Explore AI opportunities for NIBCO

Student: Matthew O'Hara, 2024-2025

NIBCO Inc is a manufacturer and distributor of high quality industrial valves, fittings, and flow control products. These products are a staple for many important infrastructure projects such as plumbing, mechanical, chemical, fuel, and gas operations. This capstone project aims to leverage the rapidly growing artificial intelligence field in order to create state of the art solutions that improves NIBCO’s ability to serve its customers and community. Utilizing creative AI solutions for modern business problems is currently a rapidly developing market with untapped potential, and the addition of AI projects into the NIBCO workflow will assist the company's efficiency in both daily operations and major projects. This project will include a problem analysis to find where AI technology would best serve NIBCO, market analysis, development of an AI integration plan, the creation of a machine learning software solution, and the integration of this solution into NIBCO’s operations.