Joint Venture for Practical AI Solutions

With the founding of WEBER AI SYSTEMS GMBH, the WEBER SYSTEMS GROUP is expanding its activities in the field of artificial intelligence. The new joint venture develops and integrates practical AI solutions for specific operational challenges. The first applications are already being implemented within the corporate group. In the future, this is expected to lead to solutions and services for external customers as well.

WEBER-​HYDRAULIK GMBH, along with Simon Schaus­berger and Ben­jamin Bach­mayr, are share­hold­ers in WEBER AI SYSTEMS. To­gether with Ste­fan Moser, they form the man­age­ment team of the joint ven­ture. The three have pre­vi­ously worked on AI-​related top­ics as part of the com­pany’s in­ter­nal dig­i­tal­iza­tion team. Moser is also re­spon­si­ble for Fi­nance, Ac­count­ing & Con­trol­ling, as well as Legal and Com­pli­ance mat­ters within the cor­po­rate group. Schaus­berger and Bach­mayr con­tribute ad­di­tional tech­no­log­i­cal ex­per­tise through their aca­d­e­mic back­grounds in ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence and their pro­fes­sional ex­pe­ri­ence in soft­ware de­vel­op­ment.

From a Specific Problem to the Right Solution

WEBER AI SYSTEMS does not start with a spe­cific tech­nol­ogy, but rather with con­crete op­er­a­tional chal­lenges. These in­clude, for ex­am­ple, time-​consuming man­ual processes, hard-​to-​access in­for­ma­tion, or the in­tel­li­gent in­te­gra­tion of ex­ist­ing data and sys­tems. Only then is it as­sessed how ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence can con­tribute. 

“We don’t want to use AI just for the sake of it. What mat­ters most to us is whether an ap­pli­ca­tion solves a spe­cific prob­lem and cre­ates tan­gi­ble added value. That’s ex­actly where we start,” says Ste­fan Moser, Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor of WEBER AI SYSTEMS and Head of Fi­nance, Ac­count­ing & Con­trol­ling at the WEBER SYSTEMS GROUP.

A key focus is on in­te­gra­tion into ex­ist­ing sys­tem land­scapes. WEBER AI SYSTEMS re­lies on open stan­dards, flex­i­ble in­ter­faces, and proven tech­nolo­gies. The goal is not to re­place ex­ist­ing sys­tems out­right, but rather to sup­ple­ment them with ap­pro­pri­ate AI func­tions in a tar­geted man­ner. Cur­rent areas of ap­pli­ca­tion in­clude, among oth­ers, AI as­sis­tants and knowl­edge data­bases, in­tel­li­gent search within cor­po­rate data, and the in­te­gra­tion of AI func­tions into ex­ist­ing ap­pli­ca­tions and processes.

First Practical Applications

The first projects are being de­vel­oped in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the busi­ness units of the WEBER SYSTEMS GROUP. These in­clude, among other things, an in­ter­nal AI as­sis­tant with a knowl­edge data­base, an SAP in­te­gra­tion for more ef­fi­cient spare parts searches, and AI-​supported ap­pli­ca­tions for qual­ity and lo­gis­tics processes. The group thus serves as the first real-​world test­ing ground where so­lu­tions are de­vel­oped and tested based on real-​world re­quire­ments. Suc­cess­ful ap­pli­ca­tions will then be stan­dard­ized and fur­ther de­vel­oped into scal­able so­lu­tions wher­ever ap­pro­pri­ate.

Future Plans for External Customers

In the long term, WEBER AI SYSTEMS is not in­tended to op­er­ate ex­clu­sively for the cor­po­rate group. Even­tu­ally, its ser­vices will also be of­fered ex­ter­nally. The focus will be on medium-​sized com­pa­nies whose struc­tures, re­quire­ments, and chal­lenges are fa­mil­iar to the team mem­bers from their own cor­po­rate en­vi­ron­ment. On this basis, prac­ti­cal AI so­lu­tions will be de­vel­oped that are tai­lored to real-​world op­er­a­tional re­quire­ments. 

“With WEBER AI SYSTEMS, we are ex­pand­ing our tech­no­log­i­cal ex­per­tise into a busi­ness area that is be­com­ing in­creas­ingly im­por­tant for in­dus­try and small and medium-​sized en­ter­prises. At the same time, we are cre­at­ing the frame­work to quickly test new so­lu­tions in prac­tice and, in the fu­ture, de­velop them into an in­de­pen­dent ex­ter­nal of­fer­ing,” says Yan­nick Weber, COO of the WEBER SYSTEMS GROUP.

The ser­vice port­fo­lio will be grad­u­ally ex­panded based on on­go­ing in­ter­nal and fu­ture ex­ter­nal projects.

For more in­for­ma­tion, visit: https://ai.weber-​systems.com/

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