Powerful camera-based AI applications

Joining forces in enterprise resource planning and automated image processing to create powerful AI solutions for industry, logistics, and retail.

The partnership between Rutronik and collective mind already has an impressive track record, with initial projects in component logistics and a focus on the traceability of more than 100,000 electronic components.

"We are joining forces with the aim of offering internationally scalable software and
hardware solutions developed from a single source for AI applications in retail and
industry."

Artur Hefner, Managing Director at collective mind

Electronic component logistics use case with > 100,000 parts

Logistics experts assume that much of the scanning technology currently in use will be supplemented or even replaced by camera technologies in the future. At Rutronik's largest logistics center, AI-supported image processing is already being tested in logistics in order to accelerate the growing demand for traceability at the product level.

Rutronik, with its more than 100,000 electronic components and the associated variable recording data, is an ideal use case for testing this development. The goal of both companies is to use the AI application in logistics in the future fully automatically and with flexible, reliable information recognition, even with changing formats and arrangements of product data on the corresponding product labels. The first pilot of the development is already running at Rutronik's largest logistics center in Eisingen near Pforzheim.

The initial project successes achieved by Rutronik and collective mind speak for promising AI-based logistics solutions that, together with other AI innovations, are intended to drive AI penetration, particularly in German SMEs.

Hardware meets software expertise for compute-intensive AI applications

In addition to its logistics and consulting expertise, Rutronik brings hardware expertise at the product level of electronic components to the partnership. This will be combined with collective mind's software expertise in AI-based image processing approaches.

Specifically, collective mind aims to become the international number one for these AI solutions in the field of machine vision applications in industry and trade, with the expertise of Rutronik as a long-standing distribution partner of many medium-sized companies in Europe, Asia, and North America. With development projects in the industrial environment, especially in the field of vision robotics, the AI specialist is pushing ahead with great growth potential.