Remion’s AI Expertise and Experience Secured Victory at Industryhack – Innovating Intelligent Laser Welding

Remion’s team was able to leverage its extensive technological expertise in an Industryhack co-creation project, where the host company Coherent sought solutions to enhance its welding process. In the challenge competition, Coherent—a provider of laser and photonics solutions—was looking for a partner to develop a next-generation laser welding system utilizing sensor data and artificial intelligence.

Remion claimed its first Industryhack victory in strong competition. In addition to Remion, three other Finnish AI specialist companies were selected from all applicants. The three-day challenge took place in early June.

Remion’s CTO, Miika Okko, is delighted with the team’s win. Expectations for the competition were high, and the initial outlook was positive.
– Coherent’s challenge focused on building an intelligent laser ecosystem, where our expertise and solutions were an excellent fit.

Coherent aims to deliver added value to its customers through a more precise and optimized welding process.

Miika Okko served as the team lead for Remion during Industryhack.

A Three-Person Team Built on Complementary Expertise

Remion’s competition team combined diverse expertise.
– Our CEO Jukka brought strong business insight into building a comprehensive solution tailored to the customer’s needs. Petri, who works as a specialist, has extensive experience in designing and technically implementing AI solutions. As team lead, I guided the collaboration throughout the process, Okko explains.
Okko himself has a broad background in AI research, which was also the subject of his doctoral dissertation.

From Intensive Ideation to a Structured Winning Solution

During the competition days, ideas evolved into a well-defined winning concept through intensive innovation, solution refinement, and mentoring.
– Ultimately, three interwoven factors led us to victory: identifying the core customer need, delivering an innovative technical implementation, and presenting the solution clearly and convincingly.

Through preliminary discussions, the team gained additional insights from the host company, helping them refine their direction and develop a highly targeted proposal addressing the customer’s needs.
– We were also able to leverage our Regatta® platform in the solution, enabling faster and more cost-efficient implementation.

Defining the solution architecture, outlining the implementation, and preparing the Proof of Concept descriptions required close collaboration—at times working late into the night.
– Assembling the concept into a visually compelling format is also crucial. A good solution alone is not enough—you must be able to communicate the solution and its benefits effectively, Okko emphasizes.

A new element in this year’s competition was a two-minute video presentation, through which each team had to showcase their solution in the final round.

Proven Long-Term Performance of Remion’s Solutions

One of the jury’s key justifications for selecting Remion in Coherent’s laser welding system development challenge was that Remion’s analytics and AI expertise and solutions have been proven effective over the long term. This makes it fast and straightforward for the company to move forward with implementing a comprehensive solution.

Remion has extensive experience in developing analytics solutions across various industrial sectors, including predictive maintenance, failure forecasting, alarm and vibration analysis, and production optimization.

Remion is an experienced industrial player in AI and analytics.
– We have predicted usage-based maintenance needs and identified machines and data collection units behaving abnormally.
– We also have strong expertise in statistical analysis of big data, as well as structuring and aggregating data. A comprehensive situational overview can be created, for example, by combining data from multiple machines, Okko explains.