Closing the manufacturing skills gap with generative AI

This article discusses how generative AI and the retrieval augmented generation (RAG) architecture can help manufacturers address the manufacturing skills gap by unlocking trapped institutional knowledge and making it easily accessible to workers.

Specifically, the article covers:

• What is generative AI and how it can contextualize and summarize complex information
• The challenge of the manufacturing skills gap due to retiring experts and difficulty attracting new talent
• How RAG combines foundation models with domain-specific data sources to provide accurate summarized information
• An example solution using AWS services like Amazon Kendra, Amazon Bedrock, and machine learning to enable a chatbot for repair technicians
• Conclusion on the potential of generative AI to empower workers and increase productivity