Logistics and energy professionals in the military and other organizations increasingly adopt batteries for electrical power in the field. In support of this mission, Sentient Industries designs and manufactures rugged electrical energy modules. Before each deployment, logistics officers (LOs) rely on Excel spreadsheets for planning the electrical system based on the equipment connected to it. Such planning is protracted because each piece of equipment has its own unique power needs and LOs must look up the information across many documents.
Teams from Amazon Web Services (AWS), working with Sentient, brought the power of AI directly into Excel spreadsheets. LOs can now type the device description in Excel and have the power specs retrieved from a knowledge base in Amazon Bedrock. Unlike a chat-based solution, the AI directly loads the data into spreadsheet cells, creating a streamlined and efficient user workflow. The AI meets the users where they are, and…