DIRKI

DIRKI helps small and medium-sized businesses move toward digitalization and artificial intelligence, tailored precisely to their development stage. The exhibit addresses a common challenge for many SMEs: technical barriers to entry and a focus on individual orders that often make process automation difficult. 

Using a quality inspection process as an example, DIRKI showcases digital and AI solutions at different levels of maturity and makes them comparable. Visitors can see how processes progress step by step—from paper-based workflows to fully digital, AI-supported scenarios. 

The four typical steps of quality inspection are as follows: identifying the workpiece, locating the inspection instructions, generating measurement data, recording measurement data, and evaluating quality. Depending on their maturity level, different roles, tools, and applications are used. 

DIRKI effectively demonstrates how digitalization and AI can be implemented gradually, clearly, and affordably, even for SMEs.