TwinCAT Machine Learning Creator from Beckhoff is designed for automation and process experts and adds the automated creation of AI models to the TwinCAT 3 workflow. This allows users to handle the entire process, from data collection to the trained model, themselves – without any AI expertise of their own. The finished model is optimally adapted to real-time requirements in the control environment in terms of latency and accuracy.
TwinCAT Machine Learning Creator facilitates the automated training of AI models for industrial applications.
A prime application for the versatile TwinCAT Machine Learning Creator (TE3850) is in AI-supported image processing for quality assurance. This, as well as various other applications, taps into the ease and standardisation of creating AI models for automation through Beckhoff’s no-code development platform. It leverages open standards, interfaces, and best practices, and provides the trained models in the open standard format ONNX. The latency-optimised AI models for control applications are specially adapted to run on Beckhoff Industrial PCs and with TwinCAT products, although they can also be used as ONNX models beyond the Beckhoff product world.
With TwinCAT Machine Learning Creator enabling fully automated creation of AI models, the potential of artificial intelligence is available to all – including smaller companies – offering a competitive edge and a solution for the growing shortage of specialist skills. For seasoned AI experts, this solution serves to streamline their workload considerably, and to minimise the potential for errors.
The ability to speed up project development processes offers another clear advantage in that the development tool provides extensive and transparent methods for displaying the behaviour of the models created and comparing them with each other. Users can also benefit from automated report generation, which supports auditing processes for AI model creation. Another important aspect is that the required application-specific data remains protected, as it does not leave the company.
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