Augmentir welcomes Mike Carroll to our Board of Advisors! Mike is widely recognized as an industry trailblazer and visionary, with a proven track record of driving innovation, industrial transformation, and AI strategy.
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We’re excited to welcome Mike Carroll to Augmentir’s Board of Advisors!
A recognized leader in industrial operations, digital innovation, and workforce strategy, Mike brings decades of experience driving transformation across manufacturing and industrial enterprises.
Widely regarded as an industry visionary, Mike most recently served as Vice President of Innovation at Georgia-Pacific, where he led transformative initiatives across the company and its parent, Koch Industries. His leadership in AI strategy, operational excellence, and workforce enablement makes him a powerful addition to Augmentir as we continue to grow our AI-powered connected worker platform — helping manufacturers tackle their most critical workforce challenges.
A Career at the Intersection of Manufacturing, Innovation, and Industrial Transformation
Mike’s career spans key leadership roles where he has helped organizations modernize operations by aligning people, process, and technology. At Georgia-Pacific, he led enterprise-wide efforts in operations, engineering, and manufacturing excellence, creating more adaptive, future-ready workforces.
His expertise extends beyond technology adoption — encompassing workplace modernization and the human side of digital transformation. These experiences make him a valuable voice in the evolving conversation about the future of work.
Why This Matters Now
Manufacturing is undergoing a seismic shift. With aging workforces, widening skills gaps, labor shortages, and increasing production complexity, manufacturers are being forced to rethink how they engage, support, and train their frontline teams.
At the same time, emerging technologies like AI, connected worker platforms, and intelligent automation are opening new opportunities — but only when implemented with real-world operational understanding.
That’s where Mike’s experience is invaluable. Having led transformation initiatives from within the industry, he brings both a strategic lens and practical wisdom to ensure that workforce transformation remains central to industrial innovation.
Mike has a unique ability to connect operational goals with frontline execution. His strategic vision and practical insight will be a tremendous asset as we continue helping manufacturers digitize their frontline operations and unlock workforce potential through AI.
We see the future of industrial work now being realized by emerging AI approaches, utilizing generative AI knowledge management, and AI factory agents collaborating alongside humans on the shop floor. Augmentir’s focus on delivering an intelligent frontline operations platform goes beyond visualizing data to actually driving action. It digitally connects people, processes, and systems, enabling proactive management through intelligent workflows, digital task management, and continuous improvement tools. With Augmentir, data isn’t just displayed—it’s used to empower smarter, faster, and more effective operations.
“Augmentir isn’t just another layer of dashboards, it’s goal is to be a unified ‘single pane of glass’ that closes the loop between training and work execution, empowering frontline teams with AI-driven insights and augmented guidance to drive continuous improvement in safety, quality, and productivity. I’m excited to join a company that doesn’t merely digitize processes but learns from every action on the shop floor and delivers in-line support, whether through generative AI assistants or remote expert collaboration, so manufacturers can onboard workers faster, optimize skills, and unlock their full potential.”
– Mike Carroll
Driving the Future of Connected Work
At Augmentir, we’re committed to helping manufacturers digitize and optimize their frontline operations with AI-powered tools for skills management, digital workflows, industrial collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Welcoming Mike Carroll to our Board of Advisors is another step forward in that journey — strengthening our ability to serve manufacturers with both cutting-edge technology and real-world operational insight.
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Discover how Augmentir’s AI transforms the connected worker journey—boosting training, productivity, and continuous improvement across operations.
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In an era defined by digital transformation and workforce disruption, industrial companies are reimagining how they support their frontline teams. At the heart of this shift is the Connected Worker—a worker empowered by technology to perform safely, efficiently, and with confidence.
But enabling a connected workforce requires more than just digitizing procedures or implementing standalone tools. It demands intelligence embedded throughout the entire worker lifecycle.
That’s where Augmentir’s AI-powered Connected Worker platform shines. By infusing intelligence into every phase of the connected worker journey—from content creation to onboarding, daily operations, and continuous improvement—Augmentir delivers measurable gains in productivity, safety, and workforce engagement.
A Framework for Transformation: The Connected Worker Journey
The Connected Worker Journey consists of four critical, interrelated stages:
Content Conversion & Creation
Worker Onboarding & Training
Operational Excellence
Continuous Improvement
At each phase, Augmentir’s embedded AI transforms outdated processes into intelligent workflows—helping organizations streamline deployment, scale training, and drive continuous value.
Let’s explore how.
1. Content Conversion & Creation
Laying the Foundation for Frontline Intelligence
Deploying modern Connected Worker software delivers ROI through a combination of features that support data collection, compliance, auditability, and data visibility for enabling continuous improvement.
For all companies, the Connected Worker journey begins with transforming legacy documents—SOPs, work instructions, training manuals, checklists, videos, and more—into structured, digital-ready formats that support the requirements above.
This means converting thousands (to tens of thousands) of legacy documents trapped in PDFs, Word docs, Excel files, Powerpoints, videos, and proprietary systems, all while trying to preserve their structure, intent, and compliance relevance. In the past, this process was typically manual, becoming one of the costliest and longest phases in the Connected Worker journey.
Augmentir, even prior to Generative AI (GenAI) era, has been a pioneer in providing tools to significantly reduce this effort even while meeting the three fundamental requirements of conversion:
Maintain the integrity of the form design: the format of legacy documents did not arrive by chance, rather they were the result of serious considerations for human factors. Arbitrarily changing these designs results in significant retraining of the frontline workforce, loss of usability, and potentially, significant operational qualification costs in regulated use cases.
Simplify the addition of data collection: make incorporating data collection throughout the form simple, efficient, and smart. Data collection offers the opportunity for smart validation, data driven conditional workflows, escalation, and continuous improvement.
Embed granular event tracking: Connected Worker ROI depends on the ability to provide compliance and auditability, which is enabled through granular event tracking. Additionally, continuous improvement relies on AI-optimized data from digital time and motion studies, which is automatically captured and processed through Augmentir’s patented True Productivity™ algorithm.
Today, general purpose GenAI tools offer the tantalizing vision that they can transform this process by accelerating the conversion of legacy digital content into, structured content suitable for Connected Worker use cases. There are examples where GenAI has been demonstrated as a general purpose solution to performing these conversions. Unfortunately, in each of the examples that Augmentir has reviewed, these tools met none of the fundamental conversion requirements.
Included in Augmentir’s suite of Industrial GenAI tools, is Augie™ Content Assistant, which is purpose-built for Connected Worker use cases. Augie has been built with domain specific tooling which, when combined with advanced large language models (LLMs), delivers intelligent content that meets the foundational requirements of the Connected Worker space.
With the Augie Content Assistant, Augmentir turns the challenge of content digitization into a fast, AI-driven advantage:
91% faster content conversion: What used to take hours now takes just minutes to convert a single document. When scaled across an organization’s entire repository of SOPs, work instructions, training materials, and more, this reduces the overall content conversion effort from months down to days.
Multi-format compatibility: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDFs, images, and narrated videos are seamlessly converted into native Augmentir content, complete with data collection and high resolution embedded event tracking.
Fidelity preserved: Structure, logic, and intent are maintained through AI-optimized prompts. This ensures that converted content mirrors the original format workers are familiar with—helping reduce change fatigue and making it easier for frontline teams to adopt digital workflows with minimal disruption.
Instant translation: Localize content quickly without compromising compliance or clarity.
This is more than digitization—it’s intelligent transformation that enables data collection, auditability, and operational scalability from day one.
2. Worker Onboarding & Training
Adaptive Support That Accelerates Learning
Once your content foundation is in place, the next challenge is onboarding and upskilling your workforce. Traditional methods are static, generic, and fail to reflect real-time needs.
Tailored workflows: New hires are guided step-by-step based on their role, skill level, and assigned tasks.
Training in the flow of work: Instruction happens in real time, with guidance delivered during actual task execution.
Digital assistants ensure worker safety and compliance: Workers have natural language access to digital assistants to guide and support them while they work—enforcing safety, quality, and best practices.
Continuous adaptation: Augmentir’s True Opportunity™ AI continuously monitors skilling and reskilling performance and adjusts training content based on worker feedback and progression.
This ensures faster ramp-up times, better comprehension, and more confident employees from day one.
3. Operational Excellence
Smarter, Safer, More Productive Frontline Work
With your workforce engaged and trained, the next step is supporting them during everyday operations. Here, Augmentir’s AI becomes a digital copilot—delivering real-time, personalized support in the flow of work.
With your workforce engaged and trained, the next step is supporting them during everyday operations. Here, Augie Work Assistant, which is fully customizable and extensible by customers, becomes a role-specific digital copilot—delivering real-time, personalized support in the flow of work.
Key capabilities include:
Task-specific guidance: Augie delivers insight tailored to the person, the task, and the real-time conditions.
Role-Specific Digital SME: The Augie Work Assistant can be configured at the role level, provides always-on expertise that is tuned to needs to each person in each role—answering questions, flagging issues, and improving accuracy.
AI-powered integration: Embedded AI APIs automate documentation, resolve issues in real time, and enable intelligent quality checks.
The result? Fewer errors, faster resolutions, and safer, more confident workers.
4. Continuous Improvement
Closing the Loop with Actionable Insights
Continuous improvement (CI) doesn’t just happen—it requires the right data, insights, and tools to identify what matters most. Augmentir empowers teams to move from guesswork to precision by surfacing opportunities directly from real-world operations.
AI-powered tools include:
True Proficiency: Aligns training and performance data to uncover skill gaps and enhance learning programs.
True Opportunity: Pinpoints the highest-impact areas for improving quality, productivity, and safety.
Augie Data Assistant: Enables natural-language queries to quickly reveal trends, inefficiencies, or outliers.
Augie Content Assistant: Capture & Convert tribal knowledge embedded in informal collaboration into formal, reusable SOPs.
Augie Autonomous Agents: Automate repetitive tasks, monitor KPIs, and trigger proactive CI actions.
Together, these tools ensure that continuous improvement isn’t a periodic initiative—it’s built into the fabric of daily operations.
AI That Delivers Real-World Value
Augmentir’s AI doesn’t just digitize work—it reimagines it. By embedding intelligence throughout the entire Connected Worker Journey, the platform empowers frontline teams to:
Onboard faster
Work safer and smarter
Learn continuously
Drive real business outcomes
With Augmentir, companies move beyond digital transformation toward AI-driven workforce transformation—turning every worker into a connected, empowered, and continuously improving contributor to operational excellence.
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Discover how Augmentir’s Connected Worker platform revolutionizes dairy manufacturing by improving quality, reducing downtime, and empowering frontline workers with AI-driven tools.
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As the dairy industry struggles with increasing demand, shifting regulatory landscapes, and a widening skills gap, manufacturers are turning to digital tools to modernize their operations.
One solution that stands out in this transformation is Connected Worker software, a category that empowers frontline workers through real-time guidance, remote collaboration, and intelligent insights. And among the leaders in this space is Augmentir, a platform purpose-built to optimize frontline operations across food and beverage manufacturing — including dairy.
The Unique Challenges of Dairy Manufacturing
Dairy processors operate in a high-pressure environment with narrow margins and tight compliance requirements, and uncompromising safety and quality standards. They face:
Stringent sanitation and traceability regulations
Perishable raw materials and products
High variability in production lines and product SKUs
An aging workforce and high turnover rates
Lack of real-time visibility into frontline work
These factors place immense stress on both the workforce and the systems that support them. Maintaining consistent safety and quality while navigating these challenges is difficult—especially when legacy systems fall short in enabling knowledge transfer, standardizing procedures, and responding quickly to non-conformances or equipment issues.
Addressing Dairy Challenges with Technology
Technology plays a critical role in addressing workforce, compliance, safety, and quality challenges in dairy manufacturing. Connected worker platforms, in particular, enable real-time communication, guided digital workflows, and smart data capture that help ensure procedures are followed consistently and correctly.
A Connected Worker platform is a digital layer that equips frontline workers with smart tools — often via mobile devices or wearables — to complete tasks more effectively. These platforms empower frontline workers with step-by-step instructions, instant access to support, and automated documentation—improving adherence to safety and quality standards while reducing training time and human error. By digitizing and connecting the workforce, dairy manufacturers can drive greater operational efficiency, accountability, and continuous improvement across their operations.
The result is a safer, more efficient, and more agile workforce — even amidst labor shortages or high variability in operations.
Why Augmentir for Dairy?
Augmentir goes beyond digitizing work — it optimizes it through AI. This means that the platform continuously learns from workforce behavior and system performance to identify where improvements can be made.
Key features that make Augmentir ideal for dairy manufacturers include:
1. Smart Workflows for Sanitation and Quality Control
Augmentir helps ensure that Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Clean-in-Place (CIP) systems and product changeovers are followed consistently and documented in real time. This reduces the risk of contamination and non-compliance.
2. Workforce Development and Knowledge Retention
With an aging workforce and growing training demands, Augmentir’s embedded skills tracking and adaptive learning tools ensure that employees are properly trained and matched to the right jobs based on their evolving capabilities.
3. Real-Time Issue Resolution
Whether it’s a malfunctioning separator or an alert from a pasteurizer, frontline workers can instantly connect and collaborate using Augmentir’s connected worker technology. This reduces downtime and accelerates resolution—without waiting for external support.
Augmentir enables effective, context-based collaboration across shifts, sites, and languages. Teams can share information in real time, and directly update work procedures to reflect tribal knowledge exchanged during collaboration sessions. Augmentir’s AI captures and transforms this expertise into sharable corporate knowledge, improving visibility and communication.
Workers can also raise, track, and manage maintenance notifications digitally using a visual Kanban board. Monitor operational KPIs, and seamlessly escalate issues to enterprise Plant Maintenance systems or CMMS platforms.
4. AI-Powered Insights
Augmentir’s AI continuously analyzes data from work execution to uncover patterns and opportunities for optimization — such as which procedures cause delays, or where additional training is needed.
5. Integration-Friendly
Augmentir can seamlessly integrate with existing ERP, MES, CMMS, and QMS systems, providing a flexible way to modernize without ripping and replacing core infrastructure. This integration infrastructure allows Augmentir to act as a “Single Pane of Glass” for a manufacturer’s frontline operations.
Up to 72% reduction in onboarding and training time
27% reduction in quality issues and improved first-time quality and compliance adherence
21% decrease in unplanned downtime
Higher worker engagement and retention
A New Standard for Frontline Excellence
In an era where labor shortages, quality demands, and operational agility define success, the world’s leading dairy manufacturers, such as Müller Milk, are turning to Augmentir to modernize their frontline operations. By replacing manual, paper-based processes with AI-powered digital tools, these industry leaders are empowering their workforce, optimizing every task, and transforming their plants into smart, data-driven operations. Augmentir is not just a tool — it’s becoming the new standard for operational excellence in the dairy industry.
Request a demo to learn how Augmentir can modernize your dairy operations.
AI-powered technology may be the missing puzzle piece for today’s workforce crisis.
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AI-powered technology may be the missing puzzle piece for today’s workforce crisis in manufacturing.
Is it just us or does recruiting, training, and retaining top talent today feel a lot like searching for that one elusive puzzle piece? The seismic shift in the workforce is forcing us to get creative and be adaptable like never before. It’s a new generation and if we want to be competitive in hiring in this ultra-competitive environment, we need to re-access how we train, develop, and retain talent, embrace the variable nature of the labor market, and meet workers where they are.
We can no longer try to force-fit the old model of staffing and training into a space that looks drastically different. It’s not just about a labor shortage or the supply chain challenges created by the pandemic. Workers themselves are changing. What they want from work, and how they want to work.
The solution to this head-scratching puzzle? AI-based technology. Digital work instructions and individualized training and on-the-job training (OJT) can improve productivity, reliability, independence, and safety for every worker. It offers flexibility in scheduling for operations managers. It reduces downtime. All of which contribute to a more efficient – and profitable – operation.
Sound too good to be true? Brace yourselves. It’s not. Here are three ways that AI-powered technology can help.
1. Moving onboarding and training closer to the point of work
Imagine if we could train and develop someone in the context of doing their work, leading to increased engagement and allowing organizations to retain top talent. Furthermore, we could see an increase in productivity as they constantly evolve their learnings.
AI is allowing companies to understand a worker’s skillset and provides the ability for personalized digital work instructions to guide them in the context of work while they are doing their job, whether it’s a new worker or one with dozens of years of experience. With an AI-based onboarding approach, organizations are able to hire a wider range of individuals with varying skill sets and get those individuals productive faster.
2. Give support at the moment of need
Are you a people watcher? We are. Ever take notice of who is on the factory floor? Last time I checked, we got the “newbies” and “veterans”. The variability of the workforce, both skilled and young, proves that there’s not a one size fits all approach to troubleshooting and performance support.
Enter AI.
Give workers the support and guidance they need, at the moment of need, whether it’s immediate access to a digital troubleshooting guide, or connecting virtually with a subject matter expert. Delivering personalized work procedures for every worker allows for continuous learning and growth.
3. Improve engagement and retention
Workers that are connected and empowered with digital technology can discover and nurture diverse skills based on their unique competencies and experience. They can earn greater responsibility and independence. This increases confidence and job satisfaction. Which in turn can improve employee retention and slow the revolving door of continual recruiting and training.
The aftermath?
Workers are likely to stay and want to grow in the company when they feel included. Shortly, workers begin walking with poise and a “can-do” attitude to their next job task.
What else is possible with AI-powered connected worker technology?
AI-based technology is ideal for training workers in this variable environment. AI-based systems individualize information about workers based on previous training and data-driven performance insights and augments their capabilities. It offers step-by-step guidance at the moment of need for regularly scheduled maintenance as well as troubleshooting. It helps managers learn about workers’ existing skills and build a rationale for specific roles, resources, and certification support and then make clear recommendations based on demands.
Technology should fit into your business as simply as sliding that last puzzle piece into place. Workers are the heart of your business, and you should adapt technology to fit your business, not the other way around.
Technology should fit into your business as simply as sliding that last puzzle piece into place. That includes how you train your workers. But no two workers are exactly alike. Each will learn and approach problems differently. So why not use the technology that recognizes and adapts to those differences to your advantage?
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Augmentir was recently recognized by Verdantix as one of the top 10 best AI-powered industrial copilot vendors offering comprehensive solutions for workforce management and productivity efficiency.
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Generative AI Industrial Copilots—AI assistants powered by large language models (LLMs) and tailored for manufacturing environments—are rapidly becoming essential tools for modern manufacturers. These copilots provide frontline workers and engineers with real-time, context-aware guidance, troubleshooting support, and automated documentation, all through natural language interactions.
Their rise is driven by critical industry challenges: a widening skills gap as experienced workers retire, ongoing workforce shortages, and the urgent need to boost productivity and operational efficiency. By capturing institutional knowledge and delivering it instantly to less-experienced workers, industrial copilots help manufacturers maintain performance, reduce downtime, improve safety, and accelerate digital transformation efforts.
Verdantix, an independent research and advisory firm that provides data-driven insights and strategic guidance on digital strategies for industrial organizations, recently covered the topic of generative AI industrial copilots in a market insights report. Verdantix’s market insight report highlights 10 innovative industrial copilot vendors delivering robust solutions for workforce management and productivity optimization. Industrial leaders can leverage this report to deepen their understanding of AI-driven technologies and explore how these solutions can support their own industrial transformation efforts.
Augmentir was recognized by Verdantix as one of the Top 10 Gen-AI-powered Industrial Copilot Vendors to Watch for 2025.
Top 10 Industrial Copilot Vendors
Here are the top 10 GenAI-Powered Industrial Copilot Vendors To Watch In 2025 as reported by Verdantix:
Augmentir – Augmentir’s generative AI assistant, Augie™, is a transformative tool designed to enhance industrial operations by providing real-time, context-aware support to frontline workers. Augie integrates data from various sources—including operational systems, training modules, and workforce management platforms—to deliver personalized guidance, streamline workflows, and facilitate rapid content creation.
ABB – ABB’s Genix Copilot, developed in collaboration with Microsoft, integrates large language models like GPT-4 to enhance industrial operations. It provides real-time, contextual insights to improve efficiency, productivity, and sustainability across sectors such as energy and utilities.
AVEVA – AVEVA, now part of Schneider Electric, has developed an Industrial AI Assistant, built on Microsoft Azure, that offers a conversational interface for users to access and summarize operational data. This assistant aims to improve decision-making and efficiency in industrial processes.
C3 AI – C3 AI‘s Generative AI Suite provides domain-specific solutions to assist technicians with equipment troubleshooting and reduce training time. The suite enables enterprise users to rapidly access and act on data through intuitive search and chat interfaces.
Cognite – Cognite‘s Generative AI Copilot, integrated within its Data Fusion platform, delivers real-time, contextualized insights for industrial operations. It enhances decision-making by providing a centralized view of industrial data, aiding in safety, reliability, and quality management.
IBM– IBM’s Copilot Runway assists enterprises in creating, customizing, and managing AI copilots, including integration with Microsoft 365. This offering aims to enhance productivity and drive business transformation through seamless AI adoption.
Nanoprecise – Nanoprecise’s ReKurv.ai is a generative AI solution designed for maintenance professionals in industrial environments. It offers real-time, contextual answers based on equipment behavior and operational data to enhance decision-making on factory floors.
Palantir – Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) connects AI with data and operations to drive automation across processes. It provides tools for building AI-driven functions and managing agents, facilitating real-time decision-making in critical contexts.
Siemens – Siemens’ Industrial Copilot, developed with Microsoft, is a generative AI assistant designed to enhance human-machine collaboration. It assists staff in designing products and organizing production and maintenance processes, aiming to improve productivity across industries.
SymphonyAI – SymphonyAI offers AI-driven solutions tailored for various industries, focusing on enhancing operational efficiency and decision-making. Their platforms integrate generative AI to provide actionable insights and improve business outcomes.
These companies, along with Augmentir, represent a transformative shift in how industrial leaders are deploying GenAI—not just to automate tasks, but to empower frontline workforces and drive measurable operational gains.
Key Benefits of Industrial Copilots
Industrial copilots offer a range of transformative benefits across operations, maintenance, training, and safety. Here are some of the key benefits:
Operational Efficiency & Productivity
Task Automation: Copilots can automate repetitive administrative tasks such as work order generation, data entry, and scheduling, freeing up time for skilled workers.
Real-Time Assistance: Provide workers with instant access to SOPs, manuals, and troubleshooting guides, improving first-time fix rates and reducing downtime.
Intelligent Recommendations: Suggest optimal next steps, tools, or parts based on contextual data, enhancing decision-making on the shop floor.
Data-Driven Insights
Contextualized Information: Copilots integrate data from multiple sources (ERP, CMMS, sensors, IoT) and present it in a unified, actionable format.
Anomaly Detection: Use AI to detect trends or anomalies in equipment performance or worker activity that could indicate operational risks or inefficiencies.
Knowledge Retention & Training
Just-in-Time Learning: Provide on-demand guidance and microlearning in the flow of work, tailored to workers’ roles and skill levels.
Knowledge Capture: Automatically document expert procedures and best practices to ensure tribal knowledge is retained and reused.
Safety & Compliance
Proactive Hazard Alerts: Warn workers of unsafe conditions based on environmental data, worker behavior, or equipment status.
Audit Support: Maintain up-to-date logs and documentation for compliance with industry regulations and standards.
Scalability & Workforce Empowerment
Support for Multi-Lingual & Diverse Teams: Enable consistent communication and guidance across geographically dispersed and multilingual teams.
Worker Empowerment: Give frontline workers more autonomy through AI guidance, increasing engagement and reducing reliance on supervisory intervention.
Augie™: An Industrial Copilot to Empower the Frontline Workforce
Introduced in early 2023, Augie™ is an industrial copilot designed specifically for the industrial frontline. Unlike traditional tools that rely heavily on equipment data alone, Augie™ integrates insights from frontline operations, training, engineering, and workforce data to deliver real-time, contextual support to frontline workers and supervisors.
Key Features Behind Verdantix Recognition
Verdantix highlighted Augmentir due to several standout capabilities within the Augie™ industrial copilot:
Industrial Work Assistant
Provide real-time support and guidance to workers on the floor or in the field. Augie helps workers with standard work, troubleshooting, and information access.
Content Assistant
Automatically converts standard files (Word, Excel, PDFs) into smart digital workflows such as SOPs and checklists. Augie can take your existing content and generate digital, smart forms, checklists, and interactive work procedures. Augie accelerates your transition to a paperless operation, and provides a robust tool for capturing tribal knowledge and converting it into digital corporate assets.
Operations Data Assistant
Interpret operational data through natural language queries, eliminating the need for complex reports or dashboards. The Augie industrial copilot helps operations leaders gain insights into your frontline operations by understanding and summarizing your operational data, generating reports, and providing insights into continuous improvement opportunities.
Extensibility Assistant
Offers developers tools to build custom GenAI experiences through user-defined functions and APIs. The Augie Extensibility Assistant from Augmentir empowers industrial companies to go beyond basic generative AI by enabling more intelligent and autonomous support for frontline operations. Through its seamless integration with Augmentir’s AI Agent Builder, Augie allows users to create and deploy AI agents that can interact with and analyze operational data, trigger automated workflows, and respond contextually to frontline needs. This extensibility framework lets manufacturers tailor AI assistance to their unique environments—connecting to third-party systems, retrieving and acting on data, and continuously learning from worker behavior and outcomes. The result is a scalable, adaptive solution that extends GenAI from simple question-answering to proactive, intelligent task support across the digital thread.
Solving Real Industrial Challenges
The industrial sector faces a range of challenges: growing skills gaps, legacy processes, inconsistent quality, and labor shortages. Augie™ directly addresses these by:
Boosting workforce performance with personalized, AI-driven task support.
Improving decision-making via fast access to operational and procedural knowledge.
Accelerating continuous improvement by uncovering inefficiencies through embedded data analytics.
The Future of Frontline Work, Powered by the Augie Industrial Copilot
Augmentir’s inclusion in Verdantix’s Top 10 GenAI Industrial Copilot Vendors watch list underscores its leadership in shaping the next generation of intelligent, AI-powered industrial tools. As frontline work evolves, platforms like Augie will be instrumental in bridging workforce gaps, maximizing productivity, and enabling safer, smarter operations.
Request a demo and see how Augie is redefining frontline performance.
Unlock frontline workforce performance and improve safety and quality by removing 7 key barriers with Augmentir’s AI-powered Connected Worker Platform.
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In a recent conversation with a manufacturing operations leader now focused on training, a familiar challenge emerged: pinpointing the true culprits behind frontline performance issues. Is it the process? The training? Or something deeper?
Rather than spinning in circles, we reframed the conversation with one simple, powerful question:
“What barriers exist that prevent good performance?”
This shift in perspective uncovered a set of common – and deeply entrenched – challenges. But more importantly, it revealed how the right digital tools, like Augmentir’s Connected Worker Platform, can systematically remove these barriers to unlock new levels of efficiency, quality, and engagement.
1. Inconsistent or Outdated Work Instructions
“Operators don’t always have clear, current procedures. We rely on tribal knowledge too much.”
When frontline workers rely on word-of-mouth or outdated paper instructions, variability and errors become inevitable. Small deviations in procedure can accumulate into major quality issues or production inefficiencies.
The results? Incorrect assemblies, wasted materials, process delays, or even safety incidents. Over time, these inconsistencies create a culture of uncertainty, where each shift or team may interpret the “right way” differently — hurting overall operational performance.
How Augmentir Helps:
Smart Digital Workflows: Augmentir digitizes and standardizes work instructions, ensuring that every operator, on every shift, follows the most up-to-date procedures. Augmentir’s no-code authoring environment allows you to create, update, and deliver work instructions to users through any mobile device or wearable technology appropriate for the job.
Augie™ Generative AI Content Assistant: Quickly generate standard work procedures from Excel, Word, PDFs, images, or videos. Augie takes your existing content and generates digital smart forms, checklists, and digital work instructions.
AI-driven content recommendations: The platform continuously learns from real-time execution data, surfacing opportunities to update or improve workflows based on actual performance and feedback.
2. Lack of Visibility into Workforce Capability
“We don’t always know who’s trained or qualified to do what. That slows us down or leads to errors.”
Without a clear view of skills and qualifications, managers are left guessing. As a result, unqualified workers may be assigned to critical tasks, increasing the risk of quality defects or compliance violations. Teams lose time shuffling responsibilities, and supervisors become hesitant to delegate.
This visibility gap also creates missed opportunities for upskilling and slows down workforce agility — a major issue in today’s high-turnover environments.
How Augmentir Helps:
Skills & Certification Tracking: Augmentir’s digital skills matrix and skills management capabilities give supervisors real-time visibility into who is qualified for each task.
Personalized Work Instructions: Smart work instructions deliver guidance and support matched to the needs of each worker, so that everyone can work at their personal best.
AI-Based Workforce Profiling: The system learns from task execution data to automatically update worker profiles, enabling smarter workforce planning and targeted upskilling.
3. Reactive Problem Solving
“We often operate in firefighting mode. By the time we detect a problem, it’s already costly.”
Manufacturing teams often find themselves reacting to quality issues, inefficiencies, or breakdowns after the damage is done. This “firefighting mode” leaves little time for structured problem solving and often results in compounding consequences — missed production targets, increased scrap or rework, unexpected downtime, or worse.
When frontline teams are stuck in reactive cycles, quality issues go undetected, potentially leading to customer complaints, warranty claims, or even costly product recalls. In high-risk environments, delayed detection can also result in safety incidents, regulatory violations, or compliance lapses. In short, reaction-mode doesn’t just waste time — it puts revenue, reputation, and workers at risk.
How Augmentir Helps:
Real-Time Operational Insights: Augmentir captures granular execution data across tasks, revealing trends and anomalies before they escalate.
AI-Powered Root Cause Analysis: The platform correlates performance data with variables like shift, equipment, and training gaps to surface underlying causes — proactively.
Industrial Collaboration Tools: Effectively collaborate and share information across your frontline teams. Augmentir provides manufacturing collaboration software to support context-based collaboration, connecting team members across shifts, plants, and languages.
Automated Alerts and Dashboards: Teams can receive real-time notifications and visualizations that help prioritize issues before they disrupt operations.
4. Disconnected Systems and Information Silos
“Information lives in too many places — paper, spreadsheets, different apps — so we don’t see the full picture.”
When critical information is fragmented across departments and systems, decision-making becomes slow, misinformed, or reactive. Frontline teams waste time hunting down documents, while managers struggle to identify trends or take corrective action across shifts and sites.
This fragmentation contributes to process delays, miscommunication, redundant training efforts, and reduced responsiveness — all of which erode efficiency and customer satisfaction.
How Augmentir Helps:
Integrated, Single Pane of Glass Platform: Augmentir centralizes work instructions, training records, skills data, and performance analytics into a single platform.
Built-in Integrations: Seamless connections with MES, ERP, QMS, and LMS systems ensure that frontline and back-office teams stay aligned.
5. Low Engagement or Lack of Ownership
“Operators don’t always feel connected to the bigger picture. That impacts quality and efficiency.”
When workers feel like cogs in a machine — disconnected from purpose, feedback, or opportunities for growth — their performance suffers. Disengagement leads to lower productivity, reduced quality focus, and higher turnover, all of which directly impact the bottom line.
Without ownership and recognition, frontline teams are less likely to take initiative, escalate issues, or contribute ideas for improvement.
How Augmentir Helps:
Personalized Work Experiences: Augmentir tailors tasks and support to each worker’s skill level and role, helping them succeed and grow.
Feedback Loops and Microlearning: The platform makes it easy for workers to give feedback and receive targeted coaching, reinforcing a culture of continuous improvement.
Digital Recognition & Performance Insights: Operators can see their impact and progression over time, boosting engagement and accountability. This improves workforce performance throughout the employee lifecycle.
6. High Turnover and Training Burden
“We’re constantly onboarding and retraining. It’s hard to get people up to speed quickly.”
Frequent turnover and lengthy training cycles make it difficult to maintain consistent performance. Traditional training approaches often require pulling experienced workers off the floor, leading to productivity dips and training bottlenecks.
The consequences include long ramp-up times, repetitive errors from new hires, and overburdened veteran employees. Worse, training documentation often goes stale quickly, failing to reflect process changes or lessons learned.
How Augmentir Helps:
Accelerated Onboarding: Step-by-step guided workflows with embedded videos and support reduce time-to-competency.
On-the-Job Learning: Contextual guidance within tasks enables learning in the flow of work, minimizing downtime and increasing retention.
Training Content Versioning: Built-in tools ensure training materials evolve alongside your operations.
7. Inconsistent Execution Across People, Shifts or Lines
“We see variability across lines or shifts — even when the process is the same.”
Even when processes are well-documented, execution can vary wildly depending on who is performing the task, when, or where. These inconsistencies lead to uneven quality, production delays, and missed KPIs, especially when variability isn’t visible or well understood.
Without a way to measure and compare performance at the individual or team level, continuous improvement efforts fall flat.
How Augmentir Helps:
Execution Intelligence: Augmentir analyzes execution patterns across shifts, lines, and facilities to uncover where and why variability exists.
Standardization Through AI: The platform uses AI insights to recommend adjustments to work instructions and training, helping bring every worker up to best-in-class performance.
Targeted Coaching: Managers can identify who needs support and deliver it efficiently, closing gaps faster.
The Bottom Line: A Smarter Path to High-Performance Frontlines
Rather than blaming either training or operations, the right question is: “What’s getting in the way of great performance?”
Augmentir’s AI-driven Connected Worker Platform helps manufacturers answer that question — and act on it — with precision and speed. By eliminating the barriers outlined above, companies can build a high-performance frontline workforce that is skilled, engaged, and aligned with business goals.
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A recent article published by The Washington Post shows some shocking numbers on the amount of Americans leaving their jobs over the past year. It’s no surprise that hotel and restaurant workers are resigning in high numbers due to the pandemic, but what is surprising is the fact that the manufacturing industry has been hit the hardest with “a nearly 60 percent jump” compared to pre-pandemic numbers. This “Great Resignation in Manufacturing” is the most of any industry, including hospitality, retail, and restaurants, which have seen about a 30% jump in resignations.
However, if you dig deeper, this trend isn’t new. This recent increase in job quitting in manufacturing has simply magnified a problem that had already been brewing for years, even prior to the start of the pandemic. In fact, in the four years prior to the pandemic (2015-2019), the average tenure rate in manufacture had decreased by 20% (US Bureau of Labor Statistics).
This accelerating workforce crisis is placing increased pressure on manufacturers and creating significant operational problems. The sector that was already stressed with a tight labor market, rapidly retiring baby-boomer generation, and the growing skills gap is now facing an increasingly unpredictable and diverse workforce. The variability in the workforce is making it difficult, if not impossible to meet safety and quality standards, or productivity goals.
Manufacturing leaders’ new normal consists of shorter tenures, an unpredictable workforce, and the struggle to fill an unprecedented number of jobs. These leaders in the manufacturing sector are facing this reality and looking for ways to adjust to their new normal of building a flexible, safe and appealing workforce. As a result, managers are being forced to rethink traditional onboarding and training processes. In fact, the entire “Hire to Retire” process needs to be re-imagined. It’s not the same workforce that our grandfather’s experienced, and it’s time for a change.
The Augmented, Flexible Workforce of the Future
The reality is that this problem is not going away. The Great Resignation in manufacturing has created a permanent shift, and manufacturers must begin to think about adapting their hiring, onboarding, and training processes to support the future workforce in manufacturing – an Augmented, Flexible Workforce.
What does this mean?
It means adopting new software tools to support a more efficient “hire to retire” process to enable companies to operate in a more flexible and resilient manner.
It means starting to understand your workforce at an individual level and using data to intelligently closes skills gaps at the moment of need and enables autonomous work.
And it means taking advantage of data. More specifically, real-time workforce intelligence that can provide insights into training, guidance, and support needs.
Investing in AI-powered connected worker technology is one way to boost this operational resiliency. Many manufacturing companies are using digital Connected Worker technology and AI to transform how they hire, onboard, train, and deliver on-the-job guidance and support. AI-based connected worker software provides a data-driven approach that helps train, guide, and support today’s dynamic workforces by combining digital work instructions, remote collaboration, and advanced on-the-job training capabilities.
As workers become more connected, manufacturers have access to a new rich source of activity, execution, and tribal data, and with proper AI tools can gain insights into areas where the largest improvement opportunities exist. Artificial Intelligence lays a data-driven foundation for continuous improvement in the areas of performance support, training, and workforce development, setting the stage to address the needs of today’s constantly changing workforce. Today’s workers embrace change and expect technology, support and modern tools to help them do their jobs.
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Explore top use cases for generative AI in manufacturing, how GenAI copilots and digital assistants work, and benefits for frontline workers.
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Generative AI in manufacturing refers to the application of generative models and artificial intelligence techniques to optimize and enhance various aspects of the manufacturing process.
While traditional AI focuses on data analysis, pattern recognition, and decision-making, generative AI creates new content and synthetic data, enabling innovative solutions. This involves using AI algorithms to generate new product designs, optimize production workflows, predict maintenance needs, and improve production efficiency within frontline operations.
According to McKinsey, nearly 75% of generative AI’s major value lies in use cases across four areas: manufacturing, customer operations, marketing and sales, and supply chain management. Manufacturers are uniquely situated to benefit from generative AI and it is already a transformative force for some. Generative AI is driving innovation and efficiency across the manufacturing sector, enabling advanced digital solutions and competitive advantages. A recent Deloitte study found that 79% of organizations expect generative AI to transform their operations within three years, and 56% of them are already using generative AI solutions to improve efficiency and productivity.
Manufacturing is rapidly evolving and by integrating cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI, manufacturers can better support, augment, and enhance their frontline workforces with improved decision-making, collaboration, and data insights. Gen AI is being adopted as a modern alternative to traditional methods, surpassing manual inspections and basic automation to deliver greater operational improvements.
Join us below as we dive into generative AI in manufacturing exploring how it works, the benefits and risks, and some of the top use cases that generative AI, specifically generative ai digital assistants, can provide for manufacturing operations:
Generative AI refers to artificial intelligence systems designed to create new content, such as text, images, or music, by learning patterns from existing data. In manufacturing, this includes the ability to generate new product designs and create synthetic data, such as realistic images, videos, or text, to support manufacturing innovation and AI training. The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) enables these systems to analyze vast amounts of data, leveraging advanced algorithms and machine learning algorithms to improve prediction accuracy and operational efficiency, simulate different scenarios, and generate innovative solutions that can impact a wide range of manufacturing processes.
Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) are a type of generative artificial intelligence model that have been trained on a large volume – sometimes referred to as a corpus – of text data. They are capable of understanding and generating human-like text and have been used in a wide range of applications, including natural language processing, machine translation, and text generation.
In manufacturing, generative AI solutions should leverage proprietary fit-for-purpose, pre-trained LLMs, coupled with robust security and permissions. Industrial LLMs use operational data, training and workforce management data, connected worker and engineering data, as well as information from enterprise systems. LLMs can also enhance document search by efficiently finding, extracting, and summarizing information from technical manuals, reports, and operational records.
Natural Language Processing
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch of artificial intelligence that focuses on the interaction between computers and humans using natural language. It involves the development of algorithms and models that enable computers to understand, interpret, and respond to human language in a way that is both meaningful and useful.
For generative AI, NLP is a key technology that enables the assistants to understand and generate human-like text, providing seamless conversational user experiences and valuable assistance to frontline workers, engineers, and managers in manufacturing and industrial settings.
NLPs allow the AI to process and interpret natural language inputs, enabling it to engage in human-like interactions, understand user queries, and provide relevant and accurate responses. This is essential for common manufacturing tasks such as real-time assistance, documentation review, predictive maintenance, and quality control.
By combining large language models and natural language processing, generative AI can produce coherent and contextually relevant text for tasks like writing, summarization, translation, and conversation, mimicking human language proficiency. NLP also enables interactive learning experiences, allowing employees to engage with training content, receive immediate feedback, and clarify doubts in real time.
Benefits of Leveraging Generative AI in the Manufacturing Industry
Generative AI and solutions that leverage them offer several benefits for manufacturing operations, including:
Operational/Production Optimization and Forecasting: GenAI technology offers a significant boost to manufacturing processes by monitoring and analyzing in real-time, spotting problems quickly, and providing predictive insights and personalized assistance to boost efficiency for manufacturing workers. Through process optimization and enhancing efficiency with real-time data analysis and automation, manufacturers can streamline operations, reduce downtime, and improve productivity. Additionally, AI assistants empower manufacturers to explore multiple control strategies within their process, identifying potential bottlenecks and failure points.
Proactive Problem-Solving: Generative AI-powered tools provide real-time monitoring and risk analysis of manufacturing operations, enabling the quick identification and resolution of issues to optimize production and efficiency. They can spot events as they happen, providing valuable insights and recommendations to help operators and engineers rapidly identify and resolve problems before they escalate. Predictive analytics and improved quality control help reduce waste and support continuous improvement in manufacturing processes.
Reduce Unplanned Downtime: Generative AI solutions can analyze vast datasets to predict equipment maintenance needs before issues arise, allowing manufacturers to schedule maintenance proactively, minimizing unplanned disruptions. Generative AI can also optimize maintenance schedules and delivery schedules to further reduce downtime and improve supply chain reliability. This not only improves downtime but also contributes to the overall operational resilience of mission-critical equipment.
Personalized Support and On-the-job Guidance: Generative AI tools can be tailored to diverse roles within the manufacturing plant, offering personalized assistance to operators, engineers, and managers. It can provide role-based, personalized assistance, and proactive insights to understand past events, current statuses, and potential future happenings, enabling workers to perform their tasks more effectively and make better, more informed decisions. GenAI solutions and applications involved implementing generative AI provide optimized parameters for operators and help manage inventory more effectively.
These benefits demonstrate the significant impact of generative AI on frontline manufacturing activities, improving overall operational efficiency, adjusting processes where needed, and driving operational excellence.
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Generative AI assistants can take these benefits one step further by incorporating skills and training data to measure training effectiveness, identify skills gaps, and suggest solutions to prevent any skilled labor issues. This guarantees that frontline workers have the essential skills to perform tasks safely and efficiently, while also establishing personalized career development paths for manufacturing employees that continuously enhance their knowledge and abilities.
Risks of Generative AI in Manufacturing
Generative AI in manufacturing presents several risks, including data security, intellectual property concerns, and potential bias in AI models. The reliance on vast amounts of data raises the risk of data breaches and cyberattacks, potentially exposing sensitive information. Intellectual property issues may arise if AI-generated designs or processes inadvertently infringe on existing patents or proprietary technologies. Additionally, biases in training data can lead to suboptimal or unfair outcomes, affecting the quality and equity of AI-driven decisions. There is also the risk of over-reliance on AI, which may reduce human oversight and lead to errors if the AI models make incorrect predictions or generate flawed designs. Ensuring proper validation, transparency, and human intervention is crucial to mitigating these risks.
The use of any genAI tool in manufacturing requires careful consideration of ethical, data privacy, and security risks, as well as potential impacts on employment.
Top Use Cases for Generative AI Manufacturing Assistants
Generative AI assistants and frontline copilots are AI-powered tools designed to provide valuable assistance and insights in industrial settings, particularly in manufacturing. These assistants are a type of generative AI that are used in manufacturing operations to enhance human-machine collaboration, streamline workflows, and offer proactive insights to optimize performance and productivity for frontline workers. The manufacturing sector is being transformed by these advanced AI applications, which are driving efficiency, innovation, and better decision-making across the industry.
What makes frontline AI assistants unique among other generative AI copilots is the enhanced human-like interaction beyond standard data analytics and analysis to understand the context around a process or issue; including what happened and why, as well as anticipate future events.
Generative AI assistants work via specialized large language models (LLMs) and generative AI, providing contextual intelligence for superior operations, productivity, and uptime in industrial settings. Additionally, they typically involve natural language processing for understanding human language, pattern recognition to identify trends or behaviors, and decision-making algorithms to offer real-time assistance. This, combined with machine learning techniques, allows them to understand user inputs, provide informed suggestions, and automate tasks. AI and machine learning are used together in manufacturing to automate defect detection and optimize supply chains, further enhancing operational efficiency.
Here are 6 of the top use cases for generative AI in manufacturing:
1. Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting is such a critical use case in manufacturing. With today’s skilled labor shortage, frontline workers are often times in situations where they don’t have the decades of tribal knowledge required to quickly troubleshoot and resolve issues on the shop floor. AI assistants can help these workers make decisions faster and reduce production downtime by providing instant access to summarized facts relevant to a job or tasks, this could come from procedures, troubleshooting guides, captured tribal knowledge, or OEM manuals.
2. Personalized Training & Support
With GenAI assistants, manufacturers can instantly close skills and experience gaps with information personalized, context-aware to the individual worker. This could include: on the job training materials, one point lessons (OPLs), or peer/user generated content such as comments and conversations.
3. Leader Standard Work
With Generative AI assistants, operations leaders can assess and understand the effectiveness of standard work within their manufacturing environment, and identify where there are areas of risk or opportunities for improvement.
4. Converting Tribal Knowledge
One of the more pressing priorities that many manufacturers face is the task of capturing and converting tribal knowledge into digital corporate assets that can be shared across the organization. With connected worker technology that utilizes Generative AI, manufacturing companies can now summarize the exchange of tribal knowledge via collaboration and convert these to scalable, curated digital assets that can be shared instantly across your organization.
5. Continuous Improvement
AI and GenAI assistants can help us identify areas for content improvement, and make those improvements, measure training effectiveness, and measure and improve workforce effectiveness.
6. Operational Analysis
Generative AI assistants can also provide value when it comes to operational improvements. GenAI assistants can use employee attendance data to help shift managers or line leaders determine where the risks are, and potentially offset any resource issues before they become truly problematic. An organization’s skills matrix, presence data, and production schedules all can feed into a fit-for-purpose, pre-trained LLM – giving you information that manufacturing leaders need to keep their operations running.
Generative AI and other AI-powered solutions are leveling up manufacturing operations, analyzing data to predict equipment maintenance needs before issues arise, allowing for proactive maintenance scheduling, and minimizing unplanned disruptions. With these tools manufacturers can empower frontline workers with improved collaboration and provide real-time assistance with contextual information, ensuring relevant and timely support during critical decision-making processes.
Overall, generative AI is transforming a wide array of manufacturing and industrial activities, connecting workers in ways that were previously thought impossible, and making frontline tasks and processes safer and more efficient for workers everywhere.
Future-proofing Manufacturing Operations with Augie™
Augie™, Augmentir’s generative AI assistant for frontline work, represents the next generation of generative AI solutions, purpose-built to help manufacturing companies future-proof their operations. By harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning, Augie enables manufacturers to optimize production processes, improve quality control, and reduce maintenance costs—all while adapting to rapidly changing market demands.
With Augie, manufacturers can analyze vast amounts of data from diverse sources, including machine data, sensor data, and historical data, to identify patterns and make predictive, data-driven decisions. This advanced platform delivers real-time insights into production processes, allowing manufacturers to quickly respond to shifts in demand, supply chain disruptions, or operational anomalies. Augie also features sophisticated algorithms for demand forecasting, inventory management, and supply chain optimization, helping companies minimize environmental impact and maximize operational efficiency.
Augie pulls in skill capabilities, workforce development information, and training data in addition to MES and ERP data. It offers contextual, proactive insights and automated workflows to optimize production and prevent bottlenecks, contributing to manufacturing efficiency, uptime, quality, and decision-making.
Additionally, Augie ties together operational data, training and workforce management data, engineering data, and knowledge/information from various disparate enterprise systems to empower frontline workers, streamline workflows, and increase manufacturing performance.
By integrating Augie into their operations, manufacturers can boost productivity, reduce unplanned downtime, and achieve significant cost savings. The platform’s AI-driven quality control ensures improved product quality, while its customer service automation capabilities enhance responsiveness and satisfaction. Ultimately, Augie empowers manufacturing companies to stay ahead of the competition, adapt to evolving industry trends, and secure a sustainable, competitive advantage in the global marketplace.
Augmentir is trusted by manufacturing leaders as a digital transformation partner delivering measurable results across operations. Schedule a live demo today to learn more.
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