Industrial AI Podcast Beckhoff launches an AutoML tool
Apr 21, 2024
Dr. Fabian Bause from Beckhoff discusses their new AutoML tool for vision tasks in the industrial sector. They explore the evolution of company offerings, integration with Beckhoff tools, target audience analysis, AutoML capabilities, model accuracy, and customer feedback.
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AutoML As An Enabler For Domain Experts
- Beckhoff views AutoML primarily as an enabler that lets domain experts build models without deep ML knowledge.
- Fabian Bause explains AutoML automates the data scientist tasks while empowering machine builders to create models.
Full-Stack Vision Prepared The Groundwork
- Beckhoff evolved from PLC inference engines to full-stack vision including GPUs and cameras on industry PCs.
- This hardware+software readiness motivated them to add an AutoML step to produce models for shop-floor deployment.
Roll Out Vision First, Then Time Series
- Start the AutoML rollout focusing on vision: anomaly detection and image classification first.
- Plan to extend later to object detection, segmentation and then time series use cases.