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Datch Joins Dominion Energy Innovation Center 2023 Cohort of DEIC Accelerate Companies

The Dominion Energy Innovation Center (“DEIC”) announced today the ten climate tech focused startups that will make up the 2023 DEIC Accelerate cohort starting in June and running through October. Companies accepted into the accelerator will spend four months receiving mentorship and developing pilot opportunities with DEIC’s partner network, led by Dominion Energy.

Embracing Lean Six Sigma Practices with Datch: A New Era of Efficiency

Transforming Energy Management: Datch and Contact Energy's Collaborative Success

Top 5 Benefits of AI-Driven Asset Management in Manufacturing Facilities

Maximizing Efficiency in Industrial Operations

In a recession, businesses and individuals often face economic challenges and may be hesitant to invest in new technologies. However, despite these challenges, there is great opportunity for innovation during a recession.

Should You Innovate in a Recession?

In a recession, businesses and individuals often face economic challenges and may be hesitant to invest in new technologies. However, despite these challenges, there is great opportunity for innovation during a recession.

Why You Should Upgrade Your ERP, Instead Of Replacing It.

The process of upgrading existing ERP systems with vendor tools is similar to the process of replacing the existing system, but with a tighter focus, less impact across departments, and greater benefits to operations without slowing them down. ERP add-on tools offer new ways to approach old tasks. For ever-evolving company needs, there are new tools available to meet them. Finance, HR, and operational teams now have access to tools that can allow workers to refocus on the task at hand, decrease low-value work, and greatly shorten the time of processes. Many of these tools come equipped with dashboards that make continuous improvements accessible to all and integration support for a smooth transition to an optimized and upgraded ERP system.

Podcast: This Week In Voice

Bradley Metrock hosts a roundtable discussion with 4 Voice AI industry specialists about: Voicebot.AI celebrating it's 6 year birthday with 6 Ways The Industry Has Changed, Shutterstock to integrating OpenAI's DALL-E 2 and launching a fund for contributor artists, Machines that can craft essays. How should writing be taught now? and how Alexa predicts the Philadelphia Phillies to win the World Series (WPVL).

How Outdated Technology Can Cost You Good Employees

Forgetting curves happen because the human memory weakens over time. You may know someone that claims to “have a steel trap memory,” but human memory is imperfect. The more time that passes, the less we accurately remember. But how does this impact business operations?

Swerving Forgetting Curves with Datch

Forgetting curves happen because the human memory weakens over time. You may know someone that claims to “have a steel trap memory,” but human memory is imperfect. The more time that passes, the less we accurately remember. But how does this impact business operations?

Mark Fosdike talks Voice AI for Industrial Operations with Voicebot.ai

In this episode, Mark breaks down the key use cases and unique challenges in industrial manufacturing where a voice assistant can have a big impact. He also reviews the tech stack for Datch, training the voice assistant, how the company was formed, the industries they are focused on, and much more. Custom voice assistants can do more than just play music and tell you the weather.

Voice AI for Aviation: A Move in the Flight Direction

There are many benefits of transitioning to Voice AI - especially in frontline manufacturing operations, where workers can simply speak about critical issues in real-time to complete reports. Learn how easy it can be to digitize with Datch.

What You Should Know About ERP Implementation

There are many benefits of transitioning to Voice AI - especially in frontline manufacturing operations, where workers can simply speak about critical issues in real-time to complete reports. Learn how easy it can be to digitize with Datch.

Blackhorn Ventures Leads Series A with $10 Million Investment

There are many benefits of transitioning to Voice AI - especially in frontline manufacturing operations, where workers can simply speak about critical issues in real-time to complete reports. Learn how easy it can be to digitize with Datch.

Securing The Cabin with Datch

There are many benefits of transitioning to Voice AI - especially in frontline manufacturing operations, where workers can simply speak about critical issues in real-time to complete reports. Learn how easy it can be to digitize with Datch.

The Benefits of Implementing Voice AI into Frontline Operations

There are many benefits of transitioning to Voice AI - especially in frontline manufacturing operations, where workers can simply speak about critical issues in real-time to complete reports. Learn how easy it can be to digitize with Datch.

The Importance of AI in Manufacturing

Implementing Artificial Intelligence to Your Manufacturing Operations Can be a Daunting Task but Voice AI is Making the Process a Lot Simpler. Learn How Easy it is for Manufacturing Companies to Digitize with Datch.

Customer Spotlight: Con Edison

Con Edison(ConEd) and Datch are implementing Datch’s voice AI technology withConEd’s field and planning teams. As a digital worker initiative, Datch is assisting the frontline workforce with knowledge retention and operational efficiency, through rapid and real-time conversational interactions. ConEd’s planners will be using Datch to capture work order requirements while in the field, with Datch integrating with their existing ERP system.

EPRI’s Incubatenergy Labs® Selects Datch as a 2021 Cohort Awardee

The Electric Power Research Institute's (EPRI) Incubatenergy® Labs program today announced Datch was selected as one of 20 startup companies that will conduct accelerated demonstrations of their technologies with utilities and EPRI as part of Incubatenergy Labs’ 2021 Cohort.

Webinar: Voice AI built for the Gas & Utility Industry

This webinar will go over how voice interfaces can be used by contractor employees to document and search records faster and more accurately, while continuing to remain focused on the job at hand. Voice AI makes employees' lives easier while also improving data quality and quantity submitted to the utility or client.

Mining

Operations in the mining industry are complex and rely on high volume, accurate data coming from the field for continuous extraction, processing, and transport of minerals. Your field employees are busy, they have their hands full, and they would rather be doing work than spending up to 20% of their week on important data collection. Datch, the first and most advanced voice AI developed for the mining workforce. Datch enables workers to carry out company processes across different business units, such as notification raising, work order creation, real time history recording, safety logging, and more, all through simple conversational observations.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing operations are complex and rely on high volume, accurate data coming from the frontline for continuous production and high levels of OEE. Your employees are busy, they have their hands full, and they would rather be working with their equipment than spending up to 20% of their time on important data collection.

Datch: The Intelligent Voice AI for Industry

Datch is an intelligent voice AI for industrial environments. It uses conversations to solve business process constraints, such as time spent on work orders, logging information, and solving problems during equipment breakdowns. Datch's voice-visual interface allows staff to capture high-quality, real-time knowledge data, recording live sequence-of-events in granular detail and resulting in improved root cause analysis, informed purchasing decisions, and data-driven business intelligence.

Future of Work Webinar: Voice AI for Mining

Datch is the first and most advanced AI interface for the mining industry, enabling workers to complete forms and checklists by simply talking through their tasks and observations in real-time. This webinar will go over how voice interfaces can be used by mining companies (and related service contractors) to document and search records faster and more accurately without stopping work. Voice AI makes workers' lives easier while improving safety and enhancing data quality submitted to the company's EAM or ERP system.

Energy & Utilities

Energy production, transmission, and delivery are complex undertakings. Effective operations rely on high volume, accurate data coming from the field to ensure asset uptime, detailed systems of record, and safe workers. Your field employees are busy, they have their hands full, and they would rather be doing work than spending 20-30% of their time on important, but time-consuming data collection.

Easier data capture using voice

When was the last time you reviewed a job, and the only information logged was "job done"? We believe that detailed documentation can be a part of getting the job done, without friction. With our latest update, front-line workers just need to hit the mic button and say their thoughts; information will automatically flow into a process ready to be digested.

Datch Awarded New York Power Authority (NYPA) Contract

Datch, Inc has been awarded New York Power Authority’s Advancing Analytics Master Services Agreement (MSA) contract. The company’s flagship technology is a voice assistant application, built for the energy and utility industry, which will accelerate NYPA’s journey to becoming the nation’s first end-to-end digital utility. T

Datch announces strategic investment from Boeing HorizonX

Datch has secured strategic investment from Boeing HorizonX. Datch’s advanced voice AI solution will be applied to the aerospace industry with applications across manufacturing, MRO, and airline maintenance.

Datch and Boeing for Voice AI

Datch has announced its entry into the aerospace market through a cooperation with Boeing , Rolls Royce, GKN Aerospace, and the Aerospace Technology Institute. This initiative has been enabled through a program developed by the ATI Boeing Accelerator. The Datch team will be working on developing voice AI solutions for the industry, with applications across manufacturing, MRO, and airline maintenance.

Customer Spotlight: Teconnex

Teconnex is a global leader in providing engineered clamping solutions for the emissions market while investing in new technology through our Product Diversification Programme. With facilities in four continents, our focus on continuous improvement has seen us diversify our production to meet the requirements of a number of industry sectors.

CEA Conversation Series - Future of Work: Voice AI built for the Utility Industry

Presented by: Datch in partnership with the Canadian Electricity Association (CEA)

Aerospace 4.0

Manufacturers, airlines, and airports all have one thing in common: they require knowledge data coming in from their workforces, consistently and accurately, while also balancing tool-time requirements, compliance, and data quality. Updating work orders, recording inspections, and completing safety reports and audits require time and effort, but with 400 million people now regularly engaging with voice tools in their day-to-day routines, voice AI has emerged as an elegant solution for solving this“input problem” for the frontline workforce.