Guide · 3 min
Digital sovereignty for industrial companies: What should you own?
Decide which AI capabilities your industrial company should control. A practical guide to data, models, operations and testing a provider change.
Author
Reza Esfahanian
Reza Esfahanian is the founder and CEO of Welf. Welf develops and integrates AI applications for industrial and enterprise workflows, with an emphasis on operational value, manageable dependencies and the customer's ability to operate the systems.
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Guide · 3 min
Private AI, European cloud or API: Choose by workload
Choose an AI deployment by workload. Compare processing boundaries, task quality, operating responsibilities and the cost of a usable result.
Guide · 4 min
Industrial RAG with citations and access controls
Build a useful industrial knowledge workflow with applicable sources, document versions and access controls. Includes practical evaluation cases.
Guide · 3 min
AI for automotive suppliers: From RFQ to a reviewable quotation
Prepare technical requests with traceable requirements, visible contradictions and clear approvals. A practical AI workflow for automotive suppliers.
Test protocol · no measured results · 3 min
One industrial workflow, two models: A protocol for testing a model switch
A proposed experiment comparing two models on an industrial document task. Includes dataset design and scoring rules. No measured results yet.
Guide · 4 min
Physical AI in manufacturing: Where robotics makes sense
Assess robotics and humanoid applications by the task, workplace, intervention effort and economics. A practical guide to choosing a useful first trial.
Guide · 6 min
Predictive maintenance: Build a pilot your maintenance team can use
Plan a predictive maintenance pilot around actionable warnings. Assess failure data, false alarms, lead time, operating cost and handover to your team.
Guide · 5 min
AI visual inspection: From a camera image to a quality decision
Plan industrial visual inspection with suitable lighting, representative defect data, independent tests and traceable decisions for each physical part.