SKAI Worldwide Targets Manufacturing AX with AI Platform 'Ontovia'... Zeroing In on the Smart Factory Market

SKAI Worldwide, a company specializing in AI agents and database solutions, is set to advance into the AI transformation (AX) market for manufacturing with its industrial AI data platform, 'Ontovia.' Following technology agreements with major manufacturing companies, including those in the shipbuilding sector, the company plans to expand its applications to other data-intensive industries, such as semiconductors and energy.

On September 7, SKAI Worldwide announced that it is expanding the implementation of its industrial knowledge platform, Ontovia, in manufacturing environments to enable companies to leverage their data through AI for actual work tasks.

The company explained that as the government accelerates AI adoption and utilization in manufacturing, simply implementing AI solutions has limitations if companies wish to achieve tangible results. It stressed the importance of building a data environment where AI can understand and apply the data collected during design, testing, and process stages to work tasks.

Ontovia is an industrial AI data platform that supports everything from data storage and integration to knowledge modeling, AI reasoning, and AI-based decision-making within a single platform. It connects company data, which is often fragmented across multiple systems, and converts it into actionable knowledge for AI utilization.

In manufacturing environments, diverse data accumulates throughout product design, testing, and production stages. In addition, technical expertise and work know-how from previous projects are continuously accumulated. When developing new products or launching projects, it is not enough to simply retrieve existing data. Understanding the relationships and context between datasets and reusing past experience are key factors in enhancing research and production efficiency.

However, internal data often exists in different formats or is divided across various systems and databases. As a result, traditional storage and retrieval approaches make it difficult for AI to determine the relationships between data elements or the context in which they should be used.

SKAI Worldwide addresses these challenges by using its own database and graph technologies. The company structures enterprise data as ontologies and knowledge graphs, transforming information and relationships into knowledge that AI can leverage.

This approach goes beyond merely retrieving relevant documents—generative AI and AI agents can now understand the meanings and relationships between data, and comprehend as well as reason through a company's accumulated technical expertise and work know-how.

Structuring the meaning and relationships of data also helps reduce the hallucination phenomenon of generative AI. Unlike the simple application of general-purpose generative AI to company operations, this enables the construction of industry-specific AI environments based on a company's actual data and operational context, setting Ontovia apart from competitors.

From a corporate perspective, this means that existing data and work experiences can be searched, compared, and analyzed using AI, and then reused. According to the company, this is expected not only to increase the practical use of technical expertise accumulated in past projects and reduce repetitive tasks, but also to strengthen data-driven decision making and the use of internal technical know-how.

The company is already expanding its business. SKAI Worldwide has signed technology agreements with leading manufacturers, including in shipbuilding, and is applying its solutions to industrial sites. Moving forward, it will broaden the scope of application to data-intensive industries such as semiconductor manufacturing and energy.

SKAI Worldwide CEO Jae-Hyuk Shin stated, "To create real value from AI in industrial settings, it is more important to build an environment in which AI can truly understand and use a company's actual data and technical expertise, rather than just introducing AI itself." He added, "By leveraging the AI data technologies and business experience we've built up in the public sector, we're expanding technology adoption across a range of manufacturing fields, including shipbuilding."

He added, "Going forward, we will extend the application to data-intensive industries such as semiconductors, manufacturing, and energy, presenting a new standard for smart factories."

SKAI Worldwide offers enterprise databases such as 'AgensSQL' (a database management system) and 'AgensGraph' (a cross-model database), as well as the hybrid AI agent 'Ontovia,' all built on its database management and graph data technologies. The company has developed a full-stack AI architecture that links enterprise databases—based on PostgreSQL—to AI applications, supporting AI transformation in both public and private sectors.

With Ontovia, which leverages database technology to transform enterprise data into knowledge and make it interoperable for AI-powered work, SKAI Worldwide plans to expand its presence in the AI transformation market for manufacturing and other data-intensive industries.

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