Ayush Tiwari serves as Director of Product Management at ThingWorx, bringing over a decade of expertise from his tenure at PTC. His key focus area is to continuously enhance ThingWorx platform and applications to enable manufacturers to improve their operations, quality, performance, and service at scale as part of their Digital transformation efforts. A recognized industry leader, Ayush is currently working on advancing the platform for low-code development powered by Gen-AI capabilities to maintain its competitive edge and leadership in IIoT space.
We are excited to announce that PTC’s ThingWorx IIoT platform has partnered with Leela AI to deliver advanced Vision AI solutions that empower manufacturers to boost productivity, enhance worker safety, and reduce waste.
Leela AI’s advanced vision technology turns standard cameras into intelligent sensors. In the joint deployment, Leela records and measures manual and robotic activities from video such as cycle time, station occupation, and value-added time. It then seamlessly delivers the time-stamped analytics via MQTT for integration to the ThingWorx platform. The combination of visual and machine-sensor analytics offers a more complete picture of plant floor activity to improve productivity and worker safety.
Computer Vision AI is reshaping how factories operate. Leela AI turns everyday cameras into powerful, software-defined sensors that continuously capture and analyze activity across the production floor. This creates a high-quality stream of data that was previously invisible, giving manufacturers the insight needed to improve productivity, enhance safety, and reduce waste.
Leela AI empowers manufacturers to:
- Link work time to every unit—Capture the cycle time for each serial number or SKU, giving managers accurate task duration ranges to improve planning and pinpoint processes that need refinement
- Streamline operations—Analyze how work is performed to eliminate wasted steps, shorten cycle times, and improve throughput
- Monitor assembly flow—Detect pileups, misalignments, and bottlenecks as they develop to keep production moving
- Optimize staffing—Balance labor across lines and shifts to reduce overtime and increase efficiency
- Enhance safety—Identify missing or incorrect PPE, unsafe behaviors, and ergonomic risks to prevent injuries
One of PTC and Leela AI’s joint customers, a leading US-based water technology manufacturer, is leveraging Leela AI’s vision technology to monitor plant floor activities. The data seamlessly integrates into PTC’s ThingWorx Digital Performance Management (DPM) application, enabling real-time analysis and driving continuous improvement initiatives. With the robust capabilities of the ThingWorx platform, users can efficiently enrich and transform data to support visualization, predictive analytics, anomaly detection, AI-driven insights, and a wide range of IoT use cases.
Brandon Kennedy, Digital Practice Lead at Brock Solutions, the implementation partner that supported the customer in developing the end-to-end solution using ThingWorx DPM, Kepware, and Leela AI, stated: “Leela AI was highly flexible in taking on complex contextualization and calculations, allowing us to define and implement a clean integration standard for ThingWorx Digital Performance Management. Their technology opens the door for data visibility into machine and process data that would otherwise present a significant challenge and cost to capture through traditional PLC's/sensors.”
““Leela AI’s technology simplifies the collection of timestamped plant floor data, making it seamless to integrate with the ThingWorx platform for advanced analytics and operational improvements” said Chris Baldwin, General Manager, IoT at PTC.
“Our partnership with PTC marks a significant step toward redefining manufacturing efficiency and safety,” said Cyrus Shaoul, CEO of Leela AI. “By combining our Vision AI capabilities with ThingWorx’s robust analytics, we’re empowering manufacturers to achieve their goals with real-time, actionable insights.”
About PTC (NASDAQ: PTC)
PTC helps companies around the world reinvent the way they design, manufacture, operate, and service things in and for a smart, connected world. In 1986, we revolutionized digital 3D design, and in 1998 field-proven solutions enable you to unlock value at the convergence of the physical and digital we were first to market with internet-based product lifecycle management. Today, our leading industrial innovation platform and worlds. With PTC, manufacturers and an ecosystem of partners and developers can capitalize on the promise of the Internet of Things and augmented reality technology today and drive the future of innovation.
About Leela AI
Somerville, MA-based Leela AI is applying Leela Platform toward beneficial analytics applications with respect for privacy, starting with visual intelligence to improve productivity and safety in manufacturing. The company’s AI technology is based on research at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, and the Leela AI team is composed largely of MIT alumni.