Swiss Chemical Company

Creating an API platform to facilitate access to insights from various models from different systems, laying the foundation for more ML use across the company

Challenge

• Variety of chemical, physical and sometimes ML models scattered across the entire company
• Models thus quickly became outdated and couldn’t be properly maintained
• Different production sites operating in silos instead of profiting from collaboration

Solution

• Created API platform to facilitate model access, storage and maintenance
• Integrated API into Azure ML to allow timely model retraining
• Built web app linked to API and used to test models with users before integrating them into other company applications

Business impact

• API platform has become the official company-wide platform to derive insights from models
• 20 models available, integrated into 5 applications
• Infrastructure is now accessible from anywhere in the world by employees
• Laying the foundation for more ML uses by employees adopting a more and more data-driven approach to problems