Watch out. A wrong maintenance step can injure someone. Safety-critical tasks must still follow the printed SOP and supervisor sign-off, and the assistant must be re-tested whenever a document changes.
Answer shop-floor questions from manuals
An assistant that answers operator questions from your SOPs and machine manuals, citing the page.
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Best for
- Plants with thick OEM manuals and many SOPs
- New operators and technicians learning a line
- Supervisors answering the same questions every shift
What you need
- Your SOPs, work instructions and OEM manuals
- An approved AI tool that searches documents
- A senior technician to test answers
Starter prompt
Copy it, fill in the parts in square brackets, and paste it into the AI assistant your organisation allows.
You answer questions from operators and technicians at [plant name] using only the manual and SOP extracts below. Give the answer as short numbered steps. Always name the document and page or section. If a step involves lockout-tagout, high voltage or moving parts, start with the safety precaution from the document. If the extracts do not answer it, say 'Not in our documents, ask your supervisor'. Reply in [English/Hindi] as asked. Question: [question] Extracts: [retrieved sections]
How to use it
1.Collect current documents
2.Load and label
3.Test with a technician
4.Fix and deploy on one line
- 1
Collect current documents
Gather the current SOPs and manuals for one line. Drop outdated revisions so they cannot be retrieved.
- 2
Load and label
Load them into an approved tool, labelled by machine and document number. Split manuals by chapter or section.
- 3
Test with a technician
A senior technician asks 20 real questions and checks each answer and citation. Note every wrong or missing citation.
- 4
Fix and deploy on one line
Improve splitting and labels until citations are reliable, then make it available on one line via a tablet or phone.
What you end up with
A shop-floor assistant that answers from your own manuals and shows where the answer came from.
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