An octopus has three hearts, eight arms and nine brains. It is the perfect blueprint for the future of industrial manufacturing.
Industrial IT is traditionally centralized: Machines send all their sensor data to a huge “brain” (the cloud or server). There, an AI calculates, makes a decision and sends the command back to the production line.
Nature makes it smarter.
In the octopus, two thirds of the nerve cells are located directly in the arms. When an arm touches a crab, it does not first ask the central brain for permission. The mini-brain in the arm analyzes the signals from the suction cups and reacts in milliseconds. In nature, this time is the difference between life and death.
In your production via good part or scrap.
The problem: the cloud is too slow for production
If you send your machine data to a data center first, you lose the most valuable thing: time.
By the time the signal arrives, is calculated and the command “Tool wear critical – stop immediately!” is sent back to the control system, the component has long since been ruined. This is no longer error prevention. This is highly digitized autopsy.
EdgeBrain: The “arm brain” for your machine
This is exactly where EdgeBrain comes in. We say goodbye to the idea that all data must flow into the central brain and give your system its own reflexes.
EdgeBrain is a compact industrial module that works on the principle of inline AI. It is installed directly in the data stream between the sensor and the controller.
What this means for your production:
- Decisions in milliseconds: The FPGA chip analyzes up to 1,000 images or signals per second. It recognizes the smallest deviations as they happen – and reacts in real time.
- Plug & play in the brownfield: Like the octopus, EdgeBrain does not need a huge head. It uses highly specialized AI models that are often only a few kilobytes in size. In this way, it makes decades-old systems smart – without the need for a lengthy large-scale IT project.
- 100 % data sovereignty: What the arm of the octopus knows, the ocean doesn’t have to know. Your sensitive production data never leaves your factory floor. No cloud obligation, no dependence on the servers of big tech giants.
Do it like the octopus
Move the intelligence to where the work is done. Stop sending data to the cloud just for reports and give your machines smart reflexes in real time.
Ready for inline AI? Get to know EdgeBrain.
