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Williams Technician Builds an Equipment Anomaly Detector With the AI Cowork

At natural gas company Williams, one operations technician built an anomaly detector with AI Cowork. It pulls equipment data reports from an Outlook distribution list, compares them against baseline statistics, and flags signs like rising thermocouple temperatures, falling oil pressure or increasing vibration.

How it works

  1. Pull equipment data from Outlook distribution list
  2. Compare against baseline stats
  3. Flag thermocouple, oil pressure and vibration anomalies

Why it’s worth knowing

A field technician built a plant-safety monitor from an email list.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on windowsforum.com. See the original ↗

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