{"id":6735,"date":"2016-05-18T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/editor.thinkapps.com\/blog\/?p=6735"},"modified":"2016-05-17T11:12:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T18:12:56","slug":"machine-intelligence-eigen-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinkapps.com\/blog\/development\/machine-intelligence-eigen-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Eigen Brings AI and Machine Learning to the Factory Floor [Interview]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is part of a series on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"ThinkApps posts on machine intelligence\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkapps.com\/blog\/tag\/machine-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\">machine intelligence companies<\/a><\/span>. We\u2019ve interviewed\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"How Beagle Brings Machine Intelligence to Legal Tech\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkapps.com\/blog\/development\/machine-intelligence-beagle-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beagle<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"How Mariana Applies AI to B2B Marketing\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkapps.com\/blog\/development\/machine-intelligence-mariana-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mariana<\/a><\/span>, <a title=\"Beyond Verbal Harnesses AI to Analyze Emotions\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkapps.com\/blog\/development\/machine-intelligence-beyond-verbal-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Beyond Verbal<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"Preteckt Is Disrupting Heavy-Duty Vehicles via Machine Learning\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkapps.com\/blog\/development\/machine-intelligence-preteckt-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Preteckt<\/a><\/span>. Now we&#8217;re excited to feature <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"Eigen Innovations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eigeninnovations.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eigen Innovations<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0which is\u00a0applying AI\u00a0and machine learning to industrial manufacturing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"Eigen Innovations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eigeninnovations.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eigen Innovations<\/a>,\u00a0a Canadian company, uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to\u00a0help customers monitor their industrial equipment and optimize manufacturing operations.<\/p>\n<p>We recently talked to Eigen&#8217;s chief executive\u00a0officer\u00a0<a title=\"Scott Everett\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/scott-everett-970a9968\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Everett<\/a>\u00a0about the inspiration behind the company, how its core\u00a0Intellexon<sup>\u00ae\u00a0<\/sup>platform works, current trends and limitations in machine learning, and more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16165930\/EigenLogo.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6753\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"209\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6753 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16165930\/EigenLogo.png\" alt=\"Machine Intelligence Eigen: Eigen Logo\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16165930\/EigenLogo.png 560w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16165930\/EigenLogo.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>[Editor\u2019s note: The interview questions and responses below have been edited for clarity and length.]<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>What does your role as CEO entail on a day-to-day basis?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We develop solutions for the industrial market, helping manufacturers to maximize the efficiency of their production operation using real-time advanced computing solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What I love about that is my day-to-day can involve everything from walking a factory floor to talking about deep learning algorithms with our data scientists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being the CEO, I am consumed with the single focus of creating value for customers and in turn creating value for the company. Each day is different in pursuit of that.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>What is\u00a0your educational background and prior work experience?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My background is in engineering.\u00a0I earned a Bachelors and Masters in Mechanical Engineering,\u00a0specializing in advanced controls and machine learning.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve spent a lot of time in steel-toe boots and a hard hat, working in industrial environments, and seeing opportunities to\u00a0improve process control and advance industrial automation. These experiences\u00a0led me to research how artificial intelligence could be leveraged to achieve new efficiency breakthroughs.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Working on a thesis in that field led to a patent in optimization of complex systems and to the founding of Eigen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"810\" height=\"456\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6754\" src=\"http:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16165930\/Scott2.jpg\" alt=\"Machine Intelligence Eigen: Scott Everett\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16165930\/Scott2.jpg 810w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16165930\/Scott2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16165930\/Scott2.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>What factors led you to found Eigen?<\/h2>\n<p>One of my favorite books is Pirsig\u2019s <em>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<\/em>. There\u2019s a mystical side to how humans and machines intersect to become something greater. But it is achieved through understanding and control.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I founded Eigen because of a passion for technology and a passion for working with people to use technology for new and innovative solutions.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think to the general public, there\u2019s a lot of mystery about concepts like machine learning and artificial intelligence. Putting those concepts to use in an industrial environment forces you to open the black box and make solutions that are usable, understandable, and leave people in control.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s the most challenging aspect of your role?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the CEO, you\u2019re constantly having to make trade-offs. By nature, it\u2019s hard for me to say \u201cno.&#8221; I\u2019m curious about everything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>So the biggest challenge is in deciding what <em>not<\/em> to do.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6756\" src=\"http:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16170537\/IMG_2132.jpg\" alt=\"Machine Intelligence Eigen: Scott Everett 2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16170537\/IMG_2132.jpg 6000w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16170537\/IMG_2132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16170537\/IMG_2132.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16170537\/IMG_2132.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 6000px) 100vw, 6000px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>What was the inspiration behind Eigen&#8217;s Intellexon<sup>\u00ae\u00a0<\/sup>software?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We firmly believe that the best experts in any process are the people operating the process. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, any one person\u2019s scope of expertise is limited to what\u2019s in front of them day-to-day, regardless of what level they are at within the organization.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Eigen, we see a way to tap into the collective expertise of the factory floor, learn from the individual operators, and look for ways to augment the overall intelligence of the factory using the Intellexon<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0platform to track and learn from events across disparate parts of the manufacturing process.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>How do you utilize machine learning to improve the manufacturing process?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We provide a continuous learning platform that integrates video and sensor data. It\u00a0enables factory floor workers to explore data in real-time to make data-driven decisions that directly improve the manufacturing process.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The platform has a machine learning engine that combines the data captured from the factory floor with the input captured from users, in order to learn optimizations that can improve process control and quality monitoring directly on the factory line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1211\" height=\"284\" class=\"extended alignnone wp-image-6762 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16173112\/Eigen-Quality-Inspection.png\" alt=\"Machine Intelligence Eigen: Quality Inspection\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16173112\/Eigen-Quality-Inspection.png 1211w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16173112\/Eigen-Quality-Inspection.png 300w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16173112\/Eigen-Quality-Inspection.png 768w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16173112\/Eigen-Quality-Inspection.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1211px) 100vw, 1211px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>How\u00a0does your customers&#8217; quality inspection process change after implementing your product?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most systems on the market rely on humans to manually program every variation of pattern and anomaly to detect during inspection. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leveraging a machine learning engine, we are able to use a fraction of user input to realize massive gains in efficiency and accuracy of detection not possible to achieve in a manual way.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most customers move from an \u201cend-of-shift\u201d destructive testing regime to a real-time inspection process for defect avoidance. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, the platform inherently allows users to workflow events as they happen, increasing the collaboration, time to resolution, and collective knowledge of the factory.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>How would you define Eigen&#8217;s\u00a0key value proposition for customers?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We really enable manufacturers to protect their main asset, which is their end product.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everything about a customer, their brand, the efficiency of their operation, the proper functioning of their equipment is all reflected in their end product.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether it\u2019s through monitoring the equipment\u00a0or\u00a0process or inspecting product during the manufacturing operation,\u00a0<strong>maximizing defect avoidance in a cost-effective and simple way is the main value proposition we obsess about delivering to our customers.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1116\" height=\"744\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6765\" src=\"http:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16175328\/Eigen-benefits.png\" alt=\"Machine Intelligence Eigen: How It Works\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16175328\/Eigen-benefits.png 1116w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16175328\/Eigen-benefits.png 300w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16175328\/Eigen-benefits.png 768w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16175328\/Eigen-benefits.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1116px) 100vw, 1116px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Where do you operate?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our primary market is North America, with customers throughout Canada and the United States. But we have had sales in Europe, as well.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In any sale, we work closely with our customers and ensure that the system fits in to whatever process or standard is\u00a0required.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are experts at defect avoidance, and it\u2019s that value that customers are after primarily.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Was the Intellexon<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0software fully designed and developed in-house?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have a full staff comprised of operational technologists, IT software developers, and data scientists. The entire solution has been designed and developed by the Eigen team.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have leveraged open sourced code for frameworks and for some platform connectivity where it makes sense for efficiency. However, the main algorithms used for learning feature detection, contour analysis, and ultimately anomaly detection were developed in-house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1128\" height=\"630\" class=\"extended alignnone wp-image-6768 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/18130030\/Benefits-of-Eigen.png\" alt=\"Machine Intelligence Eigen: Product Benefits\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/18130030\/Benefits-of-Eigen.png 1128w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/18130030\/Benefits-of-Eigen.png 300w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/18130030\/Benefits-of-Eigen.png 768w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/18130030\/Benefits-of-Eigen.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1128px) 100vw, 1128px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>How much training data is needed\u00a0to train models and deploy your platform\u00a0for a new customer?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It largely depends on the complexity of the process, and what type of expertise or intelligence we\u2019ve already developed for an application.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We normally get in to continuous real-time inspections, processing data from a very dynamic environment or application.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The amount of data is less important than the variation of data. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So we may record for a day or two simply to ensure we trap significant variations in data. But we would then cluster and identify important or suspicious data that very quickly reduces and focuses the data set.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is an iterative process, giving the user transparency to decide what\u2019s important and what not to focus on, leaving the customer largely in control of the training time. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s the most exciting trend in machine learning from Eigen&#8217;s perspective?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s less about specific advances or new technologies that are being developed and more about the increased awareness and acceptance of machine learning and artificial intelligence as a whole.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think we are on the cusp of a tipping point that is very exciting. At Eigen, \u201cdata science\u201d isn\u2019t a disconnected endeavor, it&#8217;s part of our mainline R&amp;D activity.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m seeing this trend in the industry, where businesses are simply incorporating the disciplines of data science into their day-to-day operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16165929\/IMG_2116-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6752\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6752\" src=\"http:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16165929\/IMG_2116-2.jpg\" alt=\"Machine Intelligence Eigen: Scott Everett 3\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16165929\/IMG_2116-2.jpg 6000w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16165929\/IMG_2116-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16165929\/IMG_2116-2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1vqbpto5tbbz0.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/16165929\/IMG_2116-2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 6000px) 100vw, 6000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>What advances in machine learning have benefitted Eigen the most?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delivering on our value proposition requires processing large amounts of data in real-time and creating a finely-tuned algorithm to do that directly on the factory floor, at the edge of a network.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are benefiting from advances in machine learning, especially the ability to use big data analytics and deep learning algorithms to come up with client-specific solutions that improve the performance of their processes rapidly and accurately. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Are there any limitations on machine learning Eigen would like to see removed?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think the limitations we see are related to practicality of solutions with the given resources.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are moving beyond theory in much of the field, where the potential is only limited by the processing performance. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We will see a day when advanced concepts in deep learning will be able to execute on much smaller footprints, like mobile devices. I\u2019m sure <a title=\"Moore\u2019s Law\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moore%27s_law\" target=\"_blank\">Moore\u2019s Law<\/a> will benefit from this increased adoption and ubiquity. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Have there been any instances where machine learning led to a false positive or negative for your customers?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most customers go through a \u201ctraining\u201d period with the system where it is not a closed loop to their production operation until they are confident in its performance.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During this time, operators tell the system when an event is incorrectly categorized. By\u00a0providing this input to the learning platform, its\u00a0accuracy improves continuously and rapidly. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a transparent process, and only once the customer is confident in the performance is it put online to automate the production in real-time.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This significantly reduces occurrences of false positives or negatives in actual production. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Does Eigen actually consider itself a machine intelligence company?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we had to categorize ourselves, it\u2019s probably as a product company, specializing in advanced software solutions for industrial manufacturing.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That said, we think of ourselves as an \u201cAugmented Intelligence\u201d company, helping manufacturers bridge the factory floor big data with the collective expertise of operators to achieve untapped efficiencies in production operation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This post is part of a\u00a0series of\u00a0interviews with<em>\u00a0<a title=\"ThinkApps posts on machine intelligence\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkapps.com\/blog\/tag\/machine-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\">machine intelligence companies<\/a><\/em>\u00a0that\u00a0are harnessing the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence in innovative ways. 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