If not addressed, they will reduce project ROI and cause early termination.
The focus here is on predictive maintenance projects for the Industrial IoT (IIoT). But it applies to virtually any AI project focused on anomaly detection within time series data.
WHY IT MATTERS: Walking the path to successful AI is a challenging process even for the experienced. Done right will be transformative. It will give you the well earned reputation of a rock star. AI done wrong leads to frustration and workers retreating back to their legacy process. Failure will be in the wind and commitment will soften. Knowing and managing these seven risk factors will prevent that and help you find consistent success:
Use Case Risk
Platform Risk
Team Risk
Data Risk
Data Science Risk
Cultural Risk
Leadership Risk
A LITTLE DEEPER: Each risk factor comes from a different part of the organization, a different set of goals for each. Conflict results as their goals are often divergent. You must achieve a balance, a synergistic compromise that achieves real, measurable results.
Use Case Risk - Significant domain expertise is required. Will the assets selected be have a reasonable chance of demonstrating an suitable ROI in the 60-90 day period of the POC?
Platform Risk - Will the platform scale? Will it integrate with other sensor types and workflows for integrated decision making? Security? How survivable is the vendor?
Team Risk - AI solution building requires a multi-disciplinary team with specialists in IT/OT, data science and engineering. Can they work together?
Data Risk - Does the failure condition show in the data? Are there other anomalies in the data that will create excessive false alarms?
Data Science Risk - The data science team does not have the understanding of the factors behind the use case to properly model it and create underlying accurate alarms and diagnostics.
Cultural Risk - Workers are afraid of change and fearful of losing their jobs.
Leadership Risk - AI can have a slow to start due to setbacks from other risk factors and inherent learning cycles. Does leadership have the patience to wait for the payoff?
BOTTOM LINE: AI is distinct from IT. Managing AI projects demands a fresh skill set. Keep an eye out for upcoming blog posts delving into each of these seven risk factors.
STAY TUNED: We provide more detail on these risk factors and how to mitigate them in your POCs and deployments. We will discuss how Amazon Monitron, as a next generation predictive maintenance platform, was built to automatically address many of these risk factors.
YOUR PERSPECTIVE? Have we left our a risk factor? A platform you recommend? Share it in the comments below. Thank you!
NEXT POST: Scaling Your Predictive Maintenance Program
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