SFS: Etteplan Develops Generative AI-Powered Service Solution for Technical Designers in Collaboration with SFS

Etteplan has developed a generative AI-powered service solution for technical designers, in collaboration with SFS, the central standardization organization in Finland. In various design tasks, such as equipment design or process design, it is important that the plans are based on up-to-date standards and utilize existing design guidelines. However, there are tens of thousands of standards in use, and searching for the right information takes valuable design time. Etteplan's AI team contacted SFS and proposed a collaboration, resulting in a web-based AI-powered service. In the service, a designer can converse with a conversational bot that understands natural language text and quickly finds the right standard or design guideline from the vast pool of information and various sources. The service helps organize and comprehend this information. The reliability of the information is ensured through source references. When the designer inputs an information request, the service provides an excerpt from the standard and a link to the source information. Another aspect of the service is its ability to search for information from images. SFS, celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, was immediately excited about the project and helped Etteplan's team open up the interfaces of the closed standard collection.