.

Fragmented Information - When production issues occur, operators search across disconnected screens, manuals, maintenance records and spreadsheets, losing valuable time before they can understand the situation and begin resolving it.
Inconsistent Decisions - Teams can reach different conclusions from the same operational event because they use different information sources and rely on different levels of experience, making execution inconsistent across shifts and sites.
Expert Dependency - Critical know-how often remains with experienced technicians or in unstructured records, making proven solutions difficult to reuse and reducing decision quality when key experts are unavailable.
Operational Friction - Switching between operational and enterprise systems forces users to correlate information manually and duplicate data entry, slowing execution, weakening operational records and reducing workforce productivity.
From visibility to operational intelligence
The missing layer
Operational context connects data, knowledge and action

Digitalization connected industrial and enterprise systems, but people still have to reconstruct operational meaning across applications. Shopfloor Assistant adds a shared contextual layer that understands shopfloor language, relates live conditions to enterprise knowledge and supports traceable decisions and governed actions through natural conversation.

How Shopfloor Assistant works

01
Perceive

Continuously interprets industrial events, equipment status, process conditions and user interactions, connecting OT signals, enterprise systems and industrial context into a unified view of the operational situation.

02
Understand

Resolves natural shopfloor language against the Unified Namespace to identify the relevant site, line, asset, component or sensor, then enriches the request with maintenance history, technical knowledge and operational relationships.

03
Reason

Combines operational signals, enterprise knowledge and business rules to evaluate alternatives, explain recommendations and support consistent decisions based on the current situation rather than on predefined workflows alone.

04
Act

Coordinates approved enterprise systems to create or update work orders, orchestrate workflows, notify stakeholders and maintain traceability, while keeping governed controls and human validation in place.

主なメリット
Transforming daily operations through contextual intelligence

By combining operational context, enterprise knowledge and Agentic AI, Shopfloor Assistant reduces operational friction and helps organizations improve productivity, decision-making and knowledge reuse without changing the way people work.

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One Operational Experience

Bring operational data, technical knowledge and enterprise workflows into a single conversational experience, enabling operators to focus on solving problems instead of navigating disconnected applications.

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Operational Context by Design

Understand the language of the shopfloor by automatically resolving assets, equipment, sensors and events into a shared operational context, ensuring consistent interpretation across teams, shifts and plants.

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Conversations into Actions

Transform natural conversations into governed operational actions by creating, enriching and managing maintenance activities directly within enterprise workflows, with complete traceability.

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Operational Knowledge that Grows

Capture every interaction as structured operational knowledge, preserving expert experience, improving future recommendations and creating a continuously evolving organizational knowledge base.

NTT DATA capabilities
How NTT DATA enables Agentic Operations
Semantic foundation
Industrial Context Engineering

We design semantic models based on Unified Namespace and ISA-95 principles, establishing a shared operational language across plants, production lines, assets, components and events so AI can understand industrial operations in context.

Connected operations
OT & Enterprise Integration

We connect operational technologies with enterprise applications so industrial events, equipment conditions and business processes work within a common operational context, reducing fragmentation between plant systems and enterprise workflows.

Knowledge and action
Operational Knowledge & Agentic Orchestration

We transform technical documentation, maintenance procedures, OEM manuals and organizational know-how into structured knowledge, then design AI agents that reason across those sources and coordinate governed actions through enterprise systems.

Governance and scale
Trusted, Scalable Operational Experiences

We apply enterprise identity, permissions, human validation and traceability to operational AI, while creating consistent experiences for operators, technicians and supervisors on a reusable foundation designed to support multiple industrial domains.

再生アイコン
Shopfloor Assistant represents the first step toward truly Agentic Operations.

The next transformation is not adding more applications.

It is enabling every operator to interact with industrial knowledge, operational data and enterprise systems through a single intelligent operational layer.

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