Fishman® Corporation may have just added a middle name to its patented AirFree® Technology, but to the many manufacturers that have come to rely on the SmartDispenser® featuring AlgorithmicControl™ and AirFree® Technology the addition comes as no surprise. As users of the SmartDispenser®, they know from experience that Fishman® has long been an advocate of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The truth is, Fishman® has been adopting various principals of AI for over a decade. The technology plays such a key role in the innovative solutions from Fishman® that the company thought it fitting to name its flagship product the SmartDispenser®. Little wonder since it’s the only fluid dispense system that offers manufacturers a degree of intelligence they can’t get from any other product on the market.
AI-driven features are in abundance with the SmartDispenser®
The various AI-driven features offered by Fishman® Corporation go a long way in assisting customers in the assembly of numerous types of products being manufactured today. These unrivalled innovations include—
AlgorithmicControl™ Algorithms are what make the SmartDispenser® smart. They’re also what create many of the benefits of AI. What Fishman® did is develop a system of applying algorithms to a mechanical drive system through a unique technology called AlgorithmicControl™. Thanks to it, manufacturers are assured the highest level of precision, control, giving them unbeatable repeatability.
AirFree® Technology The capabilities gained from AlgorithmicControl™ are magnified by the many smart features built into patented AirFree® Technology. They help to eliminate human error and increase productivity by giving the SmartDispenser® the brains to make decisions, report production data and establish machine to machine cross communication between workstations and with MES systems. No wonder Fishman® gave its unrivaled technology a much deserved middle name.
SmartApp™ Much of the added intelligence of the SmartDispenser® is made possible with a suite of applications called SmartApps™. Each consists of sets of algorithms designed to act on the data that populates the SmartDispenser®’s SQL database; this enables some of the SmartApps™ to make decisions and perform actions. Other SmartApps™ in the series reduce human errors, boost productivity and enhance security, allowing customers to customize their SmartDispenser®s.
SmartReporting™ SmartReporting™ lets manufacturers track, collect and report production data without human intervention, and makes the information readily accessible to everyone who needs access to it at one or multiple facilities. The data it can track includes operator activity, dispensing program used, and throughput by the hour, day, or month.
SmartRecycling™ SmartRecycling™ is based on free firmware and software upgrades. When enhancements to existing software are made, or when entirely new software is released, the SmartDispenser® can be upgraded to a like-new state with no cost to the manufacturer. Even existing dispense guns can be reused with a simple software change.
Fishman® Corporation keeps pushing the AI envelope
In addition to the aforementioned capabilities that build on the SmartDispenser®’s inherent intelligence, Fishman® provides manufacturers with an ideal infrastructure on which to add new AI functions as they become available. Two more advances that presently deliver the power of AI to fluid dispensing and to the assembly process, prove further that there’s nothing artificial about the benefits manufacturers gain from AirFree® AI Technology.
SmartScanning™ SmartScanning™ helps eliminate human error and mitigate risk, both real and potential, from the assembly process. SmartScanning™ makes this possible by giving operators the ability to employ foolproof barcode scanning when performing various functions with their SmartDispenser®s.
SmartNetworking™ In addition to storing data, making decisions and executing commands, the SmartDispenser® is also capable of communicating with, and being controlled by a company’s MES system. Much of this is accomplished through a suite of MES SmartApp™s that when installed complete the connection between SmartDispenser®s and MES systems; a bond that offers manufacturers a smart, advantageous way to network.
AI is in the DNA of Fishman® and the SmartDispenser®
These days with so much talk of AI and the growing number of benefits it can deliver, it’s surprising that other makers of fluid dispense systems haven’t embraced the limitless power of this incredible technology. Thankfully for the many manufacturers who trust the SmartDispenser® with its abundance of innovative features, among them the newly renamed AirFree® AI Technology, they know Fishman® will never stop delivering for them.
To learn more about the role Fishman® Corporation is playing in AI, please read a recently published White Paper on the subject: The role Artificial Intelligence is playing in fluid dispensing.