Bernhard Kratzwald, Co-founder & CEO, EthonAI | Slush 2025
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Claims a platform called EthonAI builds the factory “brain” by tapping IoT, vision and context into a real‑time knowledge graph and ontology, using a vision foundation model deployed zero‑shot, causal AI for effect‑cause reasoning, and agentic workflows that trigger human alerts or closed‑loop control. Reports live deployments across Asia, Europe and the Americas, says >90% of IoT data is unused, and gives outcomes: ~5% higher throughput, >80% scrap reduction and ~25% labor productivity gain, saving hundreds of millions for large manufacturers.
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