WASABI

White-label shop for digital intelligent assistance and human-AI collaboration in manufacturing **THE PROJECT** WASABI focuses on **digital intelligent assistance** solutions, based on **human-AI collaboration,** and applied to the manufacturing domain. The WASABI solution **increases the cognitive abilities of workers** and accelerates the acquisition and transfer of knowledge, through N*atural Language Processing* (NLP) system, **for the** **upskilling of the existing workforce**, meantime securing job positions. Our challenge is related to **SMEs and mid-caps manufacturers in Europe** that need to meet sustainability goals. Producing components for complex products, or often operating in emerging specialty equipment markets, they must be quite careful about spending their resources on activities with uncertain costs or outcomes. Wasabi makes digital intelligence assistance and **conversational artificial intelligence** solutions become standard practices, **accessible, affordable, and manageable** even for small companies. Wasabi allows European SMEs **to achieve sustainability principles** and **technological and operational innovation capacity**, such as to become renewed and cutting-edge, and reach leadership goals and **market competitiveness**.