Valentine’s Day is in two weeks, and the traditional gifts are already flying off store shelves: jewelry, watches, colognes, cards, and boxes and boxes of chocolate. All thoughtful, personal gifts—yet the process of manufacturing them is anything but warm and fuzzy. Production lines around the world have been busy churning out consumer goods at scale, just as they do for every holiday season. Manufacturing companies run on unforgiving production and delivery schedules, and every interruption on the line is time and money wasted. If you can shave even two minutes off machine downtime, that can be worth thousands of dollars. That’s where our new, AI-powered maintenance advisor can help. Imagine you’re a maintenance technician working on a production line, and you get an alert that one of the machines has stopped working. Often, these alerts come in the form of codes, such as “IHT” or “PDE.” If you’re an experienced technician, you know that this means a measured parameter has fallen outside the acceptable range. But which parameter? And what range? If the issue isn’t immediately apparent when you examine the machine, you’d have to sift through hundreds of pages of repair manuals and documentation to diagnose the problem. Oracle’s maintenance advisor AI agent can retrieve all of this information in seconds from your company’s own manuals, past repairs, and documentation for that exact machine, and it can answer your questions in plain language.

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