Benefits of Knowledge Graphs and AI For Enterprise PLM Platforms
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The document discusses the transformative role of knowledge graphs and AI in enhancing enterprise product lifecycle management (PLM) platforms, addressing challenges in manufacturing such as data silos and inefficiencies. It emphasizes the evolution from traditional PLM systems, which rely on relational databases and complex connectivity, to modern cloud-native solutions that enable better data integration, collaboration, and decision-making. The document highlights OpenBOM's approach to leveraging graph technologies for improved data management and analytics, ultimately supporting digital transformation in the manufacturing sector.
![What is Semantic Web and Linked Data?
In computing, linked data is structured data which is interlinked with other data so it becomes more useful through
semantic queries. It builds upon standard Web technologies such as HTTP, RDF and URIs, but rather than using
them to serve web pages only for human readers, it extends them to share information in a way that can be read
automatically by computers. Part of the vision of linked data is for the Internet to become a global database.[1]
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Benefits of Knowledge Graphs and AI For Enterprise PLM Platforms
- 1. To Harness The Potential Of Product Data Accelerating Enterprise Digital Transformation: Benefits of Knowledge Graphs and AI For Enterprise PLM Platforms Oleg Shilovitsky CEO, co-founder
- 2. 20+ years of working for large software vendors and startups in CAD, PDM, and PLM Experience with enterprise industrial companies (e.g. Volvo, Boeing, Nokia) as well as with many SMEs Started a professional blog - Beyond PLM, which became the leading PLM blog online, published ~4000 articles for the last 14 years Oleg Shilovitsky CEO, co-founder © OpenBOM, 2023
- 3. Top 5 manufacturing problems Importance of digital transformation Understanding of Knowledge Graph Role of Knowledge Graphs in AI Problems with existing PLM platforms SOR, SOE, SOD OpenBOM & Knowledge Graphs in PLM Content © OpenBOM, 2023
- 4. Manufacturing is transforming… ✔ Manufacture Better, Faster, Cheaper ✔ Post COVID Digital Transformation ✔ Ongoing supply chain disruption ✔ Sustainability in manufacturing ✔ Regulation complexity and risks ✔ Manufacturing on Demand (MOD) © OpenBOM, 2023
- 5. How can we prepare for these events? Xirallic Car Colors Chip Shortage Ever Given Fukushima COVID 19 Accident There are many smaller events impacting engineering and manufacturing operation daily… © OpenBOM, 2023
- 6. Help Industrial Companies to Move From Disconnected Data Silos to Cloud-Native and Intelligent Platforms To harness the potential of product data within the manufacturing industry. Enable the transition of engineering and manufacturing operations from isolated software applications to a connected ecosystem driven by data. © OpenBOM, 2023
- 7. Here is the problem… © OpenBOM, 2023
- 8. Problem: Product Data Management Complexity Support Team Manufacturing Planner Engineers Procurement OEM1 PARTNERS TIER1-n SUPPLIERS CUSTOMERS © OpenBOM, 2023
- 9. Next Tech Phase is Informational Credit: Tony Seale (https://medium.com/experience-stack/embrace-complexity-part-1-39483f10a47f)
- 10. Challenges Faced By Enterprise In Digital Transformation ✔Information accuracy ✔Improve decision process ✔Accelerate processes (NPD, CM) ✔Risk Mitigations (supply chain, compliance) ✔Support new manufacturing models (XaaS) © OpenBOM, 2022 (Newman Cloud Inc.) Confidential Information Can traditional PLM systems solve these problems? © OpenBOM, 2023
- 11. What are limitations of traditional PLM systems? This is how traditional PLM looks like: - Tables, tables… - Relational databases - Internal Keys - Table Joins Huge complexity in connectivity between data coming from different sources © OpenBOM, 2023
- 12. Traditional PLMs → Vision vs Reality Reality Vision Traditional Architecture of PLM Systems Is Disconnected From Digital Web Vision Credit: CIMdata © OpenBOM, 2023
- 13. 5 Problems with traditional PLM systems 1. Tables and local IDs is the foundation of PLM 2. Relational DB and single tenant architecture 3. No easy way to recombine the data 4. Find relationships between systems is hard 5. Application logic is tightly connected © OpenBOM, 2023
- 14. What Solution Can Help? © OpenBOM, 2023
- 15. What is Semantic Web and Linked Data? In computing, linked data is structured data which is interlinked with other data so it becomes more useful through semantic queries. It builds upon standard Web technologies such as HTTP, RDF and URIs, but rather than using them to serve web pages only for human readers, it extends them to share information in a way that can be read automatically by computers. Part of the vision of linked data is for the Internet to become a global database.[1] © OpenBOM, 2023
- 16. What is Knowledge Graph and Why it is important? In knowledge representation and reasoning, knowledge graph is a knowledge base that uses a graph-structured data model or topology to integrate data. Knowledge graphs are often used to store interlinked descriptions of entities – objects, events, situations or abstract concepts – while also encoding the semantics underlying the used terminology. © OpenBOM, 2023
- 17. What is Knowledge Graph and LinkedIn Data? 10 years ago… It is the way to present structured information… © OpenBOM, 2023
- 18. Graphs and Networks is the answer to the problem of complexity Examples of Graph Model Representing Bill of Materials or System of Part in PLM Credit: OpenBOM Credit: Mercedes Benz Research © OpenBOM, 2023
- 19. Networks, network effect and network value Excel ERP PLM CAD DB Model Connect Transform Product Knowledge Graph Is A Network Graph is product data network connecting products and companies © OpenBOM, 2023
- 20. Large Language Models, Generative AI, and ChatGPT Source: https://primo.ai/ Neural Networks and LLM © OpenBOM, 2023
- 21. How LLM and KG are complimenting each other Knowledge Graph Large Language Model Eg. ChatGPT Credit: https://medium.com/@Tonyseale © OpenBOM, 2023
- 22. Example: Structured Approach in Complementing LLM with Structured Queries Source: https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/05/17/researchers-from-china-propose-structgpt-to-improve-the-zero-shot-reasoning-ability-of-llms-over-structured-data/ © OpenBOM, 2023
- 23. Product Knowledge Graph Extended To Multiple Manufacturing Silos 80% By 2025 By 2025, graph technologies will be used in 80% of data and analytics innovations, up from 10% in 2021, facilitating rapid decision making across the organization This is a missing link in AI models between LLM and KG Credit: Beyond PLM © OpenBOM, 2023
- 24. Systems of Records, Systems of Engagements, System of Intelligence Various Forms of Collaboration Systems of Records Systems of Engagement Systems of Intelligence PLM/ERP/MES © OpenBOM, 2023
- 25. OpenBOM Example © OpenBOM, 2023
- 26. From data chaos to agnostic product graph model, collaboration & decision support 1. Remove the pain of inefficient data management and integrations 2. Unmatched collaboration for manufacturing companies & supply chain 3. Decision support using graph data science and AI Multi-Tenant Product Graph-Based Digital Thread Excels, Legacy Databases, PLM, MES, ERP, CRM Excel Legacy DBs PLM/MES/ERP/CRM Online Public Data NPD BOM Copilot Change Impact Costing Sustainability OpenBOM™ Values: © OpenBOM, 2023
- 27. OpenBOM Solutions Strategy For SMB and Enterprise New Product Development Decision Support & Analytics Graphs & Artificial intelligence ● OpenBOM for SMB/SME (PLM+ERP) ● NPD for Enterprise ● BOM collaboration (for enterprise) ● … ● Enterprise cost estimation (PLM/ERP) ● Change Impact Analysis ● Suppliers risk assessment ● … ● Graph Navigation ● BOM Copilot (ChatGPT for BOM) ● … © OpenBOM, 2023
- 28. © OpenBOM, 2023 OpenBOM Platform Architecture & Technology Highlights Customers Polyglot Persistence Mongo DB Neo4j DB Elastic DB OEMs REST APIs and Microservices Partners Suppliers Multi-Tenant Product Graph App Services Users 80% By 2025 By 2025, graph technologies will be used in 80% of data and analytics innovations, up from 10% in 2021, facilitating rapid decision making across the organization ✔SaaS, public, private (AWS) ✔Multi-tenant flexible data model ✔Patented real-time collaboration ✔Simultaneous Collaborative Editing ✔Role-based instant data sharing ✔Graph & Data Science support ✔Generative AI / LLM support in research
- 29. Support Team Manufacturin g planner E n g i n e e r s Procuremen t PARTNERS CUSTOMERS (2) Graph-Based Data Model Queries and Data Science (5) Flexible real-time data schema and integration services OEM1 TIER1-n SUPPLIERS OpenBOM™ Platform Schema Data Knowledge Graph Key Differentiators Of OpenBOM Digital Thread Platform (3) Real-time data sharing and simultaneous editing (6) OOTB NPD (PLM+ERP) app for SMB and Enterprise (1) Multi-Tenant Data Architecture (4) Global Scale (SMB and OEM-suppliers) Coming: NPD BOM Copilot © OpenBOM, 2023
- 30. OpenBOM Product Knowledge Graph Digital Thread Foundation P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 2 1 10 1 1 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 P11 2 2 5 5 1 1 1 (P1) Product1 (P2) Part1 (P3) Sub Assy 1 (P4) Part 10 (P2) Part 1 Qty=1 Qty=2 Qty=1 Qty=10 Qty=1 (P5) Part 11 BOM1 (P6) Product2 (P2) Part1 (P7) Sub Assy 2 (P8) Part 20 (P9) Sub Assy 3 Qty=2 Qty=5 Qty=5 Qty=1 (P10)Part 20 (P11) Part 25 Qty=1 Qty=1 (P5) Part 11 Qty=2 (P1) Product 1 Qty=1 BOM2 BOM to Graph converting process BOM1 + BOM2 = Common BOM Graph OpenBOM™ Platforms Schema Data Intelligence © OpenBOM, 2023
- 31. Example: OpenBOM Graph Navigation and Data Modeling Source: OpenBOM™ 2023 © OpenBOM, 2023
- 32. 80+ Public user stories online 320+ Public reviews on G2 including video customer reviews Achievements “From the multi-level product BOM, we create an Order in OpenBOM for our next batch of units. The Quantity Gap (the on-hand inventory) is calculated and the buyers know immediately what we need to buy to complete that order. OpenBOM vendor sources have been pre-defined for each item to smooth the way when supplier shortages are encountered.” Jackie Wu, CEO 5 hours per week on BOM maintenance - now 10 minutes. OpenBOM gives us what we need without the significant overhead of the big PLM system” - Lead Engineer, Fortune 500 Consumer Electronics Manufacturer 320+ G2 reviews, #1 in G2 PLM Grid 80+ customer stories online SMB/SMEs, Enterprise © OpenBOM, 2023
- 33. Use Case #1: Design to Purchase Process (NPD) for SMB/SME ● Replace Excel ● Integrate with CAD ● PDM/PLM ● BOM Management ● Inventory+Procurement ● OpenBOM=PDM+PLM+ERP “it is right-sized for my company. Filling a niche that MRP systems are not. Other programs are too limited or to cost too much. OpenBOM offers a lot of benefits to a company in a certain range and at a great value.“ John E, President, Gates Underwater “Just as Onshape is a single source of truth for the CAD design, OpenBOM does the same for manufacturing production planning, purchasing, and inventory control. It is a perfect relationship.” David Rubli, Senior Mechanical Engineer, Xtend Robotics © OpenBOM, 2023
- 34. Use Case #2: OpenBOM for Enterprise (New Product Development) ● Replace Excel ● Agile NPI/NPD ● Team Collaboration ● Data Integration ● Inventory Control ● RFQ/Purchasing https://www.g2.com/products/openbom/reviews/openbom-review-8090696 What do you like best about OpenBOM? The fact that OpenBOM interfaces with Solidworks so seamlessly is a huge benefit! Its as simple as installing the plug in for Solidworks. From there you can create or update a BOM in the OpenBOM platform using a Solidworks assembly with just one click of a button. What problems is OpenBOM solving and how is that benefiting you? It allows for us to NOT have to use a messy Excel table that is bounced around a large group of people (Engineers, Supply Chain, Management, etc.) . OpenBOM functions as a single source of truth and allows multiple collaborators to work together seamlessly. Nicolas Zamora, Mechanical Engineering Manager Beckman Coulter Diagnostics © OpenBOM, 2023
- 35. Thank you! © OpenBOM, 2023