SOP and maintenance manual assistant

The brief

Technicians on the shop floor need the right procedure step now, not a 300-page PDF. Build an assistant over equipment manuals and SOPs that answers in plain language with the exact procedure step and page, and refuses when unsure, because a wrong step can be dangerous. Good looks like: a pipeline for manuals with tables and figures, retrieval compared on 50+ questions, citations, and safety-first refusals.

What you will build

1. Collect open equipment manuals and write sample SOPs
2. Parse manuals with tables and figures; chunk by procedure
3. Build hybrid retrieval with re-ranking
4. Write 50+ technician questions with the right step
5. Evaluate faithfulness and retrieval recall
6. Deploy with citations and safety refusals

Free, open data to build it with

• Prusa 3D printer knowledge base and manuals ↗ Prusa Research

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