Our Machine Builder partners embed advanced connectivity analytics and AI for state-of-the-art equipment health and optimization. Via consultation, training, and support, it is delivered and scaled as a measurable value-add to their end-user factory customers.

These combine industry expertise and the 4IR resources needed to implement our industrial transformation solutions on-site. With our Integrator partners, we deliver our customer value proposition collaboratively. Dataprophet works with its global Integrator partners to generate site-specific value realization.

Norican, based in Denmark, is a leading machine builder, primarily serving the foundry industry. With about 2000 employees, it provides efficient and sustainable equipment globally, including molding machines, sand mixers, furnaces, and shot blasters, used by iron foundries and aluminum die casters. Norican supports its customers with service and aftermarket support, striving for top efficiency and quality while offering upgrades to incorporate the latest technology in machinery.

Dataprophet first came to the attention of Norican in 2018, based on work we were doing with one of the largest foundries in the Southern Hemisphere. After a visit to our customer foundry to see the results achieved firsthand, Norican saw the upside of a long-term collaboration. Dataprophet and Norican then resolved to combine forces on a shared IIoT platform playing to our relative strengths.

The Norican team determined that independently developing AI-for-manufacturing technology would be costly, time-consuming, and risky. A partnership with an established expert in industrial machine-learning solutions made sense. The exclusive partnership with Dataprophet could leverage AI performance optimization expertise, which would be further enhanced by Norican’s strong market position, trusted technology brands, and credibility in the foundry sector.

The Norican Group constructed its industry-exclusive partnership model with us to scale Dataprophet’s results globally across the foundry industry. The idea was to act quickly to capitalize on the first mover advantage with digital solutions for foundries combining deep industry knowledge with deep digital and AI expertise. The key would be leveraging the technological know-how and digital products of Dataprophet to benefit Norican's customers.

Since 2020, Norican Digital and Dataprophet have been scaling out their Monitizer | DISCOVER and Monitizer | PRESCRIBE solutions with highly successful results. Initial engagement between Dataprophet and Norican determined an optimization project critical to a foundry customer. Once the end-user had agreed on a common commercial proposal, technical collaboration and deployment began. This technological collaboration saw the Spanish foundry group, Condals, reduce scrap rates for two products by 39% and 45%, respectively, with the guidance of Dataprophet’s AI-driven optimization deployment.

The worldwide digital rollout of the partnership’s products is strategically critical. To this end, Norican and Dataprophet have set ambitious targets for getting their combined products up in front of customers and implementing them. Norican sees the long-term value-add of its strong hardware technology brands going digital as an integral part of the total solution for the foundries of the future. Extracting maximum benefit from the foundry value chain in the long term means scaling this technology across their customers’ factory fleets.