Helping process industries with machine learning, AI

Manufacturing industries have shut-downs, both routine and sudden, when a large number of employees is involved in finishing a multitude of tasks. Each employee quite often works independently of the other and what they do is shared either in daily or weekly team meetings. But what if each one knew what the other was doing even without having to attend the meetings. That is what Maximl Labs Pvt Ltd, a start-up being incubated at the Incubation Cell in IIT Madras, seeks to address with a cloud-based software product, SyncOps, short for synchronising operations. Having studied the working of refineries and steel plants, the idea was to identify friction points, provide real-time actionable insights to all concerned, says Pankaj Pawan, 27, Founder and CEO, Maximl Labs.